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The playing field inside Utah State's Romney Stadium will be renamed Merlin Olsen Field in honor of the former NFL player and USU standout.
Past major marathon champions Robert Cheruiyot and Salina Kosgei of Kenya will run next month's New York City Marathon.
A wheat farm, large plastic letters and his dad's small plane? Jason Kahle thought it had a ring to it. He took his 23-year-old girlfriend, Aleasha Decker, up in the air Aug. 9 under the guise of photographing some relatives' houses in Kalida, about 60 miles southwest of Toledo in northwestern Ohio.
Illinois and Northwestern are talking about moving their annual Big Ten football game to Wrigley Field.
Defending champion Serena Williams and four other past winners, including her sister Venus and wild-card entry Kim Clijsters, are in the provisional women's field for the U.S. Open.
Five-time defending champion Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick are among eight Grand Slam winners leading the men's field for the U.S. Open.
A 60-foot-long dollar sign has been burned into the synthetic turf at a Long Island high school football field.
Four PGA Tour veterans are among the latest to commit to play in the U.S. Bank Championship in July.
David Wright and Chipper Jones insist they were just kidding.
There will be no shortage of challengers when Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird tries to win the Preakness Stakes.
NEW YORK - Forget the first hit, the first home run, the first run, the first pitch and all the rest of the standard new-ballpark stats. Let it be known instead that the first Met to fall off the pitcher’s mound in their new ballpark was Mike Pelfrey.
Of all the 41,007 fans who paid top dollar to attend Monday's official Citi Field opener, perhaps no one beat the father and son in section 11, row 8, seats 5 and 6.
On his first visit to Citi Field, New York Mets pitcher Mike Pelfrey was happy to see the high outfield wall and 415-foot sign in deep right-center. He figures the spacious dimensions will look especially appealing when he stands on the mound Monday night to throw the first pitch against the San Diego Padres as the Mets open their sparkling new ballpark.
A deal to renovate historic Wrigley Field with a state-assisted $300 million loan stalled even before Illinois' ex-governor was caught up in a corruption charge involving the plan, an official said Tuesday.
Davis Love III needed someone else's misfortune to get into the Masters.
Citi Field opened its shiny steel gates for a big test run, hosting a wide-eyed crowd that got its first glimpse of the New York Mets' new home.
George Washington Carver High School — a collection of prefabricated buildings that sprang up amid the devastation of Hurricane Katrina — has always been a fertile ground for dreamers.
A gas field in the Sahara Desert is seeking to set a global environmental example with a project to bury carbon dioxide instead of spewing it into the atmosphere.
Sanya Richards clutched this medal, stared at it, smiled at it. A few feet away, Allyson Felix did the same. These weren't their first prizes of the 2008 Olympics. But these were the medals the Americans wanted. Gold. Elusive gold.
It was a long wait for Allyson Felix. It felt every bit as long for Muna Lee. Felix, Lee and American teammate Marshevet Hooker easily made it through the first round of 200-meter Olympic qualifying Tuesday morning by winning their heats.
Tyson Gay stuck his left hand behind him, waiting to feel the red baton's cool metal make contact.
Here's what qualifies as a bargain in New York — $495 for a seat at a ballgame.
Roger Federer and 16 of the other top 20 men and Ana Ivanovic and 17 other top 20 women have entered the tennis tournament at next month's Beijing Olympics.
This massive oil field surrounded by the desolate sands of Saudi Arabia's vast eastern desert feels like the middle of nowhere.
Unbeaten Big Brown and the filly Eight Belles were among a full field of 20 horses entered for the Kentucky Derby.
I see Sally Field on TV all of the times these days in an anti-osteoporosis commercial and all I can think about when I see her is "Damn! She still looks great!".
BBC News - Middle East conflict played out in the olive grovesBy Bethany Bell BBC News, West Bank Akram Imran says the Jewish settlers came at night. "I came to work in the early morning. It was a horrible sight, a massacre of trees," he said. "Some of them are at least 70 years old."
Police: Son, 15, Shot By Father Dies Police said a father fatally shot his 15-year-old son in the back of the head Monday in Highland Park after they got into an argument.
Wilton Man Says Gay Naked Barn Dance Was In Plain View Of Children A Wilton man is upset over a naked barn dance near his home that, he says, happened within clear view of children. He captured the dirty dancing on home video.
Are you asleep? Exploring the mind's twilight zoneAs the blur between sleep and wakefulness becomes more widely accepted, researchers are devising techniques for capturing the brain's fleeting lapses and vacillations.
Track hero of Beijing Olympics Usain Bolt goes from Kingston to Big Apple in N.Y. minuteThe man does look after his body and knows his limits.
Police Apologize For Killing Family Pet - Raymore police have apologized to a family whose 19-year-old cat was taken into a field by an officer and shot to death on Labor Day.Kelly Wesner and her family were looking for their pet around the same time it was being shot and discarded in a city trash bin.
BP finds MASSIVE oil field in Gulf of Mexicoit probably holds more than the 3.0 billion barrels of oil equivalent,
Teens Fake Abductions, Police Field Real 911 Calls Frantic Northland neighbors rushed to call 911 Monday afternoon after they said they saw a group in masks push a teenager into a trunk at gunpoint. But when the cops caught up with the apparent bad guys, they let them go.
Companies donate equipment to Iraq's baseball teamMSNBC's Rachel Maddow's "Operation Iraqi Baseball" is about to deliver the goods. The Iraqi team needed everything. It had only one 5-year old bat and no uniforms.
Crop Circles Turn Up in Russia: Aliens , Hoax or Whatever?Mysterious pictograms much like those that have appeared in fields in the UK for years have appeared on a wheat field in Southern Russia's Krasnodar region. Check out the pics.
We went to the Prefontaine Classic a couple of weeks ago, on June 7th, 2009 in Eugene, Oregon. This is our third consecutive year enjoying this event. The day was beautiful albeit a bit warm to permit any world records from falling.
600ft jellyfish crop circle found in Oxfordshire fieldA 600ft jellyfish pattern has appeared in a barley field in Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire, in what is one of the most intriguing crop circles ever seen in Britain.
Duchy Of Cornwall - Bude - North Cornwall - Catesby Prospose Green Field Destruction
Human head found in fieldPolice are investigating the discovery of a human head in a field. It is not clear whether the body part, found by a member of the public in Asfordby, Leicestershire, belonged to a man or a woman.
More unions favor legalizing workersThe dynamics of the farm labor population have changed since César Chávez and others began organizing workers in California's fields.
French Physicist Wins $1.4 Million Religion PrizeIn a nominating letter, Nidhal Guessoum, chair of physics at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, wrote that d'Espagnat "has constructed a coherent body of work which shows why it is credible that the human mind is capable of perceiving deeper realities."
A Microscopic Tool Inspired by the Human HandUsing the human hand as a model, scientists at Johns Hopkins University and its medical school have developed a microscopic tool that might one day be used inside the body.
Science's Alternative to an Intelligent Creator: the Multiverse Theory | DISCOVERPhysicists don't like coincidences. They like even less the notion that life is somehow central to the universe, and yet recent discoveries are forcing them to confront that very idea.
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