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Baylor No. 1 in women's basketball poll
Brittney Griner and Baylor are picking up right where they finished last season — at No. 1. The Lady Bears are ranked at the top of the preseason ...
LeBron's goal: Still to be the game's best
LeBron James won a championship and nothing changed. Sure, there were a few events. The obligatory champagne shower at his stall in the Miami Heat ...
Time Warner Cable cuts first major Lakers deal
Time Warner Cable Inc. says it has reached its first major agreements to receive payment for carriage of two new channels carrying Lakers basketball ...
AP basketball poll: Indiana is preseason No. 1
Tom Crean didn't look like any of the other people in the Maui airport that day. He had just coached his third, fourth and fifth games in his first ...
Stern to retire as NBA Commissioner in 2014
David Stern took the NBA around the globe in nearly three decades as commissioner, turning what was a second-rate league into a projected ...
Column: 'All they had to do was look for the hat'
There's a very good reason why coaches on NFL and college football sidelines this weekend are dressed exactly like the guys down at your car wash — ...
Graduation rate is more bad news for UConn
Connecticut's basketball program — already banned from the postseason for failing to meet other academic standards — has a graduation success rate of ...
Graduation success rate is more bad news for UConn
The NCAA says that Connecticut's basketball program — already banned from the postseason for failing to meet other academic standards — has a ...
NCAA grad rates improving in football, basketball
More men's basketball players are taking advantage of the biggest shot of their life and earning a college diploma. The latest results from the NCAA's ...
Mavs suspend G West for 2nd time in 10 days
Mavericks guard Delonte West was suspended Thursday for the second time in as many weeks for conduct detrimental to the team, putting his future in ...
Indiana picked as Big Ten favorite in basketball
Tom Crean didn't really understand what he was getting into when he took the Indiana job four years ago. Now, the mess is gone. Just look at the ...
Stern retiring in 2014, Adam Silver to replace him
NBA Commissioner David Stern will retire on Feb. 1, 2014, 30 years after he took charge of the league. He will be replaced by Deputy Commissioner Adam ...
NHL's Islanders moving to Brooklyn in 2015
Mike Bossy's fondest memories of the New York Islanders will always have Nassau Coliseum as the cherished backdrop, no matter where the team calls ...
Brooklyn ice: NHL's Islanders to Barclays in 2015
The New York Islanders finally have a new home and it's in Brooklyn, the borough that is suddenly a hot bed of pro sports 54 years after baseball's ...
Howard, Nash arrive for Lakers' championship push
On one side of the Los Angeles Lakers' practice court, Dwight Howard is shooting free throws and talking defense with Pau Gasol. On the other end, ...
Durant, Thunder still chasing first NBA title
Basketball brought Kevin Durant a summer of extremes. Weeks after sobbing with his parents after Miami beat Oklahoma City Thunder four straight times ...
Linsanity in Texas as new era dawns for Rockets
Jeremy Lin and the Houston Rockets are making a fresh start together. After a dizzying 10 months, the 6-foot-3 point guard is ready to lead the ...
Indiana Fever fans celebrate WNBA title
The Indiana Fever and their fans didn't let a little rain ruin their celebration of the WNBA championship. The team and several thousand fans moved ...
NJ woman files NY gender bias lawsuit against NBA
A New Jersey woman who worked for the NBA as a senior account executive filed a $3 million gender discrimination lawsuit against the league Tuesday, ...
Bulls vow to get by without Rose
Their superstar is injured, their so-called "bench mob" pretty much gone and despite all that, the Chicago Bulls insist one thing hasn't changed.
Nowitzki encouraged, calls timetable 'ridiculous'
Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki says he's encouraged after the first knee surgery of his career but says a timetable for his return is "pretty ridiculous ...
Column: Old baseball hands to match wits in Series
The longer it goes, the messier this World Series is likely to get. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing. Detroit skipper Jim Leyland smokes ...
Congressman: Ill. Rep. Jackson en route to Mayo
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who covertly went on medical leave months ago and has given no sign of when he'll return to work, seems to be in a ...
Melo back at SU, Sixers still beat Knicks 98-90
Carmelo Anthony winced at the thought. "My streak is over," he lamented. Jason Richardson made a three-point play and hit a pair of 3-pointers to ...
Catchings and Fever beat Lynx for first WNBA title
The Indiana Fever made it their mission to get Tamika Catchings a WNBA championship. Catchings had won three Olympic gold medals and an NCAA ...