Hardwood Heroics Ahead; Bombers Won’t Back Down; The 500 411; Ice’s Unsung Hero; Letters; Charlie Pierce; The Big Bam

Pat Summitt has recently been handed the biggest check in NCAA women’s basketball history. Bill waxes poetic on Summitt, who has spearheaded Tennessee’s meteoric rise to basketball dominance.

Did you know that Babe Ruth holds the unofficial record for longest golf ball hit? Leigh Montville’s “The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth” chronicles Ruthian exploits on and off the field.

NBA and NHL Playoffs; Brewing Up a Storm; Summer Ball; The Great Match Race; Letters; Charlie Pierce; The Road Not Taken

A national audience first became aware of “Flutie Magic” in 1984, when the “littlest quarterback” heaved an improbable pass to lead Boston College to victory.

The Great Match Race by John Eisenberg makes the case that the heats run at the Union Course in 1823 were more than just horseraces.

The Basketball Battle for Texas; Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?; Mascot Madness at Illinois; Standing Eight; Floyd Patterson and More with Charlie Pierce; Skydiving without the Sky

I suppose there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with tapping a professional athlete as your commencement speaker.

As Sandoval, a Mexican living in Chicago without papers, the seventeen-year-old high school student, amateur boxer, and gang member gets arrested for armed robbery.

Derby Day with Jennie Rees; Old Friends; Playoff Update; Outstanding Oilers; Tatyana McFadden; The Brocket?; Kentucky Derby and More with Charlie Pierce; Tonya and Nancy: the Opera