Ah, Lakers-Celtics. The matchup between the two dynastic franchises from Los Angeles and Boston, who will be squaring off in the NBA Finals for the 12th time, brings back so many memories.
He should have been the one to break the home run record.
Ahead of every World Cup, there are always certain guarantees: England fans fear the team will eventually be eliminated via penalty kicks. The world will underestimate the German squad. And there will be a hullabaloo over the official match ball.
A photo portfolio of some of soccer’s top stars
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 …
London’s eerie choices for the 2012 games prompt questions about what makes a successful mascot. From the cute and cuddly to the creepy, absurd, and ethically questionable, a visual survey of past Olympic mascots.
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 …
It’s often been said that football has eclipsed baseball as our national pastime. Well, the NFL could be passing MLB in another, less desirable category: the sports most tripped-up by steroid scandals.
Which group of athletes have the most reason to be peeved this morning? A bunch of tall guys colloquially known as the “Boston Celtics.”
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 …