Roger Goodell

longtime sports executive of the savviest kind, Dave Checketts understands that power circles actually take the shape of a pyramid. In the NFL hierarchy, no one is above commissioner Roger Goodell. For several days,...

By commissioner Roger Goodell, effective in Week 3 of the NFL season, Eagles quarterback Michael Vick . After Vick completed his prison term for running a dogfighting ring, Goodell ruled that Vick could sign with a...

After being shot in an apparent robbery, boxer Vernon Forrest . The 2002 magazine fighter of the year was 38. According to police in Atlanta, Forrest was putting air in the tires of his Jaguar last Saturday night...

At a funeral in his adopted hometown of Montreal on Monday, former junior lightweight and junior welterweight champ Arturo Gatti , who was found dead in a Brazilian hotel room on July 11. The 37-year-old native of...

His WBO and IBF heavyweight title belts, Wladimir Klitschko , with a ninth-round TKO of Ruslan Chagaev in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, last Saturday. The bout drew 61,000 fans, the largest boxing crowd in the country...