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Kobe Passes Shaq

Posted 02.08.2012 | Sports

In the second quarter of the Lakers-Sixers game on Monday night, Kobe Bryant was positioned on the wing. He cut back toward the top of the key, runnin...

Just Missed! Lakers Hold Off Nuggets

AP | By ARNIE STAPLETON | Posted 02.04.2012 | Sports

DENVER -- Andrew Bynum scored 22 points, Kobe Bryant added 20 and the Los Angeles Lakers opened a season-high six-game trip with a 93-89 victory over ...

WATCH: High School Highlights From Your Favorite Pro Athletes!

Posted 02.03.2012 | High School

Before they were professional athletes with million-dollar paychecks, these guys were just regular teenagers with a whole lot of ambition and athleti...

NBA All-Star Game Starters Revealed

AP | BRIAN MAHONEY | Posted 02.03.2012 | Sports

By BRIAN MAHONEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- From Kobe Bryant to Chris Paul, Blake Griffin to Andrew Bynum, the NBA All-Star game is shaping up a...

12 Most Overrated Players in the NBA

Posted 01.25.2012 | Sports

The terms overrated and underrated get thrown around too much when describing NBA players, but that doesn't mean they aren't accurate descriptors in s...

'Basketball Wives' Is Reportedly Courting Vanessa Bryant

Posted 01.24.2012 | TV

UPDATE: The Insider reports that Vanessa Bryant will not be joining the cast of "Basketball Wives." According to the report, a source with knowledge o...

Kobe Bryant's Ex To Receive 3 MANSIONS In Split Settlement: Report

Posted 01.20.2012 | Divorce

Kobe Bryant's soon-to-be ex-wife Vanessa will walk away with the couple's three Newport Beach mansions, TMZ reports. The homes are part of the reporte...

LeBron vs. Kobe

AP | By TIM REYNOLDS | Posted 01.20.2012 | Sports

MIAMI -- LeBron James shook off flu-like symptoms to score 31 points, Chris Bosh scored 15 and the Miami Heat won their second straight, topping the L...

Forget Heat vs. Lakers; It's LeBron vs. Kobe

AP | By TIM REYNOLDS | Posted 01.19.2012 | Miami

MIAMI -- Kobe Bryant is 33 years old, has spent nearly half his life in the NBA, is dealing with a significant wrist injury and has taken about 3,000 ...

Rihanna Crashes Kobe Bryant's Table At Basketball Bash

www.people.com | Posted 01.19.2012 | Celebrity

Rihanna had a prime seat after making a late arrival at a party for L.A. Clippers star Chris Paul and his new shoe line: She grabbed Kobe Bryant's tab...

Jordan Schultz

Chris Paul Addition Has Transformed Clippers Overnight

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Schultz | Posted 01.18.2012 | Sports

When Chris Paul officially became a Los Angeles Clipper after being denied the chance to team up with Kobe Bryant, the Clippers were no longer the for...

WATCH: Lakers Edge Mavs In Final Seconds

AP | By GREG BEACHAM | Posted 01.17.2012 | Sports

LOS ANGELES -- Derek Fisher hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 3.1 seconds to play and the Los Angeles Lakers survived a dismal offensive game by both t...

Brennan Williams

Hattie Winston: 'Please Take The Peace And Go'

HuffingtonPost.com | Brennan Williams | Posted 01.15.2012 | Black Voices

In our weekly "Love Of The Game" series, HuffPost Black Voices talks sports with a person of note. This week we caught up with renown television and B...

CP3 Outshines Kobe As Clippers Win Battle Of LA

AP | By BETH HARRIS | Posted 01.15.2012 | Sports

LOS ANGELES -- Chris Paul scored 33 points, Blake Griffin had 22 points and 14 rebounds, and the Los Angeles Clippers led all the way in beating the L...

Why Stay-At-Home Spouses DESERVE Half Their Exes’ Millions

Tamara Shayne Kagel | Posted 01.14.2012 | Divorce

Tamara Shayne Kagel

My boyfriend and I haven't even been dating a year and we're already fighting about a divorce settlement. Not our divorce settlement, but everyone else's

Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 01.12.2012 | New York

Len Berman

If you think the world revolves around sports, think again. Lady Gaga has the most followers on Twitter, approaching 18 million. You have to go down to 17th place to find an athlete, Brazilian soccer star Kaka, 7.9 million.

WHO MAKES THE CUT?: Roster For London Olympics Reduced To 19, With 7 More To Be Cut

The Huffington Post | Dan Treadway | Posted 01.11.2012 | Sports

Four MVP Awards, all five 2010-11 All-NBA First Team selections and countless All-Star game appearances. This is just a glimpse of the various accompl...

Sports Blitz Now: Tim Tebow and a Giant Upset?

HuffPost Radio | Posted 01.11.2012 | Sports

HuffPost Radio

In the ninth episode of Sports Blitz Now, Jordan Schultz and host Scott Braun break down the Giants chances of beating Green Bay at Lambeau Field, and why Tim Tebow's miraculous season is about to come to an abrupt end.

Kobe's Big Night Keeps Lakers Streak Alive

AP | By BETH HARRIS | Posted 01.11.2012 | Sports

LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant scored 48 points – his fifth straight game with 25 or more – and the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Phoenix Su...

Los Angeles Lakers And Kobe Bryant Win Again, But Trouble Lurks Around The Corner

Jordan Schultz | Posted 01.04.2012 | Sports

Jordan Schultz

Sooner or later, the Los Angeles Lakers are going to reach a breaking point. In an early season matchup with middling Houston Tuesday night, we saw Kobe Bryant completely take control of a non-functional offense and revert to Black Mamba, circa 2006.

Kobe Lights It Up

AP | By GREG BEACHAM | Posted 01.04.2012 | Sports

LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant scored 37 points, Andrew Bynum had 21 points and 22 rebounds in the first 20-20 game of his career, and the Los Angeles Lak...

Best NBA Games Of 2011

The Huffington Post | Chris Greenberg | Posted 12.31.2011 | Sports

Remember when it seemed like the "Will He? Won't He?" drama leading up to the "Summer of 2010" was the most divisive, dramatic and distracting thing t...

Kobe Outshines Melo As Lakers Win 2 Straight

AP | By GREG BEACHAM | Posted 12.30.2011 | Sports

LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant scored 28 points in yet another dynamic performance against the Knicks, and the Los Angeles Lakers pulled away in the fourt...

HIGHLIGHTS: Kobe And Pau Lift Lakers Over Jazz For First Win

AP | Posted 12.28.2011 | Sports

LOS ANGELES -- After finishing three games in roughly 56 hours with their best effort yet, Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers demonstrated why the...

Michelangelo Signorile

The 11 Gay Media Stories We Were All Talking About In 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 12.28.2011 | Gay Voices

In 2011 it seemed the stories that captivated the media and the rest of us focused on the power of words -- whether used by sports stars and comedians...