Fast and Fragile The strapping colt Big Brown, with Kent Desormeaux along for the ride, romped to the wire in winning the 134th Kentucky Derby by 4 3/4 lengths last Saturday at Churchill Downs...

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Hot young drivers—and one smooth dancer—have reinvigorated IndyCar

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Which team has the best offensive lineup in baseball?

Died At age 93, longtime baseball executive Buzzie Bavasi. In 1939 Bavasi, a native New Yorker, began working for the Brooklyn Dodgers as traveling secretary and publicity director. He replaced...

JOHN GIBBONS Blue Jays manager, after visiting his 96-year-old grandmother at her nursing home: "She asked me, 'What's wrong with your team?' I said, 'That's a good question.' Then she said, 'Are...

The acting U.S. Marshal in Boston is under investigation for assigning deputies to work as drivers for broadcasters Tim McCarver and Joe Buck during the 2007 World Series.

A controversial Army star enters the NFL

WHAT DO Aldous Huxley, Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro and Jose Canseco have in common? If you said, "They all dated Madonna," think again. The answer: They've all taken a stab at a novel that...

42 Years since the Tigers swept a series at Yankee Stadium before they took three straight from New York last week.

David Mamet tackles mixed martial arts

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Susannah Aboff HUNTINGTON, N.Y. > Golf Aboff, a junior at Princeton, won the Ivy League title by 11 strokes. She shot an Ivy-record 65 in the first round at Atlantic City Country Club and finished...

IT IS a familiar story: A college basketball coach gets into hot water with the NCAA, leaves town with a lucrative payday, then moves on while the program he disgraced falls apart. The latest...

The Interview Larry Bird PACERS PRESIDENT

With stars young and old excelling, and the top eight seeds still in pursuit of the title, the NBA playoffs are only going to get wilder

SPORTS IN REAL TIME.

In a Kentucky Derby that ended tragically for the one entry to make a run at him, lightly raced favorite Big Brown was way more horse than the weak field could handle

SPORTS IN REAL TIME.

A young flamethrower makes a Joba-like debut, another pitcher bangs a pinch-hit homer: It's been a charmed start for the youthful Diamondbacks, who can make a case as baseball's model organization

SPORTS IN REAL TIME.

How Kelly Amonte Hiller turned a Northwestern club team into a No. 1 program with staying power, upsetting the Eastern establishment and expanding the sport's reach

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After a stunning fall in '07, the Syracuse men stepped up the intensity, toughened their D and stormed back into contention

The Flyers stormed into the Eastern Conference finals behind elusive center Daniel Brière, whose game-winning goals silenced a taunting Montreal crowd

SPORTS IN REAL TIME.

Suddenly potent scorer Johan Franzen is rewriting the record book of Western finalist Detroit

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The NFL New England broke with tradition by taking a linebacker in the first round, but Jarod Mayo fits the Belichick mold • Hats off to the Bengals for not giving in to Chad Johnson's trade demands

A Prodigy? Patriots first-round pick Jerod Mayo may be the ideal Belichick linebacker, except that he's 10 years younger

Kudos to Bengals president Mike Brown for holding his ground with disgruntled wideout Chad Johnson, who's trying to force a trade by acting like a spoiled child. Johnson (right), who signed a...

Caught Short How devastating is the loss of Jorge Posada to the Yankees? Just ask the Red Sox how valuable a catcher is

Young, quality catchers are in short supply, but here are three promising ones to watch.

THE WORST? For Teresa Tapia it wasn't the night she awoke to find her husband standing over her with a hammer, or the time he shoved her while holding a pistol; it wasn't any one disappearance or...

Paula Creamer made up for a missed opportunity by winning in overtime, thus ending Lorena Ochoa's bid to make LPGA history

Two centuries since it first opened on the nation's western frontier, and after two decades of neglect, history-rich Bedford Springs Resort and its pedigreed Old course are once again the jewel of...

A high-stakes event goes dark

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TO GLIMPSE the generation gap between today's up-and-comers and the players from my era, look at Vicky Hurst and Juli Inkster. Hurst is a 17-year-old high school senior from Melbourne, Fla., who...

"The PGA Tour should allow appearance fees. Sponsors and fans want stars, and money is the only way to consistently deliver them."

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Phil Mickelson says that working out has made him an inch taller

Winning for the first time at the tender age of 22, Anthony Kim used a familiar game plan to crush a top-notch field at the Wachovia Championship