I rake up the barney because both men are still pained by it. However, the team performed inconsistently in the qualifying stages, and finally faced Bulgaria in Paris, still needing only a draw to qualify. At 1-1, with less than a minute to go, everything went poire-shaped. The substitute, David Ginola, gifted the ball to [...]

More surprisingly, Carlos Ortiz is only thought to be 10th best. Since Robinson also ran away with the welterweight rankings not even Ali could nudge him out of first place as the century’s most outstanding fighter.Only Ray Leonard from the recent past gets a real shout among the welterweights, coming in at third behind Armstrong, [...]

But for the past year he has been plagued in particular by restricted use of his right arm, the result of injury to high vertebrae, though typically he did not admit defeat until medical experts warned him of the serious consequences of another fall. “A neck injury has led to loss of strength in my [...]

He was The Associated Press athlete of the year in 1938.
Budge was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1964.. Tennis great Don Budge remained in critical condition today after his car struck a tree in the Pocono Mountains.
Budge, 84, broke his leg and might have internal injuries. However, a hospital spokesman would not [...]

He specifically cited legislation he has introduced that would bar American companies from financially supporting the games if the IOC does not change its practices.
Samaranch brought along some important allies, including former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger was a key member of the IOC 2000 panel that drafted the reforms.
The reforms include a ban [...]

American Oscar “Golden Boy” de la Hoya will return to the ring, following the first defeat of his professional career in September, on February 26 at Madison Square Garden for a welterweight contest with the WBC’s top-ranked fighter Derrell Coley.
De la Hoya is still smarting from the loss to Puerto Rican Felix Trinidad and declared [...]