Author: Martin Rogers, USA TODAY

America has an appetite for brackets and a thirst for single-elimination drama. The NBA needs a tournament of its own, and it needs it now.

With nine games to go, the Los Angeles Lakers are 32-41 and in danger of finishing with a worse record than last season’s miserable mark of 35-47.

The jockeying for playoff seeding will be intense during the NBA’s final weeks of the regular season.

Migratory Mexican free-tailed bats invaded the AT&T Center on Jan. 31. The San Antonio Spurs haven’t lost at home since – a streak of 11 games.

Round-by-round analysis of the world welterweight championship boxing match between Mikey Garcia and Errol Spence Jr.

Los Angeles Lakers head coach Luke Walton has been undermined at just about every turn and never had a chance to shine in his role.

Real Madrid is set to rehire Zinedine Zidane in what seems like a desperate attempt to arrest of stunning fall, but that doesn’t make it wrong.

James Harden extended his 30-point streak to 32 games, but LeBron James and the Lakers stymied the Rockets in the fourth for a 111-106 comeback win.