Babe Ruth's granddaughter wants the Bambino's number retired by all teams. The solution: Retire 'em all.

These are the days: NFL conference championship Sunday is a highlight of the sporting calendar. Here's a list of some others.

Louisville's head coach is out in the wake of a corruption investigation. That he still had a job speaks volumes

"The Contender" is just like real boxing: It's real, but with healthy doses of fiction, and it's better as a TV show than it is as a sport.

The readers write -- and seem unable to find a middle ground between boorish taunting and stoic restraint.

Basketball's "stage dad" is creating an alternative for the sport's top-ranked high school grads — and paying them

After the "Rack City" rapper got booked for a performance, senior Leah Reis-Dennis started a campuswide protest

Facing punitive rules and stingy compensation, college players are organizing. Is a union in their future?

Packers vs. Cowboys on NFL Network, 75 million households shut out. The NFL should trust its product. Plus: College football.

The NBA sure takes its sweet time getting through the boring first round of the playoffs. Plus: Charlie Ward -- meshuggener!

Salon's TV picks for Weekend, March 30-April 1, 2001

Baseball's justice system is in need of an overhaul. We have the answers. Plus: The killer timeout strikes again.

Four protesters were ejected from Fenway Park after displaying banner during a Red Sox game