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The British Open, or The Open Championship, is the third of four major tournaments of professional golf's calendar year. First contested in 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland, the British Open is played at one of a number of selected links cours...

CINCINNATI -- In his first 2013 start at Great American Ball Park, back on April 22, Travis Wood allowed just four hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings. The Chicago Cubs starter was roughed up for the same number of hits and more than double the ru...

Not that many Gooners would thank us for reminding them, but jowly, gloating, grease-swathed newspaper editor-turned-tediously smug chat show prat Piers Morgan is one of their number, not that this fact is recognised by anyone else affiliated with th...

MIAMI -- As LeBron James walked onto the makeshift stage late Friday to take his seat at the postgame news conference, he plucked the edge of the stat sheet he held. In reality, the summary of numbers on the page was of little to no use for the Mi...

Wishing you a happy and healthy holiday weekend. Kevin from Minneapolis writes: Adam, Morgan Burke's comments comparing the difference in the number of varsity sports sponsored by Big Ten and SEC athletic departments translating to on the field pe...

Veteran offensive tackle Will Svitek, who signed a one-year contract with the Patriots this offseason after spending four seasons with the Falcons and three with the Chiefs, has changed his jersey number. Svitek had been assigned Matt Light's old ...

It's hard to fathom, but 12 other players wore No. 89 for the Bears after Mike Ditka left the team following the 1966 season. Here's a quick look at the players, some of them even coached by Ditka, who were the number that will be retired on Dec....

Mike Ditka's final season as a player for the Chicago Bears was in 1966. His last season as their coach was 1992. So why did it take 47 years after his departure as a player, and 21 years after his final season as the coach, to retire the number of o...

In Part 1, we looked at the teams that took top honors in ESPNFC's Premier League fantasy competition. What about your humble Fantasy Picks guy? Each season, Sir John has shown improved numbers with his teams and this year there was more progress....

The number of starters a team returns in no way guarantees of success or failure when the season rolls around, but the metric undoubtedly carries weight this time of year. Preseason predictions are an inexact science, based heavily on whether a te...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Thursday, we broached the topic of whether the Chicago Bears would retire the number of middle linebacker Brian Urlacher. As it turns out, the team is dealing with a backlog on that issue. Almost a half-century af...

The Chicago Bears will retire Mike Ditka's No. 89 on Dec. 9 during halftime of their Monday Night Football game against the Dallas Cowboys at Soldier Field, the team announced Friday.

Mike Ditka tells the guys about the Bears' decision to retire his number and more. • ESPN NFL analyst Mike Ditka confirms that his number will be retired by the Bears. Ditka also discusses his relationship with Chicago, Brian Urlacher's retir...

English football players could be about to come under increasing scrutiny with The Telegraph reporting a new retrospective action scheme is about to be launched.

BOSTON -- Doc Rivers returned to Boston on Wednesday for the first time since May 4 -- the day after his team was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the New York Knicks -- with a number of chores to complete, among them being examined b...

Everyone expects Doc Rivers will be back, but he still hasn't said so.