Arthur Ashe

The Giants won a bunch of stuff at the ESPYs Wednesday night. Yes, including Best Play. Click below for the release from ESPN. Now everyone please leave me alone so I can get some work done. There is significant (non-Francesa/Russo)......

That's it for this week. Enjoy the conference title games, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day. Once a week I serve as a writing coach for fifth graders at the local school. This week the talk turned to......

ESPN's latest "Mt. Rushmore of Sports" release doesn't make much more sense to me than the last one. It appears Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Joe Namath and Manhasset's own Jim Brown will represent New York in this feature. I'm not......

The boos and the catcalls echoed as Tommie Smith and John Carlos walked off the medal stand in the summer of 1968, track shoes in their hands to symbolize the poverty of their youth. The noise reached a crescendo as they stepped into a tunnel labeled...

Charlie Pasarell has long been tennis' answer to baseball's Field of Dreams. Pasarell built it, and they came. Actually, Pasarell kept building, and the players kept coming. No singular sensation for this visionary of the sport. Monday in New York,...

People always lament how sports stars aren't heroes like they used to be. Lance Armstrong lies. Tiger Woods stains his name. The entire Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is at issue. But what if everyone's telling the wrong stories? Because this is what...

Bob Kramer spoke of the loss he is about to suffer, admitting he has a hole in his heart. He wasn't grieving a child or a parent, just a best friend. Kramer is director of a tennis tournament that will be no more. The Los Angeles men's tennis event that...

Lower Macungie native Christine Taylor, known for her role as Marcia Brady in the "The Brady Bunch Movie,"wants to encourage kids to take up a racquet and try tennis. Taylor is the spokesperson for the United States Tennis Association's "10 and Under"...

Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times Wimbledon: We're deep into the third set and Roger Federer is on the ropes. Down a break and facing defeat, he rushes the net as his opponent, Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina, powerful and tenacious, lines up a...

Legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2012 ESPY Awards Wednesday night (July 11)....

The 20th annual ESPYS, a gathering of celebrities from sports and entertainment to honor the major sports achievements of the past year, air live on ESPN from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 11, at 9pm ET. Comedian Rob Riggle...

The first Grand Slam of the tennis calendar takes place at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, as the world’s best tennis players head Down Under. On the men’s side, Novak Djokovic won last year’s Australian Open, then went on to win...