Four decades later, and a crowd is gathered at the same venue in this sweating, sprawling cityknown as the Araneta Coliseumfor a very different contest: a basketball game between two…
NBA star Kobe Bryant is taking the blame for a miscarriage his wife Vanessa endured during the height of the rape allegations the shooting guard faced beginning in 2003. –…
Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman wants another team back in town: the SuperSonics. The NFL star, who has been playing in Seattle since 2011, lamented the loss of the city’s…
“He remains in police custody and is helping officers with their inquiries,” added the statement, referring to the 27-year-old man. – Johnson helped City to win the 2011-12 Premier League…
Keeping Score By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN It has been an incredible season for James Harden. The Houston Rockets guard is leading the N.B.A. in scoring, dominated the All-Star Game and has…
Forbes reported Monday that former NBA superstar Michael Jordan has failed for the 29th straight year to become the richest person in the world. – No word from Jordan’s financial…
There are many things that can befall a basketball player. The entire basket collapsing on you probably doesn’t come first to mind. – H/T Deadspin
Marshawn Lynch has a famously contentious relationship with the media, so it’s somehow fitting that his first substantial interview since the Super Bowl would take place on the other side…
The Houston Rockets’ official Twitter account ensured on Sunday night that every game the team plays against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers for the rest of the year will…
TAMPA, Fla. — When Garrett Jones was traded to the Yankees in December, he was hoping to bring with him his good-luck charm of a number, 46. When the Yankees…
But if you want to get a bit closer to some of nature’s most beautiful beasts then heading out on four legs, not four wheels, might be your best bet….
England is running out of chances, as the Cricket World Cup’s qualifying games wind down. When play resumes Tuesday after an off day, 19 of the 42 pool matches will…
England is running out of chances, as the Cricket World Cup’s qualifying games wind down. When play resumes Tuesday after an off day, 19 of the 42 pool matches will…
In 2003, Minnesota Timberwolves’ superfan John Sweeney showed his love for NBA star Kevin Garnett when he danced topless during a Wolves game, flaunting the initials “KG,” which had been…
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but cold weather and regional architecture inspired a special invention of their own in Iowa —grain silo ice climbing. Read the whole story…
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but cold weather and regional architecture inspired a special invention of their own in Iowa —grain silo ice climbing. Read the whole story…
On Pro Football By KEN BELSON For years, the N.F.L. played cat and mouse with the city of Los Angeles. Every so often a team in, say, Minnesota, would threaten…
Gerard Moreno’s thumping low strike 26 minutes from time spoiled the home party and Real has seen its lead at the top cut to two points after Barcelona’s win Saturday….
PARIS — Paul O’Connell, one of the active legends of international rugby union, reaches a significant personal milestone when Ireland next plays, but will be pursuing a much more important…
Chelsea had suffered a chastening Boxing Day defeat to the same opposition in the English Premier League, with Harry Kane starring, but the promising young English striker was kept largely…
Minnie Minoso, the hugely popular All-Star outfielder from Cuba who became the major league’s first black player out of Latin America and a treasured figure in the history of the…
Major league baseball’s first black player in Chicago, Minnie Minoso, has died. – Copyright 2015 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or…
The game was 25 minutes old and the relegation threatened-side, ironically and lovingly nicknamed the Blue Brazil by Scottish football fans, had managed to shut-out their hosts and in-form opponents….
On a summer evening in Sydney in January, two former Grand Slam champions, John McEnroe and Patrick Rafter, played an abbreviated version of tennis. Rafter won the exhibition match by…
Yet his time of one minute, 23.022 seconds was still marginally slower than that achieved by team-mate and 2014 driver’s championship rival, Nico Rosberg on the soft tires on Friday….
Fran Rico pulled one back for Granada from the penalty spot but Lionel Messi restored Barcelona’s two-goal advantage 20 minutes from the end when set up by Suarez. After losing…
“I don’t think I could have played much better,” Federer said on court after the match. – Read: ‘housework harder than pro tennis’
The New York Knicks say Anthony Mason, a rugged power forward who was a defensive force for several NBA teams in the 1990s, has died. He was 48. Knicks spokesman…
When Travis Kvapil got the call Friday, he figured someone on his race team was playing a joke. “They said there was trouble with the car,” Kvapil said. “I thought…
1. Good one. We see purple and black, if you were wondering. — Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) February 27, 2015 2. Nice. The dress is red and black. — Atlanta Falcons…