For generations, playing in the World Cup was akin to Italian birthright. The nation made every tournament from 1958 to 2014. It joined Brazil and Germany as the only nations to win the World Cup […]
Andrew Greif
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Sure, Cinderella missed out on the Sweet 16 this year. Our consolation prize? A weekend of high-quality hoops. On Thursday night, three teams from the heartland, all hailing from the Big Ten Conference, dominated the […]
The men’s basketball team at Gonzaga was doomed — or so the coach of the small, Jesuit university would lament. Dan Monson chuckles now at the memory. In the early 1990s he was a young […]
Stephon Castle had been playing for a professional sports team for only a few months last year when the then-20-year-old began considering owning a piece of another. A 6-foot-6 guard, Castle was finishing his first […]