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President Barack Obama says he's a football fan but that if he had a son, considering the impact the game has on its players, he would think long and hard before allowing his son to play.

Vander Blue scored 13 points and played suffocating defense on the Big East's leading scorer to lead Marquette to an 81-71 victory over Providence Saturday in a game delayed several times because of a dive-bombing bat.

Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson outworked challenger John Dodson in the championship rounds to defends his flyweight title at UFC on Fox 6 in Chicago.

With a half-court hook shot, Michael Drysch has gone from an average computer technician in the Midwest to a viral internet sensation.

The Dallas Cowboys are prepared to hire former Tennessee Volunteers head coach Derek Dooley as Dallas' new wide receivers coach, sources told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter.<

The Houston Rockets have reinstated suspended forward Royce White and he's due to report to the team's developmental league affiliate on Feb. 11.

Suspended former New Orleans Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams has already met with the Tennessee Titans and is on the verge of becoming the Titans' assistant head coach, according to league sources.

Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni says Kobe Bryant's assists shouldn't be looked at like sacrificing.

Major League Baseball is investigating multiple wellness clinics in South Florida armed with the belief that the region stretching 50 miles south from Boca Raton to Miami is "ground zero" for performance-enhancing drugs still filtering into the game.

Northern Illinois broke its own NCAA Division I record for futility Saturday by scoring just four points in the first half at Eastern Michigan.

Mark McMorris won Men's Snowboard Slopestyle gold Saturday at X Games Aspen 2013.

Rasheed Sulaimon scored a season-high 25 points and No. 1 Duke bounced back from one of its worst losses under Mike Krzyzewski by routing Maryland 84-64 on Saturday.

Tiger Woods is going to have to wait to pursue a seventh win at Torrey Pines.

The music blared in the Baltimore Ravens locker room Saturday as the players threw their football gear into black duffel bags lying in front of their cubicles.

Otto Porter had 17 points and grabbed the game's decisive rebound with 1.4 seconds to play Saturday, leading Georgetown to a 53-51 win over No. 5 Louisville, the Cardinals' third straight loss.

Ryan Arcidiacono hit the tying 3-pointer with 2.2 seconds left in regulation, and James Bell hit consecutive 3s in overtime to send Villanova to its second win over a top-five team this week, 75-71 over No. 3 Syracuse on Saturday.

Raymond Felton will return to the New York Knicks lineup on Saturday night after missing nearly five weeks with a fractured right pinky.

Mike and Bob Bryan have set one more record together as a doubles team -- and this may be the most special of them all.

Lindsey Vonn beat rival Tina Maze on the Slovenian's home snow and in her best discipline Saturday, earning a surprising victory in a giant slalom and her second win in a week.

Victoria Azarenka has won her second straight Australian Open title, beating Li Na 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a dramatic final that included a break for fireworks and two medical timeouts.