Posts in category Sports + Feats

Dødsing is the Norway based belly flop contest, and Underwater Hockey is, you guessed it, hockey played entirely under the water.

Stein Hoff, a Norwegian man attempting a solo transatlantic row, was rescued at sea after a major storm left him stranded 1,000 miles from shore.

With so many different sports featured in the Summer Olympics, we wondered why some things are excluded. Introducing the Ripley’s Olympics.

Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm in Eau Claire, Michigan is set to host the 43rd annual international cherry pit-spitting championship.

Hungarian gravediggers competed in a national competition intended to crown the best grave digging team in all the land!

RIP Muhammad Ali On June 3rd, the world lost the greatest boxer to ever live, Muhammad Ali. Whether you’re a boxing fan or not, you’ve …

Ray Caldwell was pitching in a baseball game in 1919 when he was struck by lightning, got up, brushed himself off, and finished the game.

The first Saturday in May marks the Kentucky Derby. In celebration, let’s look at the origin of the event and some unbelievable derby facts.

The Naki Sumo Festival is also known as the baby crying contest because in it, Sumo wrestlers compete to make babies cry.

The Louisville Slugger people didn’t always make bats, and the way they started making bats is rather fortuitous.