During a year abroad, a writer explores the wide world of sports
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If there is a truth in advertising award for books, specifically book titles, S. L. Price's "Far Afield" is on my short list for 2007 honors. It is literally all over the place, and that's meant as an unqualified compliment.
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A year ago, few soccer fans had heard of reclusive American businessman Malcolm Glazer.
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LONDON -- England's Premier League could be going global.
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In most sports, there are athletes built for the long haul, and those who dazzle in quick, mercurial bursts. Track and field has distance specialists and sprinters. Baseball has starting pitchers, setup men, and closers. Based on anecdotal evidence collected from 40-odd years immersed in sports literature, I suspect sportswriters fall into roughly the same categories. Like the starting pitcher who is awkwardly relegated to the bullpen, some writers aren't a great fit for every project. Lars Anderson, author of "Carlisle vs. Army," is a case in point.
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Mikael Silvestre said he liked the United States âbecause everything is big.â But apparently the soccer is not yet big enough to entice him to relocate across the Atlantic.
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Peter Morgan is a writer interested in rivalry, ambition and the dynamics of political power.
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The New York Timesâs Mets beat writer answers your questions about the team, from spring training camp in Port St. Lucie, Fla.
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In the world of sports, when a great feat is accomplished, sometimes it takes a while for everything to set in and for people to gain a full appreciation for what just transpired.
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What it will take to win hearts and minds outside the U.S.
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Bob Ryan has never been a full-time college basketball writer but it hasn&#146;t stopped him in his quest to see college basketball wherever he goes. His unofficial list of the places he's been:
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A crowd of American sports leagues are racing to widen international appeal and revenue by playing more games abroad and expanding foreign marketing.
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Hometown fans are often more tolerant of an athlete whose alleged behavior on or off the field has drawn the ire of others.
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Are black athletes wasting their considerable wealth? Sportswriter William C. Rhoden thinks so.
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The favorite sports of the U.S. and the U.K. share a name. But how football fans on either side of the Atlantic put their fervent allegiances to action and enjoy the game are vastly different.
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A busy summer filled with exotic vacations, promotional appearances, photo shoots and strenuous off-ice training sessions comes to an endÃÂ for Alex Ovechkin.
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When the NBA began sending its players to the Olympics in 1992, one of the league&#39;s goals was to spread basketball around the globe. Clearly, the idea worked.
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A biographer once noted that soccer is his greatest passion - one that drove him to become sports correspondent for Brazil's largest national newspaper during the 1998 World Cup.