Silvano Alves, from Brazil, aboard Showoff, competes at a Professional Bull Riders event in 2013. Bull riding is a brutal and unforgiving sport. Professional bull riders lead a nomadic existence, ...

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 ...

Hockey is not a regional sport. That's an unfair label slapped on the sport in the United States. Hockey is more than, say, Minnesota's sport. More than Canada's sport. Case in point, the Vegas Golden ...

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 ...

In terms of popularity, only soccer and cricket have more worldwide fans than basketball. The game is a global sport, and in North America, only American football is more popular. The NBA has grown ...

The Pro Football Hall of Fame requires four to eight candidates to be inducted each year. That’s known as a quota system, folks, and it’s a crummy way to determine the most prestigious individual ...

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, ...

What do you consider a great golf course? Selecting the top courses in the world is not easy, and some good grounds don't make the cut. For any golfer, even the top 100 courses in the world are ...

Best Minor League Ballparks in the U.S. Any diehard baseball fan will attest that there’s no experience quite like an afternoon spent at the friendly confines of Wrigley Field, or within sight of the ...

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 ...

Millions of fans show up at college stadiums each year to watch their favorite team battle for supremacy. A good percentage of those fans are there for other reasons — to mingle with fans and partake ...