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SOUTH BEND -- Guarantees aren’t issued with helmets and shoulder pads. Every high school football player is always one play away from the end of his career. An unspoken code within the inner sanctum of the locker room won’t allow for...

The Texans made second-year defensive end J.J. Watt a captain this week. This was after the media pronounced him defensive player of the year about a month ago. And after defensive coordinator Wade Phillips put him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in...

The name on the front of their jerseys brings expectations every year. Parkland and Emmaus have always qualified for the Lehigh Valley Conference baseball playoffs since the league went to a four-team tournament before the 2009 season. Why would 2012...

One moment, 8-year-old Brent Midlock was swimming in a shallow saltwater pool at an all-inclusive resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The next, he was gone. "It's something I think about every day," says his mother, Nancy Midlock. Her son had been sucked...

From the top of the jumping tower at the Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove, the view is of a new season, with yellow and orange tints in the trees marking the change. For 8-time U.S. champion Jessica Jerome and the other women who will see that...

Stop John Danks before he starts again. Sounds like a line from a movie trailer. Call it “John of the Dead’’ because the horror that was Danks’ outing in Toronto --- nine runs in four innings --- was not a one-off, and I’m...

A UC Irvine professor who claims she was injured by Johnny Depp's bodyguards can seek punitive damages from the actor, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled....

This came out in early March, but I just stumbled across the link today while doing some research. The Lehigh Valley Conference's top two pitchers, Nazareth's Karl Keglovits and Central Catholic's David Rosenberger (right), were both chosen by ESPNHS as.....

Has Chuck found a new hobby? One of these shots from the Season 5 premiere makes us wonder....

Despite covering his mouth with his hands, LeBron James can clearly be heard calling the reporter's question "retarded."...

Brett Favre will not play for the Minnesota Vikings in the Monday night football game against the New York Giants, bringing to an end his NFL-record consecutive starts streak at 297. In dramatic fashion, Vikings spokesman Jeff Anderson announced through.....