5 votes
Rafael Nadal cried in the locker-room after losing a superb five-set final to Roger Federer at Wimbledon last year, earning a rebuke from his uncle and coach, Toni, that no tennis match was important enough to warrant tears. Nadal cried again last night, but in the joy of an extraordinary victory at his third finals attempt, the claycourt master ha
5 votes
Summer may be a time for fireworks and barbecues in America, but halfway across the globe there's some serious bicycling underway. To celebrate the Tour de France as well as the recent inclusion of Street View in France proper, Google has created a custom Street View map for tracking the entire race route at eye level.
6 votes
LLEYTON HEWITT would not have played had this not been Wimbledon, and for this year at least he will play no more. Even as it was revealed that a second child is expected in the Hewitt family in January, there was no prospect last night of a career rebirth for the champion of 2002.
3 votes
NBC’s online coverage of the Summer Olympic Games is expected to be immense in both the quantity of live and on-demand video. But it appears there will be exceptions made for watching August’s events in Beijing through a Web browser.
5 votes
Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw admitted that he took steroids while playing football in the 1970s, according to several reports.
3 votes
They're sowing the seeds of something out there at Shea Stadium, tilling that fertile soil, in the now-infamous description of Jerry Manuel, hoping something wonderful will bloom. But the place remains a Field of Screams, on the field and in the stands, and no change of gardener - er, manager - is going to improve it any day soon.