Change is almost always hard. Yours truly is still coming to grips with the fact that the Earth is apparently round instead of flat. It's so much more comfortable for some of us when everything stays the same.

The ratings for the Olympics were going to be a challenge anyway considering the time difference, but now? Dreadful.

Nick Saban needs to make $50 million a year. And he still may be underpaid, even at that price.

Milwaukee has been known for a few things through the years.

It's easy to grow cynical about the future of big-time college athletics, especially Power Five conference football and men's basketball.

Peyton Manning rarely made a bad decision as a quarterback.

It was the summer of 1974. Beverly Narrimore had just graduated from Hixson High School and was working in her parents' bait and tackle shop, selling worms, when she got a phone call from Grace Keith.

Yes, I am biased — sue me — but the numbers from the All-Star weekend scream that Shohei is a superstar regardless of the language barrier.

Is everybody still so sure we have this vicious virus where we want it? Is no one concerned those bold predictions of full football stadiums this fall and packed college basketball arenas next winter may yet come a cropper?

NCAA president Mark Emmert has finally thrown in the towel. Or is it the white flag of surrender?

We have two weeks until the trading deadline, and while the Braves have underachieved mightily, there is a clear half-full/half-empty scenario with the defending NL East champs.

Speaking of college football, this will create some ripples. And I fully expect some other programs to follow along.

Hunters can be very nostalgic and passionate about our sport and the equipment and tools we use when we tramp the wild places.

To be honest, I watched more of the All-Star Game than I had planned.

So Stephen A. stepped in it Monday on "First Take."

Who's the best, the GOAT (greatest of all time)?

Let's begin the story of Baylor eighth-grade golf sensation Carlee Rogers on June 17.

A Friday mailbag for your weekend.

Wednesday's elongated day-game should have been the theme of this series with a downtrodden Pirates pack rather than the outlier. Whatever.

So now, after two straight losses to a Pirates team that was 23 games under .500 before the Braves came to town, the Braves are teetering.

Last night's embarrassingly flat 11-1 loss to a dreadful Pittsburgh team came 36 hours after a truly awesome win.

As John Shulman was preparing his University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball team to face Wake Forest and point guard Chris Paul in the opening round of the 2005 NCAA Tournament, he noticed one thing never changed as he watched Demon Deacons game tape.

After telling the world he was pulling out of NASCAR, Chip Ganassi returned home to Pittsburgh for sushi dinner with drivers Kevin Magnussen and Renger van der Zande, his house guests for a week between sports car races.