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You're a billionaire. You love tennis. So you make it a point to hold a tennis tournament ... on blue clay. Yeah, the color contrast ticks off the world's elite tennis players, who tried to win this week's Madrid Open. But that didn't prevent ...

Everything is a game of hardball at the NFL negotiating table. On the heels of last year's players lockout, the league is exploring the idea of using replacement officials if a labor deal can't be reached with the NFL Referees Association. Take...

With a record $200.3 million opening weekend, "The Avengers" flexed serious gamma radiation muscles at the box office. While the Marvel superheroes cemented their place as Earth's Mightiest Movie Franchise, we got to thinking -- how would they fa...

Attention, fans of post-Y2K college football! Have you seen who's on the depth chart at quarterback of your 2012 Oakland Raiders? Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart are teamed up once again -- just like they were in the cardinal and gold for the 2002 ...

How's your summer reading list shaping up? Because you're in luck if the subject of Jeremy Lin sounds inviting. Or "Linviting," if you enjoy Lin pun titles as much as some authors. A recent scan of Amazon shows there are 35 paperbacks, nine hardco...

The NFL draft is over and the Carolina Panthers have added at least one new starter. That's linebacker Luke Kuechly, who was drafted with the No. 9 overall pick. It just remains to be seen if he'll start in the middle or on the outside. Let's t...

"You never handle your luggage in The Show; somebody else carries your bags." For road life as a major leaguer, those are Crash Davis' perks of paradise in "Bull Durham." But this weekend, Joe Maddon challenged his Rays to put a dimmer switch o...

The fourth round is just about over. It's down to the compensatory picks and those can't be traded, so this round will end with only three picks made by NFC South teams. But this still was a relatively eventful round for the division. Carolina was...

Fans -- and their credit cards -- made their voices heard by making Derrick Rose and Jeremy Lin the top-selling jerseys since last April at the NBA Store and NBAstore.com. Here's our quick rundown after a check of the cash registers: 1. Derrick...

Finally, a win for the underdogs! Especially when they're losers. In a generous twist, Wimbledon announced that this year's 10 percent uptick in prize money will be sprinkled heartily on those bounced in early rounds and qualifying. Apparently,...

The week has come to worship at the altar of the NFL draft, a process so storied that we lavish extraordinary attention on the last player selected -- the esteemed Mr. Irrelevant. But why can't other sports salute the embarrassment of being the la...

In a span of less than two minutes on April 19, 1987, pop culture was changed forever when "Good Night," the first Simpsons cartoon ever, aired on Fox's "The Tracey Ullman Show." No, we're not here to rehash a "Greatest Simpsons Sports Moments." ...

The Panthers aren't like a lot of NFL teams -- they're interested in moving down in next week's draft, not up.

"Aw, man, I think the clock is slowwwwwww." It appears David Lee Roth's "Hot For Teacher" lament appropriately describes the painfully slow process of jury selection for the Roger Clemens perjury retrial. The seven-time Cy Young winner's second...

Here's a tip of the graduation cap to Derek Jeter and the news that he's set to receive an honorary doctorate from Siena College. In fact, let's start phasing out Jeter's nickname of the Captain to the much more cerebral-sounding Dr. J. No? Ho...

Hey, NBA season-ticket holders! Are you sick of your favorite stars treating the final days of the regular season like high school senior skip days? Players claim they're resting up for the playoffs, but fans who pay big bucks for tickets at leas...