Category: Sports & Games

Spain’s Queen Isabella changed chess by making the Queen the most important piece, its free movement reflecting her powerful status in 15th century Europe.

The first Anzac Day football occurred a decade after Gallipoli, starting a century of debate around the meeting place between football and military commemoration.

The history of Scrabble involves the New York Times, a depression era lawyer, and a forgotten precursor game called ‘Lexiko’.

The 2026 winter Olympics starts today, an event that has seen many changes through its history: here are 7 forgotten winter Olympic sports.

From its unexplained scoring, to its murky origins, to the ‘Tennis Court Oath’: here are the mysteries of tennis.

The Ashes is cricket’s most famous contest, played between England and Australia. Less well known is the birthplace of the Ashes: Sunbury.

Between the wars, Cocky Marr was the Carlton Football Club’s unofficial mascot: a crested cockatoo who loved the Blues, and despised bad umpiring.

The VFL/AFL has seen many changes in the last 120 years; here are the AFL teams that have changed their name.

In 1953, Geelong set an Australian football record that still stands today: the longest winning streak in VFL/AFL history.

Mark Edmonson is the last Australian man to win the Australian Open singles; he also set a tennis record that stands to this day.