Latest by Fred Lief
Published on December 29, 2020 - Page 9
Take your pick. Maybe it was a Big East Tournament basketball game that broke for halftime and never returned. Or the cardboard cutouts of...
Published on December 26, 2020 - Page 14
Well, had enough yet? Don’t look at the score. How bad did it get? Like nothing before. B.C. (Before Coronavirus) The Setup An omen,...
Published on January 1, 2020 - Page 11
Sometimes the general managers and player personnel directors on Mount Olympus look down on some lucky soul and declare: This is your moment....
Published on December 31, 2018 - Page 11
There was a soup thrower in the locker room. There was a tickler on the hockey rink. There were science deniers swallowing their hot air. There was a...
Published on January 1, 2018 - Page 12
Roy Halladay seemed from another time. He pitched deep into games —complete games, the vanished art — and won a couple of Cy Young Awards along the...
Published on January 1, 2016 - Page 17
The loss column is where to look in the standings. Those are the ones that can never be made up. And losses, of a different kind, hit Philadelphia...
Published on December 26, 2014 - Page 13
Gothic folklore met modern dentistry, with the whole world watching. This was the World Cup and the Bite of Brazil — a mouthwatering, open-jawed,...
Published on January 1, 2014 - Page 15
The soundtracks could not have been more different. One was the stinging crack of the bat of yet another double in the gap and the folksy harmonica...
Published on January 1, 2014 - Page 15
The story had all the elements of a Cold War thriller: a wealthy American businessman, Russian leadership at the highest levels, diplomatic intrigue...
Published on November 7, 2012 - Page 9
Big-spending former wrestling executive Linda McMahon was pinned again in her bid for a U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, losing on a night when sports and...