The silver trophy, which has attracted a $120,000 bid on Heritage Auctions’ Web site, is one of four the major league baseball team won between 1912 and 1918 before an 86-year slump the team ended in 2004 with a victory over the New York Yankees. “I loved having this in my living room,” said Robert Fraser, a 52-year-old Westwood, New...

In Boston this season, Valentine has gotten his first career taste of what managerial life was like in the Bronx for that other Joe (Torre), back when Valentine was the loquacious Mets upstart in Queens. There, Bobby V was practically deified for merely picking a losing fight with Torre’s Yankees in the 2000 Subway Series. The weight on the manager of the...

One of Pele’s great regrets is that every time he had been due to play under Wembley’s old Twin Towers, fate intervened, but the likes of Marta, Cristiane and Formiga will take the step he never did when they meet Britain in the Olympics in their final Group E match. Coach Jorge Barcellos said his team was “very excited” about the...

The hostility is very much a live issue in world diplomacy, with Washington intent on frustrating the North’s nuclear armaments ambitions. In 2002, President George W. Bush branded North Korea part of an “axis of evil”, along with Iran and Iraq. The division of the Korean peninsula has already made an impact on the Games after the North...

Unable to ride the day after Saturday’s nasty fall, the Swiss four-times time-trial world champion has yet to make a final decision on whether he will compete in the 44km event on Wednesday. “Fabian Cancellara trained today for the first time since his crash in Saturday’s road race. After two hours of training on his time trial bike over...

“Good evening, Mr. Bond.” - The 86-year-old Queen Elizabeth makes her film debut in a clip with James Bond star Daniel Craig shown as part of the quirky opening ceremony. “Some of you will be baffled, I can guarantee it … I hope you enjoy that kind of Liquorice Allsorts of things. Many of you won’t understand that...

The 38-year-old American took some time off cycling to start a family, but could not resist the urge to get back on the bike after all. “A lot of people ask why I made the comeback after winning an Olympic gold medal and world gold medal, what more is there,” said the rider from Boise, Idaho. ” “Luckily for us Lucas came in...

Wiggins, who had the honor of ringing the Olympic bell for the first time at the opening ceremony for the Games, is already a three-times Olympic champion on the track, which puts him just behind Chris Hoy who has four. But this month, the kid from Kilburn in northwest London became the first British rider to win the Tour, the most illustrious of all road...