Growing up in Stamford, Conn., John Winchester didn't have the luxury of walking through town to find a lot of high-quality basketball games. Roughly 30 miles south, however, a basketball sanctuary existed that allowed the 6-foot-4 guard to use a...

Rich "Goose" Gossage smiled broadly as he held his new Hall of Fame plaque. It was nine years in the making for the dominant Yankees reliever, but he finally had his day at Cooperstown after coming up short on the ballots in his first eight...

Normally there isn't a greedy bone in Johnny Damon's body. However, when it pan na zamku to the jewels of the pitching free-agent mine, the Yankee center fielder has a voracious appetite. "I want them both," Damon said yesterday of CC Sabathia and A.J...

New Knicks acquisition Patrick Ewing Jr. could wear the retired "33" - his father's number when he played at the Garden - if he makes the roster out of training camp. The Knicks traded for Ewing Jr. yesterday, giving the Rockets the draft rights to...

The game was devolving from annoying to difficult and the reality was looming large that today's tough little struggle was not going to end well for the Giants. They were down 20-16 in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter before pulling...