The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.