AP - When Maria Sharapova walked on court for the Australian Open final, she kept thinking about the sage advice of another champion. "Champions take chances, and pressure is a privilege," Billy Jean King had written in a text message that Sharapova saw when she woke up. "I took mine," fifth-ranked Sharapova said after beating Ana Ivanova 7-5, 6-3 Saturday for her third Grand Slam title.
Japan and Chile played to a 0-0 tie on Saturday in an international exhibition game. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:59 pm
An injury to Kolo Toure was the only negative point as Ivory Coast cruised into the knockout stages of the African Nations Cup. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:57 pm
Jonathan Woodgate holds talks with Newcastle after their £7m bid is accepted by Middlesbrough, the BBC understands. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:51 pm
CHAMONIX, France (Reuters) - Marco Sullivan won a men's World Cup Alpine skiing downhill on Saturday, according to provisional results. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:49 pm
India fast bowler RP Singh suffers a hamstring injury in the fourth Test against Australia and will be out for at least a fortnight. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:35 pm
Mansfield host Middlesbrough in Saturday's early FA Cup tie with Havant's trip to Liverpool among the highlights of the fourth round. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:36 am
AP - Mystery surrounds the condition of Tom Brady's right foot like a protective boot. After limping while wearing the footwear in New York on Monday, the Patriots star wasn't seen or heard during the time on Thursday and Friday when reporters and photographers had access to the players in the locker room and at practice.
Mystery surrounds the condition of Tom Brady's right foot like a protective boot. After limping while wearing the footwear in New York on Monday, the Patriots star wasn't seen or heard... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:23 am
Mystery surrounds the condition of Tom Brady's right foot like a protective boot. After limping while wearing the footwear in New York on Monday, the Patriots star wasn't seen or heard... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:22 am
Johnny Weir was waiting to take the ice, trying to calm his nerves, when he heard a television commentator talking about what a "disaster" he'd been last year. No way Weir was going to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:20 am
Blackburn's Mark Hughes believes his side's next two games could make or break their Champions League ambitions. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:20 am
AP - Tiger Woods never went to any stage of Q-school, had $40 million in endorsements the day he turned pro and played only the top golf tours any continent had to offer. When he was 24, he won the career Grand Slam.
Tiger Woods never went to any stage of Q-school, had $40 million in endorsements the day he turned pro and played only the top golf tours any continent had to offer. When he was 24, he... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:19 am
After falling on the depth chart during the regular season, Corey Webster has made a comeback in the playoffs, the sort of surge that mirrors that of the Giants as they head into Super Bowl XLII. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:18 am
Giants tight end Jerome Collins is part of the team’s 53-man active roster and practices with the team, but Coach Tom Coughlin has not yet put him in uniform. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 11:17 am
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico - The president of the organizing committee of the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games has resigned from his post, reportedly as a warning that Puerto Rico is... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 10:52 am
The outside world sees her as merely the combination of ability and beauty. But there's more to Maria Sharapova, who just won her third career Grand Slam at the Australian Open, than meets the eye. Life lessons, loss and scrutiny have pushed her to dig deep and conquer. Source: ESPN.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 10:49 am
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes the Old Trafford club have the power to go with the glory this season. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 26 Jan 2008 | 10:09 am
Tottenham manager Juande Ramos will offer a bottle of red wine to Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson on Sunday - but only if Spurs win. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 26 Jan 2008 | 10:08 am
Roger Federer is the first to admit he pays a steep price for all his success. One by one, players try to knock him off, and with each match and each victory expectations grow. "Of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 10:05 am
Roger Federer is the first to admit he pays a steep price for all his success. One by one, players try to knock him off, and with each match and each victory expectations grow. "Of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 10:05 am
Chelsea new boy Franco Di Santo cannot wait to play alongside the team's major stars after agreeing a four-and-a-half-year contract. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:46 am
Steve Nash sank seven of the Suns' season-high 17 3-pointers. Then he said it was all about the defense. Raja Bell scored 27 points, Nash added 26 and Phoenix held Cleveland to 39... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:31 am
Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist announced his retirement from the game at the end of the Australian summer. Gilchrist said he would retire from Tests at the end of the Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:22 am
Mystery surrounds the condition of Tom Brady's right foot like a protective boot. After limping while wearing the footwear in New York on Monday, the Patriots star wasn't seen or heard during the time... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 9:16 am
AFP - Jonathan Elrich and Andy Ram won Israel's first Grand Slam doubles tennis title with victory over Wimbledon champions Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra at the Australian Open on Saturday.
Maria Sharapova says her Australian Open win is the "sweetest" of her career after enduring a difficult 2007. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:10 am
AP - In 1956, two years before breaking the NHL color barrier with the Boston Bruins, Willie O'Ree gave professional baseball a try in Waycross, Ga., more than 4 hours south of Atlanta.
When Brian Cashman was an assistant general manager for the Yankees, one of his roommates was Timmy Coughlin, son of Tom Coughlin, the Giants’ coach. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:01 am
Russian s serve, which failed her in 2007 final, holds steady in 7-5, 6-3 win over Ivanovic that leaves her one title short of a career Slam.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Shades of last year popped to the surface, but only for the briefest of moments, and the damage was contained to one service game. Source: L.A. Times - Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Team reportedly drafted a letter of resignation that the coach, who just completed his first season, has not signed.
Responding to a report Friday that Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis wants Lane Kiffin to step down and has even drafted a letter of resignation for the coach, a team spokesman said the Raiders are expecting Kiffin to be their coach next fall. Source: L.A. Times - Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
His six three-point field goals lead Hornets' 111-92 victory as L.A. tries to put spat to rest.
NEW ORLEANS -- A couple of time zones and nearly 2,000 miles away from the shadow cast by an owner's vexation, matters appeared to quell for a day. Source: L.A. Times - Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Howland calls insults from Oregon's notorious student section during Thursday's game 'vile,' and Love's father says it was 'totally out of hand.'
EUGENE, Ore. -- UCLA Coach Ben Howland was unhappy with the behavior of the crowd at Oregon's McArthur Court on Thursday night, characterizing some of the personal references made at the expense of Bruins freshman center Kevin Love, Love's father Stan and members of Stan's family as "vile, disgusting, inappropriate innuendo." Source: L.A. Times - Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
He leads by four shots after two rounds. The closest player to him, Kevin Streelman, is ranked 1,114th and barely made it into the field.
LA JOLLA -- The new season is taking on an uncanny resemblance to the old one, if you can take anything from Tiger Woods' first two rounds of 2008. Source: L.A. Times - Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
NCAA orders USC freshman guard to repay cost of Lakers tickets he accepted from Nuggets' Anthony and reinstates him after he was briefly ruled ineligible.
EUGENE, Ore. -- The NCAA ruled Friday that USC freshman guard O.J. Mayo violated extra-benefits rules by accepting free Lakers tickets and must repay the face value of the tickets. Source: L.A. Times - Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
She edges Bright, last year's winner, and gets to show off her new line of clothing as well.
Gretchen Bleiler wore a sunburst yellow outfit Friday night and, with an electrifying second run above the icy superpipe walls, she earned an X Games gold medal. Source: L.A. Times - Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
The Arcadia teen has the lead going into the senior women's free skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships after recording the second-highest short program score ever by a U.S. woman.
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The applause from a standing ovation barely had stopped echoing in Mirai Nagasu's ears when it was replaced by the sound of her cellphone ringing. Source: L.A. Times - Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
The Arcadia teen has the lead going into the senior women's free skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships after recording the second-highest short program score ever by a U.S. woman. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Paul Kelly wants the players to be involved with every league decision. And he wants games back on ESPN.
Paul Kelly has prosecuted the shameless (embezzler Alan Eagleson, former head of the NHL players' union) and defended the indefensible (Marty McSorley's club to the head of Donald Brashear in 2000), so it's not as if the man shies away from confrontation. Source: L.A. Times - Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Howland calls insults from Oregon's notorious student section during Thursday's game 'vile,' and Love's father says it was 'totally out of hand.' ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Russian's serve, which failed her in 2007 final, holds steady in a 7-5, 6-3 win over Ivanovic that leaves her one title short of a career Slam. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
NCAA orders USC freshman guard to repay cost of Lakers tickets he accepted from Nuggets' Anthony and reinstates him after he was briefly ruled ineligible. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 8:00 am
Maria Sharapova’s 7-5, 6-3 victory over Ana Ivanovic at the Australian Open earned her a third Grand Slam singles title to go with those she won at Wimbledon in 2004 and the United States Open in 2006. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:58 am
Tiger Woods churned inexorably across the North Course at Torrey Pines, making birdies from the rough, a par from the sand, a chip-in par from the green and putts from everywhere else. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:51 am
Matthew Hayden hits 103 as Australia close 322-3, 204 runs behind India, after three days of the fourth and final Test in Adelaide. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:51 am
Forget the brotherly love for a second if you can.When Peyton Manning spoke about his brother Eli's future, it wasn't the gushing of a proud sibling. Peyton was evaluating his brother through a quarterback's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:50 am
THERE were times, Mark McCabe remembers, when he wanted to pop by his coach's office every now and again and show him his scrapbook. Back at Royalton-Hartland High in upstate Middleport, he had been a... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:50 am
For a few hours, Brian Cashman, the general manager of the Yankees, and Theo Epstein, Cashman’s counterpart with the Red Sox, were cordial rivals during a lecture at William Paterson University. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:50 am
AP - Former AL MVP Justin Morneau received the most lucrative contract in Minnesota Twins history, an $80 million, six-year deal announced Friday along with a $24 million, three-year agreement for right fielder Michael Cuddyer.
The Yankees and second baseman Robinson Canó reached a preliminary agreement Friday on a contract that could pay Canó about $55 million over six years. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:49 am
The mother of former Yankee Chuck Knoblauch said Friday that she anticipated that her son will cooperate with a Congressional panel investigating steroids in baseball. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:48 am
Maria Sharapova won the Australian Open without losing a set, securing her third Grand Slam title with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Ana Ivanovic on Saturday. Source: ESPN.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:48 am
Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun has suspended the starting guard Jerome Dyson and the backup guard Doug Wiggins indefinitely for violating team rules, university officials announced Friday. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:46 am
Cathy Andruzzi, the women’s basketball coach at Fordham is using every tactic she can to eliminate negative energy, including yoga, meditation and visualization. Source: NYT > Sports | 26 Jan 2008 | 7:46 am
AP - Shawn Marion dropped in a baseline floater with 1.1 seconds left for his only field goal and the Phoenix Suns burned Cleveland with a season-high 17 3-pointers in a 110-108 win over the Cavaliers on Friday night.
AP - For the second consecutive day, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady wasn't in the locker room or at practice when reporters and cameramen were allowed inside Friday.
Maria Sharapova is back and better than ever, declares Jon Wertheim after the 20-year old stormed through the Australian Open to win the year's first Slam.
USC star O.J. Mayo violated an NCAA rule by accepting free tickets from Carmelo Anthony to an NBA game, but his punishment won't include missing games. Source: ESPN.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 6:11 am
Johnny Weir edged Evan Lysacek in their growing on-ice rivalry Friday night, winning the short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Source: ESPN.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 5:33 am
Gregg Williams is no longer under consideration for the Washington Redskins head coaching vacancy, team and league sources have told ESPN's Chris Mortensen. Source: ESPN.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 4:35 am
Raiders owner Al Davis has been pushing for Lane Kiffin to resign as his head coach and is considering Dennis Green as a potential replacement, sources close to Kiffin and the team told ESPN's Chris Mortensen. Source: ESPN.com | 26 Jan 2008 | 4:15 am
The L.A. Galaxy plan to play friendly matches against clubs in South Korea and China as part of its preseason training. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 26 Jan 2008 | 12:06 am
An unidentified American consortium reportedly has bought English Premier League club Derby County. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 25 Jan 2008 | 11:46 pm
Milan manager Carlo Ancelotti has lost faith in his three-headed Brazlian attack of Kaka, teen star Pato and Ronaldo. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 25 Jan 2008 | 9:36 pm
The Yankees and star second baseman Robinson Cano are in serious negotiations on a deal that could keep him in pinstripes for up to six years, SI.com has confirmed.
AP - When Maria Sharapova walked on court for the Australian Open final, she kept thinking about the sage advice of another champion. "Champions take chances, and pressure is a privilege," Billy Jean King had written in a text message that Sharapova saw when she woke up. "I took mine," fifth-ranked Sharapova said after beating Ana Ivanova 7-5, 6-3 Saturday for her third Grand Slam title.
AP - Mystery surrounds the condition of Tom Brady's right foot like a protective boot. After limping while wearing the footwear in New York on Monday, the Patriots star wasn't seen or heard during the time on Thursday and Friday when reporters and photographers had access to the players in the locker room and at practice.
AP - Tiger Woods never went to any stage of Q-school, had $40 million in endorsements the day he turned pro and played only the top golf tours any continent had to offer. When he was 24, he won the career Grand Slam.
AP - Steve Nash sank seven of the Suns' season-high 17 3-pointers. Then he said it was all about the defense.
AFP - Jonathan Elrich and Andy Ram won Israel's first Grand Slam doubles tennis title with victory over Wimbledon champions Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra at the Australian Open on Saturday.
AP - In 1956, two years before breaking the NHL color barrier with the Boston Bruins, Willie O'Ree gave professional baseball a try in Waycross, Ga., more than 4 hours south of Atlanta.
AP - Former AL MVP Justin Morneau received the most lucrative contract in Minnesota Twins history, an $80 million, six-year deal announced Friday along with a $24 million, three-year agreement for right fielder Michael Cuddyer.
AP - Shawn Marion dropped in a baseline floater with 1.1 seconds left for his only field goal and the Phoenix Suns burned Cleveland with a season-high 17 3-pointers in a 110-108 win over the Cavaliers on Friday night.
AP - For the second consecutive day, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady wasn't in the locker room or at practice when reporters and cameramen were allowed inside Friday.
AP - Gil Morgan had two eagles in a four-hole stretch on his way to a 7-under 65 and the first-round lead Friday in the Turtle Bay Championship.