Hat tricks have a rich history in hockey, but it didn't start there. For NPR's Word of the Week, we trace the term's some 150-year-history and why it's particularly special on the hockey rink.

The 19th edition of the Indian Premier League is set to begin on March 28th. The first match is between Royal Challengers ...

Eloise Frailey’s hat trick led Palmyra to a season-opening home 11-8 win over Warwick in non-league action Wednesday. Ava Lantz and Ella Detwiler both added on two goals for the Cougars (1-0); the ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Nikita Kucherov scored three goals for his sixth career hat trick and added two assists as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Seattle Kraken 6-2 on Tuesday night. Brandon Hagel had a goal ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Rangers forward Alexis Lafreniere got his second career hat trick and Jonathan Quick stopped 21 shots as the ...

This NHL season has felt like a nightly adrenaline rush. Teams are finding themselves in overtime each week, hat tricks are popping up in every division, and both rising stars and established greats ...

Dimitar Berbatov and Nwankwo Kanu have scored two of the Premier League's greatest hat-tricks Getty Images Eberechi Eze made history in the north London derby on Sunday. Not only was his hat-trick the ...

Eberechi Eze tore through Tottenham at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday to score the first Premier League era treble in a north London derby and the 400th ever in the competition - and it got us ...

The hat-trick by Federico Valverde against Manchester City reminded us of one thing: in European Cups, the heroes are not always the ones we expect.From lightning-fast hat-tricks to feats by ...

Puck drop tonight in the NHL brings a stacked quadrupleheader, with the Florida Panthers visiting Detroit, Senators vs Sabres, Utah Mammoth hosting the Calgary Flames and the Chicago Blackhawks facing ...