THE Yankees got away with one yesterday. You know, like being in college, not finishing your term paper, and walking into class only to find the teacher absent. They walked off with a 4-3 victory over the A's in 12 innings at a sweltering Yankee...

Rhode Island guard Jimmy Baron had read all the scouting reports on his own game, heard that he was a one-trick pony. But the deadeye shooter's one chwyt is so good, it just might get him into the NBA. "That's what I do," Baron said after taking...

Believe this at your own risk. If he scores a touchdown on Sunday against the Giants, Chad Ocho Cinco says he'll do, well, nothing. "There won't be any celebrating right now," said Ocho Cinco, the Bengals receiver formerly known as Chad Johnson...

Matthew Stafford won the Lions' quarterback derby. Daunte Culpepper didn't lose the job. That's what Detroit's new coach, Jim Schwartz, emphasized yesterday when he made the No. 1 overall draft pick the starter for Sunday in New Orleans, when the...

There are going to be incremental steps for Joba Chamberlain as he transitions into the rotation. The second one is slated for tomorrow. Manager Joe Girardi said yesterday that Chamberlain is scheduled to pitch tomorrow against Seattle, which should...