Red Auerbach was the Boston Celtics' general manager from 1950 to 1984 and built 15 NBA championship teams. They're not players, coaches or owners. But in the NBA, front-office executives have an ...

Leroy "Satchel" Paige pitched 16 years in the Negro Leagues. The Negro major leagues are kind of like a Rubik’s Cube. Fun to play with, difficult to figure out. More than any other sport, baseball is ...

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 ...

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 ...

In some parts of the country, high school football teams have traditions and legacies that stretch back to the beginnings of the sport. In other parts, high school football dynasties have just sprung ...

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 ...

Colin Kaepernick, center, kneels for the national anthem with San Francisco 49ers teammates in 2016 to protest racial inequality and police brutality in the American justice system. Former San ...

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 ...

The 1990s were a pretty awesome time to be an NBA fan — not only was the sport exploding in popularity, but the chances were, if you had an NBA team in your town, you were getting a new arena. Of the ...

Tom Hanks, center, shares some laughs with Dennis Miller, left, and Ron Howard at the old ballgame. Celebrities are just like us. They are human after all. Although they’re a little higher profile, ...

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 ...

The banana slug is the beloved mascot for the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sports can be serious business, but some people understand that sports are too important to be taken seriously. Just ...