After tonight—or as of yesterday, depending on the rain—Derek Jeter will have played his final game in Yankee Stadium. It's as fine a time as any to note, for the record, that Derek Jeter was an OK ballplayer. He was pretty good at playing baseball, overall, and he did it for a pretty long time.
Even as Barack Obama all but declares war on militants in Iraq, the biggest story in America is the scandal enveloping the National Football League. But for sports fans, this story has been lengthy and complicated, with new information nullifying what we thought we knew. Here, for the still uninitiated, is the story…
Alec Baldwin, former celebrity still involved in things only famous people get to do, attended the U.S. Open match between Maria Sharapova and Maria Kirilenko last night and when a stray ball went flying into the stands, he calmly reached out and caught it. It was no big deal. "I don't play tennis well, but I can…
A number of players from the University of New Mexico's women's soccer team have alleged that they were brutally hazed by senior members of the team on Sunday night. The hazing allegedly involved being forced to drink heavily, strip naked, and have urine splashed on them.
The first time I saw two laxers on the 2 train, I sneakily snapped a photo, giddy with delight that there may be somewhere I could play lacrosse in New York City.
After an ugly court battle between Donald and Shelly Sterling over the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers, Judge Michael Levanas of the Los Angeles Superior Court ruled today to allow Shelly Sterling to sell the team to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.
Last year, 400,000 Americans stopped playing golf and 160 golf courses in this country shut down. Good.
Just as the World Cup is dwindling down, another sports story has taken over your Twitter feed: the free agency of LeBron James, the best and most famous basketball player in the world. Four years ago James became a national villain after the saga of his first free agency culminated in a one-hour television special,…
Clam the psychic clam, who took the world by storm with his bold and accurate World Cup predictions, is back, shaking up the stuffy world of psychic animal sports prediction with a new prophecy: LeBron James will return to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Of the many pleasures conferred by following the FIFA World Cup this year, one that has gone under-discussed thus far is that male hysteria has been in full, blooming display therein.
Germany's Marcel Kittel crosses the finish in London, England, winning the third stage of the 2014 Tour de France. Cyclists raced Monday in the rain for 96 miles from Cambridge to the stage's finish past Big Ben in Westminster. Image by Peter Dejong via AP.
Clam the psychic clam, who has accurately predicted every U.S. victory in the 2014 World Cup, has reached deep into the psychic aether and emerged with a prophecy: The United States will beat Belgium in today's knockout World Cup game.
The opinion section of the Wall Street Journal, bastion of virile American traditionalism, wanted a metaphor for how thoroughly President Obama had been humiliated by the Supreme Court's limitation on recess appointments. You know what is really humiliating? When there's a sports contest and one sports-person fails to…
Clam, the psychic clam who has never incorrectly predicted a World Cup match in which the U.S. won, has applied his (their?) psychic talents to today's match against soccer powerhouse Germany—and is predicting a surprise U.S. victory!
Lionel Messi, the Argentine soccer superstar, reportedly got online accolades for his World Cup heroism this weekend from the Islamic militants rapidly taking over Iraq—along with an invitation to "join the jihadist call," according to news reports.
Visitors don umbrella hats as they wait to enter the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, the host of Wimbledon, the oldest tennis tournament in the world. The first day of games saw an easy victory by Novak Djokovic and an upset by Russia's Maria Kirilenko over the United States' Sloane Stephens. Image via AP.
Clam, the psychic clam, whose eerily accurate prediction of a U.S. win in Monday's World Cup match earned him (her?) fans worldwide, is back—and he's predicting a U.S. victory over Portugal in the team's second match of the tournament on Sunday. Don't forget: Clam has never been wrong!
The FIFA World Cup, soccer's premiere international tournament, begins today at 4 p.m., and you, non sports fan, are confused.
Tough day? Long commute to work this morning? At least you're not one of the 18 maniacs currently rowing the 2,400 miles from Monterey, California to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Lake City, a small Tennessee burg "beset by unemployment and methamphetamine use," will change its name to "Rocky Top" in order to excite developers and Vols fans. No word yet on when Miami will change its name to "Blow Canes."
