The biggest draw in television is going mobile. The Super Bowl will be streamed online and to phones in the U.S. for the first time, the NFL said Tuesday. NBC’s broadcasts of wild card Saturday, the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl will be available on the league’s and network’s websites and through Verizon’s NFL [...]

Shane Battier said at this point in his career, he only wants “a winning role.” He figures his best chance of that is with the Miami Heat. Battier said Thursday morning that he would sign with the Eastern Conference champion Heat, the club that let him know as soon as the free-agency shopping window formally [...]

Matt Leinart’s return to the NFL lasted less than a half, and coach Gary Kubiak says the Texans will sign another quarterback this week. Leinart will be placed on injured reserve after fracturing his left collarbone in the second quarter of Houston’s 20-13 win in Jacksonville on Sunday. The left-handed Leinart was making his first [...]

Tim Tebow is an N.F.L. quarterback, and Tim Tebow is an outspoken Christian. And while quarterback controversies are almost as common as quarterbacks, who play perhaps the most scrutinized position in American sports, what has erupted around Tebow this season is altogether different. At the intersection of faith and football, the fervor that surrounds both [...]

Chicago Cubs manager Mike Quade was fired Wednesday in the first major move by Theo Epstein since becoming the team’s president of baseball operations. Epstein, who was introduced in his new position last week, said Quade would not return after traveling to Florida to tell him in person. He called Quade an “outstanding baseball guy” [...]

TMZ has obtained the 911 call placed moments before Terrell Owens was rushed to an L.A. hospital for a possible pill overdose on October 6 — and according to Terrell’s assistant, the NFL and reality star was trying to kill himself. During the call, placed at 11:02 PM, the dispatcher asks the assistant on the [...]

World number two Rafael Nadal Tuesday targeted a return to the form that won him three Grand Slams in a single season, admitting his game had dipped since his stellar 2010 campaign. The Spaniard, for many years locked in a battle with Swiss great Roger Federer for tennis supremacy, has seen his crown taken this [...]

After floundering for much of the second half of the season, the New York Red Bulls are in decent position to make Major League Soccer’s playoffs. Luke Rodgers and Thierry Henry scored to lift the Red Bulls over the Los Angeles Galaxy 2-0 Tuesday night and into a tie for 10th place — the final [...]

Unable to reach a deal, NBA owners and players walked away from the table and don’t know when they will meet again. If it’s not in the next few days, they can forget about playing 82 games. Without an agreement by Monday, the beginning of the regular season will be canceled, and both sides will [...]

The Boston Red Sox completed their September collapse in horrific and historic fashion, falling out of the playoff chase by allowing two ninth-inning runs in a 4-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night. The Red Sox held a nine-game lead in the AL wild-card race after Sept. 3, but a 7-19 swoon left [...]