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NBA players, coaches, execs, analysts and fans have struggled to find the proper comparison for Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry. On Sunday, New York Knicks president Phil Jackson offered his own Curry comparison on Twitter. On the surface, putting these two names in the same sentence...

Kristaps Porzingis has gone from getting booed on draft night to being the toast of New York, and one Knicks fan wants to escalate Kristaps-mania to the next level -- and take the Knicks' rookie sensation to her prom. Samantha Miller, a 17-year-old from Miller Place High School, showed up at...

The Los Angeles Lakers reached out to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the summer of 2007 about a trade of Kobe Bryant for LeBron James. Bryant was 28 years old and at the peak of his prime but he was frustrated with the state of the Lakers and seeking a trade. Bryant was under contract for two more...

 Carmelo Anthony says he has no plans to seek a trade and remains committed to Knicks president Phil Jackson in the wake of Derek Fisher's dismissal as head coach. "This is something I didn't see coming, [that] nobody saw coming," Anthony said. "So you have to continue to put your trust into...

Stop me if you’ve read this one already: The position has been filled. That is the sign that should be posted outside the Yankees' spring training complex when position players arrive on Feb. 24. It is the same sign that should have been posted last spring. (It is not, thankfully, the sign that...

The NCAA has eliminated confusion surrounding how the games of its men's basketball tournament's first weekend are referenced. The first round will again simply mean the round of 64, or the Thursday and Friday games that many still view as the beginning of the tournament. From 2011 until last...

The question of whether some teams are intentionally building bad rosters in order to improve their standing in subsequent drafts -- tanking, to borrow the parlance of the NBA -- was raised at the most recent Major League Baseball owners meetings, according to sources. The January discussion in...

The Sacramento Kings canceled a T-shirt giveaway Monday night after some in the organization, including star DeMarcus Cousins, found the shirts to be racially insensitive. The Kings had placed black shirts adorned with a purple monkey as part of their Lunar New Year celebration on seats at...

Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson — and Kevin Durant? It sounds like a daily fantasy sports roster, or something you try to pull together with NBA 2K trades. However, it’s something the Warriors have been thinking about for some time as a possibility. The smart money is still on...

Since opening the door to the conversation about race and football last week, Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has tried to make the topic less divisive and more about the fact he defies categorization. But one of Newton’s earliest mentors, who knows about the realities of the topic, is willing...

In a not-so-private moment, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning told Patriots coach Bill Belichick that 2015 may be Peyton’s last rodeo. In much more private moments, Manning reportedly has been more definitive. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Manning has told close friends that he’ll...

Charles Woodson isn’t the only veteran member of the Raiders defense who has decided to call it a career. Defensive end Justin Tuck announced Monday that he will be retiring from the NFL. Tuck spent the last two years in Oakland after playing for the Giants from 2005 to 2013. “After months of...

The excitement already has begun in San Francisco. But not in the way anyone envisioned. PFT has confirmed that the Broncos team buses were involved in a crash following practice at Stanford on Monday. No players were injured, but at least one bus took what a source described to PFT as a “heavy...

While Terrell Owens’ former coach Andy Reid iscampaigning for him to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame, former Rams coach Mike Martz says Owens should get in the back of the line. Asked by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch if he’s surprised that Owens is a Hall of Fame finalist while former Rams...

Just seeing if there is any interest in a mlb pick em for this upcoming season. If there is interesting could run it. I could either do every game. A few games each day. Or a few games a week which ever is most popular. I think there should be a 1,000 vcash prize for weekly winners. And 100,000...

Peyton Manning is reportedly "incensed" by reports he's making plans for 2016 with or without the Denver Broncos. Manning may permanently lose his job as starting quarterback of the Broncos to Brock Osweiler and reports have indicated he's willing to play elsewhere in 2016. Manning is currently...

The Chicago Bulls are off to an 8-4 start under a new coach and have overcome another injury-plagued stretch for Derrick Rose. But star guard Jimmy Butler wants to see more collective effort from the Bulls. "I don't think we bring that fight every single night," Butler told reporters after...

The standings don't matter for the Dallas Cowboys right now. Just like beating the Miami Dolphins didn't mean anything the minute the game ended Sunday afternoon. The players understand they have little margin for error in their last six games, so there wasn't much jubilation in the locker room...

Monday Night Football has again produced a bizarre NFL officiating controversy. This time, a live play was halted because of an inadvertent whistle in the third quarter of the New England Patriots' 20-13 win over the Buffalo Bills. The mistake limited the Patriots' yardage on a pass to...

Peyton Manning has a partially torn plantar fascia in his left foot. Manning had difficulty walking last week, according to some of his teammates. Manning has battled plantar fasciitis for weeks but is believed to have aggravated the injury against Indianapolis on Nov. 8, resulting in a partial...