Sports

February just sits there, a ripe plum for the taking. It is a large reason why the Daytona 500 became so popular. After all, nothing else in sports takes place in February. I think ESPN turns to religious and...

When, sometime ago, I was doing research for a story on baseball in the early 20th century, I was surprised to discover how much suspicion there existed that some games were being fixed -- regularly, year after year....

Gather round, brothers and sisters, and let us bid goodbye to our great departed friend, for as magnificent as he was upon this earth, he has surely left us now. And so, dust to dust, amen.

It's over. The Age of Manliness in sports is finished. Yes, all three of our classic All-American sports -- baseball, football and basketball -- have been co-opted by nerds, by mathematicians and philosophers. Real...

The hot new movie Miracle is about the U.S. hockey team's upset win in the 1980 Olympics. There were a number of reasons why that victory resonated so with the American public, but one of the prime factors was that...