CENTRAL Coast Mariners moved to shore up their A-League future by re-signing five players for another two years.

AUSTRALIA cricket captain Ricky Ponting has been ruled out of the Twenty20 match against India at the MCG.

The reserves were announced Thursday night and Bosh, as expected, was one of them on the Eastern Conference team.

The Brampton native first joined the north London club from German Bundesliga side Werder Bremen in 2005 but after a successful first season struggled to make an impact in the White Hart Lane starting XI, precipitating Thursday's cross-town move to

Former WWE star Brock Lesnar will finally answer that question Saturday night when he climbs into the cage against former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir for his UFC debut at UFC 81: Breaking Point at the Mandalay Bay.

Avery, a 1,448-yard rusher with Edmonton in 2002, signed with Toronto in 2004 after sustaining a major knee injury the year before with the NFL's Minnesota Vikings.

Yesterday, Lions general manager and head coach Wally Buono said he and Jackson still have some details to complete but that an agreement has been reached on the major issues. A report on Vancouver radio station CKNW said the deal

Those votes are now in. And O'Neal is indeed out.

It was his first week on the job in 1993 as an executive at the NHL's head office in New York. Burke entered the men's washroom to find first-year commissioner Gary Bettman picking up scraps of paper from a messy

TEAM Australia's new A1GP driver John Martin has started the Eastern Creek round in promising fashion, finishing quickest in an opening practice session reserved for rookies and developing nations.

TEAM Australia will be looking to new driver John Martin and his experience at Sydney's Eastern Creek Raceway to turn a few heads at this weekend's A1GP race.

CARTERVILLE - When he arrived on the John A. Logan College campus in the summer of 2006, Jarvis Walker was admittedly overweight and rusty. He hadn't played in an organized basketball game in more than a year.

MURPHYSBORO - The Carterville Lady Lions survived a strong Murphysboro second quarter to post their 20th win of the season in a non-conference 62-40 road victory Wednesday night.

the southern The Southern Illinois University women's basketball team hits the road this evening for a two-game trip that begins in Northern Iowa.

CARBONDALE - Things looked so encouraging for Evansville's men's basketball team Tuesday night.

At some point this season, Goreville senior Allison Stout will walk off the court for the last time.

The time is almost here. On Monday, the area's Class 1A girls basketball regionals kick off at Pope County, Lebanon and Gallatin County. Both the Lady Pirates, ranked fifth in The Southern's Top 10 poll, and the Lady Hawks (ranked

It may not be March Madness, but a different type of madness will take place over the next two months as the IHSA Class 2A girls basketball regionals begin Monday at different sites across the region.