Speed-Freak Football
As a smash-mouth SEC football fan I have to say I am fascinated by the style of football played by the University of Oregon. The New York Times has a wonderful piece on their innovative offense, which turns the game into something that’s paced a bit more like soccer. In the city of the distance-running ...
The World’s Richest Athlete Was A Charioteer
This makes Tiger Woods look kind of poor: The very best paid of these—in fact, the best paid athlete of all time—was a Lusitanian Spaniard named Gaius Appuleius Diocle. [....] Twenty-four years of winnings brought Diocles—likely an illiterate man whose signature move was the strong final dash—the staggering sum of 35,863,120 sesterces in prize money. ...
