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A couple of weeks ago, a brilliant reader asked me to reprint the story I had written about 1986 in honor of the Mets and Astros once again getting back to the top of baseball. I had vaguely remembered writing something about 1986 and planned to look...

Don’t contemplate away from the screen! Don’t aroynt to the concession stand for a beer! You’ll miss event, because football keeps speeding up. The urge-up offense is causing total snaps by game to increase. Last season, the New England Patriots snapped...

Like any other self-respecting American at the time, I was enthralled with the rapid rise of the legendary artist known simply as "M.C. Hammer" around the Spring of 1990. I may have only been seven-years-old, but I was old enough to know that M.C. Hammer...

NFL's Best Coaches 2016 Thursday, March 03, 2016 Quote: Coaching matters more in football than any other sport. There are finer points to be emphasized and relievers to be micromanaged in baseball, but America’s pastime largely takes place on an island...

PROLOGUE I On this moonless night, lightning bugs flashed brilliantly in the yards along Jordan Drive. Moths fluttered around the hopelessly dim porch lights. The air was warm and muggy. Darkness covered the neighborhood's working-class splendor. There...