Do I wish the Wildcats had managed one more goal in Anaheim in 1999? Of course I do. A national championship would have been a fitting...

Rudy Pemberton is not particularly memorable, and yet for a few weeks he was a monster. He was a mediocre minor league outfielder in the...

Bill Russell is the greatest winner in the history of team sports. These are the facts of the case, and they are not in dispute....

So many postseason memories of this guy. And yet the earliest and latest memories are unpleasant. My first awareness of Mike Vrabel is...

Dewey belongs in the Hall of Fame. This is the way. I could go all sabermetrics here and bury you with numbers. Talk about how Evans was...

I wanted to lead this profile with “I. Love. Waltah!” And I do. Or I did, I guess, back in the late nineties and early aughts when he was...

I feel like writing about a fullback today. I was one myself, back in the day, a block-first, fourth-and-one pop-6 kind of guy. So I was...

As we consider the uncertain future of the Red Sox managerial situation, I find myself thinking of one of our favorite Sox skippers...

The Celtics of the 1980s had the original Big Three, and when asked to name them, it's almost always recited as Bird, McHale, and Parish....

Simone Biles might be the greatest American gymnast - maybe the greatest gymnast in the history of the sport. But she's from Ohio and...

Before Gronk, before Ben Coates, there was, briefly, Marv Cook. The Patriots drafted Cook in the third round out of Iowa in 1989. In 1991...

When I was in high school and college, the Bruins were pretty good. They made the Stanley Cup Finals in 1990 (my freshman year at...