Listen to Mason Rollans read The Boy Who Invented the Popsicle, written by Anne Renaud and illustrated by Milan Pavlovic. The story follows Frank William Eperson's experience inventing the ...

The La-Z-Boy was invented in 1927 by Edward Knabusch and Edwin Shoemaker. A pair of cousins from Michigan, the pair ...

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

Baseball was invented over a long period, drawing influences from English games like cricket and rounders, as well as games of Mayans, Egyptians and the French, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

In the early '20s, Utah farm boy Philo T. Farnsworth read about the race to invent television in popular science magazines that described the nascent technology, which used spinning shutter wheels ...

Google “who invented the internet,” as I just did, and you will get the same boring story. But I’m here to argue that there is a key figure missing in this history of the World Wide Web. And that ...

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

Who will win The Game of Life? Testimony is scheduled to begin in federal court in a lawsuit over who owns the rights to one of the most popular board games of all time.

After all, games involving running and handling had existed for centuries before that. In fact, some historians reckon William Webb Ellis might have been demonstrating the ancient Irish game of 'caid' ...

"The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box" by Marcie Wessels tells young readers the dramatic story of Ralph Baer, a German Jew who fled Nazi persecution and invented video games after being freed to ...

For example, when Naismith first introduced the game, the only rule was to put the ball in the basket. "The boys began tackling, kicking and punching in the clinches," Naismith said.

Lionel Messi and Argentina won the 2022 Qatar World Cup in one of the greatest games in soccer history / IMAGO/ActionPictures “Somebody said that football's a matter of life and death to you. I ...