Will the Cubs end their famously long drought? On the other hand, will the Indians end their famously long drought? Surely the Cubs can’t be denied the championship. Going into the World Series, Chicago have the better starting rotation, the better lineup and the better closer. But does any of that matter? Especially when the manager in the other dugout has won two World Series and has been a master of manipulating match-ups throughout the postseason. Cleveland would be in a better position if they still had Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar, who had helped carry them to the American League Central title. Instead they must try to tame the Cubs with only two certainties in their rotation: Corey Kluber...
The sport’s powerhouse is a mess with Tyson Fury’s problems and Wladimir Klitschko’s reluctance increasing the problems caused by a multitude of titlesOn the verge of the pantomime season boxing is again a laughing stock, like a tottering, rouge‑cheeked dame with a glass of sherry in one hand and a string of broken promises in the other.Disillusion drowns out the laughter. Nowhere is it more obvious than in the fact the division that in not-so-distant memory gave us Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken Norton and Larry Holmes now cannot settle on anyone more convincing than the young Anthony Joshua, the injured Deontay Wilder, the old Wladimir Klitschko or the absent Tyson Fury. Related: Anthony Joshua will defend title...
Yes, the NL Championship Series is not over yet, but we know how this ends. Another year, another disappointment – such is the life of a Dodger fanWhat is baseball without superstition? Rally caps, no-hitters that dare not speak their name until the seventh, and, of course, the dreaded postseason curse. For decades, the unholy trinity of baseball curses was the Cubs, Red Sox, and Indians. If you needed a shorthand for comic futility, you couldn’t go wrong with of those three hapless franchises. There’s a reason why Henry Rowengartner played for the Cubs after breaking his arm and magically developing an unhittable fastball in the movie Rookie of the Year; why the Cleveland Indians threatened to move to Miami...
Haskell, once the nation’s most prominent Native American college team, used to beat the likes of Michigan State. But now the program is no moreState Route 10 in Kansas ambles from the western suburbs of Kansas City into Lawrence, a college town of 90,000 with the 28,000-student University of Kansas and the 1,000-student Haskell Indian Nations University, founded in 1884 for Native Americans. Route 10 tightens from a four-lane highway and becomes 23rd Street in Lawrence, and off the street loom two 5,500-seat concrete grandstands and a noble stone archway. This is Haskell Memorial Stadium, which was dedicated on 30 October, 1926, 90 years ago this month. Haskell’s male students provided much of the labor to keep the cost to...
The Arizona quarterback has been far from his best this season but their running game should be enough to overcome SeattleSometimes, you just need to punch adversity in the face. That’s what Geno Smith has done, in the too-perfect words of Brandon Marshall, and it’s also what participants in our Pick Six contest did, roaring back from a frustrating fortnight with some monster scores in week six.A whopping 15 people called all six games correctly, so let’s have a toast to each and every one of amwill, BaffledBySaussey, Cameldancer, carloscontrole, cockfarmer, GoCards, Hobble, ID1704972, James Selwood, Lekeg, Mark Lewis, mercat, Omre94, pauln1, and Uma Blue. I’ll have the overall scores up in the comments section shortly, but until then, here...