Formula 1 is one of the biggest global TV draws behind the Football World Cup and the Olympics. The 2005 Canadian Grand Prix, for example, attracted the second largest global TV audience of any sporting event that year with 53 million viewers. Formula One captures all the excitement of the spor...

For thousands of years man has been fascinated with balls. It is easy to imagine cavemen hitting round stones with sticks for amusement. The Egyptians, Romans and then Christian Monks played games which involved hitting a small ball with a stick, which eventually became a bat, and then a racque...