Eric Ortiz

To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson was talking about Socrates, Copernicus and Newton. But athletes can be...

Many Major League Baseball players get their start on a Little League diamond, but less than 1 percent of Little Leaguers...

Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any stranger, Gronk said, “Hold my beer.” Rob Gronkowski unretired to join his good...

Sports were my first love. I grew up playing them, watching them and dreaming about them. Baseball, football, basketball, soccer, tennis....

The word “hero” gets thrown around a lot to describe people. Sometimes, it fits. Most of the time, it doesn’t. With...

How do you measure success? For a college coach — no matter the sport — three things matter most: national championships,...

We have never seen anything like 2020 in sports. Canceled games. Games with no fans. Shortened seasons. Sure, there were some...

Kobe Bryant was an artist on the basketball court during his life, and he continues to inspire others through art after...

One hundred and sixty-two games. That’s right, 1, 6, 2. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. MLB teams at the beginning...

Big news in the Bay Area. The Golden State Warriors are NBA world champions for the fourth time in eight years....