Lionel Messi won the most recent Balloon d’Or, awarded to the world’s best player, and he is a frontrunner to take the award for a second straight time.
Dirk Nowitzki got the Dallas Mavericks to the brink of an NBA championship. His teammates did the rest, a perfect ending for a club that talked all season about its greatest strength being the sum of its parts.
Quick! Name a starting pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. If this comes as a struggle, fear not. The team’s rotation is a rather unknown bunch to the casual baseball fan.
Ten years ago, Omar Quintanilla came to Austin to begin what would be a superb college baseball career. Now, he’s back in Central Texas playing baseball again.
Johnathan Taylor and Buddy Lamothe may never play baseball again after accidents left them partially paralyzed.
That didn’t matter to the teams that picked them Wednesday during the final rounds of the Major League Baseball draft.
DALLAS — Coughing and wheezing, his temperature spiking to 101, worn out from hardly sleeping the night before, Dirk Nowitzki went through three miserable quarters in Game 4 of the NBA finals.
Taylor Jungmann, Sam Stafford and Brandon Loy received the fanfare of being selected in the higher rounds of this year’s MLB First-Year Player Draft, but there were other Longhorns who came off the board later Tuesday.
The junior pitcher’s name was called No. 88 overall on the second day of the First-Year Player Draft by the Yankees, the most successful organization in professional, American sports.
Brandon Loy had just stepped out of the shower when he noticed that he had a phone call. The Detroit Tigers were on the other line to inform him that they had just drafted him in the fifth round.
