Ping pong started in Victorian England as a parlor game played on dining tables with improvised paddles and a cork ball. It has since evolved into a fast-paced sport with global championships and ...

It’s time to settle this once and for all. That game you play in your basement — is it called ping-pong or table tennis? What are the real rules? How do you keep score? Is “sucker’s serve” only for ...

Exactly 50 years ago today, Atari released Pong. It wasn’t the first video game ever created, nor the original take on virtual table tennis – a fact that would eventually lead to two decades of ...

Claire Corbin/BPONG.COM Dan Range (in red) of Columbia, Ill. and Nick Syrigos from St. Charles, Mo., also known as Standing Ovation, won the World Series of Beer Pong's $50,000 prize. LAS VEGAS -- ...

If you think the PS5 is expensive, get a load of Atari’s “Home Pong” prototype. The original 1975, hand-carved wood mock-up of the Pong system recently sold for $270,910 at auction, according to ...

The fastest serve ever recorded by a ping-pong player moved at about 70 mph (113 km/h). Professor Mark French of Purdue University's Mechanical Engineering Technology department and his graduate ...