Paul Pelosi has decades of experience in avoiding the spotlight.

A barrier was broken in golf; can basketball be far behind?

Rush Limbaugh’s attempt to be part-owner of a football team ended last week when he was asked to leave a group that wants to buy the St. Louis Rams.

When Lance Armstrong returns to the Tour de France next year, he’ll probably have the support of the surprising new members of his fan club, the French.

Whether or not the perjury case against baseball’s Barry Bonds goes to trial could depend upon who becomes the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.

Management shifts bring new instability to the U.S. Olympics Committee.

The most popular shirt in the world will be sporting a new logo beginning next year.

Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, is resisting suggestions from his own party that he not seek re-election in 2010.

The way folks in Chicago like to tell it, Thomas Ricketts bleeds Cubbie blue.

As the new presidential administration is becoming increasingly loaded with good basketball players, Barack Obama has stressed that court skills are not a requirement for service.

A little more than three months after he lit up the Summer Olympics, Michael Phelps is adding honors and wealth but losing muscle.

After winning a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics, Michael Phelps has earned a rest. Instead, he’s spending the rest of this week in Beijing making appearances for sponsors such as Visa and Hilton Hotels.

Once again, newsmakers are tripping over the differences between their public statements and their private email. This time it’s the owners of the Seattle Sonics who have to explain the wide gap between their PR stance (We want to do everything possible to keep the team in Seattle) and their behind-the-scenes conversation (Can’t wait to move them to Oklahoma!).

Advice to anyone who wants to become a successful (and rich) men’s college basketball coach: Connect to Kansas.

For years, Chuck Knoblauch has been the answer to this trivia question:

“What Yankee second baseman hit Keith Olbermann’s mom with a wild throw?”

But now, Knoblauch, 39, has become the answer to another trivia question. On baseball blogs, people are asking, in one way or another: