We all know what it is to do a hat-trick nowadays, we say this when a soccer player scores 3 goals in the same match (and takes the ball home signed by his teammates, yes). But, really, the origin of this term is not so simple, it is slightly different. For purists, or classics, as […]

When Salamo Arouch won a boxing match they did not give him any medal or champion belt. His prize was survival. Salamo Arouch, a Jew born in Thessaloniki, was interested in boxing from a very young age, winning the Balkan championship at just 16 years old with 24 victories by K.O. His sporting future was […]

The curse of William Penn in Philadelphia is one of the most curious superstitions in the world of sports. To the relief of local fans, it ended in 2008 after more than twenty years in prison. In Philadelphia there was an unwritten law that prevented building a building taller than the William Penn statue … […]