The Australian Women's Archives Project has successfully challenged the dearth of coverage of Australian women athletes, from the past to the present, by creating this website. Visitors should definitely read the "Introduction" to gain a better understanding of why women's sports coverage is lacking or buried deeply in the sports section. The "Stories" section of the site should be required...

Whether your favorite baseball team is at the top or the bottom of its division by this point in the season, sports fans (and cultural historians) alike will want to take a close look at this recent digital collection released from the American Memory project at the Library of Congress. The 35 Spalding Base Ball Guides available here were the brainchild of A.G. Spalding, the iconic baseball...

As long as there are those who seek to extend the field of athletic endeavor through invention (such as James L. Plimpton, creator of the modern roller skate), or those who break racial barriers (such as the great Jackie Robinson), there will be those who seek to commemorate and examine their legacy. Designed to complement a current exhibition at the National Museum of American History, this fine...

Professor Will Hopkins of AUT University in Auckland has been working in the world of sport science for decades, and his website is a crucial resource for people interested in such matters. The Sportscience website features a peer-reviewed journal, information about sport science research methodologies, and thematic areas on sports medicine, sport nutrition, and statistics. On the right-hand side...

Who hasn't whiled away a few hours playing "Ace-King-Queen" on the side of a bodega? Perhaps you haven't yet, but you might be inspired to do so after spending some time at the Streetplay website. The mission of this site is "to document the great city games that we know and love." Visitors can get a sense of these much-loved games by clicking on "The Games" area on the left-hand side of the...

Often misrepresented outside of its home country, the physically intense sport of sumo is revered by the Japanese and is also a part of the Shinto religion. The sport and its changing traditions come under the documentary lens of filmmakers Ferne Pearlstein and Robert Edwards as they spent four years examining the sport for the Independent Lens series on PBS. Visitors to the site can learn about...

Nearly 200 prisoners to bicycle across France http://www.collegenews.com/index.php?/article/close_to_200_prisoners_bicycle_across_france_05272009304/ The Prison Workout: A Total Body Exercise Routine http://health-fitness-solutions.blogspot.com/2007/05/prison-workout-total-body-exercise.html Teampedia http://www.teampedia.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Prison...

Major league baseball is an industry that involves billions of dollars of substantial investments, including those in player salaries, litigation, capital investment into stadia, and so on. This compelling site, developed by Maury Brown and Gary Gillette (the co-chairs of the Business of Baseball committee of the Society for American Baseball Research), provides a host of data on the "business...

The Grey Labyrinth, which is paid for by visitor donations and maintained by a collection of volunteers, is an archive of puzzles from mathematicians, philosophers, and others. The editors challenge visitors to solve one of the rotating unsolved puzzles before the solution is posted online. Recently solved puzzles include a relativity game and exercises in geometry and probability. A survey on...

With an eye towards conservation and documentation, The Mountaineers outdoor club has been in existence since 1906. Since that time, the group has been actively engaged in and around the Pacific Northwest’s many wilderness areas in a variety of capacities. Recently, the University of Washington Libraries’ Digital Collections project saw fit to digitize some of their extensive photographic...