PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — On a curious day last month, nearing 25 years since a football outcome of absurd meanness, Matt Porter’s 15-year-old son, Jonah, came home with a novel answer in the annals of what-happened-at-school-today: He told his dad that he and a buddy had “watched you all play in that state championship.”
Jonah steered his father to a hinterland on the World Wide Web, to a game the father had played yet never dared watch. Read More...
BBCEl Capitan is one of the world's favourite challenges for rock climbersA climber who has become the first person to reach the top of California's El Capitan rock without a rope has described his intense satisfaction.
"It was exactly what I hoped for. I felt so good. It went pretty much perfectly," Alex Honnold said.
His ascent of the 3,000ft (1,000m) rock-face in Yosemite National Park on Saturday has been described as one of the greatest solo climbing feats. Read More...
Explore More The sensational drama surrounding Angel Reese’s absence at LSU has obscured so much else that’s happening in women’s college basketball.
And that includes another vanishing act on the defending national champions.
Reese, LSU’s superstar forward, has missed the Lady Tigers’ past four games since she was benched at halftime of a Nov. 14 game. In her absence, firebrand LSU coach Kim Mulkey has offered precious little explanation and only shreds of innuendo as rumors swirl. Read More...
