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    It started as a good day, and that hasn’t always been the case with Titus Young recently. But Friday, hours before he was arrested for the third time in less than a week, the former Lions receiver was in a cheerful mood driving around Los Angeles with his father, Richard. They went to […]

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What’s the best way to win a game of chance? Turn it into a game of certainty. That, a British casino is charging, is exactly what world-renowned poker player Phil Ivey did in winning £7.6 million — about $11.9 million — in one spectacular run of punto banco, a baccarat game. Crockfords is charging that […]

  Buffalo Bills defensive end Mario Williams has gone on the offensive. He wants the 10-carat $785,000 diamond engagement ring he gave to Erin Marzouki, his former fiancée, back. FYI…Williams’ new contact with the Buffalo Bills was one of the most lucrative for a defensive player in NFL history. The contract is for six years, […]

It is the stuff of Knicks nightmares: Reggie Miller on May 7, 1995, scored eight points in :08.9 to during the final :18 of the game to give the Pacers a 107-105 Game 1 Eastern Conference semifinals victory over the Knicks. Could anyone do something like that again? “I did on the video game one […]

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Former Texans star Mario Williams now plays for the Buffalo Bills, but he apparently left a piece of his heart – and a $785,000 engagement ring – in Houston. And he wants the ring back. Attorneys for Williams filed suit last week in Harris County state district court against Erin Marzouki, who is described in […]

David West scored 20 points, Paul George added 19 and the Indiana Pacers beat the New York Knicks 102-95 on Sunday in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. D.J. Augustin had 16 points for the Pacers, who built a 16-point lead while Carmelo Anthony was on the bench in foul trouble in the third […]

It was hardly the classiest tactic, but trainer Ruben Guerrero injected plenty of intrigue into his son Robert’s upcoming welterweight title bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. After a boring thank-you fest disguised as a news conference in the MGM Grand’s Hollywood Theatre, promoter Oscar De La Hoya invited Ruben Guerrero to the dais to say a […]

INDIANAPOLIS  – The OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini Marathon today  (Saturday).  The 5K race began at 7 a.m., followed by the Mini Marathon at 7:30 a.m. THE COURSE The course starts on Washington Street and runners will head west over and alongside the White River. Participants will then head west on 10th Street to the newly […]

The worst-kept secret among NBA award recipients will be formally revealed Sunday when Miami Heat star LeBron James is named Most Valuable Player for the fourth time, league sources confirmed Friday. James has been voted MVP for the second straight season and for the fourth time in the past five years. He’ll join Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain with at least […]

The first openly gay active pro athlete in a major American sport will sit down with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday. NBA player Jason Collins, his twin brother (former NBA player Jarron Collins) and their family (parents Portia and Paul Collins, his sister-in-law Elsa Collins and aunt Teri Jackson) will sit for their first interview together […]

Despite spending two months in prison for punching former long-term partner Josie Harris, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has wasted no opportunity to deny and downplay the events of September 9, 2010. In fact, boxing’s biggest draw tells a very different version of what happened on the night that ultimately led to his incarceration last summer. Harris […]

Why are we so not surprised to learn that Carolyn Moos, the woman who was once engaged to the now out of the closet NBA player, supposedly had NO CLUE that he was gay. Moos (who once played in the WNBA) and says she only found out last weekend, dated Collins for seven years and was […]