We take the style of sport for granted now, forgetting that sneakers were once inexpensive and blank. We’ve misplaced memories of a time when a pro athlete’s gestures outside the arena were bland and inconsequential. We’re talking no high fives, no fist bumps. No Jay-Z or LeBron. That was before prizefighter Sugar Ray Robinson broke…

Rush Limbaugh, America’s most popular practitioner of race-baiting, is part of a group that’s attempting to purchase the NFL’s St. Louis Rams. This play sounds like a joke, so let’s be done with the punchline: Finally, the GOP’s ultra-magnetic MC may fulfill his lifelong dream and own a bunch of big, black bucks. The Rams…

Bummer that ESPN the Magazine’s half-dozen November nude “Body Issue” covers don’t focus on the bottom half of the athletes they depict. Of the four that have been released prior to ESPN’s Friday newsstand date, Serena Williams, Dwight Howard and Adrian Peterson are posed in ways that showcase their upper bodies (mixed martial artist Gina…