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Kobe Bryant became the youngest player to 30,000 points on Wednesday night, and photographers were there to catch it. But that's not all that was captured during a day and night of NBA, soccer, golf and college hoops action. Check out the best sho...

When the Premier League season fixtures were announced in the summer, one of the first matches Swans' fans looked for was the first meeting with Liverpool, the reunion with Brendan Rodgers and Joe Allen. It was to be on Sunday 25th November at The Li...

The close-call at Crawley was exactly the kind of result the Swans needed. The expected win will preserve the Swans dignity and allow Michael Laudrup's aspirations of a deep cup run to continue, whilst the nature of the match, which at one point saw ...

The Swans face Crawley in a Capital One Cup tie on Tuesday that has the potential to set the tone for the remainder of Swansea's season. The obvious danger is that either complacency or anxiety from the Swans could see an upset, with Crawley's giant-...

Utah's official state motto is simply "Industry," but it could just as easily be "Where professional sports teams go to get their Z's." "An S is too soft," said Jeff Katofsky, owner of the Orem Owlz minor league baseball team. "S's are for wimps."...

Buck Harvey of the San Antonio Express-News: Coaches torture themselves over success, and Gregg Popovich has been lately. He's been wondering out loud among his staff that, well, wouldn't it be better to lose a game? "That's why," one of his assistan...

IRVINE -- Long Beach State is returning to the NCAA tournament for the third time in four years after knocking off No. 24 UC Irvine in Sunday afternoon's Big West Conference women's tournament final. Jazz Strozier scored in the 13th minute and the 4...

Lexi Kopf scored a hat trick as UC Irvine claimed its second successive Big West Conference women's soccer title in emphatic fashion Sunday, routing visiting UC Riverside, 5-0. Kopf scored in the 46th, 54th and 90th minutes to lead the 24th-ranked...

To complete our community service (and get off probation), we proudly present the second half of our Men in Blazers' NBA-to-English Premier League Global Football Team Support Translator. It's our charitable attempt to ease the withdrawal pains of ou...

The first openly gay former NBA player says prejudice against homosexuals is rife in British sport, especially soccer.

Lexi Kopf scored her second goal in as many games and All-America candidate CoCo Goodson led a heroic defensive effort as UC Irvine stunned 11th-ranked Texas A&M, 1-0, to win the Aggies' Invitational in triple-digit heat Sunday. ...

Jerry Zgoda of the Star Tribune: "Call me a cynic -- and David Kahn has, more than once -- but you can probably handicap this Timberwolves' coaching search simply by using one criteria: $$$ If they're willing to pay $4-5 million a year, the pick clea...

Randy Galloway of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals gave us the answer. Q -- Who stops Dirk for the Oklahoma City Thunder? Let's see now: The Thunder ran Serge Ibaka at him, then Nick Collison, and after that it w...

Jay Aych of The Painted Area on Brazil's performance against the U.S.: "We have to give props to Brazil Coach Ruben Magnano. We've been huge fans of Rubes for about a decade since his Argentina team put on a clinic vs. Team USA in 2002. Magnano-led t...

Neil Paine of Basketball-Reference is looking into teams that are better in the playoffs than they were in the regular season: "The 2010 Celtics are the second-most improved playoff team ever, having tacked on +7.8 points of estimated efficiency diff...

FIFA has included South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela in its new lineup for the World Cup's kickoff concert after initial plans were criticized for ignoring local artists.