Sports

April 8, 2011

Gunman kills 11 students in Brazil school

Eleven students were killed and 22 others injured when a gunman opened fire in a school classroom in this Brazilian city Thursday, Xinhua reported. The gunman opened fire on some 40 students in an eighth grade classroom, witnesses said. One of…

April 8, 2011

Golf no longer Tiger and everybody else

Golf used to be Tiger Woods and everybody else. About the only thing they had in common was how they described…

April 8, 2011

Bulls charge past Celtics, close in on home-court advantage

The Chicago Bulls beat Boston 97-81 on Thursday to open up a four-game lead atop the Eastern Conference and move within a victory of clinching home-court advantage throughout the playoffs. Chicago (58-20), winners of 17 of their last 19 games,…

April 8, 2011

Portuguese trio, Villarreal shine in Europa League

Spanish side Villarreal and Portuguese giants FC Porto put their Europa League-winning credentials on show with 5-1 wins apiece in the first leg of the quarter-finals on Thursday. Three Portuguese sides -- Porto, Benfica and Sporting Braga -- are…

April 8, 2011

Before deliberating, Bonds’ jurors get an earful

The eight women and four men sat in the jury box for more than 4 1/2 hours, listening to angry arguments from federal prosecutors and Barry Bonds' attorneys at the end of a 12-day trial that exposed the dark world of baseball's Steroids Era. Now,…

April 8, 2011

NFL, players disagree on who should oversee talks

A day after the judge handling the NFL lockout lawsuit urged the sides to go "back to the table," the players and owners both expressed a willingness to do so. The hitch: Each offered to meet for talks in a setting the other finds unpalatable. A…

April 7, 2011