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Byline: Kent Babb EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - He sat off to himself, an increasingly common sight these days, even after what would qualify as a promising, hopeful afternoon. Robert Griffin [...]

Byline: Kent Babb MONTICELLO, Fla. - The binder sat open on his adoptive mother's lap, turned to the page where the scholarship papers lay in a transparent sleeve. Nik Branham [...]

Byline: Kent Babb BISHOPVILLE, S.C. - Two school buses, one yellow and the other white and blue, pull into the rear parking lot of a forgotten building in an antique [...]

Byline: Kent Babb BALTIMORE - These little things that make history, that win games, that break hearts - they are separated by inches. Maybe not even that much. The split-second [...]

Byline: Kent Babb BALTIMORE - These little things that make history, that drive a home crowd crazy, that will occupy the minutes and seconds of the next two days. A [...]

Byline: Kent Babb BALTIMORE - They kept on being unpredictable, kept taking a torch to that Kansas City Royals scouting report. This isn't a team that hits home runs or [...]

Byline: Kent Babb BALTIMORE - They were roamers before, unashamed tinkerers who would forever underachieve. Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter couldn't win big. Busybodies never do. He could build a [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Michael Phelps, the 18-time Olympic gold medal swimmer, announced Sunday morning he was stepping away from the sport and suspending his comeback attempt to seek help following [...]

Byline: Kent Babb and Marissa Payne Michael Phelps, the 18-time Olympic gold medal swimmer and one of the most famous faces in international sports, was arrested early Tuesday in Baltimore [...]

Byline: Kent Babb BALTIMORE - After four days of news and speculation, twists and turns, best guesses and worst fears, a football game broke out Thursday night in Baltimore. Fans [...]

Byline: Kent Babb and and Mark Maske Eight years ago, Roger Goodell emerged as the face of the National Football League. As its new commissioner, he was the most powerful [...]

Byline: Kent Babb OXFORD, Miss. - Hugh Freeze takes his seat near the back of the Mississippi football meeting room, and from here, with his three daughters sitting to his [...]

Byline: Kent Babb COLUMBIA, S.C. - College football's biggest troll, to use the parlance of our times, is 69 years old and doesn't have a Twitter account, which is probably [...]

Byline: Kent Babb PLYMOUTH, Ind. - Drivers and crew members put the final touches on their winged sprint cars, scuffing tires, fueling engines and pulling on racing helmets. In the [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The stories of Tony Stewart's maturation began nearly a decade ago: NASCAR's bad boy had finally mellowed, the quick anger and the brutal honesty mostly behind him. [...]

Byline: Kent Babb As expected, the NCAA's Division I Board of Directors voted through a new - and potentially groundbreaking - measure Thursday, approving the 'Big 5' conferences' ability to [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The National Collegiate Athletics Association's Division I Board of Directors will vote on a measure Thursday that proposes to grant autonomy to the five biggest (and richest) [...]

Byline: Kent Babb KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Inside, past the hedge trimmers and the chainsaws for sale on the sidewalk, beyond the movie boxes and hand tools on the shelves, [...]

Byline: Kent Babb CLEVELAND - The news traveled fast down Euclid Avenue, eyes fixed on phones as the lunchtime crowd walked through Public Square and into the shadow cast by [...]

Byline: Kent Babb KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Mark and Cindy Mawhirter left for the hospital a few hours before the game began, and baby Luke took his time. She labored [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The cameras came on, and America stopped to watch. O.J. Simpson was in the back of a white Ford Bronco, former college and National Football League teammate [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The hours and picks came and went, but then the phone finally rang. Michael Sam, the Missouri pass rusher who announced in February that he is gay, [...]

Byline: Kent Babb NEW YORK - Weeks ago, when Jadeveon Clowney visited the Houston Texans, first-year coach Bill O'Brien looked the University of South Carolina pass rusher in the eye [...]

Byline: Kent Babb The general manager made up his mind weeks before the NFL draft: The Houston Texans would be taking a defensive end with the first overall pick. Now [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Michael Sam, the openly gay NFL draft prospect, spent a few days this week in New York. It was mostly a social visit, his friend and former [...]

Byline: Cindy Boren and Kent Babb The National Basketball Association said it will announce the results of its investigation Tuesday into racially insensitive comments allegedly made by Los Angeles Clippers [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Donald Sterling wasn't in a courtside seat Sunday afternoon, where he would've had an up-close view of what his coarse words and corrosive opinions did to his [...]

Byline: Kent Babb LOS ANGELES - Every morning he made the journey: the walk to the bus stop through South Central, the bus to Vernon Station, the blue-line train to [...]

Byline: Kent Babb Not long ago, the Virginia men's basketball team had trouble holding the old man's attention. There would be an interesting season here or there, but John Risher [...]

Byline: Kent Babb He almost made it out of the hotel room Sunday, farther than he'd made it two days earlier. Dick Bennett drove from Charlottesville, Va. to Raleigh, N.C., [...]

Byline: Kent Babb WASHINGTON - In his mind, the cheers still come. He can hear them sometimes, but most days he listens hard for the faint sound. A man asked [...]

Byline: Kent Babb RALEIGH, N.C. - Josh Richardson made another three-pointer, another second-half dagger, and as he pumped his fist, Mercer's fans dropped their flags and rested their pom-poms. The [...]

Byline: Kent Babb RALEIGH, N.C. - Late in Friday night's NCAA tournament game against George Washington, Memphis Coach Josh Pastner made a move. The Colonials were coming back, trimming a [...]

Byline: Kent Babb RALEIGH, N.C. - In the long run, when the frustration of a long, disappointing night fades, George Washington University's season could be seen as a cornerstone. That [...]

Byline: Kent Babb When Gregg Marshall answered a call in spring 2007 asking if he would be interested in coaching the Wichita State basketball team, Marshall needed a moment. Marshall, [...]

Byline: Kent Babb DALLAS - They returned home after sunset, a mostly silent flight and a devastating loss behind them. Southern Methodist University, perhaps the biggest surprise of the college [...]

Byline: Kent Babb FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Tom Brady was ready to roll, if the Kansas City Chiefs wanted it. Did they? They were riding an 11-game win streak, but did [...]

Byline: Kent Babb He watched himself on the coaches' film, watching only things he should have ignored. Wade Davis didn't study his technique or repetitions. He focused on how he [...]

Byline: Kent Babb An inquiry into the Miami Dolphins' workplace conditions found examples of harassment, racism, bullying, homophobia, and overall a culture of intolerance and meanness in one National Football [...]

Byline: Kent Babb On Sunday, University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam was rated as the 90th-best prospect in May's National Football League draft. The next morning, the 24-year-old all-American [...]

Byline: Kent Babb EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The Seattle Seahawks didn't just pressure Denver quarterback Peyton Manning. They seemed to scare him. They didn't just shut down running back Knowshon [...]

Byline: Kent Babb NEW YORK - Sometime before the NFL season began, Russell Wilson was rummaging through old photographs, stopping at one that made him smile. There he was, a [...]

Byline: Kent Babb EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The first time George Toma did this job, some 47 years ago, he ran out of paint for the yard lines and had [...]

Byline: Kent Babb NEW YORK - Marshawn Lynch answered the questions this time, providing the conclusion to a manufactured Super Bowl week sideshow. If last week was about Seattle Seahawks [...]

Byline: Kent Babb NEWARK, N.J. - Bruce Irvin walked toward a wall, looked up and began greeting a group of Seattle Seahawks fans. They wanted to say hello and go [...]

Byline: Kent Babb ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - The season started embarrassingly enough, and even so many weeks later, it's not something Denver Broncos linebacker Danny Trevathan enjoys recalling. First, the good: [...]

Byline: Kent Babb DENVER - Peyton Manning walked toward the sideline Sunday afternoon, and all around him, the conversation changed. It was forgotten, and will likely stay that way, that [...]