Tiger Woods has won a PGA Tour event for the first time in over five years after victory at the Tour Championship. The 14-time major winner's triumph at Atlanta's East Lake Golf Club was his 80th on the PGA Tour and his first since August 2013. Woods finished 11-under par for the weekend, two strokes clear of his nearest challenger Billy Horschel.

Canadian athletes are not mincing their words when it comes to the World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to reinstate Russia's drug-testing program after a nearly three-year suspension over its widespread, state-sponsored doping scheme.

Twelve years later, past and present residents of Arlington, Texas, are still reckoning with Amber Wyatt‘s story. By Elizabeth Bruenig.

New Jersey bookmaker FanDuel declined to honor a $110 bet on the Broncos on Sunday that would have paid more than $82,000, due to an error in the oddsmaking process, the company said.

At Eliud Kipchoge’s training camp in Kenya, where he never misses his turn to clean the toilets or draw water from the nearby well, his fellow athletes call him “the boss man”. And on a pleasant autumn day in Berlin the 33-year-old lived up to that reputation – as well as reinforcing his case to be considered the greatest distance runner of all time – by obliterating the marathon world record. Kipchoge’s time of 2hr 01min 39sec was staggering enough, given it took 78sec off the previous best set by Dennis Kimetto in 2014.

When you watch football, soccer, baseball, or any sport with online streaming, you're actually watching video that's seconds behind. Limelight thinks it has the answer to this annoyance.

Andy Appleby, owner of the four-team independent league that plays out of Utica, says he's talking with about 20 cities in seeking a second location.

Willie Horton's throw from left field in Game 5 of the 1968 World Series is widely considered a huge turning point in that year's Fall Classic. The 1968 heroes remembered that Wednesday night.

Here you can see the 8 final jumps in this years World Championships in Death Diving. (VM i døds 2018) This year more than 130 jumpers where fighting for the World Champion title and the level was higher than ever. The winner got an historical high score...

If you're the on-deck batter, and the bases are loaded with two outs in a tie game in the bottom of the ninth inning, do you go stand in the on-deck circle? There is, of course, no chance you will get to bat. You can't. It's impossible. The hitter will either make an out, and end the inning, or do literally anything else, and end the game. I don't need to explain these facts to you. The question is, do I need to explain these facts to major leaguers?

Longer protective netting has made it hard for players to flip souvenirs to chosen fans. Now they often throw a ball over the net and up for grabs, which removes the stress of picking a recipient.

Mark Leibovich spent years digging under the skin of Washington, D.C.’s power brokers. When he turned his attention to the world of pro football for a new book, he found an awfully familiar set of characters.

Furniture Row Racing, the Denver-based team that won the 2017 NASCAR Cup Series, will cease operations after this season, general manager Joe Garone told The Denver Post.

Valeria Iarmolenko, from Ukraine, on uneven bars, 2017 Mexican Open. This gymnastics competition changed its format to include all of the events finals on the same day. All 4 women's gymnastics events finals took place in the same day together with all 6 men's event finals. ===================== Want to see the most amazing gymnasts doing the most difficult skills? Artistic Gymnastics is your channel! From national championships to the Olympic Games, to world championships, watch the world's best gymnastics. Comment to meet fellow artistic gymnastics followers, share & give it a thumbs up if you like it. Subscribe for new videos every...

Rembmering Soviet Maria Gorokhovskaya at the Helsinki 1952 Olympics, where she won silver on uneven bars.

All the gold medals for Simone Biles. Biles, in the second meet of her comeback, won her record fifth U.S. all-around title and swept the four apparatus titles, combining scores from Friday and Sunday at TD Garden. She never thought it would be possible, but she also wants to work on pre-meet nerves, consistency and confidence.

A marvelous and sensitive celebration of a glorious World Series team was handled wondrously during a Comerica Park 50th-anniversary reunion Saturday.

It has been a year of increased political tension between the United States, Mexico and Canada -- but in eight years' time the three countries will unite to host one of the world's biggest sporting spectacles.

Should the gambling industry be required to use league-approved “official data”? Britain’s data collection experience provides a preview of the battles to come in the United States.

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are ready to put their money where their mouths are, as a report says the two are planning a $10 million match. 

Mario Mandzukic’s goal in extra time sends Croatia to its first World Cup final. England goes home after an impressive run in the tournament.

France won the World Cup, with their stars Antoine Griezmann, Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappé on the scoresheet, but Croatia will feel very hard done-by, thanks to an own goal, and VAR.

Sports fans aren’t typically in the mood for academic research in the minutes before a big game. But Paul Bernhardt, an aspiring young behavioral scientist at Georgia State University, was determined. Armed with a bag of sterile vials, Bernhardt inched through the crowd at Atlanta’s Omni arena, politely asking anyone decked out in either University of Georgia or Georgia Tech basketball garb—the teams that were set to battle that evening—for a bit of saliva.

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In the middle innings of Game 7 of the World Series, as Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw carved through the Houston Astros lineup, one question emerged from the smoke of the ash pit that was the game’s first hour: Why wasn’t he doing this in the innings that lost the Dodgers the World Series? Buoyed by a deluge of early runs off Dodgers starter Yu Darvish and their own stellar mish-mash of pitchers, the Astros won their first World Series on Wednesday night in a 5-1 victory at Dodger Stadium.

Pittsburgh and Philadelphia share a common first letter, a commonwealth and little else. Philly’s got more people, more land, more attitude. Statistics suggest it’s more expensive and more stressful to live here. We’ve got more history, more theaters and restaurants and 1.6 million more TV-viewing households.

Michael Jordan didn't hesitate when asked what he considered to be the best of his many great games. "This would have to be it," Jordan said after scoring a career-high 69 points and leading the Chicago Bulls to a 117-113 overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers Wednesday night. "Everything seemed to fall and I found myself in a great rhythm." Jordan made 23 of 37 field-goal attempts and 21 of 23 foul shots while compiling the ninth best single-game scoring performance in NBA history.

The true freshman Tua Tagovailoa replaced Alabama’s starting quarterback, Jalen Hurts, at halftime, and led the Crimson Tide past Georgia in a thrilling comeback.

A truly historical document.

More than 30 Russian athletes participating in Siberian Indoor Championships last weekend abruptly withdrew from competition when drug testers arrived at the event. According to the Russian sports website Championat, as many as 36 athletes cited various illnesses for withdrawing from the competition at the city of Irkutsk last week.

Manchester United and PSG could swoop for one of the greatest in world football after Real Madrid tell Cristiano Ronaldo he can leave the club this summer.

When it comes to changing MLB -- on and off the field -- there are three stakeholders who can best make a case for control: the owners, the players and the fans. We go issue by issue to see which group should get what it wants -- and why.

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted on Tuesday that there were "instances of doping use" by Russian athletes, but claimed the issue was a common practice worldwide. He criticized what he views as the undue scrutiny placed solely on Russia. CNN reported that in a speech delivered to his supporters in Moscow on Tuesday, Putin said "there were instances of doping use, true — I want the audience to know this and the whole country to know this."

Such an entertaining routine by Maggie Nichols.