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Let’s all welcome back basketball, shall we? Welcome back, basketball Yes, after a long offseason full of petty social media strife and bonkers trades, Tuesday night brought the return of the NBA, now with all kinds of zany new subplots. Kyrie Irving is on the Celtics! Chris Paul is on the Rockets! Carmelo Anthony is finally free of the Knicks! And the first night of the season gave us plenty…

Paul Tagliabue, Mike Nelms and Tom McMillen talk before entering the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame in July. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) In one of the hardest-hitting pieces of journalism published over the past 12 months, The Washington Post’s D.C. Sports Bog asked some probing questions this summer about the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame, such as: Why are there so many more baseball and football players than hockey and…

reader comments 16 As Ars’s resident car guru Jonathan Gitlin tears through the racing nuts and bolts of this week’s new racing video game, Gran Turismo Sport, he has asked me to kill time by reviewing its higher-end elements. Namely, Jon owns neither a PlayStation VR headset nor a 4K HDR display, and both of those are specifically and uniquely supported by the latest Gran Turismo game (and first in the series…

Entry to the Forbes 400 is harder than ever, with a minimum net worth of $2 billion needed to crack the list of richest Americans. The bar for entry is up 18% from last year thanks to a booming stock market. The world of sports is well represented, with more than 10% of the 400 owning a major sports team. Franchise owners are profiting from a media landscape in which…

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — Scattered rain showers may have forced some creative track scheduling Tuesday morning at New Smyrna Speedway, but it was all sunny skies ahead for the 12 NASCAR Drive for Diversity candidates turning laps and turning heads. The talented group of drivers representing all regions of the country — and even Mexico — took part in Day Two of a three-day combine by running two 10-lap…

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You never know what’s going to happen at Talladega — and that’s not a spotter-less Brad Keselowski reference. Few expected nearly two-thirds of the field to get wiped out in crashes, including eight of the 12 remaining playoff drivers, but it happened Sunday. Here’s what was good and bad about 500 miles at Talladega to mark the halfway point of this year’s playoffs. Thumbs Up: Racing Without a Spotter If…

Welcome to Power Rankings. As always, Power Rankings are far from a scientific formula. In fact, it’s the perfect blend of analytics and bias against your favorite driver. Direct all your complaints to us at nickbromberg@yahoo.com and we’ll try to have some fun. 1. Brad Keselowski (LW: 9): No, Brad Keselowski didn’t assume the role of best restrictor plate racer with his win on Sunday. He was already there. Keselowski’s…

  The Uganda Cycling Association (UCA) has okayed the Mbarara bicycle race to be included on the association calendar as an annual event starting next year. This comes after Mbarara held a successful national bicycle race that went as far as Bushenyi over the weekend. John Richard Sseninde, the UCA vice president in charge of technical matters, confirmed that starting next year, Mbarara will have a national…

The WNBA San Antonio Stars (in gray) are moving to Las Vegas under new owners – S&P 500 company MGM Resorts International. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Spectator sports has long been America’s favorite form of entertainment, and Las Vegas has long been one of America’s favorite vacation destinations. But for decades, the two existed in a relative vacuum – at least outside of the race and sports books, where billions…

Entry to the Forbes 400 is harder than ever, with a minimum net worth of $2 billion needed to crack the list of richest Americans. The bar for entry is up 18% from last year thanks to a booming stock market. The world of sports is well represented, with more than 10% of the 400 owning a major sports team. Franchise owners are profiting from a media landscape in which…

CLEVELAND – Gordon Hayward hit the floor Tuesday night, and suddenly everything that was supposed to matter didn’t. Six minutes into the season opener and there was Hayward, swiveling his body toward the Cavaliers’ bench, his ankle fractured, his foot twisted nearly 120 degrees, hanging limply off his leg. Referee Monty McCutchen immediately signaled a timeout as Cavs players seated on the bench recoiled, leaped to their feet and raced…

1. Let me be perfectly clear about something right up front. I do not for one second think Samantha Ponder should be disciplined in any way for using Twitter Monday to (mistakenly) call out Barstool Sports’ Big Cat, whose new show debuts on ESPN2 tonight, for a blog post that appeared on Barstool in 2014. Having said that, I find it curious that ESPN fully supported Ponder’s actions, while suspending…

The Golden State Warriors kicked off the 2017-18 NBA season with a huge celebration of their 2017 NBA championship, and eager to start their pursuit of a third title in four years. Come the end of opening night, though, it’d be the Houston Rockets celebrating, thanks to the slimmest of margins and the length of Kevin Durant’s fingertips: [Now’s the time to sign up for Fantasy Basketball! Join for free]…

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — Scattered rain showers may have forced some creative track scheduling Tuesday morning at New Smyrna Speedway, but it was all sunny skies ahead for the 12 NASCAR Drive for Diversity candidates turning laps and turning heads. The talented group of drivers representing all regions of the country — and even Mexico — took part in Day Two of a three-day combine by running two 10-lap…

You never know what’s going to happen at Talladega — and that’s not a spotter-less Brad Keselowski reference. Few expected nearly two-thirds of the field to get wiped out in crashes, including eight of the 12 remaining playoff drivers, but it happened Sunday. Here’s what was good and bad about 500 miles at Talladega to mark the halfway point of this year’s playoffs. Thumbs Up: Racing Without a Spotter If…

Welcome to Power Rankings. As always, Power Rankings are far from a scientific formula. In fact, it’s the perfect blend of analytics and bias against your favorite driver. Direct all your complaints to us at nickbromberg@yahoo.com and we’ll try to have some fun. 1. Brad Keselowski (LW: 9): No, Brad Keselowski didn’t assume the role of best restrictor plate racer with his win on Sunday. He was already there. Keselowski’s…

From the drivers to the fans, everyone knew “the big one” was coming. Huge wrecks are inevitable at Talladega Superspeedway – here’s why – so as the Alabama 500 was winding down Sunday, people knew something bad was going to happen. With just 17 of the 188 laps remaining, chaos broke out. NASCAR Cup Series playoffs leader Martin Truex Jr. made contact with David Ragan, setting off a chain-reaction wreck…

NEW YORK — Compared to other high-profile names in American soccer, former U.S. national team captain Claudio Reyna is a man of few words. While some have become television personalities and others have gone into coaching, Reyna has taken on the role of sporting director of New York City FC, where he goes about his work in relative anonymity, seldom speaking to the media. He generally staying behind the scenes…

Entry to the Forbes 400 is harder than ever, with a minimum net worth of $2 billion needed to crack the list of richest Americans. The bar for entry is up 18% from last year thanks to a booming stock market. The world of sports is well represented, with more than 10% of the 400 owning a major sports team. Franchise owners are profiting from a media landscape in which…