Known as the Cleveland Indians since 1915, the team has changed their name to the Cleveland Guardians “ending months of internal discussions triggered by a national reckoning by institutions and teams to permanently drop logos MORE
It had been 50 years since the Milwaukee Bucks could call themselves NBA champions, but 50 points from Giannis Antetokounmpo helped end that drought. The Bucks’ two-time NBA MVP led the way as Milwaukee beat MORE
After being held without fans last year, the Kentucky Derby welcomed more than 51,000 fans to Churchill Downs in Louisville on Saturday. It was the largest crowd to gather at a U.S. sporting event since MORE
A Pennsylvania mother allegedly sent deepfake photos and video of her teenage daughter’s cheerleading rivals depicting them naked, drinking and smoking to their coaches in a bid to get them kicked off the team, the MORE
Les Miles is out as Kansas‘ head football coach three days after he was placed on administrative leave amid accusations of inappropriate behavior toward female students during his head-coaching tenure at LSU. Kansas athletic director MORE
Tiger Woods has been hospitalized for “multiple leg injuries” after being involved in a serious car accident on Tuesday morning near Ranchos Palos Verdes, California. Woods had to be removed from his vehicle with the MORE
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said on Tuesday he made the decision before the season started not to have the national anthem played before home games. The Mavericks played their first regular season MORE
Henry Aaron, who rose up from the depths of Southern poverty to become one of the towering figures in baseball history as well a bittersweet symbol of both American racial intolerance and triumph, has died MORE
BOSTON (CBS) – Patriots head coach Bill Belichick will not accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump this week. In statement released Monday night, Belichick said after the attack on the Capitol MORE
Wild-card weekend: Jan. 9, 10 Byes for Green Bay Packers (13-3, NFC No. 1), Kansas City Chiefs (14-2, AFC No. 1). NFC No. 2 New Orleans Saints (12-4) vs. No. 7 Chicago Bears (8-8) 4:40 MORE
He grew up in Southern California and played college basketball at USC before being selected 10th overall by the Boston Celtics in the 1972 draft. Westphal won an NBA title with the Celtics in 1974 MORE
Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist, three people familiar MORE
Vanderbilt University football player Sarah Fuller made history again on Saturday becoming the first woman to score a point in a Power 5 football game. Fuller kicked an extra point toward the end of the first quarter, MORE
Sarah Fuller became the first woman to play in a Power 5 football game on Saturday when she delivered the opening kickoff of the second half for Vanderbilt against Missouri. Fuller, a senior goalkeeper on MORE
Marshall University commemorated the 50th anniversary of one of the worst sports disasters in U.S. history Saturday, a plane crash that killed most of the football team. The solemn ceremony was held around a fountain MORE
After a Major League Baseball season unlike any other, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1in Game 6 to win the best-of-seven series four games to two. Los MORE
The Lakers are NBA champions for the 17th time. The Lakers defeated the Miami Heat, 106-93, in Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Orlando, Fla., to win the NBA championship in a season impacted by MORE
The Big Ten announced Tuesday that its Council of Presidents and Chancellors has voted to allow the league to play football in fall 2020. The Big Ten will open its season on the weekend of MORE
Houston Texans at Champion K.C. Chiefs, 8:20 ET kick-off on NBC, KC is a 9 point favorite. The last time these two teams played each other was in a AFC divisional game played January 12. MORE
Now that “America’s Team” the Dallas Cowboys have been given the green light to protest, Eric Trump says he’s gone. Dallas defensive back Tyrone Crawford made the comment that the green light was “to feel MORE
Up to 35% of Big Ten athletes who contracted COVID-19 show signs of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, according to a Penn State doctor, Wayne Sebastianelli, Penn State’s director of athletic medicine. “When MORE
Throwing out the first pitch of the 2020 Major League Baseball season was Dr. Anthony Fauci. The ceremonial pitch was at Nationals Park for their game against the New York Yankees on Thursday. And just MORE
The Chiefs are riding an almost comical run of success, with a Super Bowl championship secured forever, their star quarterback secured for almost as long and 20 starters coming back to do it again. But MORE
On Monday, the team announced the change in a statement posted to its Twitter account, following a review of the name launched by the team and the league on July 3. The statement said the team MORE
“We’ll never change the name,” Washington owner Dan Snyder told USA Today in 2013 of the “Redskins.” “It’s that simple. NEVER — you can use caps.” Five days ago: Redskins head coach Ron Rivera said: MORE