sports: a soap opera

A collection of five teams wins the Super Bowl in more than 50 percent of my model’s simulations: the San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys.

Yet her stellar performance shows that Emma Navarro is by no means intimidated by the shimmering status of Wimbledon’s wealthiest fans: the tennis phenom is, after all, a scion of one of America’s richest families, and worth more than Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, and Rafael Nadal combined. Her father, Ben Navarro, is the billionaire businessman b... See more

On top of all this, Ross Levinsohn, a former Arena executive, recently filed a suit detailing Bhargava’s thirst for taking over the company. The suit broadly claims that Bhargava used a minority holding in Arena to take over the company and, by extension, SI as part of a plot to consolidate his media holdings and secure free advertising for his bus... See more

Even for a sport that traffics heavily in phenoms and next-big-things, that throws around the anvil of expectation as if it were weightless, Nadal was a next-level prospect. It didn’t hurt that Nadal was more like a fantastical creation than a sports prodigy. Yes, he was torrentially talented. But his game and his backstory were both sui generis , ... See more

A little more than eight years after debuting in front of 4,000 fans at a sold-out Grayson Stadium in Savannah, the Bananas have sold out every game since. That includes this weekend’s game at Fenway.

Data from high-tech motion sensors will monitor horses, and an old-fashioned “bucket brigade” as well as state-of-the-art equipment will be dispatched frequently to pick rocks from the racetrack that authorities determined could have played a part in last year’s cluster of deaths.