
Putin says Super Bowl ring was gift
Russian President Vladimir Putin is denying insinuations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring that's on display in ...

2014 MLB opener in Australia: Dodgers-Diamondbacks
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks will bring their thunder Down Under. Major League Baseball will open the 2014 regular season in ...

Lions among Blackhawks fans in Stanley Cup finals
The Chicago Blackhawks can boast of some mighty beasts among their supporters: two massive bronze lions that guard the Art Institute of Chicago.

Tebow signs with Patriots
Tim Tebow, the polarizing quarterback with the poor throwing motion, was signed by the New England Patriots on Tuesday. The move came six weeks after ...
Mass. suspects in NFL call prank free without bail
Two Massachusetts men accused of initiating a phone call between two NFL general managers, recording it and selling the audio remained free without ...

Ohio St president jabs Notre Dame, Catholics, SEC
The president of Ohio State University said Notre Dame was never invited to join the Big Ten conference because the university's priests are not good ...

Bruins, Rangers to carry on Boston-New York lore
After the marathon bombings, the cities of Boston and New York put aside their bitter rivalries and joined in their mutual love of sports and country.

Boogaard a sad example for ice hockey goons
The lawsuit doesn't read nearly as well as the story, which laid bare the life of an NHL enforcer for all to see. The way John Branch wrote about ...
Boogaard family sues NHL for son's death
Joanne Boogaard watched her son Derek duke it out on the ice with other NHL tough guys for six seasons as one of the most feared enforcers in the ...

'Kickalicious' trying to adjust to NFL routine
The scouting report on Havard Rugland is certainly an odd one. "He's good at kicking the ball into cars that are driving down the road ... boats and ...

Underwood to sing 'Sunday Night Football' theme
Carrie Underwood will take over the theme song for "Sunday Night Football," with NBC sticking to the formula of a female country music star for its ...

Ref's death a consequence of lack of sportsmanship
Pete McCabe was sickened, but not surprised, by Saturday's tragic death of Ricardo Portillo, a week after the youth football referee was punched in ...

'I'm gay': NBA player Jason Collins breaks barrier
Last summer, NBA veteran Jason Collins considered joining an old Stanford college roommate, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, at Boston's gay pride parade

NBA veteran center Jason Collins comes out as gay
With the simplest of sentences, NBA veteran Jason Collins set aside years of worry and silence to become the first active player in one of four major ...

Gay athletes have come out while active or retired
Even before Jason Collins, plenty of other athletes around the world have come out as gay, either while still active or in retirement. From Martina ...

Tebow era over in New York after Jets waive QB
Tim Tebow was waived by the Jets on Monday, the end of an unsuccessful one-season experiment in New York that had been expected for months.

US philanthropist savors opening of Jewish museum
As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time ...

Column: Time for sports to help us heal again
In so many ways, sports can bring out the worst in us. The corruption. The greed. The destructive belief that winning isn't just the only thing, but ...
Paterno's widow: We were ignorant of sex predators
Joe Paterno's widow said Wednesday that she and her husband were ignorant about sexual predators like Jerry Sandusky and did not realize that the ...

WADA backs HGH test against 'extremist' NFL union
The World Anti-Doping Agency defended its test for human growth hormone on Wednesday and accused the NFL players union of being "extremist" for ...

Heat win 27th straight, run away from Magic 108-94
Late in the third quarter, the game was tied and the Miami Heat winning streak seemed to be in jeopardy. Then LeBron James got mad. And then the ...

Profiles of 7 Nev. Army depot explosion victims
A mortar shell explosion Monday at an Army depot in Hawthorne, Nev., killed seven Marines and injured eight other servicemen. Here are profiles of the ...
Anschutz says sports company no longer for sale
AEG, the company that owns the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and the Staples Center, is no longer for sale, its billionaire owner Philip Anschutz said ...

Notre Dame to join ACC next season
Goodbye Madison Square Garden, Georgetown and Villanova. Hello Greensboro Coliseum, North Carolina and Duke. A year from now, Notre Dame men's ...

Bodies exhumed in killings tied to Mandela ex-wife
Forensic scientists on Tuesday exhumed two bodies believed to belong to young activists last seen 24 years ago at the home of Winnie ...