NFL: New Orleans win Super Bowl XLIV
New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl for the first time in their 43-year history with a 31-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts at the Sun Life Arena in Miami on Sunday night.
Surviving the massive quake that rocked Haiti was just the beginning. Experts say the new dangers — among them, deaths from untreated wounds and disease outbreak — may be compounded by Haiti’s old problem: poverty.
Back in the mid-zeroes, I remember reading a lot of stories about a buildup of trash in the Pacific Ocean so massive that it had formed a floating island of waste the size of Texas. Its colorful nickname was the Great Eastern Garbage Patch, and what was even more mind-boggling than the purported scale was that pretty much the only places you could dig up any substantial info about it were in minor oceanographic and environmental publications. You also couldn’t find a photo of it to save your life. It was like Garbage Brigadoon.
Both team captains made surprise picks ahead of Friday’s opening rubbers in the Davis Cup final between defending champions Spain and the Czech Republic on clay in Barcelona.
Raymond Thomas is a jolly man who laughs easily and likes to say “Forget it” a lot.
Didier Defago ends Switzerland’s gold-medal drought in the Winter Olympics downhill skiing event as American star Bode Miller is edged into the bronze position at Whistler in Canada on Tuesday.
The Football Association have enlisted the help of some of the greatest names to grace the English Premier League from overseas to help support England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup.
A massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government was under way Sunday in the quake-ravaged capital.
Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Port-au-Prince hope to restore two-way traffic at the city’s south pier by Friday.
You couldn’t see the sun rise in Concepcion because the cloud cover was so thick. You couldn’t hear a sound because a curfew had silenced the streets. The only activity was the occasional rumble of the Earth. And, after each rumble, a little more brick and roof gave way in this shattered little city.
The English Football Association have written to Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson, asking him to explain the comments he made about referee Alan Wiley following Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Sunderland.
Sitting in the shade away from the heat, Jean Frank is making a fishing net that he hopes will help him return to his life as a fisherman.
Chelsea have been rocked by a leg injury to England left-back Ashley Cole, which threatens to keep him out of action for weeks.
This city’s drug underworld is littered with “poseurs” — lowlife triggermen pretending they’re the real hard cases.
Nevada boxing officials are trying to end the dope test impasse threatening the fight between Manny Pacquiao (right) and Floyd Mayweather, but their demand for immediate urine tests may not solve the problem.
Basketball legend Michael Jordan has caused a furor at the President’s Cup golf tournament after the former Chicago Bulls player was snapped smoking a cigar at the Harding Park course in San Francisco.