PL Preview: After defying critics in the Champions League, Arsenal now looks to increase its lead in the Premier League. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:07 pm
Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia believes midfield playmaker Cesc Fabregas can become a legend at the Emirates Stadium. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:56 am
AP - Gerald Henderson scored 19 points and No. 6 Duke beat Virginia 86-70 on Wednesday night, setting up this weekend's showdown between the Blue Devils and top-ranked North Carolina for the ACC regular-season championship.
Britain's Andy Murray takes on Russia's Nikolay Davydenko in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:48 am
AP - The Oakland Raiders signed former Pro Bowl receiver Javon Walker and free agent offensive tackle Kwame Harris, adding two offensive players the team hopes will help quarterback JaMarcus Russell.
AP - Kevin Garnett scored a season-high 31 points to lead Boston to a bruising 90-78 victory over Detroit on Wednesday night as the Celtics became the first team in the NBA to clinch a playoff berth and also earned the homecourt tie-breaker over their closest competitor.
AP - Tracy McGrady scored 25 points and the Houston Rockets got their franchise-record 16th straight win, a 117-99 victory over Indiana on Wednesday night.
Thanks to JaJuan Smith's constant reminders, the No. 4 Volunteers found a good reason to win at Florida's rowdy O'Connell Center, says SI.com's Andy Staples.
AP - A Democratic congressman asked the FBI on Wednesday to drop its investigation of Roger Clemens because the pitching great had suffered enough from the probe into steroid use.
AP - Eric Staal scored two goals and added an assist to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Atlanta Thrashers 6-3 on Wednesday night for their second straight win.
AP - Carl Edwards used two straight wins to take the Sprint Cup points lead for the first time in his career. On Wednesday, NASCAR said his Las Vegas victory was tainted and slammed Edwards and his Roush Fenway Racing team with its toughest penalty yet. Edwards was docked 100 points knocking him out of first place and stripped of the 10 bonus points he earned for the win.
AP - Fred Couples has been getting a lot of attention the last few weeks without hitting a shot. Players celebrate with him as though he has just won a tournament. His cell phone is loaded with voice mails and text messages, and perhaps the biggest shock of all is that Couples knows how to use his phone. Remember, this is the guy who once said he doesn't answer the phone "because someone may be on the other end." Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News | 6 Mar 2008 | 11:05 am
Chelsea skipper John Terry admits he would prefer not to be paired against an English club in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 6 Mar 2008 | 10:35 am
Former NBA star Kevin Johnson jumped into the Sacramento mayor's race Wednesday, announcing he will challenge three-term incumbent Heather Fargo in the municipal election in June. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:59 am
Former NBA star Kevin Johnson jumped into the Sacramento mayor's race Wednesday, announcing he will challenge three-term incumbent Heather Fargo in the municipal election in June. The... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:58 am
As a kid, Ian Kennedy loved to pitch, but there was no need to practice; he simply threw hard, and the ball went where he wanted it to go. Source: NYT > Sports | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:57 am
Liam Brady agrees to join the backroom team of new Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:34 am
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has expressed his love of English football and believes he will never play abroad. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:27 am
Click here for all the big news, best moments and ball-watching from the past week of soccer! Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:19 am
Nick Dougherty cards a 62 in the opening round of the Malaysian Open after having the chance of the first 59 in European Tour history. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:03 am
Robby Gordon received a season-saving reprieve from a NASCAR appeals committee Wednesday when the three-member panel restored the 100 points he had been docked for an infraction at... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 8:02 am
Bob Knight joins the enemy, the talking heads incessantly join in at the table, and the whole staff apparently has joined 'the Nation.'
As that sage of sports journalism, T.J. Simers, says and demonstrates almost daily, when you don't have enough to ramble incoherently on one subject, do it on several.
The coach says it would be arrogant to believe the team has already clinched a berth in the NCAA tournament.
One team is in the upper tier of the Pacific 10 Conference and seems bound for the NCAA tournament. The other probably needs to win the conference tournament to reach the field of 65.
Twenty-five years ago, a spring pro team made a promising United States Football League debut at the Coliseum. Three years later, the team and the league were gone.
Tom Ramsey, the quarterback, remembers his knees knocking.
The home-run leader's blast on Sept. 5 was his last of the baseball season and quite possibly of his career. The value of the ball, if it is the record-setter, has been put at about $1 million.
On a damp evening in September at Denver's Coors Field, Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball's career home run leader, hit No. 762 into the seats in left-center field.
New Dodgers manager is putting much more emphasis on aggressive baserunning.
VERO BEACH, Fla. -- There is a team that Dodgers Manager Joe Torre frequently references when talking about what he wants to see from his own: the Angels.
The Oakland Raiders signed former Pro Bowl receiver Javon Walker and free agent offensive tackle Kwame Harris, adding two offensive players the team hopes will help quarterback JaMarcus... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:57 am
Brett Favre has called a news conference for Thursday in Green Bay to discuss his retirement. The star Packers quarterback is expected to be joined by his wife, Deanna. Favre first... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:46 am
A Democratic congressman asked the FBI on Wednesday to drop its investigation of Roger Clemens because the pitching great had suffered enough from the probe into steroid use. Rep.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:45 am
sportsminute The "MVP!" chants weren't enough for one fan, who had to come on the court to tell LeBron James how much he appreciated the superstar's spectacular performance. That only Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:41 am
Carl Edwards will be allowed to keep his victory in Sunday’s U.A.W.-Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but his crew chief was fined $100,000 and suspended six races. Source: NYT > Sports | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:37 am
Sprinter Dallas Robinson, 6 feet 4 inches and 210 pounds, is turning heads with some of the world’s fastest times, despite his limited training and tremendous size. Source: NYT > Sports | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:33 am
Tony Richardson has confirmed to SI.com that he has agreed to terms with the New York Jets. The financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal is for one year.
Copa Lib Wrap: Adriano scored a brace to rally Sao Paulo to a 2-1 win over Audax Italiano and into the Group 7 lead. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 6 Mar 2008 | 7:15 am
Alexander Ovechkin scored twice Wednesday night, including his N.H.L.-leading 54th goal, in the Capitals’ 3-1 victory over the Sabres in a key Eastern Conference playoff-race matchup in Buffalo. Source: NYT > Sports | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:53 am
Donte’ Greene had 19 points and 13 rebounds and Syracuse snapped a season-high three-game losing streak with an 85-73 victory over host Seton Hall. Source: NYT > Sports | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:52 am
The Oakland Raiders have agreed to terms with the former Pro Bowl receiver Javon Walker and the free-agent offensive tackle Kwame Harris. Source: NYT > Sports | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:52 am
A biopsy of the former Yankees center fielder Bobby Murcer found scar tissue, not a recurrence of brain cancer. Source: NYT > Sports | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:51 am
Bartolo Colón is competing for the vacancy in the rotation created by Curt Schilling’s shoulder injury, which is expected to sideline him for at least half the season. Source: NYT > Sports | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:50 am
England boss Fabio Capello says David Beckham may earn his 100th cap in the friendly against France on 26 March. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:43 am
Al Thornton scored 13 of his 27 points after regulation, Corey Maggette added 22 and the Los Angeles Clippers rallied from a 17-point deficit to beat Sacramento 116-109 Wednesday night,... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:36 am
Patrick Marleau scored his second goal of the game 3:05 into overtime to lead the San Jose Sharks to their seventh straight win, 3-2 over the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday night. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 6:07 am
GREENBURGH, N.Y. Although his play has improved drastically, Rangers forward Sean Avery has hit a roadblock in his quest to sign a contract extension. Avery said Monday that he and the team have cut off... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
N.H.L. general managers took a big step last week toward ending the goal drought that has afflicted their league for more than a decade, voting unanimously to push for the downsizing of overgrown goalie... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
The Devils ended practice Monday by stretching at center ice. Brent Sutter, their first-year coach, made a slow circle, tapping every player with his stick and whispering words of encouragement. They will... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
Say this about Wade Dubielewicz, the Islanders backup goalie: the underdog tag fits him well. Dubielewicz made a surprise start against the Rangers on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden because Rick... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. It did not matter that it was 10 degrees outside, that they were missing work, that the Cornhuskers season opener was still six months away. The people of central Nebraska had come... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. As with any piece of water that you fish a lot, I have become intimately acquainted with the golf course water hazards of Hunters Run, my parents condo community: the patches of lily... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
SANTA ANA, Calif. Autographed photographs of Matt Leinart and Colt Brennan hang on the wall in Bruce Rollinsons office at Mater Dei High School. In their inscriptions, Leinart and Brennan thank Rollinson... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
Fred Couples and Greg Norman, two of golfs most popular figures and dominant players in the 1980s and 90s, have been named captains for the 2009 Presidents Cup. Couples, the 1992 Masters champion and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
PRINCETON, N.J. In the mid-1980s, the Ivy League was going nowhere fast. The days of leather helmets and Rose Bowl glory were long gone, and the league, which began formal play only in 1956, seemed headed... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
The dust jacket of Mitchell Spearmans book, AIM of Golf: Visual-Imagery Lessons to Improve Every Aspect of Your Game, boasts that he is the worlds most expensive golf instructor. That kind of claim is... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 6 Mar 2008 | 5:36 am
England close day two of the first Test on 87-2 after Ross Taylor's century helps New Zealand post 470. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:49 am
Dallas Mavericks' forward Dirk Nowitzki was suspended one game by the NBA for his flagrant foul on Utah's Andrei Kirilenko during Monday night's game in Salt Lake City. Source: ESPN.com | 6 Mar 2008 | 4:43 am
Fast bowler Shane Bond urges officials to sort out the "nonsense" caused by rival Twenty20 leagues in India. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 6 Mar 2008 | 2:58 am
A streaker ran into more trouble than expected during a cricket match Tuesday in Brisbane, Australia. As Robert Murray David Ogilvie dashed across the pitch, eluding security guards and police, he got a tad too close to Australia's Andrew Symonds. Source: ESPN.com | 6 Mar 2008 | 2:21 am
Robby Gordon had the commission rescind NASCAR's fine of 100 driver and 100 owner points for having an unapproved nose cover on his Dodge Charger following an eighth-place finish at Daytona. Source: ESPN.com | 6 Mar 2008 | 1:51 am
Chelsea advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League by beating Olympiakos 3-0 on Wednesday. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 6 Mar 2008 | 1:11 am
Randy Moss' return to the New England Patriots was no sure thing, but Tim DiPiero, Moss' agent, said in The Boston Globe there were "certain intangibles" that pushed matters in the Patriots' favor. Source: ESPN.com | 6 Mar 2008 | 12:49 am
France's Julien Benneteau upset second-seeded defending champion Australian Lleyton Hewitt 6-3, 7-5 on Wednesday to advance to the Tennis Channel Open quarterfinals.
Chelsea boss Avram Grant hails his team's approach after the Champions League win against Olympiakos. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 5 Mar 2008 | 11:17 pm
AP - A playoff berth would have been cause for celebration last season. This year, it's just the first step for the Boston Celtics.
AP - Gerald Henderson scored 19 points and No. 6 Duke beat Virginia 86-70 on Wednesday night, setting up this weekend's showdown between the Blue Devils and top-ranked North Carolina for the ACC regular-season championship.
AP - The Oakland Raiders signed former Pro Bowl receiver Javon Walker and free agent offensive tackle Kwame Harris, adding two offensive players the team hopes will help quarterback JaMarcus Russell.
AP - Brett Favre has called a news conference for Thursday in Green Bay to discuss his retirement.
AP - Kevin Garnett scored a season-high 31 points to lead Boston to a bruising 90-78 victory over Detroit on Wednesday night as the Celtics became the first team in the NBA to clinch a playoff berth and also earned the homecourt tie-breaker over their closest competitor.
AP - Tracy McGrady scored 25 points and the Houston Rockets got their franchise-record 16th straight win, a 117-99 victory over Indiana on Wednesday night.
AP - A Democratic congressman asked the FBI on Wednesday to drop its investigation of Roger Clemens because the pitching great had suffered enough from the probe into steroid use.
AP - Eric Staal scored two goals and added an assist to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Atlanta Thrashers 6-3 on Wednesday night for their second straight win.
AP - Carl Edwards used two straight wins to take the Sprint Cup points lead for the first time in his career. On Wednesday, NASCAR said his Las Vegas victory was tainted and slammed Edwards and his Roush Fenway Racing team with its toughest penalty yet. Edwards was docked 100 points knocking him out of first place and stripped of the 10 bonus points he earned for the win.