Tim Tebow scored a home run in his first at-bat as a professional baseball player Wednesday during an instructional league game. The 29-year-old former NFL quarterback signed with the New York Mets earlier this month despite not having played the sport competitively since high school. Many observers saw the move more as a publicity stunt […]
As Marin Cilic buried his face in a towel and started sobbing in the middle of the Wimbledon men’s final on July 16, few knew what he was going through better than a man watching the meltdown on TV nearly 4,500 miles away in Florida. Mackey Sasser never played competitive tennis. But he did spend […]
Fans of the 2018 Winter Olympics will have another option to watch the Games live: through Snapchat. A new live video feature —fittingly called Live — will allow NBC Sports to stream two- to six-minute long segments from the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, directly through the app, Snap announced this week. Users can […]
The Philadelphia Eagles made history at the 2018 Super Bowl Sunday night with its first win for the franchise — and fans celebrated accordingly. Just moments after the game, thousands of Eagles fans streamed out of their homes and nearby bars into the streets of Philadelphia, crowding in Center City to celebrate the historic win […]
The swing: fearless. The face: a camera’s dream. Arnold Palmer, who died on Sunday at 87, won his first Masters in 1958, during America’s great postwar expansion. This ascendant era spawned the leisure class, which took to golf, Eisenhower’s favorite game, and to the couch, to watch new TV sets in their living rooms. Into […]
There may be nothing in the world that brings out the weird in human beings more than sports; and there may be nothing that brings out the weird in sports more than baseball. Sportswriters never tire of rhapsodizing about baseball and its charms: it’s the game of summer evenings, of hope and heartbreak, of Kevin […]
It doesn’t take an MIT-trained mathematician to calculate the risks of playing football. But when he does — and seems to reject the game based on his conclusions —football’s dangers look that much clearer. This week, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a sobering study: 99% of deceased NFL players were diagnosed […]
Beyonce awarded Colin Kaepernick with Sports Illustrated’s Muhammad Ali Legacy Award on Tuesday night, which celebrates athletes who use their platform to bring about social change. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback said in his acceptance speech, “with or without the NFL’s platform, I will continue to work for the people.” “I accept this award […]
Cardell Hayes, the man convicted of killing football star Will Smith of the New Orleans Saints was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday, less than the maximum 60 years he could have received. Hayes, who killed Smith in an altercation following a traffic dispute in April of 2016 and injured Smith’s wife Raquel by […]
American athletes are wondering: what kind of locker rooms does Donald Trump hang around? On Friday, Trump dismissed his lewd comments, which were captured off-camera before a 2005 Access Hollywood interview — among other things, Trump bragged about kissing women (“I don’t even wait”) and touching their genitals (“grab them by the p—y. You can […]