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Coach Mike D'Antoni halts practice a little early and notices a few players nodded off during a film session. With eight days left until their season opener, Lakers need to snap back to routine.The Lakers were dragging f...

Mike Silver, formerly trolling for Yahoo Sports, now trolls for NFL.com. And the league understands just as well as anyone the value of putting the nation on Tebow Alert, even when there's absolutely nothing to it.

Longtime NHL defenseman Roman Hamrlik announced his retirement on Monday. Hamrlik, the No. 1 pick of the 1992 NHL Draft, played 20 seasons and appeared in 1,395 NHL games with the Tampa Bay Lightning, Edmonton Oilers, Ne...

Exclusive images of the bizarre illumination at the iconic landmark in World Cup host city Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, which appears to be connected to football

Grambling players end boycott, will return to practice after speaking with Doug Williams     

The 20-year-old was in the first XI against Malaga on Saturday, but he does not feel he has done enough to show he merits a place on Tuesday

Reader Kevin sends along this photo from, of all places, a pumpkin festival in Virginia. Nobody mourns the end of shorts weather more than this guy.

Sam Bradford will have an MRI on Monday for his injured knee. St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford suffered a knee injury on Sunday against the Carolina Panthers. Bradford injured his left knee and will undergo an MRI...

It took just one stiff left hand from John Dodson for the Jackson's MMA stalwart to significantly up his stock in the UFC's blossoming 125-pound division at UFC 166 on Saturday. Dodson, whose lone setback in the UFC came...

Time does funny things to the memory. Sir Alex Ferguson was fond of saying that fans got dewy-eyed when they remembered past United teams and, in the process, failed to give his current crop enough credit. It was his poi...

Adrian Peterson, whose family life has been troubled, says he is trying to cope with the death in South Dakota of a 2-year-old son, who the police say was the victim of an assault.     

Usually the closing laps at Talladega Superspeedway are a frantic scramble; a mad dash where drivers brazenly jockey for position. This wasn't the case however, in Sunday's Camping World RV Sales 500. "I thought everybod...

Broncos veteran cornerback Champ Bailey has been ruled out of Sunday night's game against the Colts after injuring his left foot during the second quarter. Bailey missed the first five games of the season with a left fo...

Fans at the Honda Center on Sunday were witnesses to a scary sight when Anaheim Ducks forward Dustin Penner was injured after a hit from Dallas Stars forward Ryan Garbutt. With the Ducks on the power play and Penner carr...

This almost isn't fair: Pat McAfee has eight inches and 60 pounds on Trindon Holliday. (Also, he nearly goes helmet-to-helmet.)

The Lakers were mostly diplomatic when asked about the Clippers' new initiative to cover up the Lakers' championship banners and retired uniforms during Clippers home games, but it didn't sit so well with Nick Young.

Luke Kuechly had the fewest tackles in a game in his career on Sunday. But Monday, Panthers defensive coordinator Sean McDermott praised Kuechly's play, saying the Rams' defense scehmed to…

At first, when Peyton Manning woke up from the anesthesia, he was relieved: The pain in the neck that he had lived with for years was gone. As he came to, he stirred in the hospital bed, took stock of his misery-free con...

VOORHEES, N.J. - The 1-7 Flyers, owners of the NHL's worst record and last in goals scored, are getting very little respect.

The Blackhawks are amassing points, even as they score them at a relatively unsatisfactory rate. An offense that was prodigious a year ago has been at times deficient this season, but the wins keep coming, which means th...

Two men in England have been arrested after a smoke bomb was thrown from the stands in the middle of a soccer match, hitting a referee. Video of the incident, provided by Sky Sports, shows a stadium packed with cheering ...

The 43-year-old believes a draw in Glasgow would boost his side's hopes of reaching the knockout stages of Europe's premier club competition