On a cold and blustery day in November 1887, a group of Chicagoans were eagerly awaiting inside the Farragut Boat Club for the telegraphed results of the Harvard-Yale football game. George W. Hancock was one of their number, and while waiting he created a game that used a boxing glove for a ball and a broomstick for a bat. This game was known as indoor base ball, and it was the predecessor to the...

Debate about the brain-injuring propensity of American football has been debated lately, and the website of the Sports Legacy Institute (SLI) located outside of Boston aims to discuss the research that suggests that players in certain football positions are at increased risk of dementia, and at an earlier age than most average people might develop symptoms of the disease. Visitors should click on...

Marley's Ghost to Welcome Fans for Cricket World Cup http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/world/americas/02kingston.html?ref=americas ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 [iTunes] http://cricketworldcup.indya.com/ The Rules of Cricket http://www.therulesofcricket.co.uk/ CaribbeanCricket.com http://caribbeancricket.com/ Cricket for America http://www.nakedwhiz.com/crickgl.htm#bush In the...

Purpose-built football stadia dominate their surroundings in many major urban areas around the United States, and on fall weekends they are often surrounded by legions of fans preparing for the upcoming gridiron contests. These two sites will allow distant (and not-so distant) visitors to learn about each of these "battlegrounds" through the use of photographs and brief expository pieces on the...

Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion of the world, is the subject of a new documentary by the well-regarded filmmaker Ken Burns. The program recently aired for the first time on PBS, and this companion website offers a number of primary documents, short essays, and educational materials that will be of great interest to the Web-browsing public and educators seeking...

Chief Illiniwek needed to disappear http://nwitimes.com/articles/2007/02/22/columnists/justin_breen/docc89f8e2c31a6f1a38625728900824a29.txt Sorrow for the Chief sets in http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/02/23/sports/sports006.txt University fails to unify a campus divided on...

One can find a great deal of footage of Vandals in action on this site, but never fear: the Vandals in question are just the mighty members of the University of Idaho's athletic teams. The digitized materials here include over 160 16mm films held by the school's Special Collections & Archives. Visitors can browse the films by date, location or team. One standout is the 1925 film of the town of...

As Sonics Pack to Leave Town, Seattle Shrugs http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/13/us/13seattle.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Seattle SuperSonics http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3029 Seattle Center at 40: 1962 World’s Fair [pdf] http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/worldsfair/ Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and...

The Blowhole! Hartford Whalers http://www.hartfordwhalers.org/ Brass Bonanza http://www.brassbonanza.com/hcc/ The Sports Economist http://www.thesportseconomist.com/ Grateful Dead Live at Hartford Civic Center on October 10, 1984 http://www.archive.org/details/gd1984-10-14.fob.beyerm88.suraci.77990.sbeok.flac16 Mark Twain House http://www.marktwainhouse.org/ Since 1997, the...