Jim O'Grady

Sometimes in sports, for better or worse, the rest of life falls away and all that matters is the game ... and that you please the connoisseurs at Rucker Park.

One is a household name. The other is one of the game's most important and influential figures.

New York State Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell wants a commission to study whether Moses's "racist" methods call for deleting his name from one of his signature projects.

Ingenious gizmos like mechanical clocks with precision engineering and humanoid automatons that wrote in script gave a glimpse at what was possible.

Major League Baseball is considering shrinking its minor league system from 160 teams to 118. And that could mean some problems for the Staten Island Yankees.

The action will be swift and fierce as four of the best teams from Ireland play a mini-tournament with modified rules.

In 2013, the team stumbled onto a style of play that turned out to be the future of basketball ... then promptly discarded it.

Some are urging the city to pay for a study of the idea; others say, skip the study and just begin.

"They take on a mind of their own," says master puppeteer Alex Khan of the symbiosis between his creations and the humans who climb inside them to make them move.

They were the Montreal Expos, a team that never quite won it all, before they moved to D.C. and became the Nationals, a team that now has a shot at baseball's championship.

A 10-part series on Hulu traces their origins, including the pivotal choice facing the original Wu-Tang members between steady cash from the streets and the crap shoot of music careers.

Vile words were discovered along the Queens beachfront in two separate incidents over Labor Day weekend.

A reporter recalls a surprising conversation in the Broadway legend's office.

The honoree at New York City's 207th parade in the "Canyon of Heroes" is the U.S. Women's national soccer team, fresh off its World Cup victory in France.

Both teams look lethal on offense and weak on defense. But the winner of Friday's game will have a leg up on winning it all.

The teams have a storied rivalry, but both have struggled in recent years. That could change once they draft elite prospects Jack Hughes and Kaapo Kakko.

"The American women are ultra-attacking. It is always about being on the front foot and putting opponents under pressure," Murray says of the U.S. style of play.