Barry Sanders arrived in the National Football League (NFL) with high expectations. After a college football season in which he broke 13 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) records and won the Heisman Trophy (as the best player in college...

While many argue whether or not he was the best ever or even the best of his decade, Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions was the most intriguing running back in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1990s for two reasons: his productivity and...

Barry Sanders (born July 16 1968(1968-07-16)) is a Hall of Fame and Heisman Trophy winning American football running back who spent his entire professional career with the Detroit Lions of the NFL. Sanders is best known for being the most prolific...

Landing the 2016 Olympics would bring in more than $7 billion in revenue and create nearly 70,000 jobs, Los Angeles officials said Friday.The revenue would be generated in large part by an estimated 877,000 out-of-town tourists expected to visit Los Angeles during the games and...

Thurman Thomas hardly needed to wait for a phone call. His mother _ screaming as she ran down a hotel hallway _ was more than enough to bring him the good news."She was yelling, 'We're in, we're in,'" said Thomas, who was watching college basketball...

While the New York Jets cleaned out their lockers following a surprisingly successful season, Curtis Martin acknowledged he might have emptied his for the last time.The NFL's No. 4 rusher reiterated Monday that he has probably played his last game because of a bone-on-bone right...

Kevin Smith ran 219 yards and a touchdown on a school-record 46 carries to surpass 2,000 yards for the season, and Central Florida defeated UTEP 36-20 on Saturday.The Knights (9-3, 7-1), winners of six straight since losing to South Florida on Oct. 13, secured the...