NFL commissioner Roger Goodell came down hard on four current and former New Orleans Saints for participating in a bounty program to injure opponents. But some say he's going too far.
The National Basketball Association season that almost never was is about to head into the home stretch, i.e. the playoffs.
The league’s so-called second season begins Saturday following a compacted 66-game regular season that didn’t start until Christmas Day, about two months later than usual due to a 149-day labor dispute. The team owners emerged from negotiations with new restrictions on payrolls and contracts that will put $3 billion into their coffers over the next 10 years.
With the final regular-season games scheduled tonight and Thursday, the Dallas Mavericks, who won the franchise’s first NBA championship last season, are assured of defending their title, but they will enter the playoffs with only about the 12th-best record in the league.
The teams that will arrive in the playoffs with the best records are the Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs, Miami Heat, and Oklahoma City Thunder.
NFL draft: Why Andrew Luck's rookie salary has shrunkNFL draft 2012 top picks Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III won't be making the huge money of some of their top pick predecessors, like Sam Bradford and Matthew Stafford. New rules limiting rookie salaries ensure NFL draft 2012 picks have to prove their worth on the field before making the big bucks.
NFL Draft 2012: Watch for quarterbacks in the early roundsNFL Draft 2012: As in baseball, so in the NFL: You can never have enough good arms. After Andrew Luck, which quarterbacks will get picked early in the NFL draft?
Fenway Park: Living link to baseball's past turns 100Fenway Park has survived because it is beloved by Boston's fans and because the team owners had a vision for making improvements that have allowed the park to keep functioning, flaws and all.
Olympics vs. dancing horse: Which one defines Mitt Romney?The athletic competition Mitt Romney is most closely associated with is the Olympics. But the Romneys have a horse competing in this week's freestyle dressage World Cup finals.
Jamie Moyer leads baseball's Ageless Wonders All-StarsThe Rockies hurler becomes the game's oldest pitcher to win a major league game, inspiring the selection of an entire lineup of players who stretched the age envelope.
Roger Clemens trial: Can federal prosecutors nab a sports star at last?Roger Clemens is facing his second trial on charges of lying to Congress, after the first was declared a mistrial. Federal prosecutors have had a rough ride trying to pin perjury on top athletes.
Boston Marathon is a hot one, but is it the hottest marathon ever?Temperatures were expected to soar to 88 degrees F. Monday during the 116th Boston Marathon. About 16 percent of registered runners deferred to next year, even as wheelchair athlete Josh Cassidy set a new world record.
