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Penn State's decision to honor controversial late Coach Joe Paterno during its game against Temple on Saturday evoked mixed reaction, with Nittany Lions fans giving standing ovations while Temple fans and others protested by turning their backs to the...

Colin Kaepernick's high-profile protests appear to have reinvigorated the market for his jersey. On Sunday, the backup quarterback's No. 7 jersey was the best seller among current 49ers players in the team's online store, jumping from the No. 6 spot,...

Chicago police were questioning two people on Saturday in connection with the shooting death of a cousin of Chicago Bull Dwyane Wade as they looked into the possibility that the stray bullet that killed her was fired during a robbery attempt involving a...

The lessons Buddy Ryan taught players are what kept them coming back for more. Dan Hampton and Gary Fencik went to visit their former defensive coordinator each spring. Mike Singletary spoke from the heart about his travels to see Ryan in January at...

Africa was the theme in more ways than one at Louis Vuitton's menswear fashion show as the Paris sun scorched shades-wearing celebrity attendees Kate Moss and David Beckham. Here are the highlights of the day's spring-summer 2017 shows. HEATED CELEBRITIES...

Prosecutors in O.J. Simpson's 1994 murder trial didn't know that he had been taking arthritis medication before trying on the famous ill-fitting bloody glove, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti said Thursday. Garcetti, who led the...

American sports fans love tie scores about as much as flat beer and broken baseball bats flying into the stands. But in the dictionary-dominated corner of competitive spelling, the word "tie" is in danger of defining the word "bee." ...

History is a slow and usually undetectable process, with change happening in microscopic increments. But sometimes, you can see and feel the world changing, and we've just experienced one of those moments. In recent days, there was the sudden death of...

After two straight years of ties, the Scripps National Spelling Bee is adding more sting: The championship rounds will last longer, and the words will be harder. The bee, now televised in prime time by ESPN, has exploded in popularity over the past two...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Megan Rapinoe scored twice and the United States overcame early defensive shakiness to beat Australia 3-1 on Monday in their opening game at the Women's World Cup. The result put the U.S. on top of Group D, in which the other game...

Standing on the Lucas Oil Stadium field in February in Indianapolis watching safeties go through NFL combine drills, Anthony Harris started to mentally compare himself to the NFL draft hopefuls who were posting times, reps and distances. Since he was...

Michael Sam's reaction to being drafted by the St. Louis Rams -- and, thus, becoming the first openly gay player in NFL history -- was real, raw and emotional. ------------ FOR THE RECORD An earlier version of this post incorrectly said Michael Sam was...

Kaylee squealed with barely contained delight as images of her brother, Adam, flashed on the TV screen. The 4th-grader and her mother, Katie Marceron, collaborated on the video, "Amazing Adam's Story," to show her class at Waller Mill...