Soccer, while traditionally lacking in highbrow accoutrements like sophisticated statistics (although those are improving) or literature (the most memorable English-language book ...

The greatest criminal and most profitable enterprise the world over is FIFA. I write this as billions are watching obscenely overpaid footballers competing for a cup that is long ...

As the professional golf season crests this week at the U.S. Open, it's worth noting that the game, while still growing in popularity among the robber barons of ex-communist ...

It's hard to get Americans to care about Britain but it's worth checking in on those fannies once in a while to see how their social experiments are going, because we tend to ...

I just watched the Super Bowl, and boy, am I bored. What's worse, I am left with an empty, restless, lonely sense of ennui and purposelessness in the pit of my soul, which hovers ...

There was a fair amount of national media excitement this weekend over the news that Darrell Wallace, Jr. had won a NASCAR race. As a Southern Californian, my attention span for ...

A man whose reputation rivals that of the Clintons"€™ for dishonesty and lies recently claimed overhearing a conversation by a gangster confirming that Bobby Riggs had thrown ...

Seven score and twenty-something years ago, a boat crossed the Atlantic from Hoboken, New Jersey for a day sail around the Isle of Wight. Thirty proper yachts vied with the sharp ...

Structured around the dismantling of the profitable notion pushed by self-help seers such as Malcolm Gladwell that 10,000 hours of monomaniacal practice is the secret of success, ...

A first-round loser at Wimbledon this year will receive $35,000 for showing up even if he defaults before the first ball is struck. Back in 1957 I got close to 200 dollars for ...

The sport of wrestling has suffered a slow decline over the last 100 years. Professional wrestling was a legitimate and popular sport in the United States 100 years ago. ...

So the miracle has happened. A generation has been inspired and millions of children have been driven away from their televisions and handheld devices and have gone out on the ...

The Augusta National Golf Club, the only course to host a major championship each year, has invited its first two women members"€”former Secretary of State Condi Rice and Darla ...

When Trenton Oldfield, weird and wrongheaded, jumped into the River Thames last Saturday to protest the Cambridge-Oxford Boat Race specifically and elitism in sports generally, he ...

March 28 saw a springtime ritual that rivals or even surpasses Easter in many Americans"€™ hearts: The baseball season opened. Despite the many differences"€”real and ...

Relax, Tiger. It’s over. The glow is gone. The media has ceased to natter over your personal affairs. Your game is still good, but not great like it once was. End your ...