Rob Gloster
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California fire survivors face bleak Christmas in shelters
Luanne Wright was all set for retirement when the deadliest wildfire in California history swept through her town of Paradise. Now Wright is spending the days leading up to Christmas with her husband and daughter on adjacent cots in a Red Cross refugee center in nearby Chico, desperately searching for → Read More
Caldwell-Pope's season-high 34 points help Lakers top Kings
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 17 of his season-high 34 points in the third quarter and the Los Angeles Lakers snapped a three-game road losing streak with a 113-108 win Saturday night against the Sacramento Kings. Caldwell-Pope hit eight 3-pointers and the Lakers had 17 overall. Isaiah Thomas added → Read More
Durant has triple-double, Warriors hit 21 3s to beat Wolves
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Kevin Durant had 28 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds, and the Golden State Warriors made a season-high 21 3-pointers in a 126-113 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday night. → Read More
This NBA Coach is Making History...As a Backup
Luke Walton has been amazingly successful during his interim coaching status for the Golden State Warriors. → Read More
Warriors run NBA-record start to 18-0, beat Kings 120-101
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 19 points in Golden State's NBA-record 18th straight win at the start of a season, but what he didn't do against the Sacramento Kings was just as important to the defending champion… → Read More
The Warriors’ Secret, Long-Shot Weapon
Luke Walton has been amazingly successful during his interim coaching status for the record-setting team. → Read More
Warriors pound Kings 120-101 to get to 18-0
Stephen Curry scored 17 of his 19 points in the first quarter and Draymond Green had his second consecutive triple-double Saturday. → Read More
The Brutal Costs of Raising the World’s 631st-Best Tennis Player
It cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, a few jobs, and a marriage to turn a kid from Long Island into a professional tennis player → Read More
England Scores Its Own Goal, Sending Japan to Women’s World Cup Final
An own-goal by England’s Laura Bassett in the game’s closing minutes gave defending champion Japan a 2-1 victory Wednesday night in a Women’s World Cup soccer semifinal, setting up a championship match against the U.S. The final, set for Sunday in Vancouver, is a rematch of the 2011 championship match in which Japan defeated the Americans in a penalty shootout for the title. “Our goal was to go… → Read More
NFL Commissioner Hasn't Decided Yet If He'll Hear Brady Appeal
National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell said he hasn’t decided yet whether to remove himself from hearing the appeal of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady on his four-game suspension for the team’s use of underinflated footballs. Goodell said it’s “my responsibility” as commissioner to hear such cases, but said he hasn’t yet had time to consider a request by the National… → Read More
Connecticut Women Top Notre Dame for 10th NCAA Basketball Title
The University of Connecticut captured its third straight women’s college basketball championship and its 10th national title under coach Geno Auriemma by defeating Notre Dame 63-53. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Moriah Jefferson each scored 15 points Monday night in Tampa, Florida, for the Huskies, who became the second Division One college basketball team with 10 or more titles -- joining the… → Read More
Yale Could End 53-Year NCAA Drought With Win at Harvard
(Bloomberg) -- Yale gets a chance at revenge 15 weeks after losing The Game to Harvard, and it would be sweet. The Bulldogs meet the Crimson tonight with the Ivy League men’s basketball crown at stake. Harvard’s 2,195-seat Lavietes Pavilion in Boston is sold out for the game, which guarantees the winner at least a tie for the title. The champion gets the conference’s berth in the National… → Read More
Women Players Are Golf’s Future, Offsetting Men’s Decline
(Bloomberg) -- While headlines proclaim that golf is in decline, Mike Whan presides over a part of the game that is surging ahead. “What’s cool is that there were 300,000 more females in the game of golf last year than the year before,” Whan, commissioner of the LPGA since 2010, told Sports Line colleague Erik Matuszewski. “Last year, 180,000 new young girls joined the game. There hasn’t been an… → Read More
Patriots Owner Goes on the Attack While NFL Shifts Probe to Locker Room
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said he expects a National Football League apology if an NFL probe into “Deflategate” shows no wrongdoing by his team. → Read More
NFL Says Patriots Used 11 Under-Inflated Balls, Globe Says
The National Football League found 11 of the 12 footballs used by the New England Patriots in its playoff win against the Indianapolis Colts were not fully inflated, the Boston Globe reported, citing an NFL letter it obtained. → Read More
Ohio State Football Player Found in Dumpster With Gun
The body of missing Ohio State University defensive lineman Kosta Karageorge was found in a trash bin near campus, Columbus Police said, along with a gun. → Read More
Harvard-Yale Gets Thanks for College Football Goose Bumps
All the goose-bumpy, lump-in-your- throat pride that comes with college football, from “Roll Tide” bumper stickers in Alabama to the Tommy Trojan statue on the campus of the University of Southern California, comes back to this. → Read More
Cowboy’s Randle Charged With Trying to Steal Underwear
Saying it was “the biggest mistake I’ve ever made in my life,” Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle apologized to teammates after getting arrested on shoplifting charges. → Read More
NFL Ravens Owner Gives 15-Point Rebuttal to ESPN's Rice Report
Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti released a 15-point statement today rebutting an ESPN report last week saying that the team knew back in February that running back Ray Rice had punched his fiancee in a hotel casino elevator. → Read More
Radisson Drops NFL Vikings Amid More Peterson Accusations
The Radisson hotel chain suspended a sponsorship deal with the Minnesota Vikings as a Houston television station reported that running back Adrian Peterson, already charged with hitting his 4-year-old son with a tree branch, was accused in 2013 of hitting another son. → Read More