Allen Iverson has heard a lot of negative comments during his tempestuous career. He wasn’t used to hearing them about his toughness, though. Iverson returned Sunday after missing 16 games with a back injury and scored eight points in 21 minutes of the Detroit Pistons’ 101-97 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. After the game, he [...]
Those split-squad bus rides heading down lonely desert highways or rolling past steamy Florida swamps? Soon they’ll be pleasant memories. Those deep-fried Oreos in Surprise, Ariz., and seven-player-change fifth innings in Fort Myers, Fla.? Within a week they’ll fade, giving way to the bright lights and big cities of Major League arrival. Beginning Sunday, April [...]
A few minutes after Trevor Hoffman told reporters that he was resigned to beginning the season on the disabled list, the Brewers formally made the move. Hoffman was placed on the 15-day DL on Monday, retroactive to March 27, with a strained oblique muscle on the right side of his ribcage. He will miss at [...]
Giants star Plaxico Burress is returning to court Tuesday in his gun possession case amid ruminations of a plea deal and uncertainty over whether he will serve jail time. Burress, who accidentally shot himself in the thigh at a Manhattan nightclub in November, has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the second-degree, [...]
An NFL player said Monday he accepts the apology offered by a Dallas police officer who stopped him with a drawn gun in a hospital parking lot while his mother-in-law was dying inside. Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats said on ABC’s Good Morning America that he hopes Officer Robert Powell was sincere in his [...]
Tony Stewart scored Stewart-Haas Racing’s first top-10 finish in the season-opening Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway with a solid eighth-place effort. It took just five more races for the driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS to score the team’s first top-three result, as Stewart brought home a strong [...]
The Boston Bruins are gradually returning to their midseason form. Tim Thomas made 45 saves for his career-high 32nd win, Milan Lucic scored two goals and the Bruins held off the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 on Sunday night for their third straight victory. Dennis Wideman and Mark Recchi also scored, David Krejci added three assists, and [...]
Tyler Hansbrough deferred to his teammates — just as he’d hinted he might. This was no one-on-one matchup down low. Instead, North Carolina rolled past Blake Griffin and Oklahoma with a total team effort. Ty Lawson scored 19 points and top-seeded North Carolina overcame a quiet game from Hansbrough to beat the Sooners 72-60 Sunday [...]
Even before Michigan State’s first game of the season, coach Tom Izzo gathered his players and spelled out their goal. “Ford Field,” he wrote on a dry-erase board. That part of the Motown mission is now complete. The Spartans gave the Final Four a hometown feel, stopping overall No. 1 seed Louisville 64-52 on Sunday [...]
For the first time in more than a week, Brewers manager Ken Macha briefed reporters Sunday morning and had good news to relay on the Trevor Hoffman front. The new Milwaukee closer played catch for the first time since March 20, when he was shut down with a strained muscle along the right side of [...]
