
Golden era for QBs, with great stories around NFL
The two kids from Northern California burst from NFL afterthought to championship contender in eerily similar fashion a decade apart. Tom Brady and ...

Researchers: NFL's Seau had brain disease
When he ended his life last year by shooting himself in the chest, Junior Seau had a degenerative brain disease often linked with repeated blows to ...

Witness cooperation urged in football rape case
Students withholding information about an alleged rape in eastern Ohio last summer are thwarting investigators, school officials said Thursday, as the ...

NFL star Junior Seau suffered from brain disease
Junior Seau, one of the NFL's best and fiercest players for two decades, suffered from a degenerative brain disease often associated with repeated ...

Franklin swims in 1st meet of year for high school
It's hard to determine which meant more to Missy Franklin: Meeting singer Justin Bieber backstage at a recent concert or swimming in her first high ...

Puerto Rico sees hints of baseball revival
On an island where the name of Roberto Clemente is emblazoned on stadiums, streets and schools, baseball is making a rally. In the past year, Major ...

Steroids loom in major-college football
With steroids easy to buy, testing weak and punishments inconsistent, college football players are packing on significant weight — 30 pounds or more ...

Violence, gangs scar Chicago community in 2012
It was February, the middle of lunch hour on a busy South Side street. The gunman approached his victim in a White Castle parking lot, shot him in the ...

Newtown trying to give kids a sense of normalcy
The children at the Sandy Hook Elementary school won't be returning to classes for another week, but officials from the town, school district and ...
SMU good fit for Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown
Larry Brown was a young assistant on coach Dean Smith's staff at North Carolina in the mid-1960s when he turned down his first head coaching offer.

Top prospect Parker chooses Duke
Jabari Parker still had just about everyone guessing. Then, he pulled out that blue T-shirt with a white "D," and, finally, it became clear.

Sudanese teens at center of recruiting controversy
Four young men from war-ravaged Sudan tower above their teachers and fellow students on the pastoral grounds of a century-old school in suburban ...
Neb. school officials avoid charges in abuse case
Three western Nebraska school officials accused of failing to report allegations that high school wrestlers sexually assaulted a young teammate at a ...
Family: NFL great Jack Pardee ill with cancer
Jack Pardee, one of Bear Bryant's "Junction Boys" who went on to become an All-Pro linebacker and an NFL coach, has been diagnosed with gall bladder ...