The only Boston team to resume play away from home after the successful manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev played a gritty game and stayed within six points either way until New York’s Carmelo Anthony hit a tough jumper with 1:21 to
The Boston Bruins faithful were able to focus back on hockey for a couple of hours by booing Jarome Iginla, who chose to go to Pittsburgh rather than Boston a few weeks ago. Iginla had the last laugh when he
A year after Al-Qaeda suggested attacks on sports events, and in the wake of the terrorists in the Boston Marathon bombing being killed or captured, the next 36 hours includes two teams resuming play in Boston, four NBA playoff game tips,
The Redskins-Eagles opening week game could be the most up-in-the-air–and hyped–match-up, while the Colts could be the easiest winner against the visiting Raiders. The table below lists the match-ups (from the greatest toss-up to the greatest lock) from the newly
As Boston attempts to return to normalcy after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Friday, a traditional Yankees-Red Sox race for the AL East could provide a nice distraction for the recent tragic events. This was supposed to be the year
New England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman visited Boston Marathon bombing victim Jeff Bauman on Friday at the hospital. Bauman, the victim whose father knew he was alive when he saw a grisly photo of his son being wheeled down
Brooklyn lured the New York Islanders away from the crumbling Nassau Coliseum, but the rest of the Eastern Playoff teams are getting nervous that the Islanders will not have home ice advantage. The 7th-place Islanders have the second best road
The Los Angeles Lakers’ twin seven-foot towers combined for an incredible 38 rebounds for their seventh straight win, a 99-95 overtime victory over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night to pit them against the San Antonio Spurs. Chris Paul’s 11
Pau Gasol might have expected a little help from his little brother Marc Gasol against Utah’s red hot Al Jefferson to get the Lakers into the playoffs Wednesday night. Instead, Jefferson dominated with 22 points and 16 rebounds to only
On the most emotional hockey night imaginable, the Boston Bruins were on their way to a win after 59 minutes and 30 seconds of play – only to have Cody Hodgson, of the Buffalo Sabres, score with 26.6 seconds to
Braves starter Mike Minor and A’s starter Bartolo Colon both allowed only one run Wednesday, but only the A’s won – catching the Braves with a major-league-best 12 wins. The Braves 1-4 rotation has not allowed more than one earned
On Monday, the Boston Bruins went from worrying about coming back home after a couple of losses to fight off Ottawa, to worrying about the victims of the Boston Marathon explosion. On Wednesday, they will attempt to help lead Bostonians
While the Braves five home runs Tuesday grabbed attention, another dominant starting pitching performance is the biggest reason the Braves are 12-1 with 10 straight wins. Kris Medlen made it one earned run or fewer allowed in 10 straight starts
Marcus Smart was expected to be guaranteed $8.7 to $9.7 million in a couple of months despite being in a shooting slump for a good part of his freshman season and having his Oklahoma State team lose in the opening
While most Americans were running to mail forms to the IRS Monday, IRS agents were raiding the Knoxville headquarters of the Flying J truck chain owned by the owner of the Cleveland Browns and the Governor of Tennessee. During the
Whether or not the 2013 Kobe-less Lakers join the Lakers teams of 1958, 1975, 1976, 1994 and 2005 as the only ones not to make the playoffs now comes down to if either Marc or brother Pau Gasol can win
An important hockey game was scheduled Monday, as the Boston Bruins came home to try to rebound from two losses and keep the visiting Ottawa Senators from threatening to make a run at home ice advantage for the playoffs. However,
Ninth inning rallies by both Tampa Bay and Boston extended the Monday morning game beyond three hours and hopefully kept most of the 37,000 Red Sox fans from getting far from the stadium before explosions just over a mile way.
Dwight Howard scored 26 points and grabbed 17 rebounds Sunday against one of the greatest players of all-time, Tim Duncan, to get the Lakers one win from the playoffs. The Lakers were able to win the final three minutes after
The Chicago Bulls hit some three-pointers to keep the score respectable, but the Miami Heat’s dominance was most evident by the 57% of the 2-point shots they hit to the 32% accuracy they allowed the Bulls while holding them without
Goalies Rick Hartzell of Quinnipiac and Jeff Malcolm were both spectacular throughout the second period of the NCAA Frozen Four championship Saturday, as each stopped barrages of rebounds, deflections, short one-on-ones, getting run over twice each and even defending 5-on-3
Kobe Bryant fought back tears after a game in which he appeared to tear his left Achilles Heel on a drive to the basket with 3:08 to go in the game Friday. He somehow managed to come back on the
Former Timberwolves player Al Jefferson set a career high with 40 points and saved the Utah Jazz’s season when he fought through a double team by Ricky Rubio Greg Stiemsma, and pulled up to hit a jumper with one second
The Major League Baseball Players Association said Friday it had received an application from rapper Jay-Z to be a baseball agent the same day he released “Open Letter,” which includes the lyrics, “Obama said, ‘Chill you gonna get me impeached.’
Yale and Quinnipiac are only seven minutes apart, but they will play in Pittsburgh Saturday for the NCAA Hockey Title, joining the UConn women’s basketball team to give the state two winter champions. With NHL-bound goalie and potential player of the year
