Alex Rodriguez began the year in shame. He stammered, red-eyed and red-faced, as he gave his forced confession to using steroids in 2001-2003. His teammates listened with arms crossed, looking none too sympathetic.
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By Mike Jensen / The Philadelphia Inquirer Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - Added 3m ago PHILADELPHIA — An autopsy performed Tuesday on Francisco Rodriguez concluded that the 25-year-old fighter died from a "full-blunt impact...
Tom Skilling would have been a powerful general in third century China, for if one knew the vagaries of the wind and the fog and the thunder in those times, one would have enjoyed invaluable strategic advantages on the fields...
In its continuing quest to avoid lawsuits in 20 years from a bunch of mumbling guys eating soup through a straw, the NFL is requiring its teams to add independent neurological experts to their medical consulting staffs.
This is the second in a short (but as yet indeterminate) series of posts arising in part from my reflections on living abroad. A few months ago I read somewhere that President Barack Obama had included the novel Netherland by...