Sometimes you know how bizarre a list is by what doesn’t make the cut.
When compiling this feature, Mail Sport came across the dietary distinctions of legendary Panaman jockey Laffit Pincay Jr.
He totalled 9,530 career wins on horseback and did so by eating half of what a toddler should – about 600-750 calories per day. Sometimes he would stick a sweet treat in his mouth, delight in the taste, and then spit it out to avoid the calories.
But
Luke Humphries denied teenage darts prodigy Luke Littler a sensational victory in the World Darts Championship in a pulsating final tonight.
The world number one powered past the 16-year-old who has taken the world of darts by storm in a topsy-turvy match that left the crowd at London’s Alexandra Palace on their feet.
Much like in the semi-finals, Humphries got off to a quick start by pinching the first set while Littler struggled to find his range.
However, the teenager
Lionel Messi stormed Miami, Aaron Rodgers crash landed in New Jersey and Taylor Swift conquered the NFL with relative ease in 2023 – a year in sports that had more to do with media reach than actual wins and losses.
The following is DailyMail.com’s look back at the best sports photos of 2023, none of which were captured in the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup or World Series. Truthfully, few of the most memorable sports stories of the year
Previously unseen footage of Liz Cambage’s clash with Nigerian players during the notorious practice match with the Australian national baskeball team has surfaced just days after she was banned from playing for her country ever again.
Cambage walked away from the Opals before the Tokyo OIympics following allegations she called Nigerian players ‘monkey’ and said ‘go back to your own third world country’ in the heated warm-up game in 2021.
The former Opal has denied making those statements and has
England have scored a drought-busting 56-55 win
Sunrise host and former track star Matt Shirvington has lashed the ‘flawed system’ that saw Olympic sprinter Peter Bol sensationally suspended by Australian Athletics after he returned a false positive for a performance enhancing drug.
Bol was provisionally suspended in January after news broke he had returned a positive A sample for synthetic EPO during an out-of-competition drug test.
The Commonwealth Games medalist strenuously maintained his innocence during the eight-month ordeal as Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) retested the samples.
This
WNBA guard Riquna Williams was arrested following domestic violence allegations
Kaylee McKeown has never known such nerves before capturing Australia’s fifth gold medal at the world championships in Japan.
McKeown’s 100 metres backstroke triumph in Fukuoka on Tuesday night follows her disqualification from the 200m individual medley semi-finals.
After railing against what she described as a ‘completely
These are the men and women in the business of making viewers cringe as they risk their lives en route to being crowned ‘slap fighting’ champion.
Many are trained in other mixed martial arts sports, and have waded into unfamiliar territory with this ‘up and coming’ sport.
The aim of the game is simple: slap your opponent hard enough that they aren’t able to slap you back.
Competitors stand at arm’s length from each other and take turns slapping their
