30 Sports in 30 Days - Cycling
The earliest bicycle types were only slight improvements over walking — the 1918 Draisienne, credited as the first-ever cycle, had two wheels, no pedals and only really worked well on downhill slopes. But it was new and expensive technology, so all of Paris just had to have one of their own.

Shirtdoku 004 · 2022-23 New Orleans Pelicans
One thing that happens in American basketball that doesn't really occur elsewhere is that things happen, then they don't. The 1996 UMass Minutemen go 35-2 and Mid-Majority their way to the Final Four, then the NCAA tells us it never happened. Louisville wins the 2013 national championship, then the banner gets stuffed in a closet.

MMBOW #2 - Travis Niesen, Santa Clara
When the Mid-Majority Baller Of The Week award made its debut last week, I never expected that it would be argued about in sports bars across the nation, become the target of intense lobbying by athletic directors, or gain a cherished place in college basketball fans' hearts. At least, not right away.

IV. Sacrificial Lions
Servanthood is knowing your role and sacrificing as needed to make your teammates better. It's a key element of team unity and greatness. It involves having a servant's mentality when it comes to your team. Will you truly give of yourself to make your team better?

Chapter 29
At 34th and Walnut Streets, on the edge of the University of Pennsylvania campus and in the long shadow of the hallowed Palestra, a man too old for college stood in front of a Starbucks coffee restaurant in grey sweatpants and a hooded 76ers logo sweatshirt. It was mid-summer, and it the mid-afternoon, and this was Philadelphia.