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Pakistan, with its exotic and rich culture, has a concoction of whimsical stories to tell. From its tantalising street food to its enthralling sights and sounds, each page of its cultural story is filled with captivating colours and rich traditions.
Traditional Pakistani s...
Football Historian Peter Kenny-Jones returns to The Sporting Blog with a fabulous piece about the now-defunct Anglo-Italian Cup
To understand the origins of the Anglo-Italian Cup, there is another competition that needs to be analysed first. The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, or the European Fairs Cup, whi...
The first county cricket match at Bristol on 12th May 1890. Yorkshire triumphed over Gloucestershire by 8 wickets.
There were unofficial formats for competition prior to 1890, but the first official league had 8 counties participating. The 8 counties were Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Lancashire, Kent, Middlesex, Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, and Sussex.
James Cranston o...
Table tennis paddles (or bats) have two different colors to prevent players from using identical-looking rubbers with opposite spin characteristics to deceive their opponents.
Before the mid-1980s, table tennis players could put the exact same color rubber on both sides of their paddle while using two completely different rubber types. By twirling the r...
Padel rackets are full of holes to drastically reduce aerodynamic drag, allowing players to swing rapidly while preventing severe arm fatigue.
Unlike tennis rackets with open string beds or pickleball paddles with solid faces, a padel racket is a dense composite blade made of EVA foam wrapped in carbon fiber or fibreglass. Swinging a completely solid bo...