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Each of the past three years, I’ve outlined a strategy to maximize your value in your NCAA men’s basketball tournament pool. Here’s the update for this year’s tourney. Much of the explanation comes from the previous version, but all of …

Scot Nicol is excitedly showing me top-secret photos. Hans Heim is at a worktable geeking out over glass microspheres. The rest of the Ibis Bikes crew is wrenching on a couple bikes and trying to ride out the buzz. They …

Chris Paul. Steve Nash. Jason Kidd. These are three of the NBA’s top point guards of the past 15 years. But while they share a position, their style of play and court production share less in common than you’d think.

It’s every cyclist’s nightmare: You approach the spot where you carefully locked your bike and all that’s left is the mangled remains of a lock. Nothing can ensure such villainous scum won’t make off with your prized ride, but the …

One thing that makes the beautiful game beautiful is the way the ball moves so effortlessly from foot to head to chest and back. But those skilled and deliberate headers may be ever so slightly but very definitely decreasing the …

Calin Popa couldn’t nail one of the toughest moves in all of paragliding, so he bought $100 worth of parts from a catalog and built an electronic tutor that could revolutionize the sport.

The coolest thing about Jack Bolas’ 4:01.44 time in the indoor mile wasn’t his fourth-place finish, it was the fact he was the first professional to run a race on 3D-printed equipment.

A pair of psychology professors have discovered that a hockey player’s month of birth influences how scouts and coaches judge his talent, and this subconscious selection bias often puts the wrong players on the roster.

Gspon, Switzerland is home to the highest football pitch in all of Europe, and the only place on the continent where the boys chasing the balls must be at least as fit as the men kicking them.

The NBA has released its deepest set of statistics ever, a trove of data that will let you, among other things, settle once and for all such pressing questions as whether the 1992 Chicago Bulls were better than the ’96 …

There are many reasons why a glass snowboard is a bad idea. And yet everything about Signal’s glass Park Board, from its design and production to its execution and performance, is awesome.

ISTANBUL, Turkey — The Turks, who love football as much as anyone, have the loudest fans on earth. The 51,998 people packed into Turk Telekon Arena, home to the Galatasaray football club, let out a 131.76-decibel roar during a match …

Famed Italian skipper Giovanni Soldini and his tireless crew of eight sailors obliterated the record for sailing the “Golden Route” from New York to San Francisco, shaving a full 10 days off the previous record around the tip of South …

Barstool ski racing is, essentially, a competition to see who can go the furthest without spiffing it. “Spiffing it” is, of course, the technical term for tumbling head over heels from your barstool, something far more likely to happen if …

Google has added to its insane database of maps by mapping Lucas Oil Stadium, home to the Indianapolis Colts.

KETCHUM, Idaho – Snow bikes are good for hucking about on groomed trails. They are not good for outrunning wolves. This became obvious as a group of us, dressed in garish red Lycra suits and riding black, orange and DayGlo-green …

The SIA Snow Show is the CES for people who play in the snow, the place to see the latest gear you’ll be saving your pennies for.

The arrest of Oscar Pistorius is a tragic epilogue to a story that transcended sports and inspired millions of people.

The old sports cliche “keep your eye on the ball” is getting a modern twist by an Australian sports tech company that’s putting an eye inside the ball.

Catapult Sports is rolling out the first major trial of ball-tracking technology …

Lightsabers are, by definition, awesome. But it takes skill you use one, and for a few druggats, the masters at Golden Gate Knights will teach you the ways of the lightsaber.