Mike DeCourcy

When the Club World Cup was staged in the United States last summer, coaches, journalists and analysts complained loudly about the weather and heat.

There will be the typical rush to blame the Brendan Sorsby episode on a variety of entities. It's lazy and vacant to say legal sports books, or those who accept their advertising or sponsorship dollars, are the reason Texas Tech's QB is facing what he is.

From Kareem to Psycho T, the top 15 college basketball players in the long history of the sport show that competitive fire and devotion to team success never go out of style.

Mike DeCourcy knew he wanted to be a sportswriter in fourth grade. And he's lived that life at his favorite childhood publication for a quarter century.

Because of the weather for several games, Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca and midfielder Enzo Fernandez have criticized the U.S. as host for the FIFA Club World Cup. With the world's biggest sporting event coming to North America in a year, their words could linger.

The United States men sent a B squad to the CONCACAF Gold Cup and earned B-type results, losing the final to archrival Mexico. They showed a national team needs more than just effort to win the biggest games.

United States men's national team midfielder Diego Luna does not look like a typical professional athlete — until the soccer ball is at his feet and the game is on the line.

Who's going to win the gathering of Goliaths that'll arrive in San Antonio later this week? That's what we're hear to tell you, and Duke is a good place to start

Will Wade knows how to coach the five players on the floor. So why does he have so much difficulty with the rest of the job?

There's not more money in it. Fans don't want it. The product as it is remains wildly popular. So why would anyone want to mess with expanding the NCAA Tournament?