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The long, arduous journey to the 2014 World Cup began two years ago, with 208 nations vying for the coveted 32 spots. So far, 148 teams have been eliminated and 10 have clinched berths to Brazil — including the United ...

The classic bout is the toughest challenge of Jones' career and one that will be well remembered when his career ends.

Floyd Mayweather took a shot at the NCAA's regulations and showed off his huge winnings with a single tweet. "Money" Mayweather shared the photo of his bet that Texas A&M would cover the 17.5-point spread in the first ha...

The Stanford Cardinal are having a rough second half against Arizona State, and things just got worse. Their best defensive back, Ed Reynolds, was ejected for targeting for this hit on ASU quarterback Taylor Kelly. GIF c...

    

Thursday, Sept. 19: Washington 71, Atlanta 56

By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight Tyson Fury (21-0, 15 KO's) is really standing up on his hind legs to yap now that former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (26-2, 24 KO's) has pulled out of their September 28th fight due ...

With eight minutes remaining in their bout at Akron, Louisiana-Lafayette scored a touchdown to take a 28-24 lead. Their kicker then proceeded to do something either very stupid or very awesome: he attempted an onside kic...

Since the fall television season has already begun, Times staff writer Kevin Baxter takes a TV-themed look at the hits, misses and the flops among MLB's 30 teams. Statistics through Friday's game. Last week's rankings in...

The Oakland Athletics are AL West champions again.

Braves first. Heyward singled to left. On E.Jackson's wild pitch, Heyward to second. J.Upton struck out. F.Freeman homered to right on a 0-0 count, Heyward scored. C.Johnson struck out. McCann infield single to shortstop...

Matt Kenseth won his second consecutive race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship after holding off his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Kyle Busch, in the closing laps of Sunday's Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor S...

Cam Newton threw three touchdown passes and ran for another, and Carolina sacked Eli Manning seven times as the Panthers handed Tom Coughlin his worst defeat as coach of the New York Giants, 38-0 Sunday.

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Texas linebacker Jordan Hicks will miss the rest of the season with an Achilles tendon injury in his left leg and quarterback David Ash is being evaluated for symptoms of a head injury.

On Mariano Rivera Day in the Bronx, the Yankees' offense fell flat as the team dropped four games back in the wild-card chase with six to play.     

ATLANTA — Henrik Stenson capped off the best stretch of his career with the biggest payoff in golf. Stenson held off a brief challenge by 20-year-old Jordan Spieth and closed with a 2-under 68 to win the Tour Champions...

After poor performances from New England's rookie WRs Aaron Dobson and Kenbrell Thompkins through two weeks, some reactionary writers did what they did best: They flipped the hell out.

The Columbus Crew thrust themselves firmly into the Eastern Conference playoff race on Saturday after coming away with a comfortable 3-0 victory over 10-man Chicago Fire at Crew Stadium.

DeMarco Murray runs over Rams again, Tony Romo tosses 3 TDs as Cowboys roll to 31-7 win     

Speaking on his weekly conference call with reporters, Coach Randy Edsall offered a mix bag of criticism and praise following Maryland's 37-0 shellacking against West Virginia on Saturday afternoon, trending mostly towar...

Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush said if Sunday's contest against the Washington Redskins had been a playoff game, he would have played instead of sitting out.