Ian Poulter has birdied all of the par 5s on the TPC Sawgrass for a 7-under 65 and the early lead at The Players Championship Thursday.
Poulter ran off four straight birdies around the turn — two of them on par 5s — and wound up with a one-shot (...)
Kevin Anderson beat Australian qualifier Marinko Matosevic 6-4, 7-6 (2) Sunday to win the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships for his second career ATP title.
The seventh-seeded Anderson, the first South African to win this 20-year-old (...)
Kevin Anderson beat Australian qualifier Marinko Matosevic 6-4, 7-6 (2) Sunday to win the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships for his second career ATP title.
The seventh-seeded Anderson, the first South African to win this 20-year-old (...)
Carl Edwards fell bitterly short in last season's bid to win the NASCAR championship. He's starting 2012 out front.
Edwards, who lost the championship last season on a tie-breaker to Tony Stewart, won the pole for the season-opening Daytona 500, (...)
Kyle Busch edged Tony Stewart in a thrilling finish to the first race of 2012, using a slingshot pass Saturday on the last lap of the exhibition Budweiser Shootout to beat the defending NASCAR champion to the checkered flag.
Busch made two (...)
Sasha Obama is proving that the president isn't the only golfer in the family.
On a family trip to a miniature golf course, 9-year-old Sasha hit a hole-in-one in front of the watchful eye of the media, and much to the delight of her father, an avid (...)
Some inventors came with cotton fiber rolls, others with oil-clumping polymer mixes and one brought a specially designed rake. Their task: clean layers of crude oil and tar from a once-pristine Florida beach and prove they have the right stuff to (...)
Jamie McMurray held off a hard-charging Dale Earnhardt Jr. over a wild, two-lap sprint to win NASCAR's Daytona 500 Sunday.
The race was stopped twice and delayed for more than two hours because of a pothole at Daytona International Speedway, and (...)
Inspired by a young friend who died from leukemia, singer Rihanna is working to get help for those who suffer from the disease.
Rihanna was among the celebrities who submitted a request for funding to Pepsi's Refresh Project, which doles out $20 (...)
Imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery for Jessica Alba.
The actress said Saturday she's been distressed by Internet reports about a Chinese woman who is having a plastic surgery makeover to look like Alba in hopes of getting her lover (...)
Joao Barbosa powered Action Express Racing to the 24 Hours of Daytona title Sunday, finishing an improbable victory in the organization's first appearance in the sports car endurance race.
The newly formed team avoided major mechanical problems and (...)
Chip Ganassi Racing was on its way to reclaiming the 24 Hours of Daytona title, with Juan Pablo Montoya leading more than six hours into the sports car endurance race Saturday.
Montoya powered past Lucas Luhr on the outside of the slippery track (...)
Police say Ivana Trump has been escorted off a plane in Florida after she became belligerent when children were running and screaming in the aisles.
Authorities say the first ex-wife of billionaire Donald Trump cussed at the children Saturday, and (...)
Rapper Tone Loc, who performed the 1980s hits “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina,” was released from the hospital Friday after collapsing during an outdoor concert in Florida, officials said.
A spokesman for the Escambia County Sheriff's (...)
When the police got a tip that Bonner Elementary was being hit for the second time in a week, they rushed three squad cars to the school. As they were cordoning off the grounds, the burglars emerged _ dashing out a front door and across a (...)