Tag: Sports & Action

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Since the late 1950s, the Swinging Friar has been the San Diego Padres’ venerable mascot. Named for the Spanish Friars that he...

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When Philadelphia’s baseball team debuted its original mascots—a brother-sister pair straight out of the 18th century, they were kin...

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In 1984, the San Francisco Giants had the crazy idea to create an anti-mascot, the Crazy Crab. Fans and players alike loved to hate...

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The Milwaukee Brewers’ mascot, Bernie, is hard to miss. With his striking yellow hair and exaggerated mustache, he looks like an old...

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Once a year, the best downhill mountain bike riders gather high in the French Alps for a race know as Megavalanche. It’s a mad...

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In Nigeria, Scrabble is a sport, not a game. And Wellington Jighere is just about the best there is. The 2015 World Scrabble Champio...

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Andrew Lakeman was an up-and-coming jockey when his horse clipped heels in a race at Belmont Park and fell on him. He suffered count...

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If this were the Middle Ages, Tanya Smith would probably be a knight. She and her posse of female fighters train in European martial...

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Forget lowrider bikes, the O.G. bicyclists rode high atop penny farthings. These old-school bikes with on oversized front wheel requ...

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Tyrone Stevenson, better known as Baybe Champ, is East Oakland’s “Scraper Bike King.” Back in 2007, he and his cou...