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What’s in a Nickname? The Origins of All 32 NFL Team Names

(via mental_floss) What do newspaper headline type and the New Deal have to do with the Oakland Raiders and Philadelphia

(via digg) This is Ruby Kavanagh, Australia’s number-one golfer for her age group. She hits a mean golf ball. And

(via Digital Trends) The quarterback has a left tackle to protect his blind side — and now the coaches at

(via Atlas Obscura) For two weeks in the winter of 1980, a small town in upstate New York had an

(via SB Nation) Have you ever stood on top of a high-dive board, thinking about possibly jumping but being a

(via Great Big Story) Part friendly circus act, part vicious duel: welcome to the world of combat juggling. Unlike the

(via Popular Mechanics) We gather in the thousands, the tens of thousands and sometimes even the hundreds of thousands to

(via mental_floss) More than a century after being cut from the official roster, golf has returned to the Summer Olympics

(via Great Big Story) While Olympians are just warming up, we’ve got the inside scoop on another competitive sport: foosball.

(via Great Big Story) Popole Misenga and Yolande Mabika are two of 10 refugees selected for the first Olympic refugee

(via Wired) The Olympics drive athletes to get ever faster, higher, and stronger, to quote its Latin motto: “Citius, altius, fortius.”

(via Great Big Story) Adeline Gray is the best female wrestler in the world in her weight class. She’s on