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Longtime NBA stalwart Paul Silas, who won three championships as a player, and went on to serve as a head coach for 12 seasons, has died at the age of 79. Silas’ death was first…

Something happened at the last Detroit Lions last game that shocked me. It was something that I never thought I would experience, or at least something I didn’t think I wouldn’t experience for a long…

Grant Wahl, one of the leading soccer writers in the United States, died suddenly while covering a World Cup game Friday in Qatar.    U.S. media seated near him said Wahl fell back in his seat…

Editor’s note: This column was inspired by a series of tweets IndyStar’s Gregg Doyel wrote after learning of former colleague Grant Wahl’s death on Saturday morning. Do yourself a favor, if you don’t know much…

Soccer analyst Grant Wahl died in Qatar while covering a World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands on Friday, just days after his 48th birthday. Wahl’s wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, confirmed his death Friday night on…

NEW ORLEANS — Zion Williamson capped New Orleans’ 128-117 win over Phoenix with an electrifying 360 dunk as time expired that sent the crowd of 16,381 at Smoothie King Center into a wild frenzy. Suns…

It’s back. And he’s back. Capital One’s The Match returns for a seventh rendition Saturday but perhaps the real headline here is golf fans get to see Tiger Woods tee it up once again. Originally…

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo choked up with emotion as the tears ran down his cheeks. He momentarily covered his face with his hand, but couldn’t hide his disappointment. This moment was too big.…

Stanford hired Troy Taylor as its next head football coach, the school announced Saturday.  Taylor was the head coach of Sacramento State, who were eliminated in the FCS playoffs on Friday by Incarnate Word 66-63, the…

Anyone else observing the binge investing into college football coaching and support staffs may label it excessive.    To Georgia athletics director Josh Brooks, whose program sits No. 1 in the College Football Playoff, it’s called attention to detail.  “There’s so much that goes on…