Once upon a time in America, baseball cards weren’t collectibles or “investments.” They were currency, the hard cash of a boy’s childhood. Before anyone ever carried a wallet, you could feel rich just by stuffing your pockets with cardboard. A pocket full of baseball cards was a ...
NEW YORK — Some lights atop Yankee Stadium briefly went dark a couple of times in the first inning in a game from earlier this week. A full-blown power outage might have been more fitting. Missing a trio of injured sluggers in the middle of their fizzling lineup, the New York Yankees were ...
A trio of powerful pitching arms — including two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal, Freddy Peralta and Mason Miller — highlight the intriguing candidates who could switch teams as Major League Baseball's trade deadline approaches. The deadline is Monday at 6 p.m. EDT. Skubal — a ...
CHICAGO — Bayou Barbie is back in Chicago. With her own Barbie, too. Angel Reese is playing in her third WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday at the United Center. This time, she is representing Atlanta in her first season with the Dream following a messy split with the Chicago Sky. "It's so ...
From the 1919 Black Sox World Series fix to Pete Rose’s gambling downfall in 1989 and NBA referee Tim Donaghy’s betting scandal in 2007, each generation has been convinced it had seen the gambling controversy that would permanently clean up sports. Yet a century later, the money is ...
Any frustration associated with the failure of the United States Men’s National Soccer Team to advance past the round of 16 in the World Cup should not be laid at the feet of the players. The win over Bosnia and Herzegovina in the round of 32 was just the second-ever for the U.S. men in the ...
