The last few weeks in summer sports have seen record temperatures causing near-tragedies here in New York City, a total tragedy in a smoldering sauna championship in Finland, and most recently the collapse of Victoria Azarenka at the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Sadly, casualties in competitive sport are fairly common, as illustrated by Mental Floss’s listicle of 10 Tragic Athlete Deaths, to which we’d like to add (if you’ll allow the inclusion of motor sports, that is) the death of Brazilian Formula One champion Ayrton Senna, killed in a crash during a race in San Marino in 1994.






As you may have noticed, we have been rather lax the last week, leaving you hanging loose with little listicle libations, but we have a really good reason (and many not-so-good excuses). Here are the Top 5 Reasons for the Recent Dearth of Lists on Listicles.