World’s Strangest

Most of us never had a chance of playing in the NFL, but that didn’t stop us from dreaming on a smaller scale by playing football games in our basements. Here are four fun ways generations of fans have played football using little more than their imaginations. 1. Electric Football How electric football became popular is a [...]

Perhaps it has something to do with their field of choice, economics AKA the dismal science, but many of the world’s most famous economists share one extraordinary trait: they’re cheapskates! Some economists may be cheap, at least by the standards of other people, because of their training or a fascination with money and choices that drives [...]

Adam Kommel was perusing Google Maps, looking for open swaths of green one day when he accidentally stumbled across this field near Minden, Nebraska. It looks just like Nebraska, and a casual search finds little more information than what Strange Maps has: The only other pattern thriving in this checkered landscape is the circle, touching the edges of many [...]

This list from the Discovery Channel might come in handy to give to someone you know who might get too nervous about the 2012 doomsday predictions and the movie about them. Each scenario is debunked with what scientists really know. For example, 1. Changes in the Sun’s magnetic field will lead to powerful flares. So what else [...]

You’ve probably heard about the Spurs’ Manu Ginobili snatching a bat out of the midair with his bare hands at a game a couple of days ago – and if you haven’t, don’t worry, there’s video below. It’s certainly not the first time there’s been a creature distraction at a sporting event, although it might [...]

Happens every time. Flipping channels on Sunday, Rudy’s on, and it’s the final game. Obviously, I put down the clicker and prepare to hold back the tears, but it never works. I don’t know what it is about that flick, but every single time I watch I’m transformed into an eight-year-old schoolgirl by the time [...]

Today my wife and I are celebrating our five-year anniversary. I’m taking a half day, so half these questions are new and the other half I’ve asked before. 1. Growing up in North Jersey, we had our share of memorable field trips—The Land of Make Believe, Turtle Back Zoo, Waterloo Village, Hershey Park, and various museums [...]

Alcoa High was leading Fulton High in last night’s football game in Knoxville, Tennessee when the game had to called due to the ground opening up and trying to swallow the players. With Alcoa leading 20-7, a sinkhole opened up near the stands-side sideline at the 41-yard line on the west side of the still-drenched field [...]