Sports

Sport is mostly numbers and moments, and this category is built from both. There are the records that stood for decades, the rules everyone half-knows, the scoring quirks that make no sense until someone explains where they came from. We cover the sports the world actually watches, from football and cricket to athletics, tennis and the Olympics. The explanations do the useful work here, turning a stray fact into something you understand well enough to repeat, which is roughly the point of knowing anything about sport. No allegiance required, and no need to have played anything.