Chuck Culpepper

“There’s no pain”: Tiger Woods begins PGA Tour comeback at Farmers Insurance Open

January 25, 2018 at 11:25 a.m.

SAN DIEGO - As the phrases "fused vertebrae" and "L5-S1" might tumble from mouths and ride the air out onto the Pacific, Tiger Woods sets to begin again on Thursday....

New York Knicks forward Kristaps Porzingis ...

Kristaps Porzingis thinks like a New Yorker, and it’s turning him into the city’s next sports legend

January 23, 2018 at 9:51 a.m.

Of all the unforeseeable marriages on an inexplicable planet, here's the one between that great-big loudmouth, New York, and the chill dude from the third-largest city in unobtrusive Latvia, a...

Quarterback Marcus Mariota #8 of the ...

In NFL playoffs and college bowls, “It’s the year of the Hawaiian quarterback in America!”

January 12, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.

Sports, that wonderful, horrible, meaningful, meaningless, inspiring, cynical, beautiful entity, just completed another wild feat. It took 2,390 miles of ocean and shrank it. It urged Hawaii and the United...

Detail of the College Football Playoff ...

Alabama-Georgia national title game feels like it should be played in a backyard

January 7, 2018 at 8:37 p.m.

Clearly, this particular College Football Playoff national championship game, between Alabama (a Team A if ever there was one) and Georgia (Team B), should not happen in a state-of-art spaceship...

Spread of the spread: From high school to NFL, an offense has taken root

December 29, 2017 at 8:53 a.m.

In a town that knows a tide, San Diego State operates against the tide of the spread offense that has spread across the the land. As said Mike Leach, the...

鈥滻t was two boys that fell in love with each other,鈥� famed trainer Nicky Henderson said of jump racing geldings Simonsig, left, and Triolo D'Alene.

Two racehorses, both male, “fell in love” and grew inseparable. Until tragedy did it for them.

December 26, 2017 at 10:47 a.m.

Sixty miles west of London in the "Valley of the Racehorse," some human beings in recent years have dug out the word "extraordinary" and put it to use.

Alabama takes over as No. 1 in College Football Playoff rankings

November 15, 2017 at 12:42 p.m.

The chances for unrest, disagreement and rancor intensified Tuesday night, especially at Nos. 2-4 and Nos. 6-7, when the College Football Playoff selection committee unfurled its third set of rankings...

For the first time in College Football Playoff, somebody might get both obliterated and included

November 13, 2017 at 9:18 p.m.

Did Miami shoo Notre Dame from playoff consideration mostly because it wrought not just a win, but a destruction? It would seem that it almost certainly did.

Louisville acting head coach David Padgett ...

David Padgett is providing some calm after Rick Pitino’s storm at Louisville

November 6, 2017 at 7:02 p.m.

Here he is, the relative calm after 16 years of brilliant storm, and here he is after one of the odder promotions in the zany annals of coach promotions.

CoCo Vandeweghe, of the United States, ...

CoCo Vandeweghe continues American success at U.S. Open

September 4, 2017 at 8:36 p.m.

NEW YORK - The idea of American tennis as irrelevant except for a single Californian-Floridian family named Williams is so old and stale that at some point this decade, the...

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