When Babe Ruth was honored in 1947 with a special day for “fans, players and the management of the game … to unite in a salute and join in a prayer for his early recovery,” as MLB commissioner Happy Chandler put it, the baseball legend was dying of cancer and hadn’t played professionally since 1935. […]
Think Democrats across the country are uneasy about the potential independent presidential candidacy of former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who as a well-financed third party opponent, could bleed votes from the Democratic nominee, and ease Donald Trump’s path to a second term? Their worry won’t hold a cup of coffee to that of former fans […]
Soon before the start of her first slalom run at the 2018 Winter Olympics Games on Friday, a horrible feeling overcame American skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin. She wondered if she had food poisoning. “What is happening?” Shiffrin, who won five straight slalom races to start the calendar year, thought to herself. Overcome by nerves, she […]
Can Ester Ledecka pull off the improbable, if not impossible? That’s the question pretty much no one thought they’d be asking at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. But perhaps the best pure athletic achievement of these Olympics — and one of the most impressive feats in Olympic history, actually — could occur on Saturday afternoon […]
Professional curlers spend years perfecting their craft in frigid weather before they ever hit Olympic ice. Unprofessional curlers, though, just need a Roomba vacuum cleaner, a Swiffer, and a lot of Olympic spirit. The 2018 Winter Olympics may be taking place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, but one Kentucky family brought the action right into their […]
With England just one game away from reaching their first World Cup final since 1966, English fans’ cries of “It’s coming home” are only growing stronger. The chant has its origins in The Lightning Seeds’ 1996 single “Three Lions,” a track that was released to commemorate England hosting the 1996 European Football Championship. But while […]
USA Gymnastics’ announcement Wednesday that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection was in some ways expected. The embattled organization is currently under investigation by Congress and under threat of losing its status as the national governing body for gymnastics by the US Olympic Committee (USOC). It faces more than 100 lawsuits by gymnasts […]
As the NFL preseason started Thursday night, players for the Eagles, Dolphins, Jaguars and Seahawks knelt, raised a fist or waited off-field during the national anthem. On Friday morning, President Donald Trump once again attacked them on Twitter. Trump lashed out with a new criticism, saying that players, “wanted to show their ‘outrage’ at something […]
After two mistake-filled outings at Olympic figure skating events so far, Nathan Chen has one last chance to show the world why he’s known as the Quad King. A gold medal favorite in men’s figure skating coming into the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, Chen was undefeated this season, after sweeping up his […]
Virginia McLaurin just celebrated her 109th birthday by hanging out with the Harlem Globetrotters, proving that having a rollicking good time definitely has no age limit. McLaurin may be best known to the world as the woman who went viral for having a dance party with the Obamas during a visit to the White House […]