The 25-year-old winner of the United States Olympic marathon trials is ready for the real thing: an Olympic medal in Beijing. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:49 pm
The United States women’s soccer team qualified for the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday night, beating Costa Rica, 3-0. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:37 pm
The Indians have signed right-hander Fausto Carmona to a multiyear contract extension, ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney is reporting. Source: ESPN.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:19 pm
Fausto Carmona, a surprising 19-game winner last season, has agreed to terms on a seven-year contract with the Cleveland Indians. A person familiar with the negotiations says Carmona's... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:10 pm
AP - Fausto Carmona, a surprising 19-game winner last season, has agreed to terms on a seven-year contract with the Cleveland Indians. Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:10 pm
The IOC has stripped the medals from Marion Jones' U.S. relay teammates at the 2000 Olympics because of her doping history. Source: ESPN.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 2:04 pm
The former relay teammates of the Marion Jones, who admitted doping, lost their gold medal in the 1,600-meter relay and bronze in the 400-meter relay from the 2000 Sydney Games. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:50 pm
AP - Marion Jones' former relay teammates paid the price Thursday for her doping offenses, losing their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Source: Yahoo! News: Sports News | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:41 pm
Tiger Woods’s principal Masters competition this week comes not so much from the present. In reality, he is playing against the ghost of Bobby Jones and the spirit of Jack Nicklaus. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:34 pm
For this torch relay ritual that began in 1936, any tidy balance between protest and disorder may no longer be possible. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:25 pm
First-round play at the Masters is under way after a delay of about one hour due to a dense fog that was blanketing the Augusta National course. Four-time winner Arnold Palmer opened... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:21 pm
All Times Eastern American League Seattle vs Tampa Bay, 12:40 p.m. Baltimore vs Texas, 5:05 p.m. (1st game) Baltimore vs Texas (2nd game) Detroit vs Boston, 7:05 p.m. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:12 pm
India skipper Anil Kumble is a doubt for the third and final Test against South Africa on Friday as battles to recover from a groin injury. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:07 pm
Major League Baseball and the players union have tentatively agreed to have an administrator oversee baseball's drug-testing program, according to a published report. Source: ESPN.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 1:04 pm
Reuters - The Phoenix Suns moved to within half
a game of the lead in the NBA's Pacific Division by smothering
the San Antonio Spurs 96-79 on Wednesday.
The British and Irish Lions will play 10 matches on their tour of South Africa next year - including three Tests against the Springboks. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:44 pm
World champion Ryan Lochte began his 400m medley title defence by easing to a place in the final as well as taking a spot in the last 16 of the 50m freestyle at the world short-course... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:43 pm
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States qualified for this year's Olympic women's soccer tournament by beating Costa Rica 3-0 on Wednesday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:36 pm
The Jets and safety Kerry Rhodes agreed to a contract extension Wednesday that will keep one of the team's biggest playmakers in New York's secondary for five more years. Source: ESPN.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:32 pm
South Africa captain Graeme Smith said Thursday his team had the batsmen to scotch India's spin threat in the third and final Test here. "There's a lot of speculation over... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:29 pm
Birmingham City say the arrest of two club directors centred on tax investigations involving two players. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:27 pm
BOSTON (Reuters) - The Detroit Tigers won their first game of the season on Wednesday, beating the Boston Red Sox 7-2 at Fenway Park to snap a streak of seven consecutive losses to start... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:27 pm
AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani said Thursday he was confident of landing both Ronaldinho and Andrei Shevchenko during the close season. Both players are out of... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:21 pm
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have detained 45 East Turkestan "terrorist" suspects, and foiled plots to carry out suicide bomb attacks and kidnap athletes to disrupt the Beijing... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:19 pm
China says it has cracked a terror plot to kidnap athletes, journalists and tourists at August's Beijing Olympics. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:17 pm
Sir Bobby Robson believes Chelsea can end their Liverpool jinx in the Champions League when the two sides clash. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 10 Apr 2008 | 12:17 pm
PL Preview: After exiting the Champions League, Arsenal needs to beat Manchester United to stay in the title chase. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:52 am
The IOC strips Marion Jones's 4x100m and 4x400m relay team-mates of their Sydney 2000 Olympics medals. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:52 am
Emmanuel Adebayor expects Arsene Wenger to sell some of his Arsenal stars this summer - but the Togo forward does not want to be one of them. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 10 Apr 2008 | 11:47 am
AP - UCLA coach Ben Howland says All-American Kevin Love and teammate Darren Collison have not yet decided whether they will make themselves available for the NBA draft.
AP - The Tigers finally showed the offense that earned them preseason raves and ended their winless start. Detroit beat the Boston Red Sox 7-2 Wednesday night after scoring just 15 runs in losing its first seven games. Marcus Thames and Carlos Guillen homered, Edgar Renteria had three hits and Ivan Rodriguez got the 2,500th hit of his career.
AP - Brandon Inge and the Detroit Tigers are in it for the long haul. Nevermind that no team has ever started 0-7 and gone on to the playoffs. Who cares about all those pundits who ripped on the Tigers for their huge payroll and poor start? It's a 162-game season, after all.
AP - Last-minute changes to the Olympic torch's route through the only North American city on its world tour helped it evade not only protesters, but also fans who lined up for hours waiting for a historic sight that never arrived.
The Olympic committee chief says anti-China protests had created a "crisis", but the Games will "rebound". Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 10 Apr 2008 | 10:18 am
Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov has confirmed there has been interest in him from AC Milan - and will be "flattered" if it leads to a bid. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 10 Apr 2008 | 9:36 am
Liverpool striker Peter Crouch has revealed his delight at his start against Arsenal - and hinted it may just persuade him to stay at Anfield. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 10 Apr 2008 | 9:23 am
Sporting Lisbon coach Paulo Bento accuses Rangers of being overly aggressive ahead of their Uefa Cup quarter-final second leg. Source: BBC Sport | Sport Homepage | World Edition | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:55 am
With Floyd Mayweather Jr. tinkering around with Wrestlemania and other money-making schemes, his most logical opponent, Miguel Cotto, has been left to twist in the wind. Cotto's career has been on hold... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:38 am
The Yankees still intend to make Joba Chamberlain into a starter this season, although no one seems to be sure just when or exactly how that change will happen. That lack of certainty strikes Goose Gossage... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:38 am
AUGUSTA, Ga. - "Easily within reason." Those three words resonate around these hallowed Augusta National's meticulously-manicured grounds like one of those Nicklaus birdie roars reverberating through Amen... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
Isiah Thomas was still on the bench last night for the Knicks' 109-107 victory over Charlotte at the Garden and will be for the final week of the season, Donnie Walsh said during a 25-minute press conference... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
AUGUSTA, Ga. - When Tiger Woods won his first Masters in 1997, his game plan on the par 5s was to swing as hard as he could and hit the ball as far as it would fly. The first two days it left him with... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
NHL PLAYOFFS Gary Roberts and Petr Sykora scored in the first period and the favored Penguins, determined not to duplicate their awful postseason opener of a year ago, rode Marc-Andre Fleury's goaltending... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
A federal indictment unsealed yesterday charged that unidentified agents for baseball players steered clients to a California physician linked in media reports to supplying Troy Glaus and Scott Schoeneweis... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
It truly will be Fan Appreciation Night for Monday's Garden finale against Boston for putting up with this miserable season and still posting 19 sellouts. It won't be lobster but the Knicks are making... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
The Mets finally broke the Phillies' hex last night and all it took was: a Philadelphia pitcher who couldn't throw strikes, Jimmy Rollins sitting in the dugout with a sprained left ankle and the Phillies... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
Rangers did more than strike the first blow. They shook the Devils' very foundation, the franchise's cornerstone. They made Martin Brodeur look the second-best goalie in this series, and if the Devils... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperSports | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:29 am
Click here for all the big news, best moments and aerial battles from the past week of soccer! Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 10 Apr 2008 | 8:05 am
Check out the latest installment of Keith Costigan's MLS Power Rankings as America's league heats up. Source: FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER | 10 Apr 2008 | 7:18 am
Fans object en masse to new rule cutting off access to field box seats after complaints. Some fans offer their tickets as the team takes its time looking at issue.
Hundreds of Dodgers fans e-mailed, most unhappy with the team's new rule keeping everyone but the rich kids from getting autographs in Dodger Stadium.
He blames himself for a bad pitch, not teammates for lack of support.
PHOENIX -- The way Hiroki Kuroda remembered the game, one pitch was responsible for the Dodgers' loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday: the first pitch he made to Eric Byrnes with two outs and the bases loaded in the sixth.
Winning the Masters would be goal enough for most, but Woods sees it as the first leg of a quest to win all four majors this season.
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- It's a roped-off rectangular patch, just a few steps from the towering old oak tree that is the expanse outside the three-story white clubhouse. The first tee at Augusta National Golf Club, that's where it all starts for the 94 players who begin the first round of the Masters today.
They have given it a good ride despite injuries and late returns of key players, but passion and conviction of last season appear to be missing as they go into playoffs.
A year ago, the Ducks cruised through the season fueled by the conviction they were on a mission that would not end until they hoisted the Stanley Cup.
Indians find it 'curious' that slugger was plunked a day after his big home run.
In the ninth inning Tuesday, Travis Hafner of the Cleveland Indians absolutely crushes a pitch from the Angels' Justin Speier for a game-winning home run.
Ottawa and Pittsburgh staged a near replay of their playoff Game 1 from last season, only with a much different result. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 6:24 am
Inside the Prudential Center, most of the 17,625 fans cheered the Devils. About one-quarter of them rooted for the Rangers. The majority went home sad. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 5:42 am
The Tigers were the trendy choice to win the World Series after making those robust additions, but they opened the season 0-7 and finally won their first game Wednesday night, beating Boston, 7-2. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 5:42 am
Zack Greinke cruised through an anemic Yankees lineup for eight innings and the Yankees never got a runner past second base and fell to 4-5 this season. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 5:41 am
Major League Baseball and the players union have tentatively agreed to have an independent administrator oversee the sport’s drug testing. Source: NYT > Sports | 10 Apr 2008 | 5:41 am
The Olympic torch was rerouted away from thousands of demonstrators and spectators who crowded the city's waterfront Wednesday to witness the flame's symbolic journey to the Beijing Games. Source: ESPN.com | 10 Apr 2008 | 4:41 am
Croatian qualifier Karolina Sprem boosted her comeback from a wrist injury by upending third-seeded Daniela Hantuchova 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in the second round of the Bausch & Lomb Championships on Wednesday.
Venus Williams will miss another tournament next week in Charleston, S.C., as she undergoes tests for a medical issue that her agent said Wednesday isn't serious.
AP - First-round play at the Masters is under way after a delay of about one hour due to a dense fog that was blanketing the Augusta National course.
Reuters - The Phoenix Suns moved to within half
a game of the lead in the NBA's Pacific Division by smothering
the San Antonio Spurs 96-79 on Wednesday.
AP - The Ottawa Senators and the Pittsburgh Penguins staged a near replay of their playoff Game 1 from last season, only with a much different result.
AP - UCLA coach Ben Howland says All-American Kevin Love and teammate Darren Collison have not yet decided whether they will make themselves available for the NBA draft.
AP - If the Green Bay Packers are ravaged by injuries this season, Brett Favre might consider returning should the team reach out to him.
AP - The Tigers finally showed the offense that earned them preseason raves and ended their winless start. Detroit beat the Boston Red Sox 7-2 Wednesday night after scoring just 15 runs in losing its first seven games. Marcus Thames and Carlos Guillen homered, Edgar Renteria had three hits and Ivan Rodriguez got the 2,500th hit of his career.
AP - Brandon Inge and the Detroit Tigers are in it for the long haul. Nevermind that no team has ever started 0-7 and gone on to the playoffs. Who cares about all those pundits who ripped on the Tigers for their huge payroll and poor start? It's a 162-game season, after all.
AP - Last-minute changes to the Olympic torch's route through the only North American city on its world tour helped it evade not only protesters, but also fans who lined up for hours waiting for a historic sight that never arrived.