RIVER FALLS, Wis. - Glenn Dorsey walked up and shook hands with the man who'd just made him rich.
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Even Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy isn't quite sure how the Brett Favre unretirement saga will play out over the next few days. But he does know this much: Favre or no Favre, Aaron Rodgers is his starting quarterback.
INDIANAPOLIS - Mark Martin picked Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the spot he plans to end his 97-race winless streak.
BOSTON - Robinson Cano homered and drove in three runs, Andy Pettitte gave the Yankees another strong start and New York beat the Boston Red Sox 10-3 Saturday for its season-best eighth straight win.
BOSTON (Reuters) - The New York Yankees pounded the Boston Red Sox 10-3 on Saturday to rack up their season-high eighth straight win.
PITTSFORD, N.Y. - First-round pick Leodis McKelvin signed a five-year contract potentially worth $19.4 million with the Buffalo Bills on Saturday, and the cornerback is set to join the team after missing only two days of training camp.
LAS VEGAS - Mike Krzyzewski wanted Dwyane Wade on the U.S. team, just in case something ever happened to Kobe Bryant or LeBron James.
MADRID (AFP) - Argentine star Lionel Messi, currently at the centre of an Olympic Games club-or-country row, hit a hat-trick in Barcelona's 5-1 pre-season friendly win over Scotland's Dundee United on Saturday.
NEW YORK - Albert Pujols hit a two-run homer in the 14th inning for his fifth hit of the night, Skip Schumaker did him one better with a career-best six hits and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Mets 10-8 Saturday to snap a season-worst five-game losing streak.
NEW YORK - A fan was seriously injured after plunging 25 feet from the handrails of an escalator at Shea Stadium during Saturday's New York Mets game, police and team officials said.
PHILADELPHIA - Pinch-hitter Greg Dobbs delivered a three-run homer in a seven-run fifth inning and the Philadelphia Phillies rallied past the Atlanta Braves 10-9 Saturday to spoil Mike Hampton's return to the major leagues.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brett Favre has told Green Bay Packers general manager Ted Thompson he plans to return to the team and report to training camp this weekend, the NFL Network reported on Friday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. swimmer Jessica Hardy on Friday protested her innocence over a positive doping test threatening to derail her Olympics and said she was living a nightmare.
BOSTON - The Boston Bruins have bought out the final year of veteran right-winger Glen Murray's contract.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The New England Patriots have signed veteran running back LaMont Jordan a day after he was released by the Oakland Raiders.
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Mexico's Antonio Margarito stopped Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico in the 11th round to win the WBA welterweight title on Saturday.
LAS VEGAS - So that's why every welterweight in the world was so scared of Antonio Margarito.
RIVER FALLS, Wis. - Saving a man's life has brought Tony Gonzalez praise from the current president and possibly the next one.
CLEVELAND - Brian Buscher hit a three-run homer and had a career-high five RBIs to help the Minnesota Twins end a five-game losing streak with an 11-4 win over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday night.
INDIANAPOLIS - Tony Stewart has spent his entire career emulating A.J. Foyt, his childhood hero who dazzled the young racer with a tough-guy bravado and swashbuckling style.