The Green Sports Alliance just concluded their inaugural Summit held over the past three days in Portland… [Zach offers his initial thoughts in this week's NTSF. →]

With Babe Didrikson’s — voted a top 10 athlete of the 20th century in North America by ESPN and the Associated Press — 100th anniversary of her birthday (she died in 1956) coming up on June 26th, we decided to review Don Van Natta Jr.’s Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, [...]

Ticket resalers are probably the most ticked off about Tiger Woods pulling out of the U.S. Open this year, because of nagging left leg injuries.

Zach throws a few shovelfuls of dirt on the future fortunes of two living legends…

Well, EA Sports has decided one of two things. Either Tiger Woods on the cover of the eponymous game is bad for sales, or they’re trying to increase the sales for the deluxe version, which costs $10 more. Either way, don’t feel bad for him. He still did pretty well this year — find out [...]

Wednesday morning really left me with a lot of time to think, and boy was there plenty to think about. I was up before 4:00 am, waking up to drive my wife to the airport for a week away on business. (Sweetheart that she was, having been up awake all night unable to sleep, she [...]

   I wasn’t planning on having to write this piece, and I wasn’t planning on having to bring this week’s column to you late. What you’ll read deeper into this week’s edition is the direction I’d hoped to go, discussing hour tournaments like the Olympic hockey spectacle and the Davis Cup and the Ryder Cup are [...]

  What is the greatest benefit in having as diverse a range of sporting interests as possible from a fan’s standpoint? There is never an offseason… something is always right in line to take the place of a departing season with a fresh dose of varied live action. It is often said that there really [...]