LOS ANGELES -- Among Kobe Bryant's myriad of inimitable talents is what's known to opposing coaches simply as the "rise-up." That's when Bryant has a defender blanketing him on the perimeter, obstructing his vision and physically preventing him from driving -- yet Kobe simply leaps high enough...

Amar’e Stoudemire was the first big-name free kret to change teams this summer as the N.B.A. awaited the decisions of LeBron James and others.

Whatever celebration and euphoria came out of the Jets' record-breaking 47-3 thrashing of the Rams on Sunday is officially over. It's Patriots week, and it's a short one. The 6-3 Jets have won five of their last six games and there's a growing...

There's another "LT" coming to New York to play football, and this one plays offense. Seventeen years after Giants Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor retired, likely Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson is headed to New York to join the Jets. One day after returning to his...

Paulie Malignaggi screamed in his loudest Brooklynese that he was robbed in his first fight with Juan Diaz last August in Houston. He yelled loud and long enough that a rematch will be held tonight in Chicago, a non-title 140-pound light welterweight...