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There are two things sports fans love to hate, and the first is the epidemic of selfishness and greed: ball-hogging superstars who care only about their stats and their paychecks, teams that don’t play defense and don’t play like teams, owners with no commitment to winning and no sense of loyalty. Fortunately, the National Basketball Association has a team that defies those stereotypes.
When the economy ran out of gas a few years ago and Detroit went cap in hand to Washington, motor-sports leviathan Chevrolet cut all but two of its 13 racing programs.
Picture this: You’re a sports fan, even a casual one. You’re walking down the street, and someone accidentally bumps into your shoulder
In a front-page story in the New York Times on Monday, May 16, Rick Welts, president and CEO of the Phoenix Suns, announced that he is gay. Welts is believed to be the first major American professional-sports-team executive to make such a declaration; no male athlete in major American pro team sports has come out during his playing career.
The campaign leading to Singapore’s May 7 general election had the trappings of a larger political drama.
Sportsmen and sportswomen are skilled entertainers, and there’s nothing wrong with that; they bring us joy, and by their derring-do fashion a time machine that takes us back to times when we were younger and more innocent and lived for play, not work. But every so often a sports personality comes along who does more than entertain, and the Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros, who has died, aged just 54, after a long battle with cancer, was one of them
“Sugar” Shane Mosley, one of America’s greatest active pugilists, lounges in his Big Bear, California, chalet and looks across a forest of wind-whipped pine trees “conjuring” how he will defeat Manny Pacquiao on Saturday in Las Vegas.
Elections in Singapore rarely surprise. The ruling People’s Action Party , created in 1954 by Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father, has won every general election since 1959
It cost him billions and nearly caused a panic It had to be a Texan, of course. Who else could head a small investment group that loses $1 billion on paper in a single day and still has perhaps $2 billion left after that?
All sports are competitive, but they are competitive in very different ways.