Articles by Nancy Armour

For too long, the Butlers, Gonzagas and George Masons of the world have been dismissed as “mid-majors” – cute, cuddly teams who’ll be sent on their way soon enough. Read more

Poor San Antonio. Read more

Valparaiso’s basketball arena is only a few hundred feet from the local hospital’s emergency room, but it may as well have been the moon all those days Kenny Harris lay frighteningly still. Read more

Go to a Chicago Bulls’ game, and it’s beginning to look like the good old days. Read more

The last time U.S. Cellular Field was in the spotlight, an unruly fan was behaving like one of Europe’s embarrassing soccer hooligans. Read more

Annia Hatch was happily retired, certain her career as a competitive gymnast was over. Read more

Dream up the wildest scandal possible, and odds are figure skating has survived it–and thrived. Read more

The long, thick fingers of Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe are bent every which way, battered so thoroughly by his 36 years of catching that they’re impossible to straighten. Read more

Kerry Wood brought some of the nastiest, most unhittable stuff baseball had ever seen in a rookie when he arrived in 1998. Read more