01 Baseball Rules: Everything That Changed, and When
Baseball has rewritten more of its rulebook since 2023 than in the previous forty years: a pitch clock, a shift ban, bigger bases, and a strike-zone challenge.
Rules · Origins · Power
Understand the game behind the game.
Beyond scores and hot takes: the laws, systems, turning points and institutions that shape world sport, traced to the source.
Basketball Rules Explained: FIBA's Game in Plain EnglishRead the full story ↗ Choose your angle
The whole game,
not just the score.
Four editorial desks. One job: make the machinery of sport legible.
01Origins & HistoryWhere each sport actually came from — who codified it, when, and which rules changed along the way. Dated to primary sources rather than repeated folklore.14 field notes ↗02Trophies & CompetitionsThe history of the trophies themselves and the competitions behind them — what they are made of, who made them, and how each contest has changed shape.6 field notes ↗03Rules & TechniquesThe actual laws of the major world sports in plain language — scoring, positions, officiating and the techniques that follow from them.135 field notes ↗04How Sport Is RunGoverning bodies, qualification formats and competition structure — who sets the rules, who runs the tournaments, and how teams actually get in.56 field notes ↗
Selected intelligence
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02 The False Start Rule: 0.100 Seconds, and the Race It Cost Usain Bolt
Athletics disqualifies on one false start, and defines it as a reaction quicker than 0.100 seconds — a physiological limit, not a judgement about cheating.
03 Handball Rules: Three Steps, Three Seconds, and a Zone Nobody May Stand In
The six-metre area belongs to the goalkeeper alone — which is why every shot in handball is taken from outside it, or in mid-air above it.
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Recently decoded.
- 01Rugby Rules Explained: How Rugby Union Actually WorksThe laws of rugby union in plain English — scoring, offside, the tackle, ruck, maul, scrum and lineout — taken directly from World Rugby's 2026 law book.
- 02The Rules of Golf Explained: How 25 Rules Actually WorkThe Rules of Golf in plain English: the two principles everything rests on, the 14-club limit and its exceptions, and why match and stroke play differ.
- 03The 17 Laws of Soccer: The Complete Rules, and What Changed for 2026/27All 17 Laws of the Game listed and explained from IFAB's rulebook — plus the 2026/27 changes, including five-second countdowns on throw-ins and goal kicks.
- 04Swimming Rules: What Actually Gets a Swimmer DisqualifiedThe 15-metre rule, the one-start rule and the stroke laws that decide races — read from World Aquatics' current Competition Regulations, not from summaries.
- 05Table Tennis Serve Rules: What Makes a Serve LegalThe official ITTF service laws in plain English — the open palm, the 16cm toss, the hidden-serve rule, and why you don't have to serve diagonally in singles.
- 06Tennis Rules and Scoring: Why 15, 30, 40 — and What Changed in 2022Tennis scoring explained, plus the rule the four Grand Slams could not agree on for decades. Until March 2022, each major ended a deciding set differently.
Why SportsGoogly
“Sport is more interesting when you understand who wrote the rules—and why.”