1988 — Steffi Graf ends Martina Navratilova’s six-year reign as Wimbledon champion with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 victory. It is the first time in nine finals that Navratilova loses a Wimbledon singles match.

Undisputed Update 1.4 arrives this week, adding Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, and another fighter to the game along with ...

July 2 1921 — The Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier heavyweight match at Rickard’s Orchard in Jersey City, N.J., becomes the first million-dollar gate in boxing history. The receipts total $1,789… ...

2002 — Venus and Serena Williams win in straight sets to set up their third title match at a major in 10 months — and the first all-sister Wimbledon final since 1884. Top-seeded Venus, the two-time ...

Looking beyond the rolling hills and toward the north London skyline in the distance was the familiar arch of Wembley Stadium ...

Riddick Bowe ended Evander Holyfield’s reign as heavyweight champion when he outpointed him in November 1992 in Las Vegas. It was a highly-competitive contest, leading to a rematch being arranged for ...

2014 — Novak Djokovic wins his second Wimbledon title and denies Roger Federer his record eighth by holding off the Swiss star in five sets. Djokovic wastes a 5-2 lead in the fourth set but holds on ...

Many of my columns rise out of some curious discovery I make in the pages of old issues of The. I’m not an expert on these topics and often some reader out there will know more about them than I do.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitches seven strong innings and Shohei Ohtani hits his 30th homer as Dodgers defeat the White Sox.

Few Irishmen can lay claim to the title of Mastermind in the show’s enduring 53-year run but only one is a Mastermind ...