Todd Ranck
Pistorius Gets Physically Ill in Court
Oscar Pistorius vomited in the dock and retched repeatedly and loudly at his murder trial Monday as he heard graphic details of the injuries sustained by the girlfriend he shot, including a head wound that was probably instantly fatal according to the pathologist who performed her autopsy...
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March Madness Has Already Begun For Bubble Teams
Providence has put itself in position to make the NCAA tournament for the first time in a decade with a strong late-season run.
The Friars know there's still some work to do if they're going to get it.
"We know anything we get, we have to work for," Providence senior guard Bryce Cotton said...
Collins Making the Most of His Return
Jason Collins dealt with the ticket requests, handled the media responsibilities, then moved on to what he most wants to do in the NBA.
"Win basketball games," Collins said.
He will get at least a few more chances.
Collins played the final minutes of a winning home debut with the Brooklyn Nets, who cooled off the Chicago Bulls with a 96-80 victory Monday night...
Russian Medalists Receive Unique Gift
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has given a Mercedes-Benz to each Olympic medalist from the host country of the 2014 Sochi Games.
Medvedev reportedly gave away dozens of white Mercedes-Benz cars, decorated with the Russian Olympic team logo...
Torre Skeptical of Home Plate Collision Rule
Joe Torre says Major League Baseball's playing rules committee leaned toward banning all home plate collisions but concluded it would be unrealistic because contact between catchers and baserunners is sometimes unavoidable.
Torre, MLB's executive vice president for baseball operations, spoke Tuesday at San Diego's spring training facility before meeting with representatives from eight clubs traini
Top Performers at NFL Combine
The NFL scouting combine will never turn a projected first-round pick into an undrafted free agent, or vice versa.
By this point in the careers of these prospects, their size has been established. So have their smarts. The film of their college performances is indelible, the basis of the evaluation for every team in the league...
MLB Changes Collision Rule
Rather than ban home plate collisions outright, Major League Baseball and its players adopted a rule limiting them this season.
In what both sides said was a one-year experiment, the rule allows collisions if the catcher has the ball and is blocking the runner's direct path to home plate, and if the catcher goes into the basepath to field a throw to the plate...
1st Openly Gay Player Takes the Court
Jason Collins heard his name called by Nets coach Jason Kidd early in the second quarter and headed to the scorer's table to check in.
When he walked onto the court, Collins became the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the United States' four major professional leagues...
USA Womens Hockey Team Still Dealing With Being 2nd Best
Silver medals around their necks.
Tears in their eyes.
"We didn't train as hard as we could for second place," U.S. women's hockey captain Meghan Duggan said on Friday, a day after the Americans lost to Canada 3-2 in overtime in the Olympic gold medal game...