Today's top sports stories: one of baseball's best young stars is about to receive one of the biggest contracts ever, Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard publicly bicker, and more.
Kobe Bryant has been playing in the NBA for nearly 20 years, but can he get one more ring before calling it quits?
The New York Knicks are having one of their best years in a very long time, but is it all thanks to Carmelo Anthony?
On Sunday, the NFL season comes to a close with the most highly watched sporting (or non-sporting) event in America, the Super Bowl. Time to make your picks.
This weekend, a classic fairy tale gets a modern twist, one of the biggest casts we've ever heard of assembles, and Jason Statham does his Jason Statham thing. Fantasy-action, comedy and Jason Statham (who is his own genre) provide a nice range of choices at theaters
Other than baseball's Midsummer Classic, the major sports' all-star games aren't really a big deal—especially the NFL's Pro Bowl. So why should players even bother going?
Chip Kelly, who went 46-7 in four years at the University of Oregon, is making the jump to the NFL as the new head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Kelly, known as an offensive innovator, had also interviewed with the Bills and the Browns.
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To the surprise of no one, Lance Armstrong is finally coming clean about using performance enhancing drugs. But is it too late?
The day that all college football fans have been waiting for is here: the BCS National Championship between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Once again, a slew of NFL coaches and personnel fell victim to 'Black Monday,' the first day after the close of the regular season, when teams tend give unsuccessful or disappointing coaches the pink slip. Which is the least surprising this season?
This February, you could be flying to Seattle – the home of grunge and the rainy capital of the Northwest Kingdom – to see Soundgarden live in concert and meet the band backstage. The prize also includes $500 – so you can do Seattle right. It's like 1994 all over again.
Norman Schwarzkopf, the retired American general who led coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War, died of pneumonia Thursday in Tampa, Florida at the age of 78, the Associated Press reports.
