Brett Favre on the field after the game.

Kansas City Chiefs safety Brandon Pollard landed on New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady's leg in a tackle.

The Yankees lost two of three this weekend to the Mariners, the team with the worst record in the American League.

Pedro Martínez wiped his forehead after giving up a three-run home run in the fourth inning.

Top-seeded Rafael Nadal tried to rally against the sixth-seeded Andy Murray, above, but came up short.

Mr. Haskins was credited with helping break color barriers in college sports in 1966 when he used five black starters to win a national basketball title for Texas Western.

When you break a world record while saving something for the final, the final should go pretty well. And so it did for Rudy Garcia-Tolson in Beijing on Sunday.

The K.H.L. president, Alexander Medvedev, talks about the Russian hockey league’s dispute with the N.H.L. and its plans to form a pan-European league.

Clint Dempsy scored in the 40th minute to lift the United States national team to a 1-0 win over Cuba. It was the national team’s first visit to Cuba since 1947.

Camilo Villegas had a one-shot lead over Jim Furyk after the second round of a marathon Saturday at the BMW Championship in St. Louis.

Nick Heidfeld at the German Grand Prix last month with his new team, BMW Sauber. “It was not easy, because I hoped to drive for McLaren,” he said.

Johnny Damon said a drive straight at him could be tricky.

Carl Pavano is nearing the end of his four-year, $39.95 million contract.

Dontrelle Willis, right, in a game at Toledo. Willis, the 2003 N.L. rookie of the year, has spent most of the season in the minors.

Alfonso Soriano homered three times to help the first-place Cubs end a six-game slide and beat the Reds 14-9.

Betty Eaton, an 81-year-old Yankees fan from Myrtle Beach, S.C., is saddened that Mickey Mantle’s old stamping ground will soon be demolished.

The off-season hiring of the coordinator Mike Martz boosted the fantasy stock of nearly every member of the San Francisco 49ers’ offense.

China welcomed world leaders for the opening ceremony of the Paralympics in Beijing on Saturday, eager for another chance to cement its role as a global player to an international audience.

Novak Djokovic, a jokester at the Open in 2007, didn’t do much laughing this year.

The Phillies can ponder the motivational note from the Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt from Friday night, but the Mets had their own declaration of inspiration earlier this season.

A PAIR Venus Williams, right, with doubles partner Serena at Wimbledon.

The opening ceremony of the 2008 Paralympics was staged at the Bird’s Nest on Saturday, and again the Beijing organizers put on an amazing show.

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