After four years in retirement, former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber is looking to get back into the NFL. It won’t be with the Giants, though. The Giants acknowledged on Tuesday that the 35-year-old Barber has asked to be taken off the reserve-retirement list and that they will release him once the league [...]

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has returned to campus, and a news conference has been called for Tuesday night after a report that football coach Jim Tressel was aware of potential NCAA violations involving star quarterback Terrelle Pryor and others months before the school was told. Yahoo! Sports reported Monday that Tressel knew of [...]

Zeroing in on the crux of the NFL’s labor dispute — how to split $9 billion in revenues — players’ union executive committee member Scott Fujita said Tuesday the financial information turned over by the league so far “hasn’t been sufficient.” Fujita, a Cleveland Browns linebacker, said the NFL Players Association has retained an international [...]

Hard to believe Connecticut had gone six years since its last victory at the Big East tournament. Kemba Walker and the Huskies stopped that skid against an overmatched opponent. The star guard scored 26 points and UConn won a Big East tournament game for the first time since 2005, beating DePaul 97-71 on Tuesday in [...]

Two weeks after Carmelo Anthony punched his ticket out of town, Nuggets coach George Karl signed his own long-term extension to stay in Denver. Karl signed on for three more seasons Tuesday. His deal has been in the works for months but took a back seat to the season-long negotiations to trade Anthony, who was [...]