Athletes

LeBron’s Heat Debut: Lukewarm

NBA fans, repeat after me: the Boston Celtics have four All-Stars, and Shaq. The Boston Celtics have four All-Stars, and Shaq. The Boston Celtics have four All-Stars . . . and friggin’ Shaq.

A Big Break for Big Ben

On Friday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell cut his suspension of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who was accused of sexual assault by a 20-year-old woman in Georgia in March, from its original six games to four games.

Top 10 Blown Calls

It was the perfect game that wasn’t. Umpire Jim Joyce mistakenly ruined Armando Galarraga’s perfect game with a bad call. TIME takes a look at other refs who changed the course of sports history with bad calls

Federer Falls at French Open

The Boston Red Sox were still cursed. Tweets were still bird noises. And Greece was prepping to host the Summer Olympics, not the scourge of the global economy. Such was life in May of 2004, which, until today, marked the last …

Top 10 Sporting Cheats

Up until recently, Floyd Landis was in a lengthy legal battle to recover his 2006 Tour de France victory, lost after a test showed he had elevated levels of synthetic testosterone in his blood. That ended this month after Landis …

Top 10 Boxing Matches of All Time

On the morning of 17 April 1860, boxing’s inaugural “world title” match took place. Though illegal, sporting historians accept that John C. Heenan vs Tom Sayers (U.S. vs England, in a Hampshire field) was the first of many …

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