Contract gives NBC Notre Dame rights through 2025

NBC Sports Group announced a 10-year contract extension to televise Notre Dame football games Thursday, doubling the length of its previous agreement.

Heat start to move on after streak ends

Take heart, Heat. Look out, NBA.

Colin Kaepernick

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick passes as tight end Delanie Walker waits to run a route during practice Wednesday in New Orleans.

First-down line could be coming to NFL stadiums

BALTIMORE | Fans watching NFL games on television have grown accustomed to the imaginary yellow line that runs across the field in accord with the first-down marker.

Money for college athletes: not if, but how

MIAMI | After decades when paying college athletes was thought to violate the spirit of amateurism, the enormous television revenue generated by sports — football and basketball in particular — and the long hours of work by the players have changed the debate.

Manning still a master of study, preparation

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. | The play was called "62 Meyer," one of the staples of the Tennessee passing game back in the mid-1990s.

Game of the Future: NFL 2017

NEW YORK | Laser technology to help officials. Computer chips in the football.

Game of the Future: NFL 2017

The first-down line that has become a staple of all NFL broadcasts should become a fixture for fans at the stadium. Chain gangs might disappear, as well, if measurements can accurately be determined through high-tech gadgets. Lasers or computer chips could "extend 100 feet up" NFL senior exe…

Wiggins makes British history at Tour de France

PARIS | Twenty-three years ago, Bradley Wiggins marveled as Greg LeMond blazed a trail as America's first Tour de France winner. Now, he has blazed his own.

Santo inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. | Vicki Santo never wavered as she honored her late husband, Ron.

Wiggins makes British history at Tour de France

Bradley Wiggins, winner of the 2012 Tour de France, celebrates on the podium in Paris on Sunday.

With US in town, British basketball gets attention

MANCHESTER, England | The question would be almost unimaginable in the United States.

A roundup of recent Indiana newspaper editorials

Another Super Bowl? Not so fast

Neighbors fret about plan for 'Field of Dreams'

Should we build it, and would they come?

A roundup of recent Indiana newspaper editorials

Unconscionable censorship

Dahlberg: Small market playoffs a tough sell

It's hard to think of the Milwaukee Brewers as a small-market team, not when they're on the hook to Ryan Braun for $141.5 million over the next nine years.

Brad Pitt coaches underdog 'Moneyball' onto big-screen

Brad Pitt's about as free a free agent as they come in Hollywood, a superstar so big he could play ball with just about any team, on any film project he likes.