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Friday night’s 92-80 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers was perhaps the most awkward night of this young season for Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic. The Lakers, as one of three teams Howard’s agent can negotiate trades with, are linked to new rumors involving the Magic’s superstar center almost daily. And the man opposite [...]
Joe Paterno, who was fired as Penn State’s football coach on Nov. 9 in the wake of allegations that his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky had sexually abused boys, said in an interview published Saturday that he reported a suspected assault in 2002 to his superiors because he was unsure how to handle the matter. [...]
A Jay Harrison shot off Dennis Seidenberg found its way past Tim Thomas with 90 seconds remaining in the third period Saturday night, giving the Hurricanes their first lead of the night and the only one that mattered, as they handed the Bruins a 4-2 loss at RBC Center. Harrison’s goal, his seventh this season, [...]
It seems that everyone affiliated with the Virginia Tech football team has a favorite story about David Wilson. There was the time he did 10 backflips at media day. Or the time he showed up to fall camp in a souped-up 1978 Ford Thunderbird, complete with 24-inch rims and a custom stereo. Virginia Tech Coach [...]
David Beckham’s proposed move to Paris Saint-Germain is dead after the French club’s president on Tuesday told media in Qatar that the English superstar would be returning to the Galaxy, but the president of L.A.’s ownership group says nothing has been finalized. PSG acknowledged its pursuit of Beckham, to whom it had offered a reported [...]
Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose said before Friday’s game against the Los Angeles Clippersthat he had a long way to go before he approached certain aspects of Chris Paul’s game. Specifically, Rose said, Paul and the Boston Celtics’ Rajon Rondo are still in a class of their own in passing ability from the point [...]
LeBron James has always put up big numbers when he comes to Target Center to play the Minnesota Timberwolves. And he rarely has to break a sweat—or play in the fourth quarter—to do it. Now that Ricky Rubio is running the point and Rick Adelman is calling the shots for the Timberwolves, James and the [...]
Alistair Overeem ended Brock Lesnar’s career by winning the battle of heavyweight archetypes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Overeem stopped Lesnar with a technical knockout Friday in the first round of UFC 141′s main event in Las Vegas. Lesnar after the fight announced his retirement. UFC promoted the fight as a match-up of opposites, between [...]
Don’t go calling this Thunder season “special,” yet. Even after Kevin Durant’s buzzer-beater from somewhere near the Oklahoma River gave the Thunder a 104-102 victory over Dallas, coach Scott Brooks cautioned against it in his postgame news conference. So I’ll abide by his wishes for at least a couple more games. But feel free to [...]
Philadelphia Flyers President Peter Luukko thought he fully understood the magnitude of the Winter Classic until he recently surveyed ticket resale websites. “We are seeing some of the alumni game tickets going for $500,” Luukko said. “That blows our mind.” A sellout crowd of at least 44,000 is expected Monday when the Flyers and New [...]
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