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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 […]

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 […]

By one measure, David Freese on Thursday had the greatest game in postseason history. Freese had a Win Probability Added total of 0.969. Here's how that works: In the ninth inning, […]

Of the roughly 201,000 major-league baseball games over the years, none have been any more compelling than Thursday night. But they screwed up the script. After the Cardinals' riveting comeback in […]