Tom Barrabi

Innovative touchdown celebrations are something of a dying art, thanks to the No Fun League’s penalties on excessive showboating. $10,000 fines have a way of making a player think twice before pulling out a prop in the end zone.

In Broward County, Florida, telling an athlete that they “throw like a girl” is about to become a compliment.

Every major sport has its share of hard luck losers — the players and coaches who routinely outperform their competition, only to fall just short when it matters most.

Between endorsements and increasingly larger contracts, athletes are earning more money than they ever have before.