sports history
Teddy Roosevelt Loved Football, Except When It Brutalized His Son
President Theodore Roosevelt is remembered as an ardent football supporter, but his son Ted's high school and college playing injuries complicated his feelings about the sport's inherent violence.
Throwback Thursday: MLB Almost Taps J. Edgar Hoover as Commissioner
In 1951, Major League Baseball was looking for a new commissioner. The sport almost changed history by tapping FBI Director and controversial American icon J. Edgar Hoover.
Throwback Thursday: John McGraw, The Model Of The Modern Sports Coach
New York Giants manager Jack McGraw set the intense, controlling, obsessive, kill-the-umpire, win-at-all-costs standard for all coaches to follow.
How Baseball Has Spent 96 Years Punishing An Innocent Man For The 1919 Black Sox Scandal
Forget Pete Rose. Even President Obama thinks Major League Baseball should reinstate former Chicago White Sox player Buck Weaver, who was banned for life despite not participating in a gambler-orchestrated fix of the 1919 World Series.