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Holders Australia could boycott the Champions Trophy after the International Cricket Council decided that the tournament could go ahead in Pakistan despite safety concerns.
The Dodgers are diving into the middle of a lot of trade talks, but skepticism remains steep about whether they'll actually pull anything off. "They're a mess,'' one NL executive says, flatly.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The Golden State Warriors made sure they would have Monta Ellis in their backcourt at least for the near future, re-signing the explosive guard to a six-year deal worth about $66 million Thursday.
Typically, 29-year-old running backs don't merit a big investment from NFL teams. But what would teams do when that same RB led the league in total offense the past two seasons?
Umpires ejected 15 players and the two managers following a bench-clearing brawl during a tense game between the Midwest League's Dayton Dragons and Peoria Chiefs.
The Philippine government and the private sector are offering 9.5 million pesos (US$220,000) to any athlete who brings home the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal.
Gary Hall Jr. thinks the sport of swimming has its share of doping cheats just like baseball and track and field. In recent years, though, swimming has avoided the widespread scandals that have damaged other sports.
Croatian Marin Cilic upset sixth-seeded Andy Roddick 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 on Thursday, the American player joining top-ranked Roger Federer among the early casualties of the Masters Series event.
Barry Bonds in pinstripes? If nothing else, the New York Yankees talked about it.
A few months ago, it seemed liked nothing could stop Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain from representing her country in the upcoming Summer Olympics.
Holders Australia could boycott the Champions Trophy after the International Cricket Council decided that the tournament could go ahead in Pakistan despite safety concerns.
The Dodgers are diving into the middle of a lot of trade talks, but skepticism remains steep about whether they'll actually pull anything off. "They're a mess,'' one NL executive says, flatly.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The Golden State Warriors made sure they would have Monta Ellis in their backcourt at least for the near future, re-signing the explosive guard to a six-year deal worth about $66 million Thursday.
Typically, 29-year-old running backs don't merit a big investment from NFL teams. But what would teams do when that same RB led the league in total offense the past two seasons?
Umpires ejected 15 players and the two managers following a bench-clearing brawl during a tense game between the Midwest League's Dayton Dragons and Peoria Chiefs.
The Philippine government and the private sector are offering 9.5 million pesos (US$220,000) to any athlete who brings home the country's first-ever Olympic gold medal.
Gary Hall Jr. thinks the sport of swimming has its share of doping cheats just like baseball and track and field. In recent years, though, swimming has avoided the widespread scandals that have damaged other sports.
Croatian Marin Cilic upset sixth-seeded Andy Roddick 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 on Thursday, the American player joining top-ranked Roger Federer among the early casualties of the Masters Series event.
Barry Bonds in pinstripes? If nothing else, the New York Yankees talked about it.
A few months ago, it seemed liked nothing could stop Iraqi sprinter Dana Hussain from representing her country in the upcoming Summer Olympics.
Frank Dancevic beat Croatia's Mario Ancic 6-3 6-4 Monday night to assure Canada of at least one player advancing to the second round of Rogers Cup.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Titans officials and the agent for All Pro defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth are talking, and coach Jeff Fisher says he's hopeful that their franchise player will sign his one-year tender in time to be on the field for the start of training camp.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) -- Peyton Manning's voice resonated through the Colts training camp Thursday -- from 90 miles away.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- A major storm hit the Arizona training camp one day before practice begins, when standout wide receiver Anquan Boldin lashed out at the Cardinals organization for failing to follow through on what he said was a promise for a new contract.
SI.com has dispatched 10 writers to report on the 32 NFL training camps across the country. For the complete schedule of postcards, click here.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- The New England Patriots signed first-round draft pick Jerod Mayo on Thursday, bringing their last unsigned selection into the fold as the defending AFC champions opened training camp and began their quest to put last season's imperfect season behind them.
DENVER (AP) -- The Nuggets signed Chris Andersen on Thursday, bringing the forward-center back to Denver after three seasons with New Orleans.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- There were plenty of No. 4 jerseys in the stands and a smattering of jeers for general manager Ted Thompson at Thursday morning's annual meeting of Green Bay Packers shareholders at Lambeau Field.
During the 14 years since Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened its doors to stock cars, July and August have belonged to Chevrolet. Beginning with Jeff Gordon taking the first checkered flag in 1994, Lumina and Monte Carlo drivers have guzzled more milk in Victory Lane than anyone else, winning nine races including the last five in a row. Local legend Gordon has led the way, leading 433 laps at the Brickyard while taking home a series-high four trophies (1994, '98, '01, and '04).
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Kelenna Azubuike will return to the Golden State Warriors after the club matched the Los Angeles Clippers' three-year, $9 million contract offer for the shooting guard on Thursday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Rich Brooks is in no hurry to name a starting quarterback.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- With Brett Favre's retirement up in the air, it goes without saying that the Green Bay Packers might have to put off retiring the three-time MVP's jersey.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Super Bowl hero David Tyree was placed on the physically unable to perform list by the New York Giants on Thursday because of lingering problems recovering from surgery on his right knee.
Does the soccer world care if the MLS can run its winning record against foreign opposition in the All-Star Game to 5-0?
UEFA Cup champions Zenit St. Petersburg have been fined $58,000 by UEFA for racist behavior by their supporters.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tribune Co. is inviting at least three potential buyers who each submitted bids for the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field near or above $1 billion to participate in a second round of proposals, according to a person involved in the process.
HOOVER, Ala. -- Florida grad Michelle King and her two small children staked out their spot at the foot of the Wynfrey Hotel's escalators around 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, the first day of the SEC's annual preseason media circus. Emma King, whose seventh birthday is Friday, held up an orange-and-blue lettered poster board that read: "All I Want 4 My Birthday Is to Meet Tim Tebow."
Marcus Burghardt of Germany won the 18th stage of the Tour de France on Thursday, leading a two-rider breakaway as the race left the high mountains of the Alps.
SIGNED: Corey Perry (Ducks), Brendan Morrison (Canucks), David LeNeveu (Rangers) Steve Montador (Panthers), Brennan Evans (Sharks). Josh Green (Canucks)
The Boston Bruins have swapped forwards with the Chicago Blackhawks, getting Martin St. Pierre in exchange for Pascal Pelletier.
British Open hero Greg Norman came down to earth with a bump when he returned to action on Thursday at Royal Troon.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The WNBA swiftly suspended the Detroit and Los Angeles players and Shock assistant coach Rick Mahorn for their role in a skirmish at The Palace of Auburn Hills.
The International Olympic Committee has upheld a ban on Iraqi teams at the Beijing Games, saying Thursday the government missed the deadline to address accusations of political interference
The most ambitious team this summer so far has been the injury-prone, underachieving and eminently forgettable Milwaukee Bucks.
Cricket history was made on the second day of the first Test between Sri Lanka and India as home batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan was given a reprieve by a television umpire.
The Raiders will have all their players present Thursday when they open training camp in Napa, Calif.
More often than not, sport is best experienced by being there. But Formula One is perhaps one of the rare exceptions -- you get the best seat in the house by watching on TV.
Anaheim Ducks coach Randy Carlyle has signed a two-year extension, putting him under contract with the 2007 Stanley Cup champions for the next three years.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Josh Childress is leaving the Atlanta Hawks for Greek club Olympiakos, reversing the course of the many international stars who have signed with the NBA.
HOOVER, Ala. (AP) -- LSU coach Les Miles found a way to take some of the focus off his players before coming into this state.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- For Appalachian State quarterback Armanti Edwards, the toughest part of beating Michigan last season wasn't maneuvering through the Wolverines' mammoth defensive line or overcoming more than 100,000 maize and blue-clad fans.
Jason Hart is returning to the Los Angeles Clippers.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- When he was a free agent three years ago, Keyon Dooling was wooed by the New Jersey Nets.
DENVER (AP) -- Broncos receiver Rod Smith is planning to hold a news conference Thursday amid published reports he will retire.
This year's Summer Olympic Games have been seen as China's coming-out party, destined to be as significant for the host country as the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were for Japan.
BOURBONNAIS, Ill. (AP) -- Devin Hester, who has electrified the NFL with 11 punt and kickoff returns for touchdowns in his first two seasons, skipped the Chicago Bears' first training camp practice Wednesday in a holdout.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Mike Pollak insisted he would show up for work on time.
The word is that the asking price for Pirates outfielder Xavier Nady has "loosened'' a tad, and that Pittsburgh seems more interested than before in trading him.
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis Rams defensive end Claude Wroten was suspended without pay for the season on Wednesday for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy.
Leverage is owning Ventnor Avenue after the guy with the thimble buys Atlantic Avenue and Marvin Gardens. Leverage is packing a two-liter bottle of water in a no-liter lifeboat. Leverage, at its most fundamental, is two customers, one widget.
It all happened so fast Sam Hornish Jr. didn't really get a chance to realize exactly what was going on.
DETROIT (AP) -- Caleb Campbell will not get a chance to play for the Detroit Lions because of a change in military policy.
The WNBA is watching replays of the skirmish involving the Detroit Shock, Los Angeles Sparks and former Pistons Bad Boy Rick Mahorn
Forget Danny Sheridan, Nostradamus or the Weather Channel. No set of prognosticators have been more consistently accurate over the years than the sportswriters that cover ACC football.
Kevin Newsome, an honor student from Virginia who also plays a little quarterback, won't need any help to qualify academically to play college football. So why is Newsome headed to prep school next month?
Title holder Novak Djokovic eased into the third round of the Masters Series event in Toronto with a 6-4 6-4 win over local hope Frank Dancevic.
SI.com has dispatched 10 writers to report on the 32 NFL training camps across the country. For the complete schedule of postcards, click here.
Fiorentina president Andrea Della Valle has insisted that star striker Adrian Mutu will be staying at the club despite interest from Serie A rivals Roma.
There comes a time in every baseball season when surprises are no longer surprises. If something caught you off guard in April or in May, and what was going on way back then is still going on now ... well, you need to drop the whole wide-eyed-in-shock spiel. It's not very becoming.
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) -- The WNBA is watching replays of the skirmish involving the Detroit Shock, Los Angeles Sparks and former Pistons Bad Boy Rick Mahorn.
Federer or Nadal, who's your pick at the U.S. Open? -- Chas, New York
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is monitoring the ongoing rift between the Green Bay Packers and Brett Favre.
Second seed Serena Williams has withdrawn from the WTA event at the Home Depot Center in Carson City after giving up her fight against a left knee injury.
Sweden's Christian Olsson will be unable to defend his Olympic triple jump crown in Beijing after he pulled out of the Games with a hamstring injury.
Malinda Warnapura hit his third Test half-century on Wednesday as Sri Lanka reached 85-2 at close of a rain-shortened opening day of the first cricket Test against India.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson turned the pre-season heat on Premier League rivals Chelsea by claiming Luiz Felipe Scolari has inherited an ageing squad who will struggle to improve.
I don't remember the first time I paid visit to the Boston Garden in the early 1980s, but I do remember the smell. You walked up the staircases to the upper back of the arena where the incense of boiled hot dogs from the press room gathered with the humidity of the playoff season. The worse the smell, the bigger the series.
Greg Norman says he has to tell the U.S. PGA by Thursday whether he will accept their invitation to play in the final major of the year, the PGA Championship.
Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a touchstone for Ganassi Racing and cordial rival Penske, the backdrop for much of the glory that has defined the storied open wheel teams.
Do you know how rare it is to stand on the sideline of a football field and have to move your feet quickly to dodge a tackle in front of you? Do you know how often it happens that there's a fight five feet in front of you, and you have to have incredible peripheral vision to avoid the bodies flying into the fight? And do you know how rare it is to stand alongside the head coach of a National Football League team as he twirls his whistle, with cornstalks one long spiral behind him, as he prepares to start his team's afternoon practice?
Duped tourists visiting St. Andrews will sometimes send postcards home describing the beauty of the city's most ancient links, the Old Course. Wish you were here! It's amusing, really. To me, the real postcard courses are in Ireland and Hawaii and on Scotland's west coast. Rolling duneland, crashing surf, long shadows, spongy green turf -- that whole thing. The Old Course -- in Fife, on the east coast -- is an ugly ole bastard, to my eye. The game's original 18-holer is hard and knobby, gray and urban and crowded, with weird, toothy animals darting in and out of the bushes at dusk. It's my favorite place in all of golf and all of sport. The place makes me happy. What can I say?
You may want to consider adding Mike Marshall's 1974 Cy Young year to your list. While not strictly a "closer", entering 106 games and pitching 208 innings in relief (with 21 saves) is as mind-boggling now as it was then. Back when relievers were given the Firemen of the Year Award, he did the work of two whole firehouses and a squad of pumper trucks. -- Mike, Rye, N.Y.
There were ghosts in the Montreal Forum. They were in the rafters with the retired jerseys, stampeding with the fans when the doors opened before the game so they could get a good spot in the standing-room section, hanging out in the cramped corridors where they were getting two-packs-a-day's worth of second-hand smoke during intermissions, noshing on the steamed hot dogs for sustenance before heading back inside to haunt, say, the Boston Bruins.
Want to know why the 76ers are so excited about the future? Meet Thaddeus Young.
Although they live on opposite sides of the world, Charlotte Craig and Luo Wei share the consumer habits typical of their generation. Craig, a shy 17-year-old from Murrieta, Calif., texts her friends on her cell. She goes to the mall. She paints her fingernails black and her toes pink.
Doping-tainted sprinter Katerina Thanou has been included on Greece's official team list for the Beijing Olympics.
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With the match on the line, Andy Roddick was too much for Nicolas Mahut.
The New York Giants agreed to terms with first-round choice Kenny Phillips on Tuesday night, and the Super Bowl champions will be heading to training camp with all their draft picks.
Candace Parker scored 21 points and DeLisha Milton-Jones added 19 before both were ejected after a scuffle in the final minute as the Los Angeles Sparks held on to beat the Detroit Shock 84-81 Tuesday night.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Washington Nationals shortstop Cristian Guzman agreed to terms Tuesday on a $16 million, two-year contract extension that takes him through the 2010 season.
HOUSTON (AP) -- The Houston Astros, believing their season can still be saved, acquired pitcher Randy Wolf from San Diego on Tuesday in exchange for minor leaguer Chad Reineke.
Jason Taylor entered the locker room Tuesday morning ready to suit up for his first practice of training camp, just like he'd done before each of his past 11 NFL seasons.
Chargers defensive end Luis Castillo came up with a huge sack on Tuesday -- a huge sack of money, that is.
PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Diamondbacks made a major move to shore up their ailing bullpen on Tuesday, acquiring reliever Jon Rauch from the Washington Nationals for top infield prospect Emilio Bonifacio.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Tony Dungy is certain Peyton Manning's left knee will be ready for the Colts' season-opener.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Dustin Byfuglien remembers the fun he had playing outdoor hockey as a kid in Minnesota.
The Oakland Raiders signed former Kansas City Chiefs safety Greg Wesley to a one-year contract on Tuesday, adding depth to the position on the eve of training camp.
Coach Marvin Lewis emphatically closed the door Tuesday on the possibility of receiver Chris Henry rejoining the Cincinnati Bengals.
The Golden State Warriors acquired Marcus Williams from the New Jersey Nets on Tuesday, filling their need for a backup point guard.
The Cubs' fine for violations related to the June draft of first-year players was a whopping $500,000, SI.com has learned.
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Manu Ginobili missed a key free throw and Spain edged Olympic champion Argentina 90-88 on Tuesday.
CC Sabathia, who hails from Northern California and currently lives there, is building a home in Southern California. So it's obvious his heart is on the West Coast.
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JEREZ, Spain (AP) -- Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel was quickest in Formula One testing on Tuesday and a mechanic was injured from an electric shock off the new hybrid engine planned for next year's cars.
It's May 15, in a ballroom at The Venetian, a Mediterranean-themed catering hall in Garfield, N.J., and three professional football players, one retired and two active, sit facing a room full of well-off Don Bosco Prep alumni.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gilbert Arenas got the money. Now he wants the ring.
The Brewers and White Sox are two of the teams to have inquired about A's closer Huston Street, SI.com has learned.
As we enter the dog days of summer we see an old dog up to his old tricks, a greyhound reliever not only catching the rabbit but blowing by it, and a power streaking NL Central squad with its sights set on best in show.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton believes the race for the Formula One drivers' title will have another dramatic finale this season.
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