The Olympic Winter Games is the most celebratory event dedicated to winter sports. No other winter sporting event provides such elaborate and exciting opening and closing ceremonies dedicated to Olympians ...

The "cult of personality" is ever present. There are more opportunities to be known (mostly for the sake of being known) than should be allowed. And with every advent of ...

The National Basketball Association oversees the rules and regulations for American professional basketball; The National Football League does the same for American professional football. Baseball gets two leagues! "Hmm, am ...

Wrestlers have to weight train and maintain. Track runners have to train for speed and endurance. But, more broadly, any athlete hones their strength, stamina, and skill in the off-season ...

When one thinks of world records, Mark McGwire's bat-cracking home runs or Marion Jones' speed records come to mind. Excellence in the sports world always vies for the attention of ...

Bobsled RacesBobsled races are actually quite simple (It is the preparation that may prove challenging...but that's another story). In a two-man--or woman-- race, two people push fifty meters then ...

Rules of BobsleddingThe rules rule in bobsledding! Governed by the FIBT (Federation Internationale de Bobsleigh et de Tobogganing), the rules of bobsledding are long, deep, and wide. Unless ...

Bobsledding Tracks The blinding wind slapping your face, the deafening sound of metal cutting through ice, air cupping your ears on both sides, a chill of the winter atmosphere ...

In the cold Inuit regions that stretched from as far west as the Canadian tundra to Scandinavia, ancient hunters fashioned vehicles made of animal skins and smoothed wood planks. ...