Big Brown powered to the lead turning for home
and then sailed through the stretch to win the Preakness, still
perfect and squarely pointed down the path toward thoroughbred
racing's first Triple Crown in 30 years.
Doug Alden | 12:06 PM PDT
Kobe Bryant has some time to rest his back. Not that he appears to need it.
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery
was sentenced to 46 months in prison Friday for his part in a
multimillion-dollar fake-check scheme.
CANOVANAS, PUERTO RICO -- For thoroughbreds in this U.S.
Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a
matter of life and death - losers often don't even make it off the
racetrack grounds alive.
Slumping slugger Jim Thome had former
teammate Jon Garland on the ropes in the second inning, coming up
with the bases loaded and three runs already across the plate.
Colin Fly | 2:11 PM PDT
With third baseman Blake DeWitt sidelined
because of an aching lower back, Dodgers coach Larry Bowa suggested
to manager Joe Torre just before the game that he play Chin-Lung Hu
as a fill-in.
Jimmy Golen
Someone is going to have to beat the Celtics in
Boston to keep them from winning their 17th NBA title.
Jaime Aron
Maybe it was payback, maybe it was just good
fortune. The Dallas Stars aren't going to quibble.
Joseph White
Hold on, NFL. Spygate isn't over. Not if the
"incensed" Pittsburgh Steelers fan in Congress has anything to do
with it.
Southern California has signed a new 25-year
lease that will keep the Trojans' football team in the Los Angeles
Coliseum and include improvements in the stadium.
Jenna Fryer
With the help of a back-flipping dog,
Humpy Wheeler made Carl Edwards the favorite to win the All-Star
race by naming the acrobatic driver his pick to win Saturday
night's event.
Beth Harris
Running on the outside has been very good to
Big Brown. Now the Kentucky Derby winner gets to try things from
the middle.
Mike Harris
Less than one frantic hour of track time was
all the frustrated teams at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway got
Wednesday, yet another in a series of wet Indiana days so far this
month.
Raf Casert
The determination that helped Justine
Henin beat bigger, stronger opponents time and again was fading.
Brian Mahoney
Mike D'Antoni is bringing his high-scoring brand
of basketball to a Knicks team that seems ill-suited to run it.
Saying the NCAA has "new information,"
president Myles Brand promised to investigate former Southern
California basketball star O.J. Mayo, who allegedly received
thousands of dollars in gifts from money given to an event promoter
by a sports agency.
David Beckham put on a show Tuesday,
but it wasn't enough for Los Angeles, and the Vancouver Whitecaps
won their friendly match 2-1 Tuesday night.
Paul Elias | 7:11 PM PDT
Barry Bonds was charged in a new indictment
Tuesday with 15 felony counts alleging he lied to a grand jury when
he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and that he
hampered the federal government's doping investigation.
MIAMI -- A highway patrol official says O.J. Simpson's girlfriend has been seriously injured in a car accident in Miami.
David Porter | 5:49 PM PDT
Annika Sorenstam ignored her notes and
spoke from the heart. One of golf's greatest players was leaving
the game, and she handled her retirement announcement the way she
would a 10-foot birdie putt with a tournament on the line.
Josh Dubow
The Oakland Raiders made another move to
try to upgrade their defense Tuesday, signing free agent defensive
end Greg Spires to a one-year contract to compete for a job as pass
rusher on the right side.
Long snapper David Binn signed a four-year
contract on Monday that will keep him with the San Diego Chargers
through 2011.
The Buffalo Bills released Kevin
Everett on Tuesday, clearing the way for the former tight end to
receive disability benefits for the spinal cord injury that ended
his career.
HELENE ELLIOTT
The man who spoke out so clearly against racism in baseball talks softly now, his voice weakened by chronic pain and fatigue.
KTLA CONFIDENTIAL
By Ted Green | 4:44 PM PDT
Kobe, you're so vain, I bet you think this song is about you.
By Ben Bolch | 5:57 PM PDT
Los Angeles - Allegations that a Los Angeles events promoter provided USC basketball star O.J. Mayo tens of thousands of dollars in cash and benefits, if proved, could lead to the Trojans facing forfeiture of victories or more serious sanctions.
Bill Rankin, a basketball star at
UCLA during World War II and after, has died after a long fight
with Parkinson's disease. He was 84.
Scott Lindlaw & Martha Mendoza
The mother of former NFL player Pat Tillman suspects the
military's account of how fellow Army Ranger comrades shot and
killed her son in Afghanistan is still not the true story, four
years later, according to her new book.
Taylor Twellman scored in the 59th minute
in his 2008 debut to lift the New England Revolution to a 2-1 win
over Chivas USA on Sunday.
Juan Pablo Angel scored in the 78th minute
to give the New York Red Bulls a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles
Galaxy on Saturday night.
Henry Sanderson
A Chinese man was arrested for saying on the
Internet that he planned to grab the Olympic torch during its relay
through eastern China, police said Sunday.
Monty Montgomery intercepted Los Angeles
quarterback Sonny Cumbie with 2 seconds remaining to send the New
York Dragons to a 52-48 win over the Avengers on Saturday night in
the Arena Football League.
Ventura, Calif. -- Little League players in Ventura County are crying foul after copper thieves left them in the dark. Thieves targeted copper wires in an electrical vault at Camino Real Park last week, causing damage estimated at $20,000.
Lakers star Kobe Bryant received his MVP
trophy from NBA commissioner David Stern in a brief ceremony before
Los Angeles faced Utah in Game 2 of the Western Conference
semifinals Wednesday night.
John Nadel
Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum might
undergo exploratory arthroscopic surgery on his injured left knee
if there is no significant improvement in the next three to four
weeks.
KTLA CONFIDENTIAL
By Ted Green | 6:33 PM PDT
The Jazz hit more low notes than high notes in Game 1, but they did hit every Laker in sight, even Phil Jackson when Ronnie Brewer fell in Phil's lap.
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