NEW YORK – Rookie Shoni Schimmel of the Atlanta Dream has the top-selling jersey in the WNBA. The No. 8 draft pick out of Louisville leads the list announced Tuesday, ahead of Skylar Diggins of the Tulsa Shock. It’s the third time in four seasons a rookie has held the …

Brooklyn, MI (SportsNetwork.com) – Jimmie Johnson can now scratch Michigan International Speedway off of his list of racetracks where he has yet to win a race on the current Sprint Cup Series schedule. Johnson, the six-time and defending series champion, grabbed the lead for the fourth and final time after …

SAN FRANCISCO – Brandon Crawford thought back to 2002, when he was 15. He’s pretty sure he sat in the stands for a World Series game in San Francisco, though he’s not sure which one. He remembers the Giants leaving town with a 3-2 Series lead, bursting ahead 5-0 in …

If recent history is any indication, Kansas won’t be the only school to fire its football coach before the end of the regular season. Kansas made the season’s first coaching change Sunday when it dumped Charlie Weis. Last year, Southern California fired Lane Kiffin, Connecticut removed Paul Pasqualoni and Miami …

How many Americans remember Paul Harvey? For those who don’t know who he was, he was an American treasure. Harvey was a legendary radio broadcaster delivering news and commentary in a plain talking common-sense style that was never divisive and always informative. He started in radio at the age of …

To those of you who shy away from any religious “stuff” appearing in an op-ed or in political discourse, in general, I say, “bah, humbug.” Some definers say that religion only is another word for “worldview,” so please don’t get freaked out by the religious overtones suggested by the title …

An informed source within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps reports that the ever-increasing tensions and visible animosities between the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and President Ahmadinejad has prompted the Ayatollah to issue an operational plan to deal with the clashes that can be expected in the coming weeks between the …

She is the Queen of All Media, a woman so successful she has her own TV show, her own magazine, $2.7 billion in the bank, a book club that can make any author a best seller and now her own TV network. And, conveniently, she also has a “secret” she …

In the School of Scandal textbook, the first rule of holes is to stop digging. When you’ve made a mistake, don’t get yourself in any deeper. The Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., apparently is now learning that lesson. Or maybe he’s still ignoring it at his own peril. It’s …

After three years of discussion among 21 scientists, an economic-political coalition of advanced western nation-states recently handed down a ruling which prohibits bottled water companies from advertising that water eases dehydration. Executives of bottled water companies who dare to claim that, in essence, water is wet, can face up two …