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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A month ago, "Trouble with the Curve" was just a low-key fall movie starring Clint Eastwood as a stubborn, aging baseball scout.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Golfers often talk about pacing themselves for big events and Brandt Snedeker says that will be his top priority at this week's elite Tour Championship before making his Ryder Cup debut for the United...

A number of events in Washington this week put the spotlight on high-frequency trading, the proliferation of new exchanges and other concerns about the structure of the market.

Man rappelling in Zion National Park in Utah dies after getting stuck upside down

As Jordan told you earlier, I am standing in the line for the iPhone 5. Unexpected buyers showed up as well. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators planned a strategy to hijack the event. They are currently standing in line an...

By 2019 the mining industry will need 78,000 new U.S. workers Bloomberg did a story yesterday with an eye-catching headline, reporting that recent graduates of the relatively obscure South Dakota School of Mines & Te...

Jeff*, like me, is a writer, a speaker, and the head of a consulting company. As far as I can tell, he’s professional, well respected, capable, honest, and has a popular following. Someone we both know has asked u...

“Trouble With the Curve” is the anti-“Moneyball.” The old-time scouts from that earlier film, mocked for their superstitions about “intangibles” and “instincts,” get their ...

How Vince Young blew through $26 million in six years.

New judge dishes to MTV News about why she thinks the season two champ is among her four contestants. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Cory Midgarden Demi Lovato Photo: MTV News

How does the nation's leading women's fashion magazine justify a profile of a homeschooled evangelical second-string football player? You Vogue him up, that's how. You make Tim Tebow into a style icon (when he's not) and...

There’s no denying it, we’re a nation of burger guzzlers. 50 percent of Americans enjoy a burger at least once a week. Over the course of the year we’ll collectively wolf down over 13 billion burgers...

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President Obama will win the popular vote, based on forecasting models of 20 political scientists.

Ezra Miller's performance stands out in tale of high school outsiders

The Boston Celtics have waived veteran guard Keyon Dooling, who announced his retirement through agent Kenge Stevenson."Keyon has decided that he has given the NBA 12 good years and that it's time to pursue other interes...

Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: The Commish ...

(Reuters) - PIMCO'S Bill Gross, who runs the world's largest bond fund, said on Thursday that he does not see the Federal Reserve pulling back from its latest round of quantitative easing until the U.S. unemployment rate...

The chart on the right shows the current state of polling for the generic congressional ballot. By "generic," we're talking about polling questions that don't ask about specific candidates, but just ask which party you p...

Adam Freed, who was appointed chief operating officer at Etsy just over a year ago in August 2011, has stepped down from the COO role at the online crafts marketplace. News of the change first came to us through sources ...

Move that saw one US-backed governor fired is meant to improve governance and clamp down on corruption.

A Pittsburgh-area couple faces charges of conspiracy after selling a neighbor's Rottweiler puppy on Craigslist for $50 after the dog wandered onto its property.