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 (...)
Phil Mickelson loved golf before he was old enough to walk and swing a club. It took him on a thrilling ride of major championships and a few spectacular crashes, eventually leading to his induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Mickelson was (...)
ranked Novak Djokovic won his third Sony Ericsson Open title Sunday, holding every service game to beat Andy Murray 6-1, 7-6 (5).
Djokovic also won in 2007 and last year. Only six-time champion Pete Sampras won more men's titles.
The lone break (...)
Take Charge Indy booked his place in this year's Kentucky Derby with an upset victory in Saturday's $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park.
Under the guidance of three-time Kentucky Derby winning jockey Calvin Borel, Indy jumped straight to (...)
Alisa Kleybanova has won her first match on return to tennis from treatment for cancer.
The 248th-ranked Kleybanova, who received a wild card entry into the tournament, dropped the first set to Johanna Larsson of Sweden before rebounding to secure (...)
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 (...)
Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant says it's too early to think about a potential NBA Finals matchup with the Miami Heat.
It seems hard to ignore at the season's midpoint.
The teams share the league's best record and both rolled into the (...)
Kobe Bryant took Michael Jordan's record, then nearly lost the game to LeBron James as the West held off a furious East comeback to win the NBA All-Star game 152-149 Sunday.
Bryant scored 27 points, moving past Jordan as the career scoring leader (...)
A 17-ton trove of silver coins recovered from a Spanish ship sunk by British warships on a voyage home from South America in 1804 was set to be flown Friday from the US to Spain, concluding a nearly five-year legal struggle with the Florida deep-sea (...)
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 (...)
Rakeem Cato threw for 226 yards and two touchdowns and Tyler Warner kicked a pair of field goals, helping Marshall beat Florida International 20-10 in college football's Beef ‘O'Brady's Bowl Tuesday.
Cato threw TD passes of 31 and 35 yards to Aaron (...)
Desmond Jennings homered on the first pitch in the bottom of the 10th inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 5-4 Wednesday.
Jennings won the game with his ninth homer of the season, sending a pitch from Mark Lowe (2-3) (...)
Dustin Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury and Josh Reddick homered and the Boston Red Sox rallied from an early three-run deficit against all-star James Shields to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 9-5 Saturday.
John Lackey (7-8) struck out seven while allowing four (...)
A central Florida couple has been convicted in the death of a toddler strangled in her crib by a pet python. A jury found 21-year-old mother Jaren Hare and her live-in boyfriend, 34-year-old Charles “Jason” Darnell, guilty Thursday of manslaughter, (...)
flying streak ends this week with the smallest crew in decades — three men and a woman who were in high school or college when the first space shuttle soared 30 years ago.
History will remember these final four as bookending an era that began with (...)
NASA is marking the 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger accident that killed seven astronauts.Families and NASA officials gathered at an outdoor memorial at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Friday morning. Twenty-five years ago, the (...)
Elmo was not tickled - he was in a tussle.
Police in central Florida say a man dressed as the “Sesame Street” character was attacked Saturday at a music store in Winter Park, but he was able to fend off the attacker.
The fight broke out around 3 (...)
Better catch Jupiter next week in the night sky. It won't be that big or bright again until 2022.
Jupiter will pass 368 million miles (592 million kilometers) from Earth late Monday, its closest approach since 1963.
The solar system's largest (...)
Years after Somy Ali left her glamorous life as a Bollywood actress, she heard a knock on her door from a Bangladeshi neighbor, asking for help.
The woman said she had been sexually and physically abused for a decade by her husband, his father and (...)
Reid Brignac homered on a full count pitch leading off the bottom of the 11th inning Monday to send the Tampa Bay Rays into first place in the American League East with a 1-0 victory over the New York Yankees.
Brignac connected off Sergio Mitre (...)
Tampa Bay's Evan Longoria snapped an eighth-inning tie with an RBI single, leading the Rays to a 2-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League Wednesday.
Ben Zobrist began the winning rally by drawing a one-out walk from Shawn Camp (...)
The Boston Red Sox tightened up the race for the American League East and wild-card by beating the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 Friday.
Boston starter Jon Lester (14-8) rebounded from the worst outing of his career to pitch seven strong innings, limiting the (...)
Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren said she has “been through hell” since her husband's infidelity surfaced but she never hit him, according to an interview released Wednesday. Nordegren told People magazine she and Woods tried for months to (...)