It's fans like Becky Rickard that Ben Roethlisberger has lost. The 33-year-old Rickard is a Pittsburgher and a fan of every team in town. She's come out to see the Pittsburgh Pirates play, even though they haven't had a winning season since 1992, when Roethlisberger was just a backyard quarterback. She should love the Steelers and their ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Major League Baseball is planning to begin blood testing of minor league players for the banned substance human growth hormone (HGH) later this year, anti-doping sources told Reuters on Wednesday. Major League Baseball (MLB) said it was consulting experts on the issue "concerning immediate steps for our minor league drug program" but a source familiar with ...

Indianapolis Colts receiver Pierre Garcon and other US athletes with family in Haiti watched and worried in the wake of the earthquake that has devastated their ancestral homeland. "Aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews. We still have not heard much from them and my mom is still trying to call them," said Garcon, who was born in the United States to parents ...

With football season at full speed, the NFL's injury report reads like a Pro Bowl team. Troy Polamalu? Check. Michael Turner? Brian Urlacher? Check. While we should feel bad for these guys, they're still collecting million-dollar paychecks. Here, a look at players who get paid to do a whole lot of nothing. Grant Hill We pity the health ...

JANUARY Jan. 1 Sixty-six New Year's revelers die and more than 200 are injured in a fire at a Bangkok nightclub. Longtime Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell, creator of Pell Grants, dies at 90. Jan. 5 New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson withdraws his nomination to be commerce secretary. Jan. 8 Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine becomes chairman of Democratic National ...

Sports in 2009 looked down the barrel of a gun. From Tennessee to Georgia to Nicaragua, gunfire crackled in July. The causes differed — a romance gone wrong, a robbery botched, a self-inflicted wound — but the outcome did not. A gun was ...

"Take me out to the ballgame," the old song goes. Americans, however, may have been too busy channel surfing to do that this year. Television, it turns out, was where Americans turned to satisfy their craving for sports in the recession-plagued year of 2009. With fewer ...

Ask around for a World Series prediction, and many baseball fans forecast a November classic: Albert Pujols and his St. Louis Cardinals vs. Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees. Until then, a good chunk of that crowd wants to see something else. Like "Monday ...

Sports officials are confident that adequate security measures are in place to thwart any potential terrorist attacks on stadiums around the country. Responding in a low-key manner to security warnings that terrorists would like to attack stadiums, several sports officials said Tuesday that they have already boosted ...

The NFL said Monday it will not swap sites for this season's Packers-Vikings games in case the baseball playoffs get in the way at the Metrodome. Green Bay plays at Minnesota on Monday night, Oct. 5, pitting Brett Favre against his old team ...