Jason Plautz
The Tiebreaker Heard 'Round the
Becky
That Bela--alternately so jovial, so brutish! The image of Karolyi hoisting Kerri Strug to the champion's podium is one of the most ubiquitous images of the 1996 Olympics.
Mangesh Hattikudur
With just 15 Days till our new In the Beginning book comes out, we figured we'd start excerpting bits from it.
Jason Plautz
We've all heard about the dangers of global warming and climate change.
David K. Israel
As of course you've heard by now, this summer Barry Bonds broke the all-time homerun record set by Henry Aaron and held since 1976. The 756th homerun came on August 7th, 2007.
Jason Plautz
Every sports fan has their share of misery, but I think mine takes the cake.
Jason Plautz
Dodgeball takes a lot of knocks in gym class for being dangerous, but it's got nowhere near the death rate of these sports.
Mangesh Hattikudur
As Chris Connolly found out, cheating is unimaginative, brutish, and plain crass.
Jason Plautz
After writing last week's post about failed baseball promotions, I was left a little disenchanted about being a baseball spectator.
David K. Israel
I assume many of you heard about Mike Coolbaugh's death a couple weeks ago—he was the first-base coach with the Tulsa Drillers who was killed by a foul ball to the head.
Although ext
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