As Facebook prepares for an IPO of its stock that may value the company at US$100 billion, it's important to know what sport it's in and if, like the Chicago Bulls with Jordan, dynasties can last. Michael Jordan was probably the best basketball player to play the game of hoop. He had a halo effect. But baseball just wasn't his sport at the level basketball was.
Super Bowl XLVI Most Valuable Player Eli Manning was awarded a 2012 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Convertible Centennial Edition. | February 06, 2012 | General Motors Corporation
Rory McIlroy may be fine-tuning his game ahead of an assault on the Dubai Desert Classic this week, but he still found time to pose for a few holiday snaps with the missus.
IN ONLY SEVEN of the first 45 Super Bowls was a defensive player chosen as the game's most valuable player. In a quarterback-centric sport, an enterprise where every rule change in anyone's memory has been designed to inflate the scoreboard totals, this does not exactly qualify as a surprise. The Big Supe is America's greatest sales vehicle, and offense sells.
University of Washington club hockey player Tristan Wickliff and three USC players try to control the puck in a game earlier this season. Washington's Corey James, who is from Mountlake Terrace, battles for control of the puck with a UCLA player during a Pac-8 game last month in Mountlake Terrace.
Super Bowl Sunday is not just about the game. Sure, fans want to see the Super Bowl XLVI matchup of the New England Patriots (15-3) versus the New York Giants (12-7), but with Super Bowl Sunday also comes the wonderful opportunity to place prop bets on the game. These are bets that have virtually nothing to do with the actual play on the field. Cross-sport prop bets can be highly entertaining on ...
Kevin Arsenault, 25, is starting the countdown to his final game as a Western hockey player.
We speak to Codemasters about its latest DiRT game, and how Showdown could enhance the franchise.
Xavier Prep's Tanner Housken is double-teamed Friday by Indio defenders during a Desert Valley League game at Xavier Prep in Palm Desert. Gerry Maceda/Special to MyDesert
The NFL wants to add even more fans to the millions already following the sport -- and is willing to pay $1 million to do it. The league will run an ad during the Super Bowl introducing the "Perfect Challenge," a deceptively simple new fantasy game. Each week, participants must pick an eight-player lineup out of the entire NFL.
Harry Keough, a St. Louis postman who reached the highest levels of American soccer, as both a player and a coach, died Tuesday of natural causes after suffering from Alzheimer's. He was 84.
As with any sport, players can decline in production just as fast as they rise in popularity for a recent hot streak. Whether it's a major injury that will keep the player out for an extended period of time or a recent cold streak in production, here are the most-dropped...
Golf:Gary Player spent much of his career in the shadow of record 18-times major winner Jack Nicklaus and the South African believes Irishman Rory McIlroy has as much natural talent as any golfer he has seen.
While the players who comprise the last-place teams in all four major sports each make an excellent living, those players' counterparts get well rewarded for winning.
Kristina Danella has appeared in all 21 of Marist College’s games this winter, and started in three. The junior guard/forward, who transferred from the University of Massachusetts, is one of the Red Foxes’ most important additions. read more
Gary Player believes young Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy has as much natural talent as any golfer he has seen.
Throughout the landscape of men's college basketball, most people who religiously follow the sport want to know one thing: What is wrong with the Duke Blue Devils' basketball program? Duke (19-4) recently lost their second ACC game at home in two weeks. Last weekend, the Blue Devils lost 78-74 in overtime to the Miami Hurricanes. The Blue Devils, ranked 10th in the latest Associated Press Top 25 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Gary Player spent much of his career in the shadow of record 18-times major winner Jack Nicklaus and the South African believes young Briton Rory McIlroy has as much natural talent as any golfer he has seen. "Rory's swing is so magnificent," purred Player, slowing down his voice for emphasis. "He's got as much talent as anybody I've ever seen," the 76-year-old told Reuters in ...
Some of the great props unveiled for the Super Bowl offer the chance to bet on how a few of the players in the big game will fare in a cross-sport competition against a player who is competing in another sport on Super Bowl Sunday. There are a handful of these for Super Bowl XLVI between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants on Bovada's NFL football odds, including two Boston-centric ...
Video: Not every beast that interrupts sport is as welcome as the Anfield cat.
