Ken Rappoport

When the game is on the line and time is running out, there's one quarterback who always leads his team to victory: Peyton Manning. The Colts' superstar has been thrilling football fans for many years. He is the prototype quarterback. Big and strong, he shreds defenses with his powerful arm and dead...

Alex Rodriguez unleashed a powerful swing, launching the ball over the center-field fence. New York Yankees fans erupted, rocking the stadium. Home run! Although A-Rod had peppered the seats with hundreds of home runs during his career, this long ball was special. Rodriguez became the youngest playe...

Ken Rappoport 's Tales from the North Carolina Tar Heels Locker Room is a compilation of the best notes, quotes, and anecdotes from North Carolina lore. Meet a coach nicknamed Bloody Neck, a player called The Blind Bomber, and a team known as the White Phantoms. And, of course, there is the extraord...

Derek Jeter stood at the plate with the count full, anticipating the next pitch. With a mighty wallop, he smashed the ball over the left-center field fence. Home run! But this was not an ordinary home run. It was hit number 3,000 for the New York Yankees shortstop. This is just one of many milestone...

David Wright is living out his childhood dream, playing baseball for the team he grew up rooting for: The New York Mets. In addition to being an All-Star third baseman, he started his own charitable foundation in 2005 to help fight multiple sclerosis.

Wearing borrowed uniforms, practicing on obscure college campuses, and led by a former Marine Corps W.W. II fighter ace as commissioner, the American Football League (AFL) debuted in the Fall of 1960 to challenge the monopoly of the well-established National Football League. Within ten years it had ...

Covered by four networks, allowing every game to be televised, March Madness has become an American phenomenon as anticipated as the Super Bowl. This is the story of the tournament from its beginnings seventy-three years ago as just an eight-team bracket to today s sixty-eight-team format. From the ...