While Floyd Mayweather Jr scorned their fight's promoter and his uncle Roger ripped every other boxing trainer in the world, Juan Manuel Marquez made the biggest statement of fight week so far when he took the podium on Wednesday and spoke in clear, confident English.
As soon as Jorge Posada bumped Toronto reliever Jesse Carlson after crossing home plate, almost everyone at Yankee Stadium knew a fight was coming.
If there's one lesson to be learned from Tom Brady's return to the NFL, it's a simple one: the New England Patriots are never out of contention with their star quarterback on the field.
The American National Football League (NFL) is to receive greater exposure in China thanks to a deal worked out between the league and CCTV5.
The New York Knicks, searching for more size in the backcourt, have signed Sun Yue, a 6' 9" point guard, to a partly-guaranteed contract, his agent, Charles Bonsignore, said on Sunday.
Golf is still Tiger Woods and everyone else. He still doesn't have a rival, only occasional lapses.
Michael Jordan, considered by many the greatest basketball player of all time, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday.
The first time Wes Unseld visited China was in August 1979 when the then 33-year-old basketball star arrived with his teammates from the NBA's Washington Bullets.
American coaches are training top Chinese amateur boxers in the US under a historic agreement that could see China emerge as the next great Olympic boxing power. The coaches are also looking to promote boxing within China.
Chinese star center Yao Ming might be able to recover from surgery on his broken left foot and play for the Houston Rockets in the 2009-2010 NBA season.
The Detroit Tigers roared from behind on Placido Polanco's three-run, eighth-inning homer to defeat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 and give Justin Verlander his 15th win of the season.
The Canadian men's ice hockey team completed a four-day orientation camp with an energetic intra-squad game on Thursday, before bidding farewell until the start of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in February.