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Tom Haberstroh looks at the reported trade talks between the Clippers and Celtics and answers some lingering questions about the deal.

Story | Conversation | June 16, 2013

CHICAGO -- The chess game for Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville has begun as he prepares his team for the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals, which begins here Wednesday. Due to the lockout, the teams didn't meet in the regular season...

Man vs. machine is the name of the game. On this date in 1997, a chess-playing supercomputer named IBM Deep Blue became the first computer to defeat a world chess champion. Garry Kasparov was none too pleased by his one victory, Deep Blue's two and t...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots will have a new chess piece to play with on defense next season in former Southern Miss linebacker/defensive end Jamie Collins. A high school quarterback who began his college career as a 212-pound saf...

Before making his fourth move in five years, Dana Holgorsen needed a little convincing. West Virginia had contacted the Oklahoma State offensive coordinator and expressed interest in grooming him to be its next head coach. But prior to any commitment...

Georgia upended top-seeded Stanford to reach the Elite Eight.

LOS ANGELES -- Word on the street is out: Larry Drew II and Kyle Anderson can't shoot and the UCLA Bruins can't rebound. At least that's the word USC and Arizona State swore by when they used very similar defensive strategies to upset the Bruins t...

Tristan H. Cockcroft looks at the fantasy impact of the Washington Nationals' deals for Adam LaRoche and Rafael Soriano, as well as their trade of Michael Morse to the Seattle Mariners.

Few periods are more sacred than Christmas, for both the theologically inclined and those who believe in football as their religion. Games come thick and fast as teams charge through the schedule like they are playing blitz chess. Prepare for Sir Ian...

Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary -- The American Navy. For 40 years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game -- and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the ...

Congress can't officially referee the chess game between the NFL and its players' union regarding the implementation of testing for human growth hormone, but some flags were thrown anyway during a hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

At 9, Mutesi learned chess, through the Sports Outreach Institute. Welcome to SportsNation! On Friday, chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi stops by to chat about her journey from the slums of Katwe, Uganda to becoming a Woman Candidate Master in chess. Th...

Brendan Rodgers has warned Raheem Sterling that he would be "foolish" not to agree a new contract at Liverpool.

Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva is ready to end a year-long injury nightmare against Southampton at Anfield on Saturday and is back in the squad.

Chess-boxing, you will be relieved to know, is a fairly self-explanatory sport. Football predominately involves a foot and a ball; basketball features ball and basket. Bound to the same formula, chess-boxing is a mixture of those two disciplines. Inv...

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers insists that the club have to do more to ease the burden on skipper Steven Gerrard.