Michael Mayo

For most of the day, Dave Wannstedt was the picture of poise, wearing his power suit as comfortably as his new title. And then came the inevitable questions about Dan...

The system works. That's what we keep hearing about the Bowl Championship Series. But all those empty seats in all those Apathy.com Bowls around the country say something. So don't...

Coach Jimmy Johnson hit Dan Marino hard after the Miami Dolphins' first loss, and Marino responded by turning the other cheek. That's what Marino always does. If there's one thing...

For the longest time, the NHL didn't have to deal with issues of race because there was nothing black on the ice but the puck. But the suspension of Chris...

It's one thing to say you're sorry, quite another to mean it. Mike Tyson needs to show he means it. If Tyson truly wants to show he's sorry, he must...

The Olympics are in desperate need of a good editor. Not an NBC-type editor who splices tape and manipulates every competition into heart-tugging melodrama. No, I'm talking about a curmudgeon...

Nicaragua has never won an Olympic medal, but the Central American nation can break the drought with a win in the bronze-medal baseball game Friday against the U.S. "Everyone on...

After allowing eight runs in Thursday's loss to Cuba, Nicaragua goes into the bronze-medal game with a 4.36 earned-run average, thoroughly respectable considering the aluminum bats and hitter-friendly Fulton County...

Orestes Kindelan and Juan Marnique hit home runs for Cuba in the victory over Nicaragua, raising the team's tournament total to 30. Both were three-run homers. It was Kindelan's eighth...

When Japan's Nobuhiko Matsunaka hit a home run into Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium's upper deck last week, it was announced as the first to land up there since 1971. Since then...