The best part about any NBA rookie class is the hope it inspires. Every fresh face has a shot to someday be etched on his ...

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Myths are part of what makes sports fun. The “Curse of the Bambino” supposedly doomed the Red Sox for 86 years after they ...

"Scoring 81 points wasn't surprising to me" - Kobe implied his career-high that many wasn't a matter of if but when ...

Kobe on why Chamberlain's crazy numbers are still relevant decades later: "50 points and 25 rebounds is 50 points and 25 ...

In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging ...

Normally, we create our evaluations of our athletes on the numbers they produce, numbers that are referred to as statistics. These numbers are so important that they become worshipped almost like ...

2015 — The United States wins its third Women’s World Cup title and first since 1999 with a 5-2 victory over Japan behind a first-half hat trick by Carli Lloyd.

LeBron James called Kevin Durant the "most-equipped" scorer in the history of the NBA, but Paul Pierce has something to say ...

The Liberty are still the favorites in the WNBA, where average attendance is on the rise. Here are some tidbits about the ...

Normally, we create our evaluations of our athletes on the numbers they produce, numbers that are referred to as statistics.