The Olympics hooked me from my earliest memories of Bill Toomey, Lee Evans, and Jim Hines in Mexico City in 1968.   The Super Bowl, The Tour de France, the ...

Skip's post on Tuesday along with the NBA ref scandal brings to the front differences in league management of their referees. All referees-umps will make mistakes whether calling balls and ...

This week's Sports Illustrated cover story excerpts parts of the new book, Game of Shadows, detailing the evidence about Barry Bonds' steroid use. SI.com also carries the story. Their documentation, ...

A bit behind on this, but the new MLS team in Seattle (The Sounders) have sold more season tickets (per game) than the Mariners. Here the writeup in the Puget ...

Watching Dennis Bergkamp's vision, touch, and pace in the 1994 World Cup converted me from an occasional soccer watcher into a real fan. His move to Arsenal in 1995 quickly ...

The San Francisco 49ers won their first game yesterday, beating their even more hapless cross-Bay rivals, the Oakland Raiders.   The Niners' head coach, Mike Singletary, took over from Mike Nolan ...

"The eyes of Texas are upon you", that's the song they sing so well Sounds like hell, so good bye to Texas University We're going to beat you all to ...

The web buzzed this morning over John Calipari's remarks concerning Duke's flopping, USA Today, Huffington, ... Coach K's responded, but his reply subtly tells Calipari's story, "There's a difference between ...

A Yahoo! Sports headline and associated summary regarding the Tour on Monday headline reads, Sastre Wins Doping-Scarred Tour de France. Setting aside moral philosophy, I wonder whether the Tour's (and ...

During his trip to the Jacksonsville Jags' camp, SI.com's Don Banks elicited a couple of interesting quotes: From [QB Byron]Leftwich: "You can't describe Carl's system. It's a little bit of ...