Mark Shapiro

Ecstatic Chileans celebrated Monday in the streets of Santiago after Chilean Marcelo Rios officially became the first Latin American tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in the world. Rios'...

Valerie Still scored 25 points Sunday night and repeated as the playoffs' MVP as the Columbus Quest won its second straight American Basketball League championship with an 86-81 victory over...

Sixth seed Irina Spirlea of Romania became the first big-name casualty at the Australian Open when she lost Monday to rising U.S. star Serena Williams. Spirlea, ranked ninth, took the...

Chris Simon, an American Indian with the Washington Capitals, was suspended indefinitely Sunday by the National Hockey League amid accusations that he shouted a racial slur at a black player...

Jim Colbert, the Senior PGA Tour's player of the year the last two years who underwent prostate cancer surgery in June, will play his first competitive round in four months...

Wayne Lukas lost a candidate for the Kentucky Derby when his Deeds Not Words ran third Sunday in the Lexington Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., while Touch Gold was...

Lost amid the golden anniversary celebration of major-league baseball's integration is an unanswerable question: What if Jackie Robinson had turned out to be a flop? In his "Grand Experiment," Branch...

George Mason University fired men's basketball coach Paul Westhead Tuesday after the Patriots failed to post a winning season during his four-year tenure. Westhead, who won the 1982 NBA title...

Nothing against Canada, but Roger Clemens has been dubbed a traitor by a U.S. government spokesman for leaving Boston to pitch for Toronto. "That is the official position of the...

A year after replacing the artificial turf with grass, the de-modernization of Busch Stadium will take another step next season with the addition of an old-fashioned, hand-operated scoreboard. The 270-foot-long...