Month: November 2011

NBA owners and players have reached a tentative agreement to end the lockout. But they should be careful what they wish for. The plan, according to reports, calls for a 66-game […]

With Oklahoma State losing in double overtime Friday, the BCS once again is a mess. LSU is unbeaten, and might or might not stay that way. But now there are […]

Here's today's random baseball trivia question: Which four people have won a regular-season MVP award and been named Manager of the Year? (Note: Official Manager of the Year awards began […]

Not a lot of detail yet, but there may have been a breakthrough on the efforts to bring minor-league baseball to Vancouver. Stephanie Rice is reporting that a 30 percent […]

Sunday's column reflected on the death of Joe Frazier and recalled the epic "Thrilla in Manila." I made reference in the column to Mark Kram's seminal account of the fight for […]

For the start of college basketball season, ESPN.com took a look at the 25th anniversary of the 3-point shot in the college game. There's a good read about Ed Steitz, the […]

For the start of college basketball season, ESPN.com took a look at the 25th anniversary of the 3-point shot in the college game. There's a good read about Ed Steitz, the […]

Need a momentary break from the Penn State story? We bring you Chuck Klosterman's list of The 50 Greatest College Basketball Players of All-Time. Although it's more like the 50 […]

Joe Paterno is out at Penn State, informed by the board of regents that "you can't quit, you're fired." So is the university president, meaning that the child-molestation scandal has […]

And now for this week's installment of, "Kevin Durant is the coolest athlete alive." The gist: Durant tweeted that the lockout was boring and asked whether anybody had a flag football […]