#Buster Douglas

What was once unthinkable is now official. The College Football Playoff - itself a long-imagined concept many believed would never come to fruition - will expand to 12 teams, beginning with the 2024 season. The four-highest ranked conference champions will receive byes, while the next four highest seeds will host first-round games. The…

At least Wales know exactly what the equation is against England. No need to be cagey, play for draws and move on to the next game. Anything other than victory in the Group B finale means Gareth Bale and his team will join one of Ecuador or Senegal as the first teams to fly home from Qatar, way earlier than manager Rob Page, his players, or the Red…

LOS ANGELES - Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson to win the heavyweight title. So, why can't the San Diego Padres defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Division Series beginning Tuesday night (9:37 p.m.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Someone writing under my byline for The Athletic last year predicted the United States to lose the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. This writer, incompetent and occasionally overwrought, was way off. Criminally so, really. The Americans opened the Ryder Cup with a 6-2 lead, the largest Day 1 lead in 46 years, and reached the…

Week 2 of the 2022 college football season was fraught with unseemly upsets, as can often happen at the start of a new year. Will more Top 10 teams fall this week? College football, Week 2. Traditionally, it's chaos. It's the weekend of David and Goliath, Buster Douglas and Mike Tyson, and Team USA vs Russia wrapped up in a single glorious…