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It's fun to cheer for these players whose names happen to be some of the best in baseball. When you hear a name, you think of something. In “Star Wars,” the villain Darth Vader is a variation of “dark ...
Did anyone say coaching stops at the final whistle? That’s not quite the case. These former football minds didn’t hang it... Teenagers aren’t supposed to carry teams, break records, or win trophies—at ...
Career: 1984-2001 Country: West Indies Career stats in Tests: 132 matches, 519 wickets, 24.44 average, 57.8 strike rate, 2.53 economy, 7-37 best bowling, 22 5w Bottom line: Courtney Walsh had seen the ...
The greatest cricket teams of all time took the world by storm. Cricket has grown a lot since originating in England during medieval times. Today, the game has 2.5 billion fans. That makes cricket the ...
Look what they’ve done to my Hall Fame, ma. Out of nowhere, Harold Baines received a Hall pass with 2,866 hits, 384 home runs, 1,628 RBI, zero Gold Gloves and zero World Series titles. Now it’s the ...
For decades, Mount Rushmore was a large hill and tourist attraction in South Dakota. Then, fans and media turned it into the Mount Everest of sports, the most visited final four of all-time greatness.
Where have all the hypercompetitive, in-it-to-win-it Major League Baseball team owners gone? Straight to the bank. The baseball gravy train is on a roll. In 2022, the average MLB franchise was worth ...
Sports concessionaires go out of their way to serve weird offerings to local fans. They create hybrid foodstuffs that don’t exist in nature. Case in point: pulled-pork donut sandwiches. Some stadiums ...
Small towns have produced some of the most epic high school football stories of all time. There’s something special about growing up in a small town. The traditions. The bonds. The community. And, if ...
According to a Sports Illustrated report from 2009, an estimated 60 percent of NBA players go broke within five years of retirement. Nearly a decade later, that number is still the same, and it leaves ...
These men did so much on the gridiron, but they received so little credit in return. It's time to give them their due. You know the type. They’re the flat-liners whose drop-dead consistency gets lost ...
Who's on first? The greatest glovemen at the position. Besides catchers, first basemen wear the most unusual gloves on the field. A first basemen’s mitt has a continuous round edge to help scoop up ...