
Mayweather sings praises of his new Showtime deal
It's Showtime in more ways than one for Floyd Mayweather Jr., who said Thursday he is excited about both a weekend fight he's promoting as well as his ...
Weiner says media shouldn't jump to conclusions
Baseball union head Michael Weiner says reporters should refrain from jumping to conclusions about media reports linking players to a Florida ...

Joe Garagiola ends broadcast career after 58 years
Be it down on a baseball field or up in the broadcast booth, whether he was pinch-hitting for Johnny Carson or looking at pooches, Joe Garagiola could ...

Jerry Buss, Lakers' flamboyant owner, dies at 80
Jerry Buss had been a chemist and a mathematician long before he bought the Los Angeles Lakers in 1979. The self-made millionaire with a head for ...

Tiger Woods joins vacationing Obama for golf round
President Barack Obama teed it up with Tiger Woods on Sunday. The White House confirmed that the President and the world's most famous golfer played ...

TV show with Pistorius' dead girlfriend airs
Reeva Steenkamp's last wish for her family before she was shot dead at boyfriend Oscar Pistorius' home was for them to watch her in a reality TV show ...

Newspapers around the world run with Pistorius
Photographs of Oscar Pistorius, some with a gray hood covering his head and others with him running in the Olympic Stadium in London, were splashed ...

Media Day features loose champ, dating drivers
Brad Keselowski strolled through the Daytona 500 Club with his cellphone in one hand and a half-empty bottle in the other. Nope, not beer. Not this ...

Much-investigated ref denies fixing soccer matches
It was in the final minutes of a June 2011 soccer game between Nigeria and Argentina when the little green flags on computer screens in London started ...

Body slam for wrestling: Sport cut from Olympics
For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings. The vote Tuesday by the IOC's executive board ...
AP source: Big East moving on NBC Sports Net deal
The Big East is moving past damage control and toward finally finishing some important business. Two people familiar with the deal say the Big East ...
Correction: Cuba-Television story
In a story Feb. 10 about the network Telesur in Cuba, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the Committee to Protect Journalists. A corrected ...

Soccer faces epic fight against match-fixing
Soccer is falling under a cloud of suspicion as never before, sullied by a multibillion-dollar web of match-fixing that is corrupting increasingly ...
Longtime broadcaster Shelby Whitfield dies at 77
Former Washington Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield, who enjoyed a long career with AP Radio and ABC Radio, has died. He was 77. Whitfield died ...

News Corp. cuts outlook, shares fall
Media conglomerate News Corp. cut its forecast for annual earnings Wednesday, saying underperformance at several businesses including its Fox ...
MLB asks Florida paper for records in drug probe
Major League Baseball officials have asked the Miami New Times for records the alternative newspaper obtained for a story on alleged use of banned ...
Super Bowl tops ratings; outage highly viewed, too
As it does nearly every year, the Super Bowl will almost certainly stand as the most-watched television event of 2013. This year, the Blackout Bowl ...
Skater Oksana Baiul sues NBC, producer for $5M
Figure skater Oksana Baiul (by-YOOL') is suing NBC Universal and a television skating program producer. The 1994 Olympic gold medalist says Disson ...
Prime-time coverage of Winter Games to start early
Prime-time television coverage of the Winter Olympics will start a day early next year in Sochi — with Shaun White the likely star. NBC will air ...

Super Bowl falls short of ratings record
With a partial power outage, an overly excited quarterback and a game that suddenly turned from snoozer to sizzler, CBS had its hands full at the ...

Tragic week on snowmobiles forces reexamination
For more than a decade, daredevils in snowsuits climbed atop their quarter-ton snowmobiles, sped them up icy ramps and flipped them head over heels ...

Sites let you see Super Bowl ads you missed
If you missed any of the Super Bowl ads your friends and co-workers are talking about, Hulu, CBS and YouTube are among the websites that let you watch ...

Power outage stops Super Bowl for 34 minutes
The Super Bowl turned into Blackout Sunday. The biggest game of the year was halted for 34 minutes because of a power outage, plunging parts of the ...

Power outage electrifies CBS Super Bowl broadcast
When the lights went out at the Super Bowl, CBS' telecast got a jolt. The power outage in the Super Dome in New Orleans sent the network scrambling ...

For films, Super Bowl provides super stage
The Super Bowl resembled a trip to the movie theater with several potential summer blockbusters airing new ads. Three film trailers aired through the ...