While live sports are on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, there is one sport returning this June that was highlighted on HBO's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. And that's marble racing. On ...

Lockdown has been good for Jelle’s Marble Runs, which has acquired more than 1m YouTube subscribers “Can’t believe I watched this all the way to the end,” Gary Lineker tweeted early into Britain’s ...

PROFESSIONAL basketball, football and hockey games were suspended. Major League Baseball cancelled the start of its season, and the Tokyo Olympics have been postponed. But at least one sport still ...

Earlier this week, the Norwegian musher Thomas Wærner won the 2020 Iditarod, the legendary dogsledding race that, like every other sporting event this year, has become a casualty of the coronavirus.

Sometime around when Chloe Kim won a gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics, I showed a friend of mine a YouTube channel. While waiting for the shuttle, he watched a series of assorted marbles skate, ...

(CNN) — Different colored marbles race down a path curved in a sandy beach, crashing into one another as they vie for position. A commentator excitedly narrates the action, breathlessly describing ...

With the Olympics and pretty much every other sporting event scuppered by the coronavirus, fans of such spectacles have been scrabbling around for alternatives to get their competitive kicks. One ...

The fans are tense and cheering, the competition narrows as players who have worked and trained their whole lives for this see victory right in front of them, many overcoming hardship and injuries to ...

Maybe it was the fact that almost every sporting event had just vanished, now and for the foreseeable future. Maybe it was the exhaustion of worrying about the fate of literally everything in my life.