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VERO BEACH -- He has been the highly decorated recruit, the productive kid, the deposed starter and the playmaker. Now University of South Florida senior cornerback Kayvon Webster has the role he always wanted. He's the leader. "I think he takes to it like a mother hen,'' USF defensive coordinator Chris Cosh said. Webster is the stabilizing force for a secondary in transition, a unit seemingly stocked with talent, varying experience and an unwanted reputation for fourth-quarter collapses during last season's 5-7 meltdown. "We have something to prove,'' said Webster, following a training-camp practice last week at the Vero Beach Sports Village. "We...

TAMPA -- Josh Freeman and Greg Schiano begin their shared adventure four weeks from today. They know how the journey should end and they will remember those first steps forever. There is no relationship more linked to NFL success than the bond between quarterback and head coach, two entities who need to alternately challenge and nurture each other for the team to flourish. "You cannot win a championship without a winning quarterback,'' said former NFL executive Bill Polian, now working as an analyst on Sirius Radio. "He doesn't have to be a Hall of...

CLEVELAND -- Brent Lillibridge homered, drove in two runs and scored on a squeeze bunt to back...

On the final night of athletics at the main stadium, we bring you the best...

Updated: August 11, 2012 8:24PM LONDON — I'll try to be civil because the young man I'm debating (now seasoned with an Olympic-salt-and-pepper beard) also is named Rick. It's a good name. Pity some Ricks need logic help. To wit, Michael Phelps is the greatest Olympian. Ever. Shall we start with facts? Phelps has more Olympic medals than anyone, in any sport, no matter how far back you want to go. Daigoras of Rhodes, a bad-ass boxer, and his tough sons Akusilaos and Damagetos, boxers and pankration stars, were all the rage in the fifth century BC. But there is no evidence they won as many medals as Phelps, as a family. Zeus, in whose honor the Games were begun, threw a lot of long-distance...

While there were injuries to four starters, including Travelle Wharton being almost certainly lost for the year, there were plenty of other things for the Bengals to be pleased about coming out of their first preseason game. The main thing was at least it wasn't a repeat of last year's debut, which the Bengals lost by 31 in Detroit. Both first units had some good plays, but there remain plenty of things to clean up over the next week. Some other observations from Friday night's 17-6 win over the Jets:Second receiver far from settled Call the first matchup of Brandon Tate and Armon Binns a draw as they each had two receptions for 24 yards. "Tate is one of my closest friends in the group....

GAINESVILLE -- According to coach Will Muschamp, Florida is making unexpected progress in camp thanks to one simple difference from a year ago: depth. Last season, especially at the line of scrimmage, the Gators were...

It was hard to tell who had more fun Saturday at the University of Miami’s annual installment of football media day — the players or reporters. After saying freshmen wouldn’t be available for interviews until they played in a game, UM coach Al Golden gave the thumbs up for a one-day reprieve on that rule. So, off rushed reporters to interview every freshman they could find, as the upper classmen ate pizza, clowned around, videotaped each other and, in general, thoroughly enjoy themselves. Theme of the day: local...

Radhika Sawh doesn't feel as if she is special, but pitcher made her feel that way Saturday at . Sawh, from Floral Park, has a genetically inherited blood disorder that she was diagnosed with at birth and she is dependent on blood transfusions of red blood cells in order to live. As part of Amazin' Calls, a program that connects Mets players personally with the community, Young spoke with Sawh on the phone for 15 minutes Friday and she came with her family to the game Saturday. She met Young before the game and he signed autographs for the family. "It was very exciting to meet a professional baseball player," Sawh said. "He's exactly who I thought he would be. He's very humble and sweet. It...

Here are Saturday's highlights...

CLEVELAND - Brent Lillibridge homered, drove in two runs and scored on a squeeze bunt to back Zack McAllister's strong...

LONDON—Believe it or not, the United States had a chance Saturday night to beat Usain Bolt. All it needed was for him to refuse to give up a souvenir. It was the yellow baton that had just gone around the track faster than any baton in history. Bolt wanted to keep it, but a persnickety official demanded it back. Usain Bolt moves so quickly on the track, just ask his competitors. (AP Photo) "It was kind of weird," Bolt said. "He said if I didn't give it back, I'd be disqualified." Unfortunately for the U.S., Bolt gave up the baton. Though maybe I shouldn't say unfortunately. That implies disappointment, which implies people actually believed Jamaica could be beaten in the 400-meter relay....

LONDON -- Light welterweight Roniel Iglesias of Cuba won the gold medal in the Olympic boxing tournament Saturday night, outboxing...

KIAWAH ISLAND, South Carolina (Reuters) - Joint leader Rory McIlroy faces a gruelling 27-hole test on the longest course used for a major in Sunday's final day of the PGA Championship but a shot at glory has him unconcerned by the marathon that awaits. Rain suspended third round play Saturday with McIlroy having completed just nine holes and he will be back early on Sunday to finish it before beginning his final round at Kiawah Island. "It's...

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LONDON -- One of the first people Doug Bruno hugged Saturday night after the U.S. women’s basketball team’s 86-50 victory over France was Tamika Catchings. One of the next was Candace Parker....

GAINESVILLE -- Many factors contributed to Florida’s disappointing result in 2011. But if 2012 is to be any different, the Gators first task is to clean up their act on the field. With nine or more penalties in five games last season, including 16 for 150 yards against Tennessee, UF finished in the FCS cellar in 113th place with 100 penalties. Only six teams were worse. Against ranked teams, Florida committed 39 penalties. Only Texas A&M committed more, according to CFBStats.com. But Gators coach Will Muschamp doesn’t seem worried, even with his team making the...

If Brian McClennan survives the summer as Warriors coach, he says players can expect a torturous pre-season working on their concentration under fatigue. McClennan admitted after last night's 52-12 NRL defeat to North Queensland he was ready for any personal ramifications that might come his way after the 2011 grand finalists dipped out of the...

LONDON -- Chances are, if you were watching NBC during the past 17 days, you saw The Queen jump out of a helicopter with James Bond, and you caught Usain Bolt’s races and victory poses, Michael Phelps’ fantastic swims, the U.S. women’s soccer team gold-medal win over Japan and the gravity-defying gymnastics acts of Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman and Danell Leyva. No doubt you saw the inspirational South African, Oscar “Blade Runner” Pistorius, and Great Britain’s golden girl, heptathlete...

5, 2: went 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBIs against his former team and rookie pitched a career-high eight innings as host Cleveland won for only...

STAR batsman Kevin Pietersen has committed his future to England, just days after dropping a bombshell by suggesting the third and final Test against South Africa might be his last. In an interview posted on YouTube Pietersen insisted: "I want to commit to all forms of cricket for England, because I love playing cricket for England. "I'm not going anywhere - I want to commit to all forms of cricket for England because I love playing for England," added Pietersen, who sais he wanted to...

ANAHEIM -- Provided a little offensive support, Felix Hernandez rarely loses. How rare was Friday's 6-5 defeat when the Mariners' ace was given a five-run lead? The Mariners hadn't lost a game Hernandez started when they scored five or more runs since May 18, 2010, when they dropped a 6-5 decision to the A's. And when Hernandez is spotted a five-run cushion in a game? Seattle is now 33-2 in that scenario, the only previous such loss coming on Sept. 23, 2006, at the White Sox. Hernandez didn't take the loss Friday but wound up with a no-decision when the Angels tied the game at 5-5 and then won it on Josh Kinney's wild pitch in the ninth. Admittedly, there was a little shock after this one....

The third round of the PGA Championship has been postponed due to thunderstorms with Rory McIlroy and Vijay Singh tied for the lead, while Australia's Adam Scott sits third. With 26 players yet to complete their rounds on Saturday, tournament officials called for play to be delayed at 4:50pm local time as rain set in at Kiawah Island in South Carolina. Just under one-and-a-half hours later the third round was officially postponed until Sunday with thunderstorms...

LONDON (AP) — When it was over — finally, mercifully, exhaustively — they laughed, shrugged, danced, hugged and celebrated for a solid hour, as if they had won. Which in a sense, the French did. They only lost by 36 points. The same U.S. women's Olympic basketball team that beat France 86-50 for the gold medal Saturday night beat Canada earlier in the tournament by 43, China by 48 and Angola by 52. "I think it speaks directly to what we've got going on in our country in women's basketball and in women's sports in general," U.S. point guard Sue Bird said. "We wear teams down, bottom line. We come at them in waves and when they sub and we sub, it's a huge difference." If U.S.-France was the...

RICHMOND, Va. -- William Yomby atoned for a first-half own-goal by scoring the game-winning goal late in the second half. Yomby, a 6-foot-4 defender, scored a textbook goal off Stanley Nyazamba's 78th-minute corner kick to give the Kickers a 2-1 victory over the Harrisburg City Islanders in Saturday night's USL PRO regular-season match at City Stadium. Yomby climbed high and used his head to redirect Nyazamba's on-target...

LONDON - When it was over — finally, mercifully, exhaustively — they laughed, shrugged, danced, hugged and celebrated for a solid hour, as if they had won. Which in a sense, the French did. They only lost by 36 points. The same U.S. women's Olympic basketball team that beat France 86-50 for the gold medal Saturday night beat Canada earlier in the tournament by 43, China by 48 and Angola by 52. "I think it speaks directly to what we've got going on in our country in women's basketball and in women's sports in general," U.S. point guard Sue Bird said. "We wear teams down, bottom line. We come at them in waves and when they sub and we sub, it's a huge...

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LONDON — Even creatures with webbed hands and feet like Telander can appreciate this: More than two million people applied for tickets for the men's 100-meter dash final. That's a two followed by six zeroes. The huge demand had everything to do with Usain Bolt, a wonderfully, ridiculously, improbably named Jamaican sprinter. As it was, 80,000 people of all nationalities, skin colors, religions and ideologies had jammed Olympic Stadium to see this one man do what he does. About two billion others stopped what they were during, turned on their TVs and waited for nine-plus seconds of green-and-yellow blur. Everybody can understand locomotion on land. The ground is natural to all of us. The...

Usain Bolt says he will continue to "push the barriers" after finishing London 2012 as a triple Olympic champion for the second time. After claiming 100m and 200m golds, the 25-year-old anchored Jamaica to victory in the 4x100m relay in a new world record time of 36.84 seconds. "I like to push the barriers," said the 100m and 200m world record holder. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play....

NBC announced it has changed plans and will stream Sunday's Olympic closing ceremony live online. Sunday's ceremony from London will still air on a tape-delayed basis on NBC in prime time. For the opening ceremony, NBC took some heat for not making the event available to anyone in the United States for hours after the fact. NBC has since found that streaming live all of the Olympic sports events online has not cut into its prime-time audience, which has been unexpectedly bigger than the 2008 Beijing Games. The closing ceremony is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. PDT. Goooooooooal! Andres Cantor, the Spanish-language broadcaster with the boisterous goal calls, matched Mexico's stunning goal in...

CLEVELAND -- Brent Lillibridge homered, drove in two runs and scored on a squeeze bunt to back Zack...