Painting

RED SOX PITCHER FRANK SULLIVAN DELIVERED THE WITTIEST OF ALL LAMENTS ABOUT THE PERILS OF PITCHING TO MICKEY MANTLE. HE GAVE UP ENOUGH HOME RUNS TO KNOW

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As NFL camps start to open—finally!—over the next week, the story lines of 2010 will take shape. Can the Saints repeat? Are the Jets for real? And will Miles Austin, last year's breakout star in Dallas, keep his smile?

Luminous paintings by Kadir Nelson re-create the power and majesty of the Negro leagues, in a time when some of the game's greats played in undeserved obscurity—but with undiminished passion

One of the alltime great Olympians, he finds common ground between athletics and aesthetics