Trip framed with closing win
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They could sit Rudy Tomjanovich in front of a Houston Rockets backdrop in a room full of his media friends, put his face on every scorecard in Toyota Center and hand him a microphone at midcourt to address the crowd.
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- It was the kind of game Corey Dillon was brought to New England to win.
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WASHINGTON -- The win-at-home, tie-on-the-road formula has worked perfectly for the US National Team through the first three games of the semifinal round qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
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Not even a big home run by Barry Bonds could stop Jaret Wright from winning again. Wright set a career high with his 13th win and drove in the go-ahead run with a surprise bunt Friday night, helping the Atlanta
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When a tournament winds down to the final rounds, the teams with the best players usually hold the advantage. Fortunately for Reading, it had the best field hockey player in the game last night.
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Middlesbrough enhanced their chances of turning this season&#39;s European adventure into a grand tour by finishing top of their Uefa Cup qualifying group last night.
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Maurice Greene grabbed the baton and accelerated toward the finish, blowing past a Nigerian and reeling in Britain's Mark Lewis-Francis. But even the self-proclaimed greatest sprinter of all time could not make up for a sloppy handoff earlier in the race Saturday, and his chest crossed the line just a hair behind the Brit's. The Americans were forced to settle for silver by an excruciating hundredth of a second.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 28 (Ticker) -- The road trip could not be going any better for Allen Iverson and the Philadelphia 76ers. Iverson scored 31 of his 34 points in the final three quarters as the 76ers remained unbeaten
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Bay Path used the mercurial offense provided by quarterback Matt Anderson to defeat Shawsheen, 21-8, and win the first Vocational Football Championship Series final yesterday afternoon at Chelsea High School.
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FOXBOROUGH -- It was a lovely week for the guys in the white shirts. They were comfortably lodged on the Left Bank of the Charles, the weather was marvelous, and they produced two solid victories in their favorite playpen (16-1-4 all time) on Route 1.
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Atlanta -- The Giants returned from the South after a 3-4 trip that should have been better, culminated by a game that they should have won.
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Sometimes how you win is as significant as whether you win. Sunday was not one of those days.
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Carl Elliott's jumper with 18 seconds left is the difference in George Washington's 62-60 win over Charlotte on Thursday.
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Matt Stairs and Dustin McGowan did their best to make sure the Toronto Blue Jays would have a pleasant flight home from their longest road trip of the season.
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This was no miracle, but you could not tell by the amount of elation surrounding the Dream Team&#39;s trip to the woodshed Sunday.
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There was more unhappiness in Raptorland yesterday. The Raptors again demonstrated a unique knack for self-destructing. For the third time on their West Coast trip, the Raps were in position to win, leading
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It was improbable that a game less than one-third of the way into the NBA season could live up to the hype. But the first head-on collision between the Corvette and the Diesel, err, the brick wall, came pretty close.