Michael Thompson

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Norwich City at Manchester United, 8:55 a.m. (ESPN2) Men’s College Basketball--Louisville at Syracuse, 11 a.m. (CBS); Alabama at Florida, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Butler at Virginia Commonwealth, 11 a.m....

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Norwich City at Queens Park, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2) Men’s College Basketball--Cincinnati Seton Hall, 10 a.m. (ESPNU); Syracuse at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Purdue at Northwestern, 11 a.m. (ESPN2);...

|TV SPORTS| NBA Basketball--Miami Heat at Indiana Pacers, 6 p.m. (ESPN); Los Angeles Lakers at Minnesota Timberwolves, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Men’s College Basketball--Manhattan at Siena, 6 p.m. (ESPNU); Youngstown State at Detroit, 8 p.m. (ESPNU)...

|TV SPORTS| Tennis--Australian Open, men’s semifinal, same-day tape, 11 a.m. (ESPN2); women’s championship, 2 a.m. (ESPN2) Cycling--Tour Down Under, Stage 4, same-day tape, 2:30 p.m. (NBCSN) NBA Basketball--Minnesota Timberwolves at...

||TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Men’s College Basketball--Georgetown at St. John’s, 10 a.m. (ESPN2); Duke at North Carolina State, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Marquette at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. (ESPNU); Minnesota at Indiana, 11 a.m. (Big 10 Network);...

|TV SPORTS|   |SATURDAY| Soccer--Premier League, Chelsea at Tottenham, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); MLS, Philadelphia at Houston, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) Auto Racing--NASCAR Sprint Cup, Hollywood Casino 400 practice, 10 a.m. (ESPN2); NASCAR Nationwide Series,...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| NFL Football--Baltimore Ravens at Houston Texans, Noon (CBS); Arizona Cardinals at Minnesota Vikings, Noon (FOX); New York Jets at New England Patriots, 3:25 p.m. (CBS); Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)...

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer—Premier League, Fulham at West Ham, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); Women’s National Teams, Exhibition, United States vs. Costa Rica, 1:30 p.m. (NBC) College Football—Notre Dame vs. Navy, 8 a.m. (CBS); Ohio at Penn...

In the course of researching boys' friendships over two decades, Niobi Way stumbled upon a link that appears, at first blush, to go against everything we believe about fatherly influence. "The quantitative data from studying hundreds of boys show that...

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England — For all his wizardry with a wedge, Phil Mickelson spent years flummoxed by the creative requirements of the British Open. The reason: He could not hit shots that skittered across the ground instead of flying. "It took...

There is no test of golf quite like U.S. Open golf, and there is no test-taker in the game's modern history quite like Tiger Woods. The two butted heads Thursday, and at a firm, fast, unforgiving Olympic Club, a tactically stimulated Woods went to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Just when this U.S. Open was starting to look like child's play, Tiger Woods led a trio of tested champions who took it back Friday. Woods, another round closer to a serious shot at his 15th major, overcame three straight bogeys on the...