Chris Spagnuolo is a social media maven, blogger, cyclist, food and wine lover, and an agile software development evangelist from Ft. Collins, CO. 2009 promises to be a stellar year for professional cycling around the world. The return of Lance Armstrong has more fans than ever turning out at early...

mental_floss477:http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23040.html Age fabrication is prevalent in sports, whether the motive is to make an athlete old enough to sign a contract, young enough to be considered an elite prospect, or to meet a minimum or maximum age requirement for competing...

mental_floss477:http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22780.html Baseball has often been described as the thinking man’s game. Yogi Berra once said that America’s national pastime was 90 percent mental, and the other half physical. If any player could make sense of such a statement,...

In professional sports, there are losing teams, and then there are teams that lose and also it's really funny. The following ten franchises represented the pinnacle of sports-fan schadenfreude in 2008, as ranked by a scientific-as-hell system that combines the team's Creative Hilarity (negative/ridi...

Summer is here, which means it’s time to start playing outside as much as possible. Are you tired of all the old summer standby sports, though? Sure, baseball and volleyball are fun, but sometimes you want something just a little, well, weirder. This summer, take a chance on one of these obscure s...

Does ketchup go well with octopus? Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is about to find out. Kilpatrick is expected to receive a shipment of Pittsburgh goodies, including Heinz ketchup, Primanti Brothers sandwiches and an octopus from Wholey’s Fish Market after winning a bet with Pittsburgh Mayor L...

After the first week of the NCAA basketball tournament, only sixteen teams still have a shot at the title. Your bracket is probably in disarray. March Madness has brought you nothing but anguish and pain. What’s a fan to do? Cheer up, March isn’t just about hoops. Here are some great March champ...