Silvano Alves, from Brazil, aboard Showoff, competes at a Professional Bull Riders event in 2013. Bull riding is a brutal and unforgiving sport. Professional bull riders lead a nomadic existence, ...

Antonio Gates went undrafted out of Kent State in 2003. The NFL draft can be an overrated exercise. The cream rises to the top, no matter how convoluted and complex the road, and the league has a way ...

Winning football games is a tradition at Long Beach Poly in Southern California. High school football has become more than local news. Networks like ESPN and Fox Sports devote time and money to ...

Hockey is not a regional sport. That's an unfair label slapped on the sport in the United States. Hockey is more than, say, Minnesota's sport. More than Canada's sport. Case in point, the Vegas Golden ...

Where have all the hypercompetitive, in-it-to-win-it Major League Baseball team owners gone? Straight to the bank. The baseball gravy train is on a roll. In 2022, the average MLB franchise was worth ...

Have you ever watched an NBA game and wondered where a player came from? Not in the sense of what college or high school he went to, but going back to the very beginning to where he was born? Well, we ...

Air Jordans reached new heights after Michael Jordan's performance in the 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Some of the best basketball players have worn some of the best shoes. But just as there are ...

The value of NFL teams and the wealth of their owners has shot through the stratosphere in the last two decades. It was just 20 years ago that you could still get an NFL team for a bargain basement ...

Players and coaches from this great team — one of the best in football history — also have excelled off the field. Few NFL teams have a legitimate claim to being the greatest of all time, but the 1985 ...

The Pro Football Hall of Fame requires four to eight candidates to be inducted each year. That’s known as a quota system, folks, and it’s a crummy way to determine the most prestigious individual ...

In terms of popularity, only soccer and cricket have more worldwide fans than basketball. The game is a global sport, and in North America, only American football is more popular. The NBA has grown ...

Larry Bird, right, holds up his new Boston Celtics uniform jersey with team president Red Auerbach in 1979. Since the beginning of the 21th century, Boston has been called the "City of Champions" more ...