The construction business can be a dangerous line of work, with tools, equipment, and even the working conditions themselves making workers' lives risky.
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Basketball legend Bill Russell almost had a conflict with Nelson Mandela the first time the two met, but it was thankfully avoided. Here's what happened.
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Unfortunately for the men who make up the Iranian team, some say they can expect not a hero's welcome when they return, but imprisonment and torture.
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The year of 2022 was a particularly noteworthy one in the wide world of sports, in terms of both highs and lows. These are some athletes we lost in 2022.
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Aaron Hernandez was an NFL player and convicted murderer who was suffering from CTE. So, did his teammates see anything amiss? What did they have to say?
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Politics are supposed to stay out of World Cup events, but Iran wants the U.S. banned from the World Cup for making a political statment. Here's why.
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Eagles fans are notorious for their passion, sometimes pushing the boundaries a bit too far. And the team almost moved to Phoenix in 1984 on a handshake.
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Magic tricks -- illusions, if you'd rather -- can range from pulling a rabbit from a hat to presentations designed for a stadium -- or for the players.
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Some athletes have been handed suspensions so long that it took a huge chunk out of their career. Here are the longest suspensions in sports history.
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A 6-year-old Indian boy shattered a limbo record bar roller skating underneath 39 cars. Here's what happened, and how the sport took shape.
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Deion Sanders was a special athlete back in his prime playing years, but recently he had a health scare and had two toes amputated.
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There are not a heck of a lot of coaches with a losing streak of getting fired ... but they're out there, and their stories are pretty wild.
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There have been so many scandals over the last century that it's really impossible to count. Here are a few top cheating scandals that rocked the sports world.
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Professional sports of every flavor and variety will include fairly extensive, quite detailed, rules and regulations regarding every aspect of the competition.
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Jim Creighton is considered baseball's first real superstar, though he died prematurely. This is the biggest myth surrounding Creighton's 1862 death.
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From Lance Armstrong's doping scandal to Larry Nassar's sex abuse case, the sports world has had its share of infamous moments. Here are some of the biggest.
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While most athletes play with some sort of injury, there are some performances that are defining, such as these 12, who pushed through their pain to compete.
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Without a doubt, Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most famous and beloved soccer players alive today. He also has a Portugal museum dedicated to him.
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The devastating injuries to Washington quarterbacks Alex Smith and Joe Theismann share a plethora of eerie and unsettling similarities.
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Football is, by far, one of the biggest, if not the biggest, professional sports in the United States. So what are its oldest franchise? Let's take a look.
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What do the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Pittsburgh Penguins, and the Pittsburgh Pirates have in common (aside from the city they represent)?
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Michael Jordan is known as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, but when he was just a rookie, his skills were doubted by another player.
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One of the key parts of Thanksgiving is sitting down to take in a football game. Here is the time Randy Moss got revenge while becoming an NFL legend.
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The Kentucky Derby was twice postponed and replaced by an unlikely event: turtle races. Here's the story of "the slowest two minutes in sports."
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There's William Shakespeare's often-quoted, perhaps rhetorical line about "What's in a name?" but the fact is, an individual's name, and its origin, matter.
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The biggest blowout in football history has an intriguing story of vengeance behind it. Here's how the massive blowout in 1916 came to be.
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Larry Jordan was also a keen basketball player, but he had the misfortune of having the greatest man to ever play the sport to compete with.
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