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Diane Pucin of the Los Angeles Times: "Bob Costas, the television sports analyst widely considered one of the best in the country, was no different from many athletes, sports fans and basketball experts 20 years ago Monday when Magic Johnson held a n...

Steven Freeman/NBAE/Getty Images Adam Silver and David Stern present a united front, but the truth is more complex. The way the NBA tells it, all 30 owners are perfectly united, on every issue from hard caps to revenue sharing. Of course, it can...

BOSTON -- It's standard practice among the professional coaches in Boston to stay in contact once in a while via text, e-mail or the occasional phone call. After all the Bruins' Claude Julien, Celtics' Doc Rivers, Patriots' Bill Belichick and Red...

The Miami Heat took the lead, the eighth-seeded Memphis Grizzlies made history and the Boston Bruins beat the Philadelphia Flyers in a score that looked more like a football game. (Sort of.) Here's what else happened in sports this weekend.

Half of the 10 teams competing in tonight's NBA and NHL playoff games may see their seasons end prematurely. Five games with elimination blows on the line? Gimme the remote and let's get after it. Here are the Games We're Watching.

The top NBA teams in the East and West tumbled as the Nets won their fifth straight game, and UConn was selected as the No. 1 overall seed in the women's NCAA tournament as it makes a run for its third straight title.

Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel: "When the final buzzer sounded, Jason Richardson clasped both sides of his head. Jameer Nelson pumped his right fist and turned toward Dwight Howard. The two co-captains exchanged high-fives. Coach Stan Van Gundy...

How did an NFL junkie cope with the first weekend without (real) professional football since August? Sure, there was All-Star action and the Grand Slam finals, but it was really the compelling hoops that kept our sports fixes going.

There was plenty of drama on the NBA courts last night, with LeBron facing off against his former team for the second time and the Bulls losing one of their most prolific players.

In its first year, can "NBA Elite" really contend with the juggernaut that is "NBA 2K11"? If EA Sports hopes to make a dent, they need multiple gameplay modes to really breakthrough and become hits, both online and offline. Luckily for EA, the produ...

AP Photo/Susan Walsh President Obama Hosts Saints At White House The New Orleans Saints have come marching in to the White House. President Barack Obama welcomed the Super Bowl champions on Monday in an East Room ceremony where he congratulated t...

"NBA Live" is dead. EA Sports officially killed the franchise earlier this year, but one can argue that the series has been without a pulse since the consoles switched to the current generation. Enter David Littman. The genius gameplay designer wh...

AP Photo/Elise Amendola Miami Heat vs Boston Celtics -- (Celtics Lead 3-1) 7:00 PM ET, April 27, 2010 -- TD Garden, Boston, MA -- NBATV The Celtics, who won the first three games of their series against the Heat before losing on Sunday, get a...

After Gilbertgate, you would think that players in the NBA and other pro leagues no longer gamble on card games or other trivial pursuits while off the court. You'd be wrong.

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The Celtics rank tops for offseason moves and more in today's NBA Local.

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