How Mr. Irrelevant became the most beloved underdog in sports
It began as an experiment 49 years ago, but now, Mr. Irrelevant has become the mascot for long shots everywhere.
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'I feel like I'm living a dream right now': How Chris Eubanks defied all odds at Wimbledon
With stunning upsets over Cameron Norrie and Stefanos Tsitsipas, the virtually unknown Chris Eubanks is now the lone American man left in the draw -- and shows no signs of slowing down.
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Wyshynski: How the Golden Knights disrupted the NHL, won the Stanley Cup
From a team of "Golden Misfits" to some big-swing trades that paid off, here's the inside scoop on Vegas' six-year journey from inception to coronation.
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The deal that rocked the golf world: Inside the PGA Tour-LIV Golf alliance
Almost one year to the day of LIV Golf's inaugural event, the golf world was upended again by the announcement of a PGA Tour-DP World Tour-LIV Golf deal. Here are the details of the alliance and its aftershocks.
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Joe Montana was here
He won four Super Bowls and retired as the undisputed greatest. What came next was turning a legacy into a life.
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The Yankees fan who lost his autographed baseball cards
FOR AN HOUR , Elyjah Blankenberg carefully went through his baseball card collection. He wanted the perfect mix of Orioles and Yankees cards -- but mostly…
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At 50, Phil Mickelson still loves the chase and caught himself one more major championship
Phil Mickelson still loves golf. On Sunday, it loved him back as he became the oldest major champion in the sport's history.
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Rise above it or drown: How elite NBA athletes handle pressure
In 2016, Steph Curry launched a rushed 3 in the waning seconds of Game 7 -- the last Finals the Warriors lost. He learned what all elite players figured out and vowed never to make that mistake again.
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Carmelo Anthony is the last great American ball hog
Gregg Popovich says there's no beauty in basketball anymore. Melo's fall helps make his case.
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OTL: Football facing growing insurance issue
From the NFL to rec leagues, football is facing a stark new threat: An evaporating insurance market that is fundamentally altering the sport's economics, squeezing and even killing off programs faced with higher costs and a scarcity of available coverage.
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The exceptional genius of Hou Yifan
There's no doubt: Hou Yifan is China's top female chess player. But for her, that's old news. She wants to be one of the best among men. It's just a matter of what she's willing to give up to achieve that.
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Meet Tsuyoshi Kawata, college football's most unlikely coach
Tsuyoshi Kawata fell in love with football while growing up in Japan and dreamed of coaching at the college level in America. How'd he land at Stanford? One knock on Jim Harbaugh's door in 2007.
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The remarkable story of TCU's Rhodes scholar, Caylin Moore
Caylin Moore likes to say his story doesn't make sense on paper, and he's right. It's a script that seems unrealistic until you realize Moore lived it and now inspires others by telling his tale.
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All these collectors want for Christmas is a $30,000 video game
How did a boring Nintendo game from 1987 become the most coveted cartridge ever? It's a bit of a mystery.
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The true story of Nintendo's most wanted game
How did a boring Nintendo game from 1987 become the most coveted cartridge ever? It's a bit of a mystery.
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41-year-old Oksana Chusovitina may be the most incredible athlete at the Olympics
Competing in a record seventh Olympics, Oksana Chusovitina's son is the same age as many of her competitors. And in Rio, she'll attempt one of the hardest vaults ever done by a female gymnast.
