My wife and I spent March 2016 in Phoenix watching baseball. It might have been the best month of my life. We’d been to spring training before—my first trip came in 1993, when I got to witness the beginning of Tim Salmon’s career and the end of Robin Yount’s up close and personal—but never for
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The ’66 NCAA championship game triggered a tidal wave of change in college basketball.
All of Kevin Costner’s Sports Movies: A Beginner’s Guide
If we were playing Family Feud and the question was “Name a Kevin Costner movie,” your best bet would be to hit that plunger and yell out one of his sports films. While a certain “Sly” actor has created an athletic hero who has his own statue, when you think of sports on film, Costner
Keep Moving Forward: How the Rocky Films Got Me Through a Liver Transplant
In October 2013, I lost my battle with a liver disease known as PSC, primary sclerosing cholangitis. It causes the bile ducts to swell up, and sometimes swell shut, which turns the body into a giant clogged toilet. When that happens, your skin turns yellow and your eyes do a great impression of Michael Jackson
Maybe the World Series MVP Shouldn’t Get a Car
Should MLB think inside the box?
The Brown Notes: Listening to Cleveland Football on the Radio
Radio’s alternate reality enables even Browns fans to dream–briefly.
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The diabolical origin story of the modern-day NHL will scare your sweater off.
The Golden State of Joe Lacob
“It’s better to be lucky than good” applies to owners, too.
What’s in the Cards? A Random Journey through Baseball
“The Phillies and the Rays are the two most random teams to be in the World Series!” That was what a girl in my intermediate high school Spanish blurted out after “la pelota” came up in the lesson. This was not a very smart thing for her to say, not only because she lost participation points