Feb 20 Major League Baseball introduces new rules to speed up their games By Justin Scuiletti Major League Baseball today announced a series of new rules, effective immediately, that aims to quicken the pace of the national pastime. Continue reading
Feb 18 Miss P's Westminster win claims second Best in Show for a beagle By Joshua Barajas A beagle named Miss P won the 139th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday night, the second of its breed to take the title in the past decade. Continue reading
Feb 13 American skier Ted Ligety wins third giant slalom at Worlds By Tik Root American Ted Ligety won the giant slalom race at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Beaver Creek, Colorado today. Fifth after the first run, he came back to beat rival Marcel Hirscher of Austria by nearly half a second. This… Continue reading
Feb 06 Could crash signal U.S. ski star Bode Miller's last race? By Mary Jo Brooks, Tik Root BEAVER CREEK, Colo. -- Six-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller was forced to pull out of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships last night, following a harrowing crash during the Super-G race on the slopes of Beaver Creek, Colorado. Continue reading
Feb 05 Watch Training, technology and talent takes the U.S. Ski Team to new heights By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 02 Heat map highlights key moments of most-tweeted Super Bowl ever By Justin Scuiletti Do you remember where you were during key moments of Sunday's Super Bowl? If the answer was on Twitter, then you were not alone. Continue reading
Jan 30 Watch 6:36 After a season of scandal, will viewers hold NFL more accountable? By PBS News Hour From domestic violence to deflated footballs, this NFL season has been rife with scandal, and yet its viewership has remained loyal. Ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, Hari Sreenivasan takes stock of the year in pro-football with Kevin Blackistone of ESPN… Continue watching
Jan 29 Watch 9:02 Bookies bank on sports fans who bet with their hearts By PBS News Hour Economics correspondent Paul Solman visits Las Vegas, the global epicenter of sports gambling, to learn how research and analytics separates the sports betting pros from the average joes. Continue watching
Jan 29 Go inside Vegas' Super Bowl betting business with a pro gambler By Simone Pathe The Patriots and the Seahawks aren't the only ones with a lot riding on this Sunday's Super Bowl. Plenty of professional gamblers will also be watching the score -- and every interception in between -- in the hopes of boosting… Continue reading
Jan 24 Ernie Banks, baseball pioneer and Cubs legend, dies at 83 By Rebecca Lee Banks, popularly known to fans as "Mr. Cub," joined the team as its first black player in 1953. He hit 512 career home runs throughout his 19-season career with the Cubs and was famous for his catchphrase, "Let's play two,"… Continue reading