James Dolan Goes All in With 'Melo Deal

Feb 22nd 2011 – 1:21 AM

It was inconceivable when this NBA season tipped off that there could be another team with more pressure upon it to win than Dwyane Wade's LeBron James-infused Miami Heat, also featuring Chris...

Bailing on Oprah Will Dog Michael Vick

Feb 17th 2011 – 7:45 PM

Having driven his Eagles, down five points, to the Packers' 27-yard line with seconds left in their NFC wild-card game last month, Michael Vick refused to spike the football and regroup from the...

College Basketball Poll Is Just a Sham

Feb 16th 2011 – 12:19 AM

In 1869, in Cardiff, N.Y., -- just south of Syracuse's Carrier Dome where this week's 17th-ranked men's college basketball team plays -- some farmers digging a well announced they found petrified...

From the Court to Cairo: Alaa Abdelnaby Celebrates for Egypt

Feb 12th 2011 – 10:00 PM

Late last month, when the protests that would revolutionize Egypt first began to roil, Alaa Abdelnaby got a call from his agent. The agent wanted to know if his client was interested in hitting the...

Time to Turn Off National Anthem Before Sports Events

Feb 8th 2011 – 11:11 AM

On Capitol Hill one June day in 1955, moments after what was dubbed as a premiere of The Pledge of Allegiance set to music, House members in attendance and gallery spectators looking on engaged in a...

Wintry Weather a Warning Sign for NFL

Feb 1st 2011 – 10:00 PM

It's too bad the first Super Bowl to be played outdoors in a northern city isn't scheduled next year, but in 2014, at Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. For if it were in 2012, there would be a...

Jay Cutler's Critics Need to Man Up and Apologize

Jan 26th 2011 – 12:50 AM

"You're not any less of a man if you don't pull the trigger, you're not necessarily a man if you do." -- A Tribe Called Quest. Jay Cutler didn't pull the trigger on Sunday, and that doesn't, as some...

Resilient Steelers Look Like Team to Beat in Super Bowl XLV

Jan 24th 2011 – 1:41 AM

PITTSBURGH -- On what was the penultimate play of their opening touchdown drive Sunday evening at Heinz Field, the Steelers' rookie center Maurkice Pouncey (right) was left writhing in pain on the...

Lance Armstrong's Big Win Not on Bike

Jan 20th 2011 – 7:16 PM

When I finally reached Geoff Thomas by phone in the summer of 2005, he'd just come off Col du Galibier, the highest peak in that year's Tour de France, where he'd pedaled most of the day over 100...

The Patriots Dynasty Officially and Unequivocally Dead

Jan 16th 2011 – 10:24 PM

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – It wasn't until Tom Brady failed to convert a fourth-and-long Sunday at the Jets' 34-yard line with about five minutes left and down by 10 points that I thought about the...

Tale of Two Rivalries: Jets-Pats Reality Show Trumps Ravens-Steelers

Jan 15th 2011 – 3:18 PM

When the bamboozlement began is not clear. Maybe it was at the turn of the century, when the Steelers were the last team to beat the Ravens, in a (insert air quote marks) thrilling 9-6 contest, as...

NCAA, Auburn Personally Foul Cam, Cecil Newton's Magic Moments

Jan 12th 2011 – 10:19 AM

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- A picture popped up on an Internet site late Monday afternoon. It purported to show the man many have been looking for standing in a queue outside the stadium where college...

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