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Dirk Nowitzki celebrated his 35th birthday in Berlin by dining with President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Obama was in Berlin to make a speech at Brandenberg Gate. Afterward, he sat down to dinner ...

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President Barack Obama is honoring the WNBA champion Indiana Fever, calling the players an inspiration to young athletes -- even those on his daughter Sasha's basketball team.

A victim of the Boston Marathon bombings has thrown out the first pitch at a Chicago White Sox game, thanks to an assist from the Oval Office.

Actress Shannon Richardson (The Walking Dead) has been arrested on charges that she sent ricin-laced threats to President Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Richardson had initially contacted authorities to say that she'd found "suspicious m...

BOSTON -- The Little Ball of Hate is wound up pretty tight these days, and the Boston Bruins wouldn't want it any other way. When President Barack Obama (or his speech writer) so eloquently gave that nickname to the Bruins' Brad Marchand during ...

Jason Collins, the first active athlete to come out as being gay in one of the four U.S. major professional sports leagues, threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park on Thursday night before the Red Sox played the Texas Rangers.

Texans safety Ed Reed celebrated the Ravens Super Bowl season by rejoining his old team for a White House visit. President Barack Obama made a crack about how old Reed looked. Reed was on the NFL Network's NFL AM this morning and they were kind en...

WASHINGTON -- Before the Baltimore Ravens handed a purple No. 44 jersey to President Barack Obama, the 44th president, coach John Harbaugh delivered a celebratory message on the South Lawn of the White House. "I want you to know, we have plans to ...

President Barack Obama welcomed the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens to the White House on Wednesday, congratulating the team on its unlikely title run -- and offering some good-natured jibes.

Berkshire East becomes the first ski resort to generate 100 percent of its own power.

Rick Reilly recounts the story of baseball's Glenn Burke, who painfully paved the way for Jason Collins as a gay professional athlete more than 30 years ago.

The Bold City Brigade saw the silly petition asking President Obama to tell the Jacksonville Jaguars to sign Tim Tebow. It saw the advertisement by a Florida lawyer making the same play. The group decided it will see those two inaccurate reflectio...

A few years ago, when every NFC West team finished with a losing record, quarterbacks from the division weren't in great demand for public appearances. They weren't posing for pictures with leading political figures, to my knowledge. Consider it p...

Even as they've drawn attention to their desire for the Jacksonville Jaguars to sign Tim Tebow, whoever created a petition to try to get the team's attention is failing miserably. The petition actually asks President Barack Obama to: "Call NFL ...

So in the upcoming issue of ESPN the Magazine, J.R. Moehringer writes a very long story that's an open letter to President Obama about Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III. The premise is that they're not so different, those two, in ter...