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…
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
Huawei is a telecoms company based in China. It’s a major player in computer networking, government and mobile communications. Recently, the firm has made a big push into consumer electronics….
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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or…
Earl Lloyd, who became the first black player to appear in an N.B.A. game when he took the court for the Washington Capitols in October 1950, three and a half…
A Texas football player is facing a felony animal abuse charge after police say he tortured and killed an emu at a party. – All students alleged to be involved…
Former NFL player Vince Young had all the potential in the world. Growing up in a low-income community in Houston, Texas, he didn’t have an easy start — but football…
Earl Lloyd, the first black player in NBA history, died Thursday. He was 86. Lloyd’s alma mater, West Virginia State, confirmed the death. It did not provide details. – Lloyd,…
Former basketball player Leah Metcalf, and former football player James Arnold filed a separate but similar class-action lawsuit in state court in North Carolina. Ken Wainstein, who was hired by…
Sam became famous as the first openly gay football player drafted by the NFL, though he didn’t make a pro team’s final roster last year. He still has hopes of…
Michael Sam will soon be turning his attention from the football field to the dance floor. Sam, who made history last year as the first openly gay player to be…
Two people who cleaned Aaron Hernandez’s house testified Monday that they’d seen guns there starting a little more than a month before Odin Lloyd was killed. Marilia Prinholato and Grazielli…
Thousands of miles away from the Old Trafford football ground, he often rescheduled his weekends to make sure he was able to catch his club on TV, something he’d done…
Thousands of miles away from the Old Trafford football ground, he often rescheduled his weekends to make sure he was able to catch his club on TV, something he’d done…
LONDON — The extremes of imported artistry and homegrown belligerence that make English Premier League soccer a compelling spectacle were on full view this weekend. The darkness came first, when…
The Philadelphia 76ers are in the middle of an unprecedented multi-year teardown of their team in the name of future draft picks, high or low. Got an annoying, expensive player…
Darren Clarke is Europe’s new Ryder Cup captain. The 46-year-old has been tasked with maintaining the continent’s dominance in golf’s biennial battle with the United States, Europe having won six…
Last week, I was among 14 American Muslims who met with President Barack Obama at the White House, where I delivered a handmade Valentine’s Day card from two California sisters,…
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — The judge overseeing the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has denied a request by his defense to bar police surveillance…
A trans woman who was found dead on a Texas street was killed by a college football player she was dating, according to police. Carlton Champion Jr., was charged on…
Approaching 10 p.m. on the eve of a recent blizzard, the Rockwood Music Hall, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, was running low on breathing room, packed so tightly…
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In the video above, Dr. Phil asks Corey Batey, the former Vanderbilt University football player who was just convicted of aggravated rape and aggravated sexual battery of a fellow female…
The above video, which was uploaded by the Clemson Tigers’ official YouTube account, is a celebration of the massive amounts of gear a football player at the school can expect…
The Atlanta Hawks are the NBA’s best basketball team right now, and Kyle Korver is its best shooter. Korver is so good that if the season ended today, he would…
LONDON — When the transfer window shuts at the end of Monday in Europe, the most meaningful story might well be the player who decided he was happy to remain…
Aaron Rodgers has won his second Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award in somewhat surprisingly easy fashion. – AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL
MELBOURNE, Australia — For decades, professional tennis players struggled with tournament organizers to get more money and better services, and while that battle is far from over, the level of…
Junior Seau, Jerome Bettis, Tim Brown, Charles Haley and Will Shields were elected Saturday to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The class of 2015, announced a day before the…
An anonymous Seattle Seahawks player told ESPN on Thursday that when it comes to drug testing, the National Football League treats its players like “criminals.” “We are being treated like…