Argentina’s Angel Cabrera parred the second hole of a playoff at golf’s Masters Tournament in Sunday to claim his second career major championship in two years, becoming the first South American to claim the prized Green Jacket. Angel Cabrera, Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell together entered the...

Freestyle motocross rider Jeremy Lusk died late Monday night as a result of head injuries incurred in an extreme sport contest in Costa Rica. He was 24. The 2008 X Games gold medalist suffered trauma to the skull after a stunt in the X-Nights watched by some 24,000 spectators in San Jose. Lusk passed...

USA Swimming declared Thursday to suspend Michael Phelps from competition and withdraw financial support for the next three months as one of his photos showing him smoking marijuana surfaced. The organization’s board of directors voted on the decision, saying the intent was to send Phelps a “strong...

There wasn’t a seat to be had inside Madison Square Garden Tuesday night, nearly 20,000 people on hand to say thank you to Adam Graves for everything he did for the Rangers and New York. And in typical Adam Graves fashion, he took his time at the podium and didn’t back away until he had thanked...

Adam Graves, Mark Messier, Brian Leetch and Mike Richter talk about the emotions of Adam Graves Night at the Viewing Party in the WaMu Theater

Alexandra Kosteniuk, the best women’s chess player in the world flipped a dirty diaper into the trash as she pondered her next move after a dominating year. ”I want to open a chess academy online, keep training, doing the podcast,” South Floridian Alexandra Kosteniuk said during a...

The New Year’s Day unveiling of an unfortunate 48-year-old skier’s hindquarters in a chairlift-dangling incident on the Skyline Express chairlift in Vail’s Blue Sky Basin was revealing in a lot of ways. A spokesperson for Vail Mountain wouldn’t tell 9NEWS how the man ended up dangling from...

Teixeira, in his introductory news conference yesterday at the old Yankee Stadium, said he wasn’t sure he wanted to come to the Bronx until his wife, Leigh, decided for the couple that New York was the place they wanted to be. Mark Teixeira sat down with his wife on Dec. 12 to have dinner, his...

We’ve known Lil Wayne to be a sports fanatic for a long time, but he’s been taking his knowledge of all things athletic a step further since September by blogging for ESPN the Magazine. This morning, Weezy appeared on the network’s “1st and 10″ — looking surprisingly clean-cut and seeming...

Thursday, ESPN’s Ed Werder, citing unnamed sources, reported to the world that Terrell Owens is a very bad man and Owens was jealous of Romo’s and Witten’s relationship. Werder tells the world that Owens is responsible for tearing apart the Dallas Cowboys. The “source”...