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Last night, the Mexican men’s national soccer team defeated the United States in a World Cup qualifying match with a dramatic late-game header by Rafael Márquez. It was the US men’s team’s first home loss in a World Cup qualifier in 15 years (the match was played in Columbus, Ohio). And it was the US’s first loss to Mexico in such a match since 1972. But the match was not…

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Fenway Park, the legendary home to the Boston Red Sox, is packed tightly into Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with Wrigley Field, it is one of only two “classic parks” still in use, referring to the era of ballparks built at the turn of the 20th century. Erected in 1912, the stadium is the oldest in Major League Baseball, and is the cornerstone of Boston’s century-old love story with…

I wish I had more stolen bases. That’s what was running through the mind of every owner in the middle rounds of this draft. The obvious response would be to draft a base-stealer, but by that point, they were nowhere to be found. Some saw it coming. Specialist du jour Billy Hamilton went in Round 5 — a concession that still feels icky to me, even after enduring the shortage…

It started on a frozen and snowy April morning this year. Our flight from New York was desperately late. Our friend met us at the airport, engine running. She gunned the car down the freeway. My son and I had just 20 minutes to make it to PNC Park for opening day. We made it to our seats as the early afternoon sun at last…

By Craig HoltCorrespondent WORCESTER — Though Central Mass. players have benefited Worcester Academy baseball, it could also be said that Worcester Academy has been beneficial for Central Mass. baseball players. The good relationship between Worcester Academy and Central Mass. on the diamond was confirmed Friday when three Hilltopper baseball players with local ties joined three others in a National Letter of Intent signing ceremony at Worcester…

Since Indiana’s unexpected defensive resurgence last January coincided with James Blackmon’s season-ending knee injury, the 6-foot-4 guard became a scapegoat for the team’s inability to generate enough early-season stops. There was even a misguided school of thought that the Hoosiers were better off without their second-leading scorer. You won’t find any Indiana fans making that argument this season after Blackmon’s brilliant performance during the 11th-ranked Hoosiers 103-99 overtime victory over third-ranked Kansas on Friday night in…

Electric cars are the future. Thanks to emissions restrictions and fuel efficiency requirements, plus the ease of using renewable energy to power an electric car means nearly every manufacturer will need to embrace it sooner or later. One of those manufacturers is Porsche, which is working on the Mission E electric sports sedan. And that means the company’s engineers have an interesting problem. Porsche makes sports cars (or sports SUVs),…

Seldom in sports is there such a perfect storm as Conor McGregor right now. Such a perfect, wild, surreal storm. Ireland’s McGregor headlines the first UFC show to take place at the hallowed fight sport halls of Madison Square Garden on Saturday, after New York finally legalised mixed martial arts. It comes at a time when Conor is aiming to make history as the company’s first fighter to hold two…

Working the count to three balls and two strikes, the man Mets fans knew as “Professor” dug back in the box. A little nervous, he called for time to collect himself. One of the greatest careers in the history of American sports was coming to its crescendo. Professor’s prolific home run hitting not only brought baseball back to prominence in American popular culture; he brought African-Americans back to the game….

It was the mid-1990s when Gov. George Pataki asked Randy Gordon of the New York State Athletic Commission his opinion regarding UFC and mixed martial arts. Gordon watched videos of UFC 1 and UFC 2 and figured he had seen enough. Gordon went before the State Legislature in Albany and compared the UFC to “street fighting without the beer bottles” and offered this scathing assessment: “I said, ‘If you allow…

The atmosphere and aura surrounding Mexico’s quadrennial trip to Columbus for World Cup qualifying are storied among American soccer fans. Columbus has been considered a fortress by US goalkeeper Tim Howard, who on Friday devoted a Players’ Tribune piece to describe just how much mystique surrounds the place when it comes to soccer. The qualifiers in Columbus come with a mystique of their own, as each of the games –…

Since Indiana’s unexpected defensive resurgence last January coincided with James Blackmon’s season-ending knee injury, the 6-foot-4 guard became a scapegoat for the team’s inability to generate enough early-season stops. There was even a misguided school of thought that the Hoosiers were better off without their second-leading scorer. You won’t find any Indiana fans making that argument this season after Blackmon’s brilliant performance during the 11th-ranked Hoosiers 103-99 overtime victory over third-ranked Kansas on Friday night in…

It was the mid-1990s when Gov. George Pataki asked Randy Gordon of the New York State Athletic Commission his opinion regarding UFC and mixed martial arts. Gordon watched videos of UFC 1 and UFC 2 and figured he had seen enough. Gordon went before the State Legislature in Albany and compared the UFC to “street fighting without the beer bottles” and offered this scathing assessment: “I said, ‘If you allow…

Next week, a UNC-Chapel Hill class on college sports will delve into the athletic and academic scandal that has dogged the university for years. On Tuesday, according to the syllabus, the topic will be “covering up.” The course, “Big-Time College Sports and the Rights of Athletes, 1956 to the present,” is taught by history professor Jay Smith, a frequent critic of the university administration and co-author of a 2015 book…

Gregg Popovich spoke to the media ahead of Friday night’s game against the Detroit Pistons and ripped into the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, according to MySanAntonio.com. Trump defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a stunning election result that has sparked conversation about how the country will move forward. Popovich said that he was still trying to formulate his thoughts…

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We’re a nation bitterly divided. And, no, I’m not talking about who should be the fourth-ranked team in the College Football Playoff. A presidential election like no other has come and gone, sending half the nation into the streets for a euphoric dance, the other half into the streets for a defiant protest. There seems no middle ground, nothing we can all agree on. It’s time for sports to bring…

9:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment FORT WORTH, Texas — NASCAR just left Texas Motor Speedway, and as they say, everything is big … … aw, c’mon, who are we kidding? Nothing seems bigger about NASCAR these days. Despite a year where the racing has genuinely improved and a year where the major car owners and NASCAR took the first step of many toward a more manageable…