Jeremy Lin is the latest basketball sensation. Sports usually isn’t my beat, but I trust Nate Silver to do the statistics and he says Jeremy Lin’s recent success is no fluke. What I find interesting is how everyone seems to want to claim a piece of Lin:

For an illuminating cross-sport comparison with Jeremy Lin, you need to bypass all that Tebowing on the gridiron and head back to a dusty swirl of French clay, where an Asian-American teenager has just shocked the tennis world. It is 1989, and 17-year-ol

My neighbor asked me if we were going to get Nash in the offseason and I thought to myself, “Maybe we don’t need him”. Am I kidding me? I just don’t know what to think right now. I have never seen anything like this. He was, by far, the best player on th

You first heard the worried mumbling about a year and a half ago, when Rafael Nadal won his third straight major. Since then, the worries have become a veritable babble, as Novak Djokovic has suddenly, inexplicably taken over the game. What if Roger Fede

Roger Federer traces the trail of his tennis tears to a watershed moment on his home court. A then 19-year-old Federer, sporting a pony tail and a few years removed from his days as a Basel ball boy, returned to his home town and won three matches to lif

List of Australian Open men's singles champions since the event began in 1905 (Australian unless stated): 2012 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Rafa Nadal (Spain) 5-7 6-4 6-2 6-7 7-5 2011 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) beat Andy Murray (Britain) 6-4 6-2 6-3 2010 Ro