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Snickers commercials are almost impossible to screw up. Good choice, dude.

It may have lacked the star power of 50 Cent's effort (in fact, I am failing to discover who this person was, which is probably for the best). But the ceremonial opening pitch served up tonight by a young woman in Housto...

Clayton Kershaw allowed only an unearned run in eight innings to become the first 16-game winner in the majors, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-1 on Wednesday night.

This is a cutting, clever joke about Hepatitis C, one of the funniest, deadliest viruses on the planet. Mike Napoli hit a very long home run Tuesday night. When he came back to the dugout, his teammates greeted him with ...

Timing is everything in baseball, whether it involves swinging the bat or perhaps even staging an auspicious major league debut.

San Francisco Giants backup catcher Hector Sanchez is expected to miss the remainder of the season while recovering from a second concussion this year.

With just six days to go before United States captain Tom Watson announces his three wildcard picks for next month's Ryder Cup, the heat is on for several players competing at this week's Deutsche Bank Championship.

Two-time champion Venus Williams is back in the third round of the U.S. Open for the first time since 2010, a year before she announced she had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.

University of Southern California football player Josh Shaw admitted on Wednesday that he fabricated a widely publicized story that he hurt himself while rescuing his young nephew from a swimming pool.

Derek Jeter's 2-year-old nephew has apparently seen his uncle play enough to know exactly what to do during introductions. Either that, or he has seen the Jeter's "Respect" commercial. During a pregame ceremony honoring ...

Domestic violence charges have been dropped against former Washington Redskins tight end Fred Davis, court papers showed on Thursday.

Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka got into a bit of a tiff with a spectator, telling him to "Shut up," on the way to beating 91st-ranked Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (1) in the second round of the US...

Amid yet another losing season, a streak that soon will run to five straight, the Chicago Cubs unveiled yet another new toy Wednesday night: top prospect Jorge Soler. A 22-year-old native of Cuba, Soler made his much-ant...

Most of the seeds held serve on Wednesday, but Sloane Stephens fell. There were few upsets Wednesday at the U.S. Open, though American upstart Sloane Stephens was a second-round casualty. Fan favorites such as Maria Shar...

Texas A&M fans and South Carolina fans gathered to yell at each other outside South Carolina's state capitol. College football is back, y'all. You could say that the 2014 college football season started Saturday, when Sa...

Bob and Mike Bryan opened their quest for a fifth US Open crown and their 100th overall title together with a 6-2, 6-3 first-round victory Wednesday over Max Mirnyi and Mikhail Youzhny.

Chicago welcomed back the Jackie Robinson West Little League team, starting with a homey neighborhood celebration in the South Side, a departure for an area known for gun violence.

American Steve Johnson had to retire from his first-round match at the US Open because of severe cramping.

First-time violators will get six games, second time will get a player suspended for at least a year, Goodell admits he didn't handle Ray Rice suspension properly, says: 'I didn't get it right,' Ravens running back was s...

The Arsenal striker injured his ankle in the 2-2 draw with Everton at the weekend and will miss up to four months, though the Gunners boss may not dip into the transfer market

Donald Sterling is finally out of legal options to unwind the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Soccer joined the growing legal debate over head injuries Wednesday after FIFA and some of the sport's governing bodies in the United States were made the target of a lawsuit seeking new safety rules.