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The second round of the NBA playoffs got a little more crowded on Tuesday night, as the Toronto Raptors, Philadelphia 76ers and Portland Trail Blazers all punched their tickets to the conference semifinals.  On Wednesday evening, the Houston Rockets joined...

In one of the more impressive victories of the playoffs thus far, the Clippers went into Oracle Arena Wednesday night and staved off elimination by defeating the Warriors, 129-121, sending the first-round series back to Los Angeles for Game...

The West's top-ranked Golden State Warriors failed in their opportunity to close out the eighth-seeded Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night as the defending champions lost on their home floor to force a Game 6 back in Los Angeles thanks...

Wednesday night had no shortage of NBA action as two games came down to the wire. The Houston Rockets finished off one of two potential elimination games to start off Wednesday night's slate of NBA action. Behind a big performance...

Robert Brant, who wrested a secondary middleweight world title from Japanese star Ryota Murata in October, is headed overseas for a rematch on Murata's home turf on July 12....

The Houston Rockets finished off one of two potential elimination games to start off Wednesday night's slate of NBA action. Behind a big performance from James Harden, who finished with a team-high 26 points, the Rockets defended their home...

The Arizona Diamondbacks look to finish off their second four-game sweep in a row against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday. The Diamondbacks (14-11) won all four games in Pittsburgh last season and have taken down seven in a row...

After the Utah Jazz lost a heartbreaking Game 3 to the Houston Rockets to go down 3-0 -- after Jazz star Donovan Mitchell missed a wide-open 3-pointer out of a timeout with 8.7 seconds left that would have tied...

The No. 4-seeded Houston Rockets held off the No. 5-seeded Utah Jazz to win their first-round playoff series in five games. While the first two games were massive blowouts in favor of Houston, the last three games of the series...

The Phillies whipped the Mets on Wednesday night (PHI 6, NYM 0), just a night after the Mets whipped the Phillies. In that Tuesday night affair, Mets reliever Jacob Rhame raised Philly hackles by twice going up and in...