Flying Fish Dolphins running back Patrick Cobbs glided into the end zone well head of the Chiefs' defense during last Thursday night's preseason game at Arrowhead Stadium. Cobbs's seven-yard dash...

Brown Out?

Preseason polls bend college football out of shape

THE BRENNAN FILE: Two-and-a-half years ago, at 21, Colt Brennan spent seven days in jail, convicted of burglary and criminal trespass in a University of Colorado dorm. "I did what I did," he says,...

WHO'S Hot

Which pitching statistic is most meaningful?

Sentenced To two years' probation for his role in a sports gambling operation, ex-Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet. The former NHL star was at the center of a case last year that unfolded...

THE DETAILS were still to be determined—the length of his prison sentence and his suspension from the NFL—but what was clear on Monday after Michael Vick agreed to plead guilty to a felony...

4 Number of 1--0 games in the four-year history of Cincinnati's Great American Ballpark.

The manager of English soccer team Sunderland says stars won't sign with the club because the town's shopping is subpar.

KEN GRIFFEY JR. Reds outfielder, after he was removed from the field in the middle of an inning in a double-switch: "Next time they try, I'll be like Tanner in the Astrodome in Bad News Bears,...

Handicapping the recent spate of sports-related lawsuits

The Long Island Ducks?

LAST WEEK NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reminded everyone that Michael Vick hasn't made him forget about another of the league's high-profile miscreants, suspended Titans cornerback Pacman Jones....

Two NHLers try to help in Tanzania

TWINS CATCHER

Pro volleyballers find love on the beach

A film about boxing and truth swings and misses

Sopranos star James Gandolfini has signed on to play former Nike and Reebok rep Sonny Vaccaro, who helped Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James earn millions in mega shoe deals, in HBO's...

I DREAM IN BLUE opens in an unlikely location for a sports memoir—a lawyer's office, as author Roger Director and his wife, Jan, are working out the details of their will. When asked who they...

Watch to watch and watch for

Lisa Winkle GRAND RAPIDS > Track and Field, Basketball Winkle, a graduate of Calvin College, is a seven-time track and field All-America (in the long jump, 400 meters, 4 × 100 and 4 × 400) and the...

The Cox Countdown

Fed up with mediocrity and losing to Auburn, the Alabama faithful welcome Nick Saban as a coach tough enough to bring back the glory of the Bear

The men who have led Alabama since Paul Bryant retired had winning records, but only one won it all

Big Papi has rediscovered his power stroke, and the Red Sox boast baseball's best record. So why is New England dwelling on that familiar, unsettling sight in the rearview mirror?

Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are as different as two fierce foes could be, but in one thing they're identical: Neither man will take a verbal shot at the other

Can't tell all the Eastern Europeans apart in the women's draw? Here's help

Former high school phenom Alan Webb could cap his best year yet with a gold medal in the 1,500 at the worlds. But the longer road leads to Beijing-and beyond

Todd Dodge left Southlake Carroll with a 48-game win streak, but his boy Riley, the quarterback who led the team to its third straight Texas 5A title last year, is entrusted with keeping...

Coast-to-Coast Coverage

1. CARROLL (Southlake, Texas) 2006 RECORD: 16-0

TERRELLE PRYORV

Sports played a special role in the early stages of the New Orleans recovery, but beyond the Superdome, in battered, depopulated areas such as the Lower Ninth Ward, there is a great need to get...

Olympic Sports Introducing the newest queen of U.S. gymnastics, Shawn Johnson • The Hamm twins begin their bid for a trip to Beijing

Small Wonder

At the U.S. nationals twins Paul and Morgan Hamm, 24, returned to competition for the first time since the 2004 Olympics, at which Paul won the all-around gold amid controversy that helped drive...

Now or Never?

1 Drew Brees has picked up where he left off last season, when he led the Saints to the NFC Championship Game. In his last two preseason games combined, Brees has completed 18 of 20 passes...

All-Star Teams

HEY, THANKS for checking out the official website of Tiger Woods Design!

ROUND 1 1 LaDainian Tomlinson RB Even I can't screw up this pick. Now that I've got Mr. 31 TDs, book me for the playoffs!