In most sports, taking synthetic testosterone steroid treatments will get you a lengthy suspension and pariah status. In Texas girls’ wrestling, it gets you two state championships. Eighteen-year-old Mack Beggs, […]

The greatest shutdown defender in the history of pro football isn’t Chuck Bednarik or Dick Butkus or Ray Lewis, but rather Father Time. For Eli Manning and the new brain […]

The last time the United States won gold in women’s Olympic hockey, it was at Nagano in 1998 and Bill Clinton was president. But even as the Far East again […]

Two maxims were stretched to their ultimate limit at the Olympics on Friday. One is “a picture is worth a thousand words.” The other is “pictures don’t lie, seeing is […]

Amid the ongoing FBI investigation and scandal involving what the feds and the NCAA call inappropriate payments and what others call free market capitalism, Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball has added […]

The Olympics are, or at least their mission statement says they are, about the pure essence of athletic competition, about good sportsmanship and international fellowship, about athletes from the same […]

The biggest scandal to hit college basketball since the infamous CCNY point-shaving scandal in 1950 has intensified. When news of the FBI’s sweeping bribery and corruption investigation broke last September, […]

Fundamentally, golf and basketball share the same goal: Get a ball into a hole with greater accuracy than your opponent’s efforts to do the same. And like basketball, sometimes golf […]

It seems like it’s not officially an Olympic Games until someone gets nailed for using performance-enhancing drugs, and anyone who thought the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang were going to […]

Saturday’s NBA’s Slam Dunk contest was, by all accounts, fairly underwhelming and left many fans nostalgic for classic contests like those of 1988, 2000 and 2016 — those once-in-a-generation masterpieces […]