The loud celebration inside the Houston Texans’ locker room could be heard from the hallway outside. Players hollered and laughed, and then someone summarized the moment with a yell. “We’re a different team, baby!” Indeed. Instead of folding after falling behind by two touchdowns, the Texans rallied behind Matt Schaub’s 227 yards passing and two touchdowns, an effective running game and an…
The Buffalo Bills were desperate to honor injured teammate Kevin Everett by giving him an unexpected get-well present, a road victory against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Emotion, heart and enthusiasm took them only so far on a day their offense went nowhere. Willie Parker ran for a touchdown and 126 yards and Ben Roethlisberger threw for a score as the Steelers controlled the clock and the tempo while…
One year ago, Tony Stewart was on the outside looking in.
Don Nelson and the Golden State Warriors agreed to a new contract Sunday, keeping Nelson as the team’s coach again this season. The Warriors did not announce terms of the new deal but the Contra Costa Times reported that Nelson would get a raise from $3.1 million to $5.1 million for the next two years.
Restricted free-agent guard Charlie Bell said Saturday that he does not want to return to the Milwaukee Bucks this season. “They told me they were going to take care of Mo Williams and that they would take care of me, but they haven’t,” Bell said during a telephone interview with Sports Betting News.
The season-ending injury to Greg Oden dredged up a bad memory for Portland Trail Blazers fans — that fateful draft day in 1984 when the team used the second overall pick to choose Sam Bowie instead of Michael Jordan. Bowie proved injury-prone and Jordan proved to be, well, Jordan. The news Thursday that the No.
Nick Swisher and Vicente Padilla didn’t say much after their fight led to a bench-clearing brawl. Michael Young? He let his bat do the talking. Young drove in a career-high seven runs, including a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth, and the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 11-9 on Sunday in a game that began with Swisher and Padilla going at it near the mound.
The Arizona Diamondbacks can breathe a little easier following what outfielder Eric Byrnes called their biggest win of the season. Edgar Gonzalez won his seventh straight decision, Chris Snyder hit a three-run homer and the Diamondbacks beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1 Sunday to salvage the finale of a three-game series.
Eric Perrin scored twice to lead the Atlanta Thrashers to a 3-1 win over the St. Louis Blues on Sunday night in the preseason opener for both teams. The Blues’ top offseason acquisition, free-agent forward Paul Kariya, got off to a good start by scoring St. Louis’ only goal. Colin Stuart also scored for the Thrashers, and Ondrej Pavelec made 24 saves.
