Last Friday marked the 30-year anniversary of boxer Mike Tyson’s first professional fight against Hector Mercedes, and his controversial legacy was analyzed in long form
Baseball players and owners regularly tangle. So do hockey players and owners. And, last week, it looked like Major League Soccer might lock out its
Cuba and the U.S. might be moving toward normalized relations, and this development will likely only speed up a trend that has been growing over
For baseball fans, the long wait is over. Pitchers and catchers around Major League Baseball are reporting this week, and Spring Training — when big
James Shields was the last big-name free agent to decide on a new team for 2015. This week, he picked the San Diego Padres, which
Tiger Woods’ chances of breaking Jack Nicklaus’ 18 major record are looking more and more unlikely. Given his recent performances, Woods might not go down
Believe it or not, it’s been two years since cycling champion Lance Armstrong admitted to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance enhancing drugs. In an
It’s a tale as old as professional sports. An athlete gets a multi-million dollar contract, and spends his money on the assumption that he’s actually
The hype leading up to the Super Bowl often means that people will flock to the stores to buy that enormous HDTV they’ve been eying,
The Washington Nationals signed Max Scherzer for seven years at the cheap price of $210 million. No, that isn’t sarcasm: Scherzer’s $210 million deal is
On Monday night, Ohio State (or as some call it, The Ohio State University) defeated Oregon to claim the national college football title. It should
For decades, new sports stadiums have presented taxpayers with a big dilemma. Either they had to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to bring
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