Every World Cup hands us a team somebody swears is the best they have ever seen, and then four years later we do the whole thing again with somebody else. But best and most dominant are two different ...
The New York Knicks have not won an NBA championship since 1973. Fifty-three years. The longest drought of any major-market franchise in American sports, served up with a side of the world's most famo...
The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be the richest tournament in the history of sport. The champion will pocket a record $50 million, the 48 teams will split $871 million, and FIFA is on track to bank...
Michael Jordan signed a 5-year, $2.5 million contract with Nike in the fall of 1984 that nobody, including Nike, expected to amount to much. Forty-one years later, the Jordan Brand crossed $7 billion ...
Michael Jordan won five NBA MVP awards. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (6) has won more. But ask almost any longtime NBA observer how many MVPs Jordan should have won, and the answer is always a bigger numb...
LeBron James has won four NBA MVP awards. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (6), Bill Russell (5), and Michael Jordan (5) have won more. But ask almost any longtime NBA observer how many MVPs LeBron should hav...
On June 14, 2026, the UFC will stage the first professional sporting event ever held on the South Lawn of the White House. The choice of sport, given the building's athletic history, is not as unusual...
The Montreal Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times than any franchise in NHL history. Twenty-four championships, spread across two transcendent dynasties (1956-60 and 1976-79) and three additi...
Coming back from a 3-1 series deficit in the NBA playoffs is, historically, almost impossible. Of the roughly 300 best-of-seven series in NBA history that have reached a 3-1 score, only 15 have ended ...
Modern athletes get traded for failing to play through a sore knee. In 1934, the captain of the Chicago Black Hawks won his team its first Stanley Cup while a tonsillar infection silently destroyed hi...
The NBA playoffs are supposed to be where the league's best teams meet and grind out close, hard-fought basketball. Most of the time, that's exactly what happens. But every once in a while, one team c...
Whenever the Michael Jordan GOAT debate kicks off again, somebody always says it. "He never lost a Finals. Six for six. Game 7? Forget it, he didn't even need them." And that part is actually true. Ac...
Two percent. That's the success rate when an NHL team falls behind 3-0 in a playoff series. Two hundred and eleven teams have stared down that abyss across Stanley Cup playoff history. Four climbed ou...
The NFL Draft is supposed to be the start of a dream. You hear your name called, you hold up a jersey, you cash a fat check, and you go play professional football. That is how it works for almost ever...
Thirty-two franchises, ninety years of the NFL Draft, one single selection per team that defined the course of the organization. From Tom Brady falling to pick 199 in 2000 to Bart Starr going in the 1...
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