Make sure you bring protective gear to the annual event in Bath, Illinois, because these fish jumping, literally, out of the water
Keeping ScoreGolf
Is Tiger Woods Really Washed Up?
This year’s PGA Championship, which tees off Thursday from Whistling Straits in Haven, Wisconsin, isn’t quite a do-or-die tournament for Tiger Woods.
David Beckham’s England Career Is Over
A nation woke up Thursday confronted by the grim reality that David Beckham’s competitive England soccer career has come to an end. And the player himself found out at the same time as his loyal subjects.
Keeping ScoreFootball
USC Returns Reggie Bush’s Heisman Trophy
It’s shakeup day at USC.
Keeping ScoreAppreciation
A Final Goodbye for Two Yankee Greats
An almost eerie quiet came over Yankee Stadium Friday night, before the New York Yankees hosted the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to kick off the second half of the baseball season for both teams.
Thierry Henry, Meet New York. New York, Meet Thierry Henry
The World Cup might just have finished but soccer hasn’t finished with you. And Major League Soccer is making a major league signing.
In Brooklyn ‘Barcelonas’, a Bright Future for USA Soccer
For a variety of reasons, I ended up watching the World Cup Final on a TV tied to a tree at the soccer fields in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, where hundreds of players of all ages, almost all from Latin American countries, come to play every weekend in highly organized leagues.
Spanish Triumph in Greenwich Village
Just a couple of amateur (very, very amateur — I am no photographer) iPhone snaps from my wanderings near home post-Spain’s World Cup triumph. As ought to be expected, New York stood still in the afternoon hours of Sunday and I can still hear the drone of vuvuzelas reverberating around my block. Football may not yet be America’s game, …
Spain Claims the Crown, 1-0
In claiming its first World Cup championship with a 1-0 win over a hardworking but ultimately overmatched Dutch team, Spain demonstrated that playing beautiful football isn’t a reward in itself. If you want the trophy, sometimes you’ve got to win a little ugly. And this game was no a piece of art. Spain was more than willing to …
Live Blog: The World Cup Final
On August 25, 2007, Tahiti played New Caledonia in the first qualification game for the 2010 World Cup. 912 games, 206 competing nations later, Spain faced off against the Netherlands in the final at Soccer City, Johannesburg, where 84,490 lucky people witnessed the eighth winner of the greatest sporting event in the world. Why not …
You See That? We Got Madiba!
Naomi’s here, Charlize is here, Morgan’s here, even Placido is here – but, finally, the last missing piece of the South Africa tableau was put in place at Soccer City tonight when Nelson Mandela made a 2-minute tour of the pitch.
World Cup: Last Few Hours, from the Stands
We’re in the last hours of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first in Africa, and as 94,000 fans of Spain and Holland assemble here at Soccer City, it seems appropriate to review what South Africa has achieved in the last month.
In South Africa, Catalans Lead Spain; In Spain, Catalans Want (More) Freedom
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Just an addendum to Tony’s excellent tableau of the kind of historic and political forces “at play” when Spain and Holland meet in the 2010 World Cup final tomorrow: On Saturday, on the eve of arguably the most important match in Spanish history, over one million …