The first Olympic drug testing took place at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. The IOC began testing for narcotics and…

The first synthetic anabolic steroids were developed in the 1930s by German scientists. They were initially created to treat hypogonadism…

On January 6, 1951, the Indianapolis Olympians defeated the Rochester Royals 75-73 in a game that lasted 78 minutes and required six…

In the early days of basketball, players could not dribble. They had to throw the ball from the spot where they caught it. The first…

Basketballs were originally brown, but in 1957, Coach Tony Hinkle of Butler University introduced the orange ball to make it more visible…

In 2010, James Naismith's original 1891 typewritten rules of basketball sold at Sotheby's for $4.3 million, setting a record for the most…

From 1967 to 1976, slam dunks were illegal in NCAA basketball. The ban was nicknamed the Lew Alcindor Rule after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's…

In 1891, James Naismith invented basketball using peach baskets as hoops and a soccer ball. After each basket, someone had to climb a…

In tennis, zero is called 'love,' deriving from French 'l'œuf' (the egg) which resembles the numeral zero.

All Thoroughbred racehorses alive today can trace their bloodlines back to just three horses imported to Britain in the late 17th and early…