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Byline: Ross Atkin There's probably no more Iwo Jima-like image in sports than that of hockey's Bobby Orr flying headlong over the ice, stick upraised, the instant after scoring the [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Championship parades in Boston have become almost as common as, well, the Boston Common. Finally, though, Bill Russell, the athlete whose name became synonymous with championships in [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Anyone who thought Boston's Wednesday night World Series triumph ended St. Louis's sports misery in Beantown better get out of town fast. That's because on Friday, just [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Within the tennis world, it's safe to say that Jimmy Connors grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, both literally and figuratively. While Billie Jean [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Game 1 of the 2012 World Series was not only a big night for Pablo Sandoval but for player nicknames as well. The roly-poly San Francisco Giants [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin The Heisman Trophy is never won on the basis of what a player does in just one game, but it takes a signature game to become a [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin The older any major-league team is, the harder it can be to pick the best players during its existence. So when the Boston Red Sox decided to [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin One of the most enduring photographic images from any Olympics is wobbly-legged Italian marathoner Dorando Pietri approaching the finish line with a various officials and British bobbies [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Quick. Look before it's too late. The Pittsburgh Pirates, a team that has floundered through 19 straight losing seasons, is in first place in baseball's National League [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Josh Pahigian and Kevin O'Connell have done what many baseball fans only dream about doing, and they've done it not just once, but twice. Their fantasy come [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Jamie Moyer of the Colorado Rockies broke a Major League Baseball age barrier Tuesday night by becoming the oldest pitcher to ever win a game at age [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Basketball and football excellence seldom go hand in hand in college sports - at least not in the same academic year - and the teams playing in [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Who deserves to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame? We've made our picks (to see them, click below). Whether they match the official annual selections, [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin As Alabama and Auburn prepare to take the field Saturday in their annual 'Iron Bowl' rivalry, the state's focus will be on trees as well as football. [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Penn State's Joe Paterno is already three decades beyond being age-eligible for AARP membership. The university's head football coach not only can claim seniority in his profession, [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin On the night baseball's regular season ended there was only one home run that anyone paid any attention to - Evan Longoria's walk-off shot in the bottom [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Here are 10 interesting facts that I didn't know about Mickey Mantle but learned from reading 'The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood,' [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin One wouldn't think that in the heart of Red Sox country, people would be clamoring to read about a Yankee. But that's exactly what happened earlier this [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin As the 2011 major-league baseball season begins, imagine yourself sitting in the stands with new friends from India. The questions they ask aren't going to be those [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin, Monitor staff editor 'A Game of Inches' by Peter Morris takes present-day readers on a tour of baseball's origins. Here are 10 interesting glimpses into the game [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin What will be mostly remembered about the current March Madness, as with any edition of the men's NCAA tournament, will be the players and the plays, not [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin In recent years, a raft of books about major league baseball stadiums have been published. And why not, since for many fans their fondest sporting memories have [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin For the sake of full disclosure, let me say right up front that I have never worked for, played on, or been an insider of any variety [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin If Super Bowl Sunday is the ultimate day for watching football, then the day after is surely prime time for dissecting the strategies that did and didn't [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin The college football season ends tonight as undefeated teams from Auburn and Oregon tangle in the BCS Championship Game (or Bowl Championship Series Championship Game, if you [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Along the way to their argument that the Bowl Championship Series is a disaster, the authors of 'Death to the BCS' - sportswriters Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin The University of Connecticut women's basketball team will lose eventually, but when? That's the question that won't go away now that the Huskies have broken the all-time [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Longtime Yankees shortstop and captain Derek Jeter finalized a three-year, $51 million deal with the Bronx Bombers on Tuesday. Jeter is in some pretty select Yankee company, [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin, Pat Murphy The 106th World Series, featuring the Rangers and Giants, is underway. With the help of MLB.com and Baseball-reference.com, we've come up with a quiz to [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin, Pat Murphy World Series number 106, between the Texas Rangers and San Francisco Giants, gets underway in 'The City by the Bay' Wednesday night. This will be [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin, Pat Murphy The World Series, featuring the Rangers and Giants, starts Wednesday night in San Francisco. With the help of texasrangers.com, we'd like to test what you [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin This is one reporter's remembrance of a close encounter with Coach John Wooden in a condensed version of a Monitor blog post from 2006. ---------- Life is [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin, staff writer I just finished The Black Girl Next Door, by Jennifer Lynn Baszile, a powerful memoir that exposes the challenges presented by growing up black in [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin One more victory. That's all that stands between the University of Connecticut's women's basketball team tonight and its 78th straight win, back-to-back national championships, and a secure [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Butler University's men's basketball team is the overwhelming sentimental favorite against Duke in tonight's NCAA championship game. It has a longest-in-the-nation, 25-game winning streak, and it could [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin On opening day of the 2010 baseball season, all is right again in the baseball world, some would say, because the New York Yankees enter the new [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Countless basketball facts are swirling around Indianapolis this week as the men's Final Four championship comes to the 'crossroads of America.' One of particular relevance is that [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Finally, B-Day has arrived. The wait to tip off the first full day of the men's NCAA basketball tournament commences at roughly high noon, Eastern Time, Thursday. [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin As the NCAA men's basketball championship gets down to business Thursday, the silent partner in the drama will be records set in previous years. They establish the [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Quick, before it's too late, get yourself ready for the tsunami of wall-to-wall March Madness college basketball. Don't try to do scouting reports on all 65 teams [...]

Byline: Ross Atkin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT -- From the July 7, 1995 issue of The Christian Science Monitor LATE one afternoon, with the [...]

If Disney builds it, people will come. Even before the company's Wide World of Sports complex became fully open and operational outside Orlando, the facility had more than 100 groups [...]