During his long and distinguished career as a broadcaster, Vin Scully, the voice of the Dodgers (of both the Brooklyn…
Imagine you’re an NFL team and your league has been mired in a two-year slump of declining ratings and attendance…
Guilt, empathetic delight for Houstonians, a personal joy that was somewhat muted, and a great sense of wistfulness: All arose…
In The Boxing Kings, Paul Beston, managing editor of City Journal, gives a thorough and readable tour d’horizon of the heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan in the late 19th century, when spectator sports were first capturing the attention of Americans, though the sad end of Iron Mike Tyson’s bizarre career, which featured a meteoric rise followed by near free-fall. The fall being caused by Tyson’s own thuggish behavior, which went so low as to include cannibalism. (See the second Tyson/Holyfield fight, where Tyson, seeking to avoid the whipping that was sure to follow, chose to end his night via disqualification by biting a chunk out of Evander’s right ear.)
The current wild and wooly World Series is so entertaining that even Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred can’t mess it up,…
The NFL needed a bounce back weekend and did not get it. There was a sort of Best of Times,…
Allow me to introduce you to Bruce Maxwell. While the NFL has had literally scores and scores of players who…
Miami Marlins’ new owners, as new owners are wont to do, are cleaning house, bringing in their own people to…
Houston Astro’s Yuli Gurriel has the worst hair in the Major Leagues. Perhaps the worst hair in the world. This…
A week shy of the midway point of the football season, the two winless NFL teams are no surprise. They…
