If you write about the Houston Texans, the No. 1 question you get from fans and fantasy football types is what's up with Steve Slaton? In the last game against the atrocious run defense of the Buffalo Bills, Slaton was benche...

Allen Iverson made his debut for the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night in Sacramento, and for someone who hasn't played in a month or so, it wasn't too bad of one. Iverson, returning from a partial left ...

Among the things the folks at Human Rights Watch keep track of are places on the globe that employ particularly cruel forms of punishment, like, for example, eye gouging. The good news is that for quite some time the list of gover...

George Kokinis has been removed as general manager of the 1-7 Browns, the team confirmed in a statement Monday night. Multiple news organizations, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer and WKYC-TV reported earlier that the Browns had m...

Chris Paul is the best point guard in the game today, and Rajon Rondo isn't too far behind at the position, probably in most people's top five. But besides being great at what they do, these guys have something else in commo...

It isn't a bandwagon we're jumping on. It's a Mardi Gras float, a wave of confidence that dares to suggest that the New Orleans Saints, a team that wasn't supposed to win the Super Bowl unless the apocalypse arrived, might win another one next year. I...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Only a Super Bowl victory parade could upstage Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Carnival floats carrying Saints players, coaches and team owner Tom Benson rolled past tens of thousands of jubilant fans in downtown New Orleans on Tuesday,...

There's no questioning the strength at the top of the Big East Conference. For the second consecutive week, the Big East has a record four teams among the top seven teams in the Associated Press poll. Syracuse and Villanova are virtual locks to land...

With Super Bowl XLIV in the books, we begin our lookahead to 2010 free agency by breaking down the top players available at every position. Coming next: Receivers and tight ends. The confetti has barely settled on the bodies in the French Quarter....

I'm thinking Brandylyn. Brookdy seems cut-off somehow. I don't know, if Brooklyn Decker and Andy Roddick are suddenly the hot new celebrity power couple, then they're going to need one of those combo-names. Nothing sounds that great -- Roddecker? --...