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The Astros have a decent shot of catching the 1962 Mets for worst record ever, writes Dan Szymborski. That's the bad news. The good news is that being historically bad for one season doesn't make the rebuilding process take longer.

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As he sits in a noisy coffee shop in San Diego, Anthony Tarantino is shuffling through a stack of baseball cards and selecting a few for show-and-tell. One is a 1962 Topps of Duke Snider wearing the interlocking "LA" of the Dodgers on his blue cap...

Simona de Silvestro prefers Iron Maiden as a nickname, drives a Volt off the race track, and admits to indulging in Swiss chocolate, of course. Check out what else she has to say in a wide-ranging Q&A with espnW.

Love that we've all accepted that pitch count, not Houston's lineup, is the greatest threat to this perfect game.- Andy Behrens (@andybehrens) April 3, 2013 Back in 1962, Don Drysdale threw 163 pitches in his first start of the sea...

After a pine marten made an unwelcome appearance in Switzerland, we pick out a First XI animal invasions.

Loyola is set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ramblers' 1963 NCAA tournament championship, which has remained the lone title by a team from Illinois. Loyola will honor players from the 1962-63 team during Saturday's game against Illinois-...

Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at the impact of the Houston Astros' move to the American League, including the many changes in interleague play.

Sure, LeBron James has been on an amazing roll, but what about what Wilt Chamberlain did in 1962?

Nov. 30, 1962 and 1987: Today is a big day for double-sport legend Bo Jackson. Before starring in both Major League Baseball and the National Football League -- and before winning the Heisman Trophy at Auburn University -- Vincent Edward Jackson was ...

Catholic Conference rivals Catholic Memorial and BC High have competed in an annual Thanksgiving day football game since 1962. But this year, four CM seniors began what they hope will become a new tradition. Ed DeLuca, Ryan Reid, Matt McCarthy an...

The Houston Astros are leaving their old look behind as they prepare for their move to the American League in 2013.

With the 30 for 30 film "Ghosts of Oxford" airing tonight, I held a chat to discuss the events that took place surrounding the integration of James Meredith in to Ole Miss and the 1962 football team that ran the table. Here's a quick preview if yo...

ESPN Films' "Ghosts of Ole Miss" premieres tonight at 8 ET. In 1962, the University of Mississippi erupted in violence over integration while swelling with pride over an unbeaten football team....

With the 30 for 30 film "Ghosts of Ole Miss" airing tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN, I'll be conducting a special chat at 1 p.m. ET discussing the events of the fall of 1962 on Ole Miss' campus. That was the year James Meredith integrated the univers...

The ideas of family, and of home, are inexorably wound together, much like the stories of the integration of Ole Miss in 1962, and of the university's dominant football team that fall.

We're about two weeks away from the 50-year anniversary of one of the most famous quotes in American political history. Former President Richard Nixon, upon losing the California gubernatorial race in 1962, defiantly told reporters, "You don't hav...