A thought for sports freaks on this most optimistic of days: if you imbibed a tad too much Veuve Cliquot last evening – or 40-ounce Molsons, or Boone’s Farm cinnamon-apple, or antifreeze – but still feel the need in your fragile state to watch televised sports this afternoon, I hereby offer an antidote to endless [...]

They played a football game fifty years ago today, on December 28, 1958: Colts-Giants, at Yankee Stadium, for the “championship of professional football.” It’s often referred to as The Greatest Game Ever Played. Maybe so, maybe not. But if you watch it now, I guarantee that something’s going to jump out at you: not a [...]