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The company that churns out a million points of data for each NBA game is now looking to go even deeper, mining those numbers for insight into players' fitness and training with an eye toward someday preventing injuries before they happen. STATS i...

Has an athlete's star wattage ever eclipsed that of the league in the way David Beckham has Major League Soccer? Michael Jordan and the NBA, or Wayne Gretzky and the NHL, perhaps. Yet where those men transcended pro sports with their play, the 37-ye...

First we had "nerd glasses" -- and, apparently, we still do. Now we've got denim jackets, which in recent days/months/in some cases years have been worn by NBA and other sports stars. Take Amare Stoudemire in the above photo; shortly after gettin...

Now that the Beckham-Donovan combination has finally led the Galaxy to an MLS title, what will be the most compelling stories of 2012?

MLS commissioner Don Garber spoke to ESPN.com's Jeff Carlisle about the 2012 season.

With Montreal becoming the league's 19th franchise in 2012, and a possible 20th coming soon after, MLS is nearing its optimum number of teams.

Major League Soccer is making some serious headway based on the response to David Beckham's first title win with the L.A. Galaxy, which attracted coverage from all over the globe. But was it just the "Becks factor," or is the American league now a genuine high-profile product?

Were you too busy watching Vince Young win on Sunday night to catch MLS action? Yeah, us too. So we asked the Men in Blazers to take this one for us. In this cross-country e-mail exchange, Michael Davies and Roger Bennett walk you through last night'...

Last week the program at United Faith Christian Academy (Charlotte, N.C.), ranked No. 30 in the preseason POWERADE FAB 50, was banned from the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association (NCISAA) playoffs this season and next because of a...

Saturday afternoon on ESPNLA On Air (12-2 pm PT), Andy and I had a chance to speak with Landon Donovan, star of the L.A. Galaxy and US Soccer, and a massive Lakers fan to boot. Among other purple and gold-related topics, we spent a few minutes talkin...

BUILDING BLOCKS: The Nationals selected Byrce Harper with the number one pick Monday night. While the MLB Draft is an inexact science, most of the top overall picks over the last 5 drafts have had success already. David Price, Luke Hochevar and Justi...

Flyers Defeat Bruins, Make History The Flyers overcame a 3-0 series deficit and a 3-0 hole in the first period to make sports history, defeating the Bruins 4-3. Simon Gagne scored on a power play with 7:08 left to give Philadelphia a 4-3 victory in ...

Beckham Forbes has issued its annual report on soccer, and the Galaxy plays a prominent role, sort of, in its findings. Midfielder David Beckham, who might miss all of this season with a ruptured Achilles' tendon, is the sport's "highest ear...

Beckham Forbes has issued its annual report on soccer, and the Galaxy plays a prominent role, sort of, in its findings. Midfielder David Beckham, who might miss all of this season with a ruptured Achilles' tendon, is the sport's "highest earner,...

Photo: Catherine Steenkeste Amadou Gallo Fall, pictured with Spurs general manager R.C. Buford, is heading up the NBA's new office in Johannesburg. It's not unusual in Africa to see kids wearing David Beckham jerseys, but you'd be hard-pressed to f...

Photo: Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images "You'd think for the holidays they'd splurge a bit and turn on the heat." Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from ESPN. Along with ABC, we've put together a quintuplet slate of mega-NBA matchups as our...