Pepper Pong’s creator Tom Filippini has had a long journey through isolation and addiction. The togetherness that comes with the game has been instrumental to his well-being. Tom Filippini ...

To capitalize on the game, a company named J. Jaques & Son Ltd. trademarked "ping-pong" in 1901 and manufactured table tennis sets under the same name. In the 1920s, the game crossed the Atlantic ...

Ping pong is a good example of global competition in sports. But arguably, no other sport was used so effectively as a political tool to open relations between two hostile countries.

Ping Pong has bounced back. Table tennis is finally out of your parents’ suburban basement and entering a golden — and urban — age with mini-courts popping up in bars, restaurants and even retail ...

And, believe it or not, ping pong was a huge success. "What was supposed to be a four-week event turned out to be a four-month event, because it ended up being so popular every week," Kinsey says.

To capitalize on the game, a company named J. Jaques & Son Ltd. trademarked "ping-pong" in 1901 and manufactured table tennis sets under the same name. In the 1920s, the game crossed the Atlantic ...

The name ping-pong inspired the virtual world, when video game manufacturer Atari developed the game "Pong." The game was the digital version of table tennis, and the name derives from ping-pong.