It has been an ominous week for the sport in the US but talk of a boycott of next year’s World Cup misses the point ...

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager ...

Growing up in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, England, managing to be an England soccer fan meant, for the most part, ...

However, researchers recently identified what they think was a 17th-century soccer field in Scotland. They argue the find proves football was invented in Scotland, not England. “Our discovery ...

The fact is, we’ll never know when, or on what continent, soccer was invented. But we can trace its evolution from basic balls to rugby, to the most popular sport on the planet. During the 12th ...

The sport combines soccer and bikes and was invented by Nick Kaufmann in Rochester in the late 1800s. Within a few years, Kaufmann's skill and renown had grown so large that he was invited to ...

The Times reports that a team of researchers may have identified the world’s oldest known soccer field—not in England, where the “beautiful game” was purportedly invented in the mid ...

Kieran Brown breaks down and attempts every strange and obscure soccer rule ever invented. Canada votes in an election upended by Trump. Here’s what to know. Toyota shares jump on news it could ...

QUESTION: Who invented goal nets in football? Football goal nets were invented in 1890 by John Brodie. Brodie was a civil engineer known for his contribution to town planning in Liverpool ...

If you ask Google who invented the toaster many results will still turn up MacMasters’ name. But, according to the BBC, MacMasters was actually a student in 2012, not an eccentric 19th-century ...

The Romans ran with the concept and invented Harpastum, which was even more brutal. The ancients weren’t the only ones who enjoyed soccer with a slice of brutality. In the Middle Ages ...

The Romans ran with the concept and invented Harpastum, which was even more brutal. The ancients weren’t the only ones who enjoyed soccer with a slice of brutality. In the Middle Ages, two teams of ...