NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Chinese officials wanted Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey to be fired for his tweet supporting anti-government protesters in Hong Kong, and that the league dismissed the request.
Read moreA homeowning couple sued Golden State Warrior Willie Cauley-Stein for $2 million in Sacramento Superior Court, claiming he violated his lease by allowing drug use, widespread property destruction and a murder in their home.
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North Korea held South Korea to a 0-0 draw Tuesday in a World Cup qualifying soccer match, though it is unclear how many people saw the game in Pyongyang.
Read moreA former high school football player sued the Cache County (Utah) School District for negligence, claiming that after he took a helmet-to-helmet hit while playing for Ridgeline High School, and he told his coach he thought he’d suffered a concussion, the coach told him to “man up … quit being a pussy (and) get back out there,” in Cache County Court.
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Thousands of flag-draped Iranian women cheered, blew horns and celebrated inside a Tehran stadium Thursday as they watched the first FIFA soccer match they’ve been allowed to freely attend in decades.
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Well before a potentially devastating typhoon was expected to hit Japan, it ruined Italy’s Rugby World Cup quarterfinal ambitions and the hopes of one of the sport’s longest-serving veterans.
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In response to the NBA’s defending Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey’s freedom of speech, China canceled events scheduled with the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets.
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The NBA’s lucrative interests in China are under threat, but the league enjoys an important piece of leverage that could carry it through the crisis: It’s the only game in town.
Read moreSupport Working Animals and several kennels, et al., sued Florida in federal court, claiming the voter-approved Amendment 13 of 2018, barring betting on dog races, unconstitutionally impairs contracts and violates equal protection.
Read moreCurrent members of the U.S. women’s national soccer team could have earned millions of dollars in compensation over the last five years if they’d been paid under the structure for the men’s national team, according to court papers they filed Monday.
Read moreNew England Patriots owner Robert Kraft sued prosecutors in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida for emails and other information on his bust in a prostitution sting at the Orchids of Asia day spa, in Palm Beach County Court.
Read moreMore than 30 race horses have died in the last year at Santa Anita Park in Southern California, prompting outrage from activists and elected officials across the Golden State. But organized protests of the facility by animal rights activists will not take place on racetrack property, a Los Angeles judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreIn a move that could change amateur sports and is sure to draw legal challenges, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Monday to allow college athletes to hire agents and make money from endorsement deals.
Read moreThe City of Oakland sued Alameda County in superior court over the sale of the dually owned Oakland Coliseum, once home to the A’s and Raiders; the county wants to sell it, but the city says the sale should abide by the California Surplus Land Act, which requires a valid effort to sell public land for use as affordable housing, parks or recreation, or open space.
Read moreAn Orange County, California, grand jury has indicted MMA fighter Ralph Gracie on a felony assault charge stemming from incident involving five-time Jiu-Jitsu world champion Flavio Almeida that knocked out Almeida’s two front teeth.
Read moreThe Third Circuit delivered a victory Tuesday to a New Jersey horse racing group that has sought millions in damages from the National Football League and other sports leagues in a long-running legal saga over sports gambling.
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