In LeBron James's four-year absence, the Cavaliers compiled a 97-215 record without making a single playoff appearance.
At age 29 and with two N.B.A. titles, James announced on Friday that he would return to the Cavaliers, where he played from 2003 to 2010.
The focus now turns to Anthony, who has to choose between remaining with the Knicks or accepting an offer from a number of other teams.
It was another hustle play by Pete Rose, but this time even admirers began to suspect there was something off-kilter about him.
For Louise Richardson, the principal of the University of St. Andrews, the exclusion of female members by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club transcends gender politics. It has become a workplace hurdle.
Matteo Trentin of Italy won Friday’s stage of the Tour de France, and the American Tejay van Garderen lost time after a crash.
Masahiro Tanaka is not the first Yankee player from Japan to issue an apology after being injured. Hideki Matsui apologized after sustaining a wrist injury in 2006.
The rookie starter Masahiro Tanaka, who will be out a minimum of six weeks with a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching arm, said he was sorry “for not being able to help during this time.”
Why has one of baseball’s most effective pitches all but disappeared from the game?
Nelson Cruz has returned from a drug suspension to hit .291 with 28 homers and 74 runs batted in for the Orioles, and fans elected him to start in next week’s All-Star Game.
The embattled Uruguayan player had requested a transfer, and a World Cup bite of an Italian opponent forced the Premier League club’s hand.
Four Slovenian ski officials were suspended over suspicions that they manipulated results that allowed Vanessa-Mae to race in the giant slalom for Thailand.
Rory McIlroy surrendered the lead at the Scottish Open with his latest second-round meltdown on Friday, shooting a 78 after his course-record 64 in the first round.
Univision has benefited from increased female viewership for World Cup games after a series of ads emphasized the soccer players’ manly qualities.
After falling in the semifinals, the Netherlands and Brazil will play on Saturday, continuing the odd and often scorned sports tradition of third-place games.
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A spokesman doubted whether Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict would watch the World Cup final together — or even separately.
An increasing number of spectators lining the Tour de France’s route are taking self-portraits with the riders as the background, adding a danger to a sport already fraught with them.
Teams had to buy and install new posts, a tricky job, after the N.F.L. approved a measure to make the uprights five feet higher, or 35 feet above the crossbar, next season.
There is a direct line from Germany’s soccer development system, which has been building toward success in the World Cup since 2000, to United States Coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
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