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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Graeme McDowell capped a dream season Sunday by doing something no one has ever seen. In winning the Chevron World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club, McDowell, the U.S. Open champion and Ryder Cup hero, upstaged Tiger Woods by becoming the first player to beat Woods when he had a lead of […]

Jim Murray once called Meadowlark Lemon an American institution, a description the longtime Harlem Globetrotters star claims mystifies him.

It’s an SEC championship game that has it all. What’s not to like about the Auburn-South Carolina matchup on Saturday in the Georgia Dome? The drama surrounding Auburn quarterback Cam Newton only thickened Wednesday when the NCAA announced Newton’s eligibility had been reinstated after Auburn briefly declared him ineligible Tuesday for violating NCAA amateurism rules. […]

Massachusetts — The Boston Red Sox have agreed to a deal in principle to acquire slugging first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, sources told ESPN The Magazine’s Buster Olney on Saturday morning. The Red Sox have received permission from Major League Baseball to negotiate with Gonzalez on a new contract, the sources said, and Gonzalez’s physical examination, […]

Colorado — Bill McCartney a former coach for the University of Colorado has said that Washington Washington Football Team assistant coach, Jon Embree has been offered the head coach job at University of Colorado because he was Black. The Huffington Post reports: It was never about me doing it again,” McCartney said of his interest […]

LeBron James didn’t let the hazing from disgruntled Cleveland Cavaliers fans keep him from delivering a royal beatdown. In his first game in Cleveland since leaving for Miami last June the persona non grata at Quicken Loans Arena put up 38 points and 8 assists to help the under-performing Heat improve to a 12 and […]

CLEVELAND — LeBron James insisted it was nothing personal. The final score said otherwise. James scored a season-high 38 points — 24 in a third-quarter clinic — to lead the Miami Heat in a 118-90 blowout win over the Cavaliers, taming a hostile Cleveland crowd even before halftime Thursday night. “I have the utmost respect […]

When the Miami Heat go to Cleveland tomorrow, LeBron will not only be playing against his old team, he will be playing against his old fans as well. The groups known as Cavs Chants and Laugh at LeBron have set up an unofficial guide to teasing the “King” as he plays his first game as […]

Rumors of financial trouble have dogged former NBA baller Allen Iverson for quite awhile now.