Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.
The massive shakeup Wednesday night came hours after
"I am absolutely devastated by the developments in this case," the long-time Penn State football coach said in a statement. "I grieve for the children and their families, and I pray for their comfort and relief."
The New York City Marathon! This Sunday over 40,000 runners will hit the road in New York City for the world's largest marathon. It's a national event as much as it is a sporting event, traveling through all five boroughs of NYC.
Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) says NCAA control over the lives of student athletes is like Al Capone's control over Chicago! This is not meant as a commentary for or against the NCAA and NCAA policies, but a commentary on
The St. Louis Cardinals won a remarkable World Series they weren't even supposed to reach, beating the Texas Rangers 6-2 in Game 7 on Friday night with another key hit by hometown star David Freese and six gutty innings from Chris Carpenter.
Less than four months after racing driver Dan Wheldon won his second Indianapolis 500, the British champion was killed in a 15-car pile-up on at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Sunday in one of the final events of the motorsport season.
NBA Commissioner David Stern canceled the first two weeks of the season after two straight days of last-ditch negotiating sessions failed to resolve the labor dispute.
ESPN has dropped Hank Williams Jr. from its upcoming Monday Nigh Football telecast after the country music star compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler during an appearance on Fox News.
The deaths include seven who were killed on the tarmac, including the 74-year-old pilot, and two others who died at hospitals, Reno Deputy Police Chief Dave Evans said.
North Dakota political leaders are asking the NCAA to back off and let the state's flagship university keep its Fighting Sioux name and logo, even at the risk of potential blacklisting and scorn by other universities and its own conference.
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At each step...Isaac Hess has heard the same question....(F)rom teammates who've seen the lefty baffle hitters with his 90-mile-per-hour fastball, and a nasty curve....Or an opposing hitter.
Varsity basketball players who tried to get 10 hours of sleep per night for five to seven weeks could sprint faster, react faster, and sink more free throws and three-pointers.
If you go to NBA.com or any official NBA team website, you won’t see any pictures of current basketball players. No Kobe, no Lebron, no Durant, nobody. Why? It’s because the NBA isn’t allowed to post pictures of any of their players.
Tennis fans who have suffered years of headaches from the incessant grunting of top players have finally got their wish - a device that fades out the squeals.
Betting odds in Las Vegas have been a sports standard (and a tight one at that) for a long time. At this point, they have Obama hands down as winner in 2012. No one else comes close.
Manchester United great Ryan Giggs became the latest celebrity to take legal action against the News of the World over allegedly hacking into his mobile phone, his lawyer announced on Wednesday.
This is a promo video for scarpar's prototype before the design for manufacture phase they are in now. The design for the release product is quite different to this, but the vid's pretty cool!
"Friends, you're not going to believe this, but two racers are still out on the course, and they're battling for second to last place," he said. "Right now, 69 year old John Haglan is leading 71 year old Martha Gingrich."
In this era of bread, circuses, casinos and a declining empire, you won’t see sports commentators put a damper on the Super Bowl festivities by telling the sordid saga of Pittsburgh’s sports stadiums and its unfunded pension liabilities for city work
A lawsuit on Earth has grounded plans by Red Bull energy drink to send an Austrian daredevil into the stratosphere in an attempt to break the world record for the highest skydive. The Red Bull Stratos mission was slated to kick off some time this yea
I am not a big fan of football. Could be I am not built for it. I prefer the football where the ball is round and is played with a foot, but I digress. I was alerted to a play that was made by Calvin Johnson of the Detroit Lions which
"Darling claims Shaq...enlisted the help of an active Arizona detective to master a computer program that would allegedly allow him to frame Darling for possession of child pornography..."
Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your
Louis Oosthuizen walked over the Swilcan Bridge toward a victory that was never in doubt Sunday at St. Andrews, another big moment in sports for South Africa.
(AP) JOHANNESBURG -- Spain rules the soccer world, winning the World Cup at long, long last. It came after an exhausting 1-0 victory in extra time over the Netherlands on Sunday. Two years after winning the European title, the stylish Spaniards did e