Ty Down Penguins goaltender Ty Conklin went through gyrations—but kept the puck in plain sight—as he made a second-period save on Sunday in Buffalo. Conklin turned back 36 shots in Pittsburgh's...

Line Connoisseur Congratulations to Peter King for his Super Bowl preview (It's All on the Line, Feb. 4). The cover proclaimed that the answer to "Can the Giants Get to Brady?" would determine...

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Won The International Tennis Championships in Delray Beach, Fla., on Sunday, by Kei Nishikori (above), the first Japanese man to win an ATP event in 16 years. Nishikori, 18, came into the ITC as a...

PAULA CREAMER LPGA star, on why she picked golf over cheerleading when a schedule conflict forced her to choose at age 12: "My dad asked me if I wanted to cheer for other people or have people...

This weekend the Marlins are holding tryouts for the Manatees, a dance team of men with "big bellies with the biggest jiggle."

Monica Seles peaked early but still went out on top

41 Points by which Kentucky lost to Vanderbilt last week, the Wildcats' worst loss ever in the SEC.

WHEN ASKED by Congress why he didn't remind Roger Clemens that he was speaking the truth during their infamous taped phone call, Brian McNamee said he did. According to McNamee, his response to...

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A sharp new documentary recalls Joe Louis

AFTER HE saw Dale, the 2007 documentary about his late father, Dale Earnhardt Jr. raved, "I was amazed. Blown away." Now he wants to see more of his dad on screen. Junior and Earnhardt's widow,...

WILL LEITCH does not—repeat, does not—want to be a sportswriter, a job he breezily summarizes in God Save the Fan this way: "Ask bland questions, receive bland answers, return to bland press box,...

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Cesar Cielo SANTA BARBARA, BRAZIL > Swimming Cielo, a junior at Auburn, won the 50- and 100-meter freestyle and swam the anchor leg of the 200 freestyle relay as the No. 6 Tigers beat No. 5...

The Interview Pat Knight TEXAS TECH COACH

More sports issues on which Congress should hold hearings paid for by taxpayers

AT SPRING TRAINING Tommy Lasorda was overheard telling Joe Torre about his frustration at a lunch counter: "So I order a six-foot hero, and the guy says, 'What's that?' I say, 'It's like a regular...

Johan Santana has yet to throw a pitch for the Mets, but his arrival in camp has lifted the gloom from last season's historic collapse and given New York a reason to believe again

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Baseball Prospectus analyzes some of the big off-season moves and how they'll give a boost to the teams that made them

Long before testimony at a congressional hearing cast doubt on his claim that he has never used steroids or HGH, Roger Clemens convinced himself that he has done no wrong

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When the 50th Great American Race came down to a final-lap dash, Ryan Newman used a teammate's bump to roar by on the outside and give owner Roger Penske his first Daytona 500 win

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Brothers Brook and Robin Lopez, a pair of 7-footers consumed by all things Disney, are proving that Stanford's latest story line—from unranked to the top of the Pac-10—is no fairy tale

Why the Pac-10 is the top conference, and other Hoop Thoughts from Seth Davis.

A former star athlete herself, Tatiana Ovechkina made sure her boy Alexander, the high-scoring Capitals winger, got what he deserved—a record NHL deal, that's what

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Though it may be reaching the end of its evolution, the jam—or stuff, windmill, skywalk, throwdown, 360, boomshakalaka—is still the most admired and, for many of us, elusive shot in hoops

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College Basketball Maya Moore has carried the UConn women to the top of the poll—and she's only a freshman • Three more first-year sensations at Tennessee, Ohio State and Stanford

A 'Melo Season The UConn women think Maya Moore can duplicate the feat of another fab freshman and lead them to a title

ANGIE BJORKLUND, F, Tennessee The sharp-shooting 6-footer (right) leads the No. 3--ranked Lady Vols with 55 three-pointers and averages 10.3 points per game.

Change of Plan Middleweight champ Kelly Pavlik had to switch gears to beat Jermain Taylor in a bruising, surprisingly tight rematch

Fans hoping for another golden age in the middleweight division may have a while to wait. Promoter Bob Arum has said that Kelly Pavlik's first defense could come on June 7 at Madison Square Garden...

ROGER CLEMENS and Lance Armstrong have long defined themselves as transcendent Texans, becoming the stuff of folktales as they performed amazing feats—even if they held disparate visions of what...

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WHO Phil Mickelson

"Alcohol has a calming effect on golfers and thus is a performance-enhancing drug. It should be banned during competition."

THE FIRST week of the LPGA season also marked the start of the tour's drug-testing policy, which was announced in November 2006 and formulated during the past year. The majority of players agree...

Is the PGA Tour's drug-testing policy too extreme?

For some Tour players, the drug-policy devil is all in the details

After two straight first-round losses, Ernie Els's entering the Match Play is laudable.

The Tour moves to ditch the MDF rule in favor of a Saturday cut

A local's knowledge and a cool commute helped Phil Mickelson earn bragging rights at Riviera