Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears.
Warning: Story contains coarse language Jordan Crawford found it hard to sleep after spotting them through his bedroom window. They patrolled the property 24 hours a day, carrying assault rifles,…
The road signs dictated you could only turn right out of Barnet’s training ground, but Edgar Davids would point his car down the bus lane. He incurred fines for turning…
The scene looked familiar. Manchester United sat back, Liverpool labored in possession, and chances were few and far between. “Not a thriller,” match commentator Jon Champion said at halftime. “Not…
With the January transfer window now open, the rumor mill has gone into overdrive. Here’s a look at what’s hot in transfer talk throughout world football. Fire sale at Real…
Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent’s court.
Baseball had yet to tar Shoeless Joe Jackson as a cheat when the sweet-swinging outfielder, one of eight Chicago White Sox players alleged to have thrown the World Series in…
It’s certainly different, but Grand Slam tennis is upon us yet again. Novak Djokovic and Sofia Kenin were the victors in Melbourne when the tours last contested the game’s biggest…
Nick Kyrgios has called it a “boneheaded decision” to go ahead with the Adria Tour, a series of exhibition events organized by Novak Djokovic, after Grigor Dimitrov and Borna Coric…
Following our recent series on the best teams never to win a championship, we’re flipping the concept. This series will examine a selection of the most unlikely teams to reach…
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding. The batting team attempts to score runs by hitting a ball that is thrown by the pitcher with a bat swung by the batter, then running counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third, and home plate.
It was always “Mister Aaron.” “Mister” is not an honorific used lightly. But for a man as revered as Henry Louis Aaron, it was a natural fit. Last month, after…
The Toronto Blue Jays sent shock waves through the baseball world Tuesday when they reportedly agreed to a six-year, $150-million contract with 2017 World Series MVP George Springer. The pact…
The New York Mets made the offseason’s biggest splash so far by acquiring All-Star shortstop Francisco Lindor and right-hander Carlos Carrasco from the Cleveland Indians on Thursday. The move doesn’t…
With spring training just around the corner, RunSportBet’s MLB editors look into their crystal balls to make one prediction for each National League team for the 2021 season. Predictions for…
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is the sport’s highest level of professional competition. It is consequently the most popular and most profitable NASCAR series. Since 2001, the Sprint Cup season has consisted of 36 races over 10 months.
RunSportBet is counting down the 100 best fictional characters in sports movie history, with a new post every weekday until July 3. 100-91 | 90-81 | 80-71 | 70-61 |…
RunSportBet is counting down the 100 best fictional characters in sports movie history, with a new post every weekday until July 3. 100-91 | 90-81 | 80-71 | 70-61 |…
RunSportBet is counting down the 100 best fictional characters in sports movie history, with a new post every weekday until July 3. 100-91 | 90-81 | 80-71 | 70-61 |…
Maybe the first month of William Byron’s NASCAR season was enough notice he was about to break out. His Duel win during qualifying for the Daytona 500 offset, in part,…
Rugby is a sport that people play around the world. Many people play rugby in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Italy, France, South Africa, Argentina, Japan,USA, Canada the Pacific Islands and some 100+ other countries. It is the World’s premier oval ball football and is usually just called “rugby”.
The NFL has always been a quarterback-driven league. Yet five seasons ago, even as the league experienced an unprecedented boom in passing volume, it also faced the possibility of a…
Philip Rivers’ time in the NFL is over after 17 seasons. The longtime San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers quarterback is one of the most prolific passers in an era dominated by…
Deshaun Watson could be on his way out of Houston, and almost every team in the NFL ought to at least call the Texans about a trade for the disgruntled…
Sunday’s divisional-round doubleheader ended with the Kansas City Chiefs surviving the Cleveland Browns in the AFC, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers outlasting the New Orleans Saints in the NFC. Let’s…
