Bud Harrelson, Mets shortstop in fracas with Pete Rose, dies at 79

Bud Harrelson, Mets shortstop in fracas with Pete Rose, dies at 79

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Bud Harrelson, the scrappy and sure-handed shortstop who fought Pete Rose on the field during a playoff game and helped the New York Mets win an astonishing championship, died Jan. 10 at a hospice center in East Northport, N.Y. He was 79. The Mets announced…

Perspective | Want to understand Jim Harbaugh? Go back to the start.

Perspective | Want to understand Jim Harbaugh? Go back to the start.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save HOUSTON — I remember the first notable play call of Jim Harbaugh’s coaching career. It happened in 1997, when he was still an NFL quarterback. And it was a touchdown, a fool-’em special that left me certain 27 years ago that Harbaugh was destined to…

Hail or Fail: Blowout loss in Ron Rivera’s final game secures No. 2 pick

Hail or Fail: Blowout loss in Ron Rivera’s final game secures No. 2 pick

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A look at the good (Hail!) and bad (Fail!) from the Washington Commanders’ 38-10 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday. New Orleans’s win over Atlanta earlier in the day meant the Commanders could secure the No. 2 pick in April’s draft with a loss…

Even in Michigan, the land of ‘Go Blue,’ tackle football is slipping

Even in Michigan, the land of ‘Go Blue,’ tackle football is slipping

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Over the past three years of Michigan football’s charmed existence, the program’s long-awaited breakthroughs — beating rival Ohio State, winning the Big Ten and reaching the College Football Playoff — suddenly became routine. Those feats, repeated each season since 2021, appeased restless fans who had…

D.C. Council proposal would create new fund for Nationals Park maintenance

D.C. Council proposal would create new fund for Nationals Park maintenance

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would fulfill a long-sought request from the Washington Nationals: a new revenue fund to pay for improvements to Nationals Park. Mendelson’s legislation would create the Ballpark Maintenance Fund, ensuring a steady stream of…

Perspective | How will we remember this Michigan football team? As champions.

Perspective | How will we remember this Michigan football team? As champions.

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save HOUSTON — The Michigan players took it all, including the seats. With the smell of cigar smoke wafting through the air, they toted folding chairs as they emerged from the locker room, eager to hop from one celebration to the next. They didn’t care whether…

Analysis | Hopes are high for the Cowboys. Can they avoid another playoff heartbreak?

Analysis | Hopes are high for the Cowboys. Can they avoid another playoff heartbreak?

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save This is who the Dallas Cowboys are. This is what they do. They tantalize. They raise hopes. They create belief. They foster expectations that, this time, things will be different — that, this time, they will break through and return the franchise to its “America’s…

Virginia has no shot clock, and some coaches think it’s a ‘travesty’

Virginia has no shot clock, and some coaches think it’s a ‘travesty’

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save After more than two decades around Northern Virginia high school basketball, Thomas Jefferson boys’ basketball coach Mark Gray-Mendes is still waiting for a shot clock. Until it arrives, he says, he’ll coach a different game than his peers in D.C., Maryland and 25 other state…