Ridgefield resident Bob Moffat, the International Business Machines Corp. executive arrested in the Galleon insider-trading case, used to start meetings with trivia about "This Day in History." He'd ask if anyone knew what day it was, and then rattle ...
Tiger Woods will undergo reconstructive knee surgery and will miss the remainder of the 2008 golf season. (Doug Pensinger, Getty Images ) Faster than Tiger Woods' club speed, the celebrating at NBC Sports turned to mourning. The network had just ...
That's what Roger Clemens is doing. He's putting his baseball legacy and future as a public icon on the line in a duel of conflicting testimony with his former personal trainer Brian McNamee. The 1950s quiz show, "You Bet Your Life," involved a secret ...
At this time a year ago, Boston was only the No. 11 NBA team at the retail checkout counter. At the start of the 2007-2008 season, even after they added Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen, the Celtics were still only No. 7. The Celtics' impact at retail is ...
Yet something's missing from this annual convergence of birthday and holiday. Fireworks will fill the evening sky over Tampa Bay. But when it comes to the fireworks long associated with Steinbrenner, only occasional traces still flicker. After running ...
Since 1991, MLB's RBI program claims to have subsidized urban youth-baseball leagues serving 120,000 players in 200 cities. The program has also produced major leaguers Carl Crawford, Coco Crisp, Jimmy Rollins and Dontrelle Willis. But the $16 ...
Oscar Goodman, the mob lawyer turned Las Vegas political godfather, calls himself "the happiest mayor in the universe." This weekend, the free-wheeling, martini-sipping pol also might be the busiest person at his fair city's very busy NBA All-Star ...
Updated: Nov. 22, 2006 Chiefs and Broncos on TV? Only for some Want a third helping of turkey on Thursday? If your stomach can handle it, you got it. Want a third helping of NFL on Thursday? Not so likely. The NFL Network's first broadcast of a regular- ...
Carmelo Anthony's ownership stake in an Indy Racing League team, announced with great fanfare in March, has been quietly dissolved. Both the NBA star's agent and the team's principal owner, IRL veteran Ron Hemelgarn, acknowledge the ...
But it turns out Schilling and Thomas didn't have any better fortune fighting steroids last year than they did pitching and hitting, respectively, during their injury-riddled 2005 seasons. On the one-year anniversary of its birth, the task ...
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