The Florida International baseball player with a record-setting 56-game hitting streak has been charged with rape in the Bahamas, court officials in the islands’ capital said Monday. Garrett Wittels was accused of raping a 17-year-old teenage tourist on Dec. 20 while on a visit to the archipelago east of Florida. Read more

San Francisco team president and CEO Jed York is turning to his uncle, former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr., for advice on how to fix the underachieving franchise. DeBartolo will serve as a consultant in the process of finding a general manager, and York also plans to talk to Patriots president Jonathan Kraft about what [...]

LeBron James is clarifying remarks he made about contraction and the NBA. Speaking after Heat practice Monday, James said he “didn’t mean to upset anybody” when he called the NBA “watered down” last week and that the league was more popular in the 1980s because there were fewer teams and thus more stars on the [...]

Back in October, Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun didn’t like playing this game so early in the season. Especially in Pittsburgh. Or without another Big East game preceding it. Of course, that’s back when UConn wasn’t considered to be among the Big East’s five best teams, much less a Top 5 team nationally. Read more

The White House says President Barack Obama has commended the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles for giving quarterback Michael Vick a second chance after his release from prison. Obama spokesman Bill Burton says the president told owner Jeffrey Lurie that while he condemns the crimes Vick was convicted of, he believes people who have paid [...]