Dirk Nowitzki of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks sat out Sunday's win over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. He is recovering from something at once gruesome but at the same time bizarre.

Let's recap, shall we? Friday night's game between the Dallas Mavericks and the Houston Rockets was a...

This week in a Los Angeles courtroom Michael David Barrett pleaded guilty to one count of interstate stalking as a result of his activity related to Erin Andrews of ESPN. He faces up to five years in prison.

Andrews spoke in court as part of the pre-sentencing procedure designed to...

You know that old saying about someone being so ticked off about losing that he picks up his ball and goes home? It's usually meant to identify someone as a sore loser or a bully. Well, he might not fit that depiction at this point -- or perhaps you think...

Caron Butler of the Washington Wizards might have corporate sponsors but understands when you're giving gifts you should do what the rest of us do, pay for them yourself.

Prior to the Wizards home game against the Boston Celtics, Butler engaged in the fifth year of what he calls "Caron...

You can't avoid news about the blockbuster movie New Moon, and it has now intruded in my sports life. My Lakers season seat partner informed me just prior to last Thursday's game against the Chicago Bulls that he thought he and I needed to take separate cars to the event.

Before all the talk begins to fade about what happened on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas and moves to the endless calls for what fight fans want, Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, let's reflect on a historic fight and two men that gave us our money's worth.

On Wednesday, news floated out of the Lakers training facility that got the attention of most basketball fans and media outlets. It concerned the readiness of the team's power forward/center, Pau Gasol.

He has been sidelined for more than a month and it is attributed to a strained hamstring. He...

More than a year ago I wrote a piece about a simple mouth guard which prevented concussions when worn by athletes. I asked why the NFL wasn't all over it, testing it, buying it and making it part of their equipment.

The mouth guard was developed and is sold...

Gay Culverhouse, former executive of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and daughter of former owner of the club, Hugh Culverhouse, says she has been told she has only six months left to live.

Alan Schwarz of The New York Times met with her prior to her appearance last Wednesday...

Disgraced ESPN baseball analyst, Steve Phillips, was terminated by his employer, ESPN, who issued a statement which reads in part,

"Steve Phillips is no longer working for ESPN," network spokesman Josh Krulewitz said in a statement. "His ability to be an effective representative for ESPN has been significantly and irreparably...

One day before the much anticipated start of the NLCS with the Dodgers' 21 year old Clayton Kershaw starting his first ever playoff game, the team issued a statement announcing the marital split of its owner and CEO, Frank and Jamie McCourt.

Rumors of trouble in the relationship began, as...

It's hard to listen to a filthy-rich man complain about the price of tickets for his enshrinement in his sport's hall of fame.

But that, among other cringe-worthy moments is exactly what Michael Jordan did.

Friday's ceremony in Springfield, Mass., inducting not just MJ but also C. Vivian Stringer, Jerry...

The NFL's Competition Committee is meeting to discuss the efficacy of keeping a video screen in place at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Only in a monument to excess could this happen, but nonetheless it has.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones showed off his $1 billion+ edifice during a weekend, pre-season...

After all the Wimbledon semi-final matches were complete and I contemplated the two mornings of Breakfast at Wimbledon on tap for the weekend I was hopeful that the Williams sisters would give us a good if not great finals match.

Well they didn't and more often than not that seems...

A lot has happened in the year since American Joey Chestnut took down perennial champ Takeru Kobayashi for the second straight year at the July 4th Coney Island extravaganza.

In a tie-breaker that day Chestnut defended his title and viewers were treated to the spectacle of some back-wash of the...

A reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News said that the official NCAA report about USC's alleged rules violations might not come for six to eight weeks. And that only covers the basketball program.

No matter what it says, Tim Floyd's resignation on Tuesday should tell you all you need...

Reports have been circulating that the Detroit Lions are in negotiations with Matthew Stafford to become the first pick in Saturday's NFL Draft.

The Lions were quick to say that he wasn't the only one under consideration. That might just be a ruse or a back-up plan to remedy a...

His television show was canceled in 2007 and his radio program was dropped from the Worldwide Leader's daily menu a year later when he also lost his daily column at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

And now, due to his inability to come to an agreement for a new compensation package with...

In my opinion, one of the most amazing things to emerge in the aftermath of the sudden and crushingly sad death of the young Angels pitcher, Nick Adenhart is the open way his agent has mourned him.

If you haven't seen the video of Scott Boras speaking at the Angels'...

There he was in a gray suit, walking past the media straight into the standard issue black SUV. His attorney, Ben Brafman spoke with the throngs holding microphones.

It was the long awaited day for a pre-trial hearing in Manhattan's criminal court building at which it was expected that New...