Russia seizes Ukrainian naval ships Russia has fired on and seized three Ukrainian naval vessels off the Crimean Peninsula in a major escalation of tensions between the two countries. Two […]

Who really invented the mountain bike? Klunkerz, a film from director Billy Savage entertainingly answers that contentious question by telling the story of the evolution of what we now call […]

The Roots of Dirt: How Mountain Bikes Went From Clunkers to Global Phenomenon About 40-odd years ago, a bunch of young California misfits changed the world with new technology. Oh, […]

Marco Pantani The man on the fifth floor wanted pizza. Four nights in a row, a clerk from Le Rose Hotel called, and four nights in a row, the restaurant […]

Marco Pantani: modern cycling’s most tragic figure Pantani had won the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia in the same year (he remains the last cyclist to do so), earned […]

The Greatest Eruption in Human History: Mount Tambora On April 10, 1815, the Indonesian volcano of Mount Tambora exploded in the largest eruption in recorded history. On the Volcanic Explosivity […]

Freddie Mercury Singer-songwriter Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on September 5, 1946, in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He studied piano in boarding school in India and befriended numerous musicians at London’s […]