Don August won a silver medal as a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic baseball team. He pitched four years in the majors with the Milwaukee Brewers, winning 13
Once upon a time we cared. Like we did about pet rocks (1970s), Cabbage Patch Kids (1980s) and over-sized flannel shirts (1990s). For decades the Pro Bowl was all those
This past winter vacation, my family and I were in Southern California. It was miserable weather, everyday we layered on everything we had packed and tried to find a way
We’d made it 16 weeks betting every NFL game together — 240 of ’em in all — and done quite well for ourselves, but in Week 17, my best friend
The best debate in all of sports isn’t whether or not Colin Kaepernick should play or who should be the NBA MVP or how should (insert cheating, video-taping champion
The results started pouring between 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. They looked like election results scrolling across my NFL RedZone screen. So many losers! I was
Seasons are long, events are random, the ball bounces in funny ways. Whichever way you want to explain it, what the Washington Nationals have done, and what the St. Louis
Several years ago, back when Wikipedia first dazzled us, the wisdom of the crowds became a thing … again. You really couldn’t get away from it, the idea was
Facts are facts, despite how much we are told to believe otherwise these days. And this much I know to be true: There has never been a winless team whose
It started, like all great moments between friends, with a bet. Way back in 2006, I lived in Manhattan and my buddy, Matt, lived in San Francisco. We had young
The slowest sports betting day of the year deserves the best sports betting story of the year. It stars Jared Lorenzen. Last week Lorenzen, also known as The Hefty Lefty,
A month ago I walked into the playroom of my mansion in Connecticut and my NBA2k-obsessed 12-year-old son asked me, “What was Dominique Wilkins like as a player?” “Huh?” “What
One year ago, on Super Bowl Sunday, there were seven Action Network employees in a hotel room, sprawled on the floor with laptops, wires criss-crossing, pumping out stories. This year,
It began, as all good stories do, with Charles Barkley. The year was 2002, Super Bowl XXXVI. Tom Brady was more “good backup” than “bad mofo”; the Rams had rabid
One year, the winner combined multiplication, Matt Ryan and the Millennium Falcon. Another year, an old-school (board) gamer found a way to turn Scrabble into a degenerate’s dream. For