CHICAGO — Phoenix Coyotes forward Raffi Torres was suspended indefinitely Wednesday for a hit that knocked Chicago’s Marian Hossa out of Game 3 in the teams’ opening-round playoff series. Torres faces a Friday hearing with NHL officials in New York. The hearing was planned for Wednesday but was deferred at the request of the player [...]

You’ve really got to hand it to the NFL. No other business in the world is capable of turning an administrative task such as creating a schedule into an all-hands-on-deck spectacle complete with it’s own show on ESPN. Call it creative marketing if you want to, but Tuesday’s release of the 2012 regular season schedule [...]

One woman suffered a heart attack and three other runners were placed in critical care units at the hospital Monday after a sweltering running of the Boston Marathon, the Boston Herald reported. Race officials said as many as 135 runners were taken to area hospitals, while about 2,200 required treatment after being overcome during the [...]

LaTroy Hawkins has heard the stories from his 87-year-old grandfather, about his days of picking cotton in Mississippi, about the times when there were no black players in big league baseball. And about what it meant when Jackie Robinson broke the game’s color barrier. “Without Jackie, I wouldn’t be in front of you,” the Los [...]

The Boston Red Sox won their home opener on Friday, but suffered a loss that could resonate for much of the season. Leadoff man Jacoby Ellsbury, runner-up in 2012 American League MVP voting, suffered a shoulder injury that could put him out until the All-Star break. Ellsbury left the Red Sox’s 12-2 win over the [...]

As the final seconds ticked off in Nashville’s 3-2 win over Detroit in Game 1, things got chippy when Red Wings center Henrik Zetterberg charged for the puck in the corner and hit Predators All-Star Shea Weber in the back. After the puck was knocked away from them, Weber took exception to the hit and [...]

The rarest shot in golf can happen any time Bubba Watson has a golf club in hands. Watson was so deep in the woods late Sunday afternoon that he couldn’t even see where he was going. With his golf ball nestled on a bed of pine needles, he hit a gap wedge that shot out [...]

Chipper Jones, who made his major-league debut in 1993 — the same year the Marlins joined the league — announced Thursday that he will retire after the season. Nobody has played in more games against the Marlins nor hit more home runs against them. In his 236 games against the Marlins since 1995, Jones has [...]

(AP)The Lehigh Mountain Hawks said they weren’t afraid of mighty Duke. Maybe no one believed them at the time, but the Patriot League champions proved they were serious.C.J. McCollum scored 30 points and Lehigh upset Duke 75-70 to become the second No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2 during a wild Friday in the [...]

Steven Gerrard is refusing to give up on securing a UEFA Champions League berth but accepts that Liverpool have a mountain to climb. The Reds snapped a three-game losing streak to defeat Everton 3-0 at Anfield on Tuesday night courtesy of Gerrard’s hat-trick but remain 10 points adrift of Arsenal in fourth. Another season away [...]