1960, the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates played an exhilarating, climactic Game 7. It was a game that saw the lead change hands four times, most dramatically, of course, with the only Game 7 walk-off home run in World Series history. It was a game between the underdog blue-co...
What to know: The Cornhuskers, dubbed the "Scoring Explosion," had one of the most prolific offenses in college football history, averaging 52 points in their first 12 games and scoring 654 points for the season. The Huskers were ranked No. 1 from wire to wire until losi...
Deftly blending surefire ingredients—nostalgia, father-son bonding and on-field action—Bildner's (Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy ) story tells of the 1958 championship NFL game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts, played at Yankee Stadium. But before kickoff, the author provides pl...
He played college football for the University of Miami and was drafted by the New England Patriots in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft, and spent the first 11 years of his career there. By the late 2000s, Wilfork was considered to be one of the premier defensive tackles in the ...
The top-ranked Cornhuskers were 12-point favorites to beat No. 4 Miami. It's easy to understand why -- Nebraska had scored 624 points while going 12-0, the highest-scoring team in college football history (Heisman winner Mike Rozier scored 29 TDs). But Nebraska had played only one rank...
to ever play for the university.Smith threw for 2,542 yards, completing 66 per cent of his passes while throwing 30 touchdowns to just six interceptions. While that doesn’t seem so crazy compared to some of the most recent years totals, at the time he was tearing college football apart...
Birgit Prinz Women's football 19 votes Birgit Prinz (born 25 October 1977) is a German retired footballer, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year. In addition to the German national team, Prinz played for 1. FFC Frankfurt in the...
Its hallowed academic status notwithstanding, Harvard qualifies as small for football purposes. The Ivy League program produced one of the NFL's iconic journeymen in Fitzpatrick, who is the only quarterback to ever start for nine NFL teams. The 2005 seventh-round pick played for the Rams, B...
Over the years, the Chiefs have played some scintillating football. This year, the product on the field hasn’t exactly been as pretty but it’s led to the best record in team history. It’s an old cliché, but clichés are true for a reason: Some teams just know how to win. And ...
He also netted 16.7 boards and 2.7 blocks -- and he played more than 45 minutes a game in the series, an insane total for a low-post player. O'Neal did miss out on one key moment, as he fouled out with 2:33 left in overtime in the pivotal Game 4. But the Lakers prevailed ...