Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, a new tennis serve entered the canon, the first ...

Cricket is nothing if not an evolving game. The earliest form of stumps was a wicket gate, which probably led to it being called a wicket. Nowadays, stumps have LED bails which show when exactly they ...

The earliest bowling was underarm, although that wasn't always quite as genteel as it might sound. The early cricket historian John Nyren wrote of David Harris, who propelled fast underarms from ...

The horizontal feature of my Rockwell 21-122 is awesome, except for the hassle of setting it up. The vertical head and motor are heavy, a pain to remove and re-install, and irritating to re-tram.

The earliest bowling was underarm, although that wasn't always quite as genteel as it might sound. The early cricket historian John Nyren wrote of David Harris, who propelled fast underarms from ...