The banana slug is the beloved mascot for the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sports can be serious business, but some people understand that sports are too important to be taken seriously. Just ...

Air Jordans reached new heights after Michael Jordan's performance in the 1988 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Some of the best basketball players have worn some of the best shoes. But just as there are ...

Red Auerbach was the Boston Celtics' general manager from 1950 to 1984 and built 15 NBA championship teams. They're not players, coaches or owners. But in the NBA, front-office executives have an ...

Tom Hanks, center, shares some laughs with Dennis Miller, left, and Ron Howard at the old ballgame. Celebrities are just like us. They are human after all. Although they’re a little higher profile, ...

The 1990s were a pretty awesome time to be an NBA fan — not only was the sport exploding in popularity, but the chances were, if you had an NBA team in your town, you were getting a new arena. Of the ...

In some parts of the country, high school football teams have traditions and legacies that stretch back to the beginnings of the sport. In other parts, high school football dynasties have just sprung ...

Baseball heroes make the impossible happen. Baseball heroes are born in pressure situations. Although it’s a team sport, at-bats are so a one-man show in the batter's box. It’s the hitter’s time to ...

Winning football games is a tradition at Long Beach Poly in Southern California. High school football has become more than local news. Networks like ESPN and Fox Sports devote time and money to ...

Where have all the hypercompetitive, in-it-to-win-it Major League Baseball team owners gone? Straight to the bank. The baseball gravy train is on a roll. In 2022, the average MLB franchise was worth ...

Here's how all 68 college football teams from Power Five Conferences and Notre Dame rank headed into the 2023 football season. When it comes to where the power resides in college sports, college ...

Have you ever watched an NBA game and wondered where a player came from? Not in the sense of what college or high school he went to, but going back to the very beginning to where he was born? Well, we ...

The forward pass in football started in the early 1900s and has evolved ever since then. Today, few plays in the game are as exciting as seeing the ball fly through the air and land in the hands of a ...