The rules of basketball originally forbade dribbling: as in net ball, a player receiving the ball had to remain in place until they threw it to one of their teammates. Dribbling was officially introduced to the rules of the sport in 1891.

The first basketball was actually a soccer ball.

When tennis first proved popular in the Victorian era, women would play in full floor-length skirts, with sleeves, high collars, and stockings underneath.

A single volleyball player will jump 300 times in a single game. In a typical match, a tennis player will run a total of three miles across the court.

The fastest rugby try in a professional game was scored by Vula Maimuri of Fiji against the New Zealand Crusaders at a match in Christchurch in 2001 just 12 seconds into the game.

Beach volleyball is nothing new. It was first played in Hawaii in 1915.

98% of professional squash players are college graduates.