The Augusta National course is storied, exclusive, very opulent and very private — the perfect location for Tiger Woods to make his much anticipated return to golf. As the pros gear up to take the green in the annual Masters …
Top 10 Memorable Moments of the Winter Olympics
It started with tragedy, and a technical mishap or two, but the Vancouver Winter Games also had its share of athletic triumphs. Here is a look at this year’s Olympic highs and lows
A Brief History of Olympic Sore Losers
Russia’s Evegni Plushenko believes he deserved the men’s figure-skating gold medal instead of silver at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. In honor of his poor sportsmanship, TIME takes a look at other Olympic complainers
The Rise of Manny Pacquiao
A look at the Filipino boxer’s career in and out of the ring
What Becomes of Olympic Stadiums?
A photographic survey of how the venues for the Summer games look today
Keeping ScoreBasketball
Top 10 Michael Jordan Moments
As Michael Jordan takes his proper place in the Basketball Hall of Fame on Sept. 11, TIME looks back at the moments that made him one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century
Caster Semenya’s Triumph and Trials
Controversy over her gender has distracted from her world championship win in the 800 meters
Top 10 Sports Comebacks
Michael Vick went from playing quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons to serving time on dogfighting charges. But now that Vick’s out of jail, the Philadelphia Eagles are offering him a second chance
A smart new way to deal with (some of) the homeless
The standard liberal approach to urban homelessness is creating an expensive and ongoing ad hoc entitlement: more and better government-run shelters, more government-subsidized housing. The standard conservative approach to urban homelessness: spending as close to nothing as possible, and try not to think about it.
Deciding is easy, but doing is hard
The problem with the reset metaphor — the idea of pushing a “reset button” — is its implication that the excesses and madness and dysfunction in our complex economic systems can be fixed easily.
There’s no question that at the highest levels, executive pay has gotten badly out of whack, and was symptomatic of the bon temps rouler …
Keeping ScoreBaseball
Top 10 Worst MLB All-Stars
Clueless fans are to blame for the All-Star Game selection of some of these B-teamers, while others benefited from baseball’s requirement that each club supply a warm body. Here are the players who prove that to make baseball’s …
Top 10 Tour de France Moments
The Tour de France, which kicked off July 4, is a three-week, 2,000-mile test of human endurance. TIME takes a look back at some of the race’s greatest moments
Soccer Protest: Iran’s Players Show Support for Mousavi
Some players wore green wristbands in a World Cup qualifier on June 17 to symbolize their support for the opposition leader