Bob CollinsSometimes, kids don’t cooperate, as was the case last night in Baltimore when a fan of the Chicago White Sox wanted nothing to do with the thing. Read more →
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Exhibit A: Last night’s NBA playoff game between the Portland Trailblazers and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Game tied with seconds left in a series Portland led three-games-to-one. Read more →
The Minnesota State High School League, the organization that controls high school sports here, is giving up its opposition to allowing boys to be on competitive dance teams in high school. Read more →
At one time, Kate Smith pretty much was America. Times change, though, and the legendary — and dead — singer of her signature God Bless America is out at no less an American institution than Yankee Stadium. Read more →
The athletic department announced on Thursday that season tickets for men’s basketball will drop to $340 in some sections, a $190 drop. Six sections overlooking the court will drop by $150. Hockey will drop from $600 to $500. It’s the second straight season that hockey will drop by $100. Read more →
Today’s lesson, courtesy of the best sport ever invented, is (a) don’t forget your roots and (b) don’t miss a chance to make a difference in some kid’s life.
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Long after photographers and reporters go home and the cheers fall silent, the best stories emerge from the darkness. Read more →
Micah Herndon, a Marine, was running the Boston Marathon on Monday as a tribute to three Marines he served with who were killed in Afghanistan in 2010. Then his legs gave out. Read more →
You’ve got your Prince. You’ve got your Bob Dylan. And, at least where basketball-handling prowess is concerned, you’ve got your Aces. Read more →
How young is too young when it comes to recruiting future college sports players? Read more →
Ashley McNiff, one of thousands of runners in Monday’s Boston Marathon, is running because she doesn’t want to let what happened to her friend dictate to her. Her friend was a runner. Her friend was running in broad daylight. Her friend was raped and murdered and left in the woods. Read more →
Let (s)he who has never had a day like St. Louis Cardinals’ outfielder Marcell Ozuna had last evening cast the first stone. Read more →
When’s the last time you cried because of a beer ad? Today. Read more →
For a lot of people, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is just a pregame show for the annual highlight reel: ‘One Shining Moment’
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These sorts of baseball diamond incidents are a good reminder to you youth sports bosses: don’t light your field on fire because it’s wet. Read more →