There's more to Filipinos than a man who can throw punches in a ring, of course, but Manny Pacquaio's success, in ways big and small, has unified and validated a sizable minority group from a country that, with 92 million people, is the 12th most populous in the world, just one spot under Mexico.
The public tends to focus too much on recent performance of a team. This makes it possible to find point spreads that are significantly different than what they should be, which is called line value.
How did we get from 23 televised college football games for an entire season to 54 games in one week?
I know personally, from both successful and tragic Olympic experiences, that once the Games are over, no matter what the outcome, there's always a feeling of being able to finally exhale.
Using fairly sophisticated mathematical techniques, we can now find ratings for players and lineup combinations that best explain the movement of the scores in each NBA game.
If we remove preseason hype and judge players strictly on what's happened in 2009 the Heisman Trophy race would look completely different.
Only the elite-of-the-elite athletes have formed personal logos out of their initials. But what does a sports star's unique monogram say about him?
They didn't jump up, pump their fists, look to the heavens, or even smile. They just did their jobs in a non-demonstrative, professional manner -- with a dignity rarely seen on commercial television.
We're in Star-Spangled season when football, basketball and hockey overlap. This means there's a scramble to fill game slates with national anthem singers. It also means some renditions will be butchered.
Although the phrase "franchise player" is vague and could mean different things to different people, I was curious to find out how many I thought there were in baseball. So, let's take a look.
No one is sure when he will return and while the the team has hopes it will be sooner rather than later, the NBA season marches on.
There is an important result of an uncapped NFL that is not receiving enough attention: without a cap in the NFL, not only is there no ceiling on player spending, there is also no floor.
The Independent Women's Football League has grown from four teams nine years ago to almost 50 teams and more than 2,000 players today. Who knew?
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