“It’s sports. You’re supposed to go after someone. There’s supposed to be tense moments. You’re supposed to yell,” Roddick said yesterday after beating Andreas Seppi Sports to reach the fourth round. “All of a sudden, if there’s a net and rackets involved, you can’t do that?”
Jay Mariotti was, for years, the sports columnist readers loved [...]

WHEN Sporting News first hit the presses in 1886, there was no World Series, no National Football League, and no Cracker Jack, much less the Internet, mobile score updates or jeering sports bloggers. In its heyday — the 1950s and ’60s — it was the authoritative paper for serious sports fans, publishing comprehensive box scores [...]

ESPN (DIS) is late getting into the online high school sports market. To name a few competitors: Sports Illustrated (TWX) got into it last year by funding Takkle.com, and integrating the site onto SI.com; Hearst launched its own network last year; PrepChamps.com got a round of funding last month.
But ESPN RISE will be effective when [...]

Citing economic factors and programming requirements from ESPN Radio as reasons for the decision, KFNC (97.5 FM) said today that Chronicle columnist Jerome Solomon has been removed as a regular host of the station’s afternoon drive time sports talk show.
Dave Tepper, the station’s new program director, said Carl Dukes will host from 3 to 5 [...]

Photographer Annie Leibovitz shot the 6-foot-9 NBA star and the 5-foot-11 Brazilian model for the cover and an inside spread. Vogue spokesman Patrick O’Connell said the magazine “sought to celebrate two superstars at the top of their game” for the magazine’s annual issue devoted to size and shape.
“We think Lebron James [...]

Photographer Annie Leibovitz shot the 6-foot-9 NBA star and the 5-foot-11 Brazilian model for the cover and an inside spread. Vogue spokesman Patrick O’Connell said the magazine “sought to celebrate two superstars at the top of their game” for the magazine’s annual issue devoted to size and shape.
“We think Lebron James and Gisele [...]

Arenas took part in the morning shootaround and was expecting to play, but the three-time All-Star guard instead missed his 61st consecutive game with a knee injury after team doctors would not clear him to play. Arenas was unhappy about the news — “I’m not coming back this year,” he muttered about an hour before [...]

The pairing of the All-Star forward and the runway icon was shot in January by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz in James’ hometown of Akron, Ohio.Vogue is featuring athletes and models in an annual issue devoted to size and shape. The 6-foot-9 James and 5-foot-11 Bundchen, who dates Patriots star quarterback Brady, were a natural pairing.”Nobody [...]