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Underwear model and cultural icon David Beckham is leaving soccer behind. Beckham announced Thursday that he is retiring from the sport that made him famous, ending a career that's included stints with Manchester United, Real Madrid, the Los Angeles...

Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...

The James Beard Foundation Awards -- the Academy Awards of the food world -- were distributed Monday night in New York, and it was a victory for women but a shutout for Southern California. The winner for outstanding chef, the last award in a long,...

Few people know the 32 NFL teams better than the writers who cover those teams on a day-to-day basis. Those beat writers made the selections for this mock draft, choosing the players as if Thursday night were to unfold this way: 1. KANSAS CITY (Adam...

Few people know the 32 NFL teams better than the writers who cover those teams day to day. Those beat writers made the selections for this mock draft, choosing the players as if Thursday night were to unfold this way: 1 KANSAS CITY (Adam Teicher,...

Jack Pardee, a Texas football legend who was Walter Payton's first head coach in the NFL and guided the Bears to a playoff appearance in 1977, died of cancer, his family announced Monday. He was 76. Pardee coached the Bears from 1975 to 1977 and is...

As the Orioles and Ravens try to work out a scheduling conflict that has put in jeopardy the NFL’s hopes of opening up the regular season on Thursday, Sept. 5 at M&T Bank Stadium, the relationship between the two downtown neighbors has again come...

Ed Reed sure seems to be serious about exploring his options on the open market. As I write this, the free-agent safety is in Houston, where the Texans have rolled out the red carpet for the likely future Hall-of-Famer. They scooped him up in a...

At least two people were wounded in a Tuesday shooting at Lone Star College in north Houston, according to initial reports. Helicopter video, carried by CNN, showed at least one victim wearing a neck brace being wheeled on a stretcher to an ambulance....

We learned during his first run for the White House, President Obama loved his Blackberry and kept using it when he first entered office.  He was the first president to use social media.   The Houston Chronicle takes a look at other presidential...

In the 144-year narrative of our national pastime, five men have hit 60 home runs in one season. Henry Aaron never did it. Willie Mays never did it. One did it three times. As his reward, Sammy Sosa received 71 of 569 possible votes (12.5 percent) for...

    It used to be that this is where prospects were unearthed, careers salvaged.     Bruce Bowen. Udonis Haslem. Anthony Carter. Joel Anthony.     For years, it had been an immense source of pride for Pat Riley and those on his Miami Heat staff.    ...