Think Smallie: Shad before 'dads in winter

When I'm smallmouth fishing in cold weather, you'll almost always see me using a shad imitation rather than a crawfish imitation. The reason is simple...

Dolphins still swimming in playoff pool

The Miami Dolphins stayed in the playoff race Thursday night with a gritty performance to beat the Carolina Panthers 24-17 in Bank of America Stadium....

ESPN RISE Athletes of the Week

Ohio soccer goalie Ryan Grimme and Colorado volleyball player Morgan Broekhuis are this week's ESPN RISE National Athletes of the Week

Joe Rich Pro Spotlight

Most people think the professional BMX lifestyle involves fancy cars, houses on the beach and haphazardly falling into an industry job after the age of 35, but Joe Rich has always done everything his own way, including the professional lifestyle.

Browns would give Cavs' James a shot

If LeBron James truly believes he can help the Cleveland Browns, coach Eric Mangini has an orange helmet waiting for him.

OTL: Field of Schemes?

It seemed like a feel-good story on the surface: A Cambodian refugee brings the game of baseball to his home country. It seemed too good to be true ... and perhaps it is.

Flying fish in the forest

Entities team up to copter in endangered Gila trout to Arizona stream

Off the wire

Outdoors headlines from across the country

Kincade Swims with the Sharks

...Nick Trapasso. Click read more to see the skating and inspirational incongruity. L. Kincade #25 "Kincade goes swimming with the sharks" - watch more skate, snow, surf, and moto videos Return To Full Blog

Halt Couture, St. Pierre's standstill and more

...lock on your body, he will either drag you down or exhaust you with your own resistance, swimming against the current he creates. It's an ugly way to go. Against Brandon Vera on Saturday...

Brandon Roy: Blazing the trail

The "NBA 10: The Inside" cover athlete talks gaming, leadership and … dodgeball?

Power Rankings: 4th down edition

The Patriots' ill-fated fourth-down decision tops the charts in Page 2's Power Rankings this week.

...USA reacts after the men's 200m individual medley final during day two of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup on November 15, 2009 in Berlin, Germany

Townsend tops Phelps with 200 IM best

Darian Townsend of South Africa beat Michael Phelps on Sunday to break the short-course world record in the 200-meter individual medley.

Phelps fifth as Skvortsov wins 200m fly

Michael Phelps has finished fifth in the 200-meter butterfly final at a short-course World Cup meet.