Sunday's World Cup final between Spain and Argentina at MetLife Stadium carries a 22-year-old subplot: Lionel Messi, who has lived in Spain since age 13, was actively pursued by the Spanish federation...
LeBron James's four years at St. Vincent-St. Mary are the most documented high school career in sports history, and this file publishes the whole thing: every game he played, all 106 of them, with f...
Wayne Gretzky spent exactly one season with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, and it contains the entire origin story: drafted third overall on June 6, 1977 after two teams passed and his father warned...
Conor McGregor's five-year comeback ended at 1:09 of the first round at UFC 329, when the knee beneath his opening flying kick gave out and handed Max Holloway a TKO in the most anticipated main event...
A phone call from President Trump to FIFA president Gianni Infantino preceded the first suspension waiver ever granted at a World Cup, and football is calling it unprecedented - but the history says...
Next Tuesday, France and Spain meet in a World Cup semifinal in Dallas - which means one of the tournament's two best teams is already guaranteed a spot in the match no player has ever dreamed about: ...
This week the Carolina Hurricanes revealed a Stanley Cup engraving that leads with owner Tom Dundon, his wife and their five children - seven names, none but his holding a team role, listed above th...
In 96 years of World Cups, exactly two teams have come back from three goals down and won, only one team has recovered from two down in a final, and until Belgium's ten-second counterattack in 2018, e...
Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi are tied atop the World Cup's Golden Boot race this morning, and all three could be wearing a different shirt: Haaland was born in England - the team h...
Canada on Saturday, Mexico on Sunday, the United States on Monday: it took 72 hours for the biggest World Cup ever staged to eliminate all three of the countries staging it, every one of them in the...
A team bus with the curtains drawn in Knysna, a Kuwaiti sheikh walking onto a World Cup pitch to erase a goal, eleven Iranians standing in silence through their own anthem, and three million American ...
Since FIFA introduced the automatic one-match ban for a red card, the number of World Cup players spared from serving it stood at zero for half a century - until Sunday, when a phone call from Preside...
Shea Weber's $110 million held the record for fourteen years, and on Friday afternoon Philadelphia decided to chase it, putting $90 million in front of Anaheim's Leo Carlsson and starting a seven-day ...
Germany had never lost a World Cup penalty shootout. Four shootouts across five decades, seventeen of eighteen kicks scored, the closest thing football had to a law of physics - and on Monday night Pa...
On August 9, 1988, the Edmonton Oilers did the unthinkable. They sold Wayne Gretzky, 27 years old and fresh off his fourth Stanley Cup in five years, to the Los Angeles Kings. A country wept. An owner...
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