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He's a two-time NBA All-Star. An Olympic gold-medal winner. A former college star. Yet still people can't pronounce his name correctly -- including pro basketball arena announcers, for whom getting names right is pretty much their entire job. As New ...

Earlier this week, Iran threatened to boycott the 2012 London Olympics over the Games' colorful, jagged logo, which the country claims is racist because it resembles the word "Zion." Poor Iran: the problem isn't that the nation's Ministry of Hurt Fe...

American professional sports are rife with offensive logos.

Page 2 writers come clean on our sports guilty pleasures.

Page 2 assembles a gallery of the lamest trophies in sports.

Star softball pitcher Jennie Finch announced her retirement this week, capping a wildly successful career that included an NCAA championship, Olympic gold and silver medals and the highest honor of all -- being named Page 2's first hottest female ath...

Vancouver could have used Olympic money for other things.

Vancouver could have used Olympic money for other things.

On Day 4 of Page 2's Lamest Sports Banners Contest, we pause to consider a hypothetical: What if the National Football League gave out Olympic-style medals instead of the Lombardi Trophy? The answer might look something like the middle banner to th...

Having endured enjoyed the one-two couch-potato weekend punch of the Winter Olympics and NFL draft combine -- question: If Tim Tebow bruises his shin at the same moment Lindsey Vonn holds a football above her shoulder, will the universe collapse and ...

Dear Canada, Congratulations! No more tears. Your ragtag bunch of scrappy underdog college -- excuse us, university -- kids just took out the fearsome Soviet hockey juggernaut, setting the stage for Rocky Balboa single-handedly to end the Cold War &...

The music is pretentious. The costumes -- princess, ice princess, cocktail waitress/princess -- are frilly. The commentary can try the soul. He two-footed the quad! Still, there's one endearing, enduring quality that lifts Olympic figure skating beyo...

Hope you paid attention to the Olympics, because your international knowledge is about to be tested.

Should ballroom dancing be an Olympic sport? Patrick Hruby says yes. What's your vote?

In Page 2's tour of the most memorable sports years, Patrick Hruby remembers 2004 as the year we lost our innocence.

Let's hope this week's quiz has a better go of it than, say ... the Olympic torch.