NBC New York

It's not ping-pong: Here's the history of the Olympic sport's common nickname

The 2024 Paris Olympic Games will welcome back the fastest sport played on a tabletop: table tennis. Have you called it ping-pong before? Excusez-Moi, but that is an Olympic faux pas. The sport is ...

A brief history of table tennis in film – from Forrest Gump to Marty Supreme

Both film and table tennis depended upon the invention of celluloid – which plastic ping pong balls are made from.
The New York Times

The scientific case for ping-pong: Why athletes — and you — should play more table tennis

Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...

‘A long time coming’: table tennis world hails Marty Supreme-fueled boom

An Oscar-tipped cult biopic, sold-out matches and fresh faces at clubs suggest table tennis may finally be breaking free of its basement reputation in the US ...