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Author Kyle Keiderling on the story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd.

Will big league baseball continue to offer a monopoly on the best baseball in the world?

“When you’re riding along on an ancient bike you are a heroic figure, but if you get off and push the bike up a large hill you are immediately a hateful, pathetic failure.” – Tim Moore

Before Wimbledon, the Masters, the World Series, and the Super Bowl, there was the Astley Belt Race, a six-day walking match that determined the world’s champion pedestrian.

A forthcoming academic study by former University of Alabama professor Dr. Rosanna Guadagno will examine the psychological impact of the Fail Room.

In August 2008 eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, one of the world’s deadliest mountains. In “Buried in the Sky,” Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan recount the tragic events from a rarely heard point of view—the hired help.

“I didn’t dream about this,” says Mark Titus about the popular and critical acclaim for ‘Don’t Put Me In, Coach.’ “I didn’t know it was possible for a bench-warmer to write a successful book.”

Dirk Hayhurst, author of “Out of My League,” explains what life is like for a struggling major league baseball player.

Professional baseball in a country that lacks fields, players, coaches, fans, and even bats and balls?

Meet the Mets fan who campaigned to become general manager of his favorite team. (No, it's not Mr. Met.)

Twenty years ago, baseball cards were a billion-dollar-a-year industry, with an estimated 81 billion cards produced each year. But the boom times came to an end in the mid-nineties, and to this day the industry hasn’t recovered.

The narrow path to the green at TPC Sawgrass' 17th was dubbed "Angelo's Alley" following the 1985 ‘worst avid golfer’ tournament, when Angelo Spagnolo hit 27 balls in the water, then proceeded to putt around the hazard, scoring a 66 on the hole.

More notable failures—some well known and some obscure—from college and professional basketball.

More notable failures—some well known and some obscure—from the NBA, WNBA and college basketball.

With the 2009-10 NBA season resuming today, it’s high time to introduce our Quirkiest Basketball Failures series, which includes failures from the pro, college and high school game.

In the following interview, the co-author of “Soccernomics” discusses the forthcoming World Cup, and reveals which countries are poised to experience greater success in international soccer.

More remarkable failures from hockey, skiing, and figure skating, including the Jessica Dube-Bryce Davison accident.

Remarkable failures from the worlds of figure skating, skiing, and snowboardcross, including Lindsey Jacobellis' fail at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Fed up with “the countless hours my husband spent glued to the computer checking his fantasy football crap,” Allison Lodish conceived Women Against Fantasy Sports.

It’s tough being a small-market major league baseball team. Just ask the Pittsburgh Pirates.