When Wayman Tisdale fell and broke his leg in February 2007, he soon discovered he had cancer. Anna K. Clemmons tracks his journey back to health and happiness.
The Giants are still gathering information on linebacker Antonio Pierce's involvement in a shooting incident that led to the season-ending suspension of star receiver Plaxico Burress.
Dustin Pedroia has signed a $40.5 million extension with Boston through 2014 with a club option for the 2015 season, sources told ESPN's Peter Gammons.
Texas Tech is in contract talks with coach Mike Leach amid reports he has met with Washington officials about the Huskies' soon-to-be vacant head-coaching position. However, Leach's agent told ESPN's Joe Schad that no talks are currently under way.
Remember the champions in 2003? That's right, there were two because the AP No. 1 differed from the BCS. Dennis Dodd says that is Texas' best hope to stay in the national title conversation.
Greg Oden is starting slowly. Have patience! Derrick Rose is playing like a star.
Have mercy! Ken Berger says the past two No. 1 picks are eliciting different
reactions as rookies.
Tom Izzo is getting serious about his Spartans' free throw woes -- life-and-death serious. But he is also maintaining perspective on his team before Wednesday night's showdown with otherworldly UNC, Gary Parrish says.
Peter Laviolette won more games than any American-born coach in NHL history. But he didn't win enough of them lately to keep his job with the Carolina Hurricanes, so they replaced him with their winningest coach -- the same one Laviolette himself replaced five years earlier.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has summoned Sean Avery to New York
for a hearing Thursday on remarks that resulted in the indefinite suspension
of the Dallas Stars' instigator.
Sean Avery wasn't doing any good for the underachieving Stars before
his latest outrage, so Wes Goldstein says they should take the dressing
room irritant's league suspension as a sign and cut him loose, no matter the cost.
In yet another attempt to keep himself in the spotlight,
Sean Avery directs a crude comment at his former flames and their current beaus. But
he loses his only platform by getting suspended -- and he proves that there are
things even the NHL won't tolerate, Ray Ratto says.
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