Spain

The warm glow of the 2008 European Championship continued to spread across Spain well into the summer. Even the transfer stories were set aside, for a while at least, in favor of the accolades. And when the screaming...

Mexico coach Sven-Goran Eriksson made sure the fans would be pleased by calling in their long-time hero Cuauhtemoc Blanco again, but the Swede made two modifications from his previous squad.

With 17 days' worth of basketball in the books, it's time to take stock of the Olympic tournament beyond the headline story of these Games: the emphatic reassertion of U.S. men's basketball supremacy. Before we do, a...

I was wrong.

From the comfort of my couch I send a shout-out to Alex Wolff, my distinguished Sports Illustrated colleague who has been covering the Redeem Team. Alex's assignment was easier than mine was in 2004 (when covering...