In the midst of an 11-game win streak, the Rangers are showing that last year’s AL pennant was no fluke. You could always count on Texas for plenty of runs every night. Before last season,...

FRANKFURT, Germany — Japan stunned the Americans in a riveting Women’s World Cup final, beating them 3-1 on penalty kicks Sunday after coming from behind twice in a 2-2 tie. Goalkeeper Ayumi...

MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany — Abby Wambach sure knows how to deliver. A goal, a promise and soon, she hopes, a World Cup title. The U.S. women had fans on edge once again until Wambach broke...

It's good to be a Yankees middle infielder these days. Two days after shortstop Derek Jeter picked up his 3,000th hit, his teammate Robinson Cano won the Home Run Derby, and he followed Jeter’s...

DRESDEN, Germany ­— Running low on hope and almost out of time, the Americans were surely beat, about to make their earliest exit from the Women’s World Cup. And then, with one of...

When the Houston Rockets used the No. 1 pick in the 2002 draft on a tall man from China named Yao Ming, I forced my mom to drive me home in the middle of whatever errands we were running so I wouldn’t...

American tennis fans walked away Sunday afternoon disappointed that their nation lost the Davis Cup tie to Spain 3-1. But thanks to Mike and Bob Bryan, they at least got their money’s worth. The...

David Ferrer lost just one set all weekend. America had no chance. The Spaniard embarrassed Austinite Andy Roddick on Friday in straight sets, then eliminated Mardy Fish and Team USA...

As the first half of the 2011 MLB season comes to a close, it’s time to look at how the former Longhorns in the MLB have done. Huston Street, CP, Colorado Rockies — Only Atlanta’s...

Mardy Fish will be the No. 1 singles player for the U.S. in this weekend’s Davis Cup, team captain Jim Courier announced during Friday’s draw. Fish, the No. 8 player in the world, will...

The hum of the air conditioner buzzed over the sound of tennis balls thwacking against the floor of the Frank Erwin Center. Wednesday afternoon, top tennis players from Spain and the U.S. practiced...

For a sport that brought in more than $4 billion dollars this season, it is hard to believe that there isn’t enough of it to go around. But it is not how much money there is coming in; it...