American professional sports leagues are peppered with a smattering of under-the-radar overachievers, athletes who enjoy a greater degree of success at the highest competitive level than they did in the ...
Substitutions are an integral part of soccer, and have been ever since they were phased into the professional game more than 50 years ago. But something happened over the weekend ...
Up until the weekend, Liverpool had had a terrible 2017. With just one win in the Premiership this year, they were coming off a 3-1 spanking by a rejuvenated Leicester ...
It was only a couple of months ago that the games were coming so thick and fast for Premier League sides that the talk of a winter break got its ...
The match reports after Sunday's EFL Cup final were unanimous. Southampton were the better side and deserved to win but Zlatan Ibrahimovic was the outstanding performer and deserved to win ...
The Sacramento Kings' February 21 announcement of their DeMarcus Cousins to the New Orleans Pelicans trade was about as subtle as Donald Trump. Longtime announcer Grant Napear tweeted that Cousins ...
For the first time in his life, Yao Ming is going to find out what it's like to be unpopular.
Despite FA Cup, Champions League and Premiership games, the most notable soccer event in the past week was not a match but the sudden firing of Claudio Ranieri by Leicester. ...
The bell has tolled for the dilly ding, dilly dong era. Claudio Ranieiri has been sacked as Leicester City manager just nine months after he led the club to the ...
Some people would have you believe the FA Cup is not all it's cracked up to be. Well, the game between Sutton United and Arsenal gave them plenty of ammunition. ...
One thing that major American sports have in common is a major off-season event. Baseball has its winter meetings, basketball has its Las Vegas summer league, and football has the ...
Everyone loves an underdog story, but, in this case, David versus Goliath doesn't even come close.
"Football, bloody hell!" Those were Sir Alex Ferguson's famous words to describe his Manchester United side's comeback over Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final, but they would have ...
Manchester City Football Club may now think that this is their year to win the Champions League. This is not because Barcelona are all but out after losing 4-0 to ...
A 1998 Nike baseball ad campaign assured us that "Chicks dig the long ball." Apparently neither chicks nor dudes dig long games, however, so for several years MLB executives have ...
As the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) enters the final week of the regular season, Beijing's Kunlun Red Star stands poised to qualify for the playoffs in its debut season, a ...
Arsenal legend Ian Wright caused a bit of a stir when he claimed that Arsene Wenger might be retiring. According to Wright, Wenger had said to him during the week ...
It's ironic that when it comes to views on the man in the middle, there is no middle ground. Soccer's problem with referees comes into sharp focus in almost every ...