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Gallery featuring bios, photos and videos of Super Bowl MVPs Ottis Anderson, Len Dawson, Desmond Howard, Jim Plunkett, Emmitt Smith, Roger Staubach, Lynn Swann, Hines Ward, Kurt Warner and Doug Williams....

On May, 23, 1980, Oakland A's pitcher Rick Langford threw a complete game against the Texas Rangers. The A's lost that day, 3-1, as Langford gave up three unearned runs in a 1-hour, 56-minute duel with Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins. Five days...

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...

Cole Mazza knew it would be tough to achieve his dream of playing BCS-level college football. At 6-foot-2 and 240 pounds, Mazza is big and strong, but not BCS big. He'd be the minnow on any line of 300-pound lunkers in the Big Ten or Southeastern ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- When it comes right down to it, not all that much has changed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this offseason. Sure, they made the blockbuster trade for cornerback Darrelle Revis, signed free-agent safety Dashon Goldson to a big contra...

Each goes by the name Mr. Irrelevant, but no two are alike. So when Irrelevant Week is held annually in Newport Beach, Calif., to honor the last player taken in the NFL draft, many of the activities are tailored to fit the guest of honor. Whil...

After bogeying his first-ever Masters hole Thursday, 22-year-old British Amateur champion Alan Dunbar approached the second tee with a chance to regain his confidence. Instead, things got ugly. His tee shot on the par-5, 575-yard hole hooked le...

Each year, during the first round of the NFL draft, Roger Goodell welcomes every player in attendance with a bear hug, slaps on the back and a personal message delivered lips-to-ear from close range. It's the one day the league's commissioner beco...

At the end of a long, emotional day Monday, Paul Shorthose was watching television coverage of the bombing at the Boston Marathon when he saw a scene from New York that he will long remember. Projected onto the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Musi...

Fun piece from Doug Williams at ESPN Playbook on Gary Redus' 1978 season with Billings of the Pioneer League, one of those legendary minor league seasons us baseball nerds are familiar with. In 68 games, Redus hit .462 with 17 home runs and 42 stolen...

This story has been corrected. Read below Jim Hoff has been in professional baseball for 46 years, but he has never seen anyone have a season like the one Gary Redus had in 1978. Thirty-five years later, Hoff still has trouble finding just the...

This season, the West Michigan Whitecaps will be serving the Baco, a taco with a shell made of bacon. Back east, the Aberdeen IronBirds in Maryland have offered the Funnel Cake Baconator that comes with maple syrup, bacon and chocolate sauce. I...

When Bill Singer walked off the mound at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, he didn't know he'd just made history. It was April 7, 1969, and the Dodger had just pitched three scoreless innings to protect a 3-2 Los Angeles victory over the Reds on Opening...

The image is indelible and the words simple. Six-foot-four David Thompson is in full flight, his hand more than a foot above the rim as he tips the basketball over the long reach and leap of 6-foot-11 Bill Walton. The cover of the April 1, 1974...

As a child, Guor Maker escaped civil war and enslavement. Now, after 20 years away, a marathoner gets to go home again, writes Doug Williams

After seeing the Los Angeles Lakers' winning streak come to an end at 33 games in 1972, forward Jim McMillian said NBA fans had seen something special. "We just finished a streak that I don't believe any other team is going to break," he told the ...