WHEN Sporting News first hit the presses in 1886, there was no World Series, no National Football League, and no Cracker Jack, much less the Internet, mobile score updates or jeering sports bloggers. In its heyday — the 1950s and ’60s — it was the authoritative paper for serious sports fans, publishing comprehensive box scores [...]

Yesterday this newspaper published a YouGov survey showing that support for Labour is at its lowest level for 65 years; even Michael Foot did better. As Prof Anthony King commented, it looks as if the Government and the electorate are heading for a bitter divorce at the general election. But the significance of the poll [...]

I ALWAYS said Morri was a one-off, a unique mind in this great game. Morri thinks Munster are boring and to an extent he’s right. They’re so predictable, aren’t they, with their army of brilliant fans and their relentless victories and their spanking new stadium in Limerick and their Doug Howlett and – yawn – [...]

ESPN (DIS) is late getting into the online high school sports market. To name a few competitors: Sports Illustrated (TWX) got into it last year by funding Takkle.com, and integrating the site onto SI.com; Hearst launched its own network last year; PrepChamps.com got a round of funding last month.
But ESPN RISE will be effective when [...]

The Angels were frustrated all around Thursday, and not only by the disco music blaring from the stadium sound system.
The club flashed back to the ’70s, with clips from “Jaws” and “Star Wars” and an odd game of Pong on the video board, with throwback uniforms on the field. The game was a throwback to [...]

We’re not only not in Lakerdom anymore, we’re about as far away as we can get.
This is the Anti-Lakerdom, the place and the time of year when visiting Lakers find the ground giving way under them, to the delight of local fans.
They could be great teams like the Showtime Lakers who had four titles when [...]

Citing economic factors and programming requirements from ESPN Radio as reasons for the decision, KFNC (97.5 FM) said today that Chronicle columnist Jerome Solomon has been removed as a regular host of the station’s afternoon drive time sports talk show.
Dave Tepper, the station’s new program director, said Carl Dukes will host from 3 to 5 [...]

From the terrace outside the art school, Ella Yang took in the same sweeping vistas that have motivated artists since medieval times. Historic buildings hug the mountaintop in Italy that she called home for three weeks after taking a break from her high-powered New York life for a vacation to indulge in her passion: painting.
“For [...]

There are some who will say it sounded like a good idea at the time. They would be wrong.
Back when Dallas and Phoenix decided the only way to counter the Lakers’ larcenous deal with the Grizzlies was to tear their teams apart midstream and start over, many NBA pundits agreed with their strategies. The Suns [...]

Firebirds goal attack Janelle Lawson last night accused the Northern Mystics of roughhouse tactics after Queensland’s bruising 46-40 win in the trans-Tasman netball league at the Brisbane Convention Centre.
Lawson took aim at the Mystics questionable checking of star shooter Romelda Aiken who eventually brushed off the attention to lead the Firebirds to their third straight [...]