Basketball

The Zac Brown Band is set to headline the opening day of the 2013 NCAA Big Dance Concert Series, in conjunction with the 2013 NCAA Men’s Final Four. The free three-day music festival will also include the Dave Mathews Band, Sting, Flo Rida,...

The Sports Xchange Press Box: Coach K to continue as U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski will stay on as coach of the U.S. men's Olympic basketball team through the 2016 Games. Krzyzewski announced his intentions at a Thursday news conference at Duke, where he...

The Mohegan Sun Arena looks to be getting the American Athletic Conference women's basketball championships in 2014, but its hopes of getting some NCAA Tournament games were delivered a blow Thursday. The Mohegan Sun, endorsed by coaches and athletic...

   Frank Vogel's Indiana Pacers lost a heartbreaking overtime game Wednesday night to open these Eastern Conference finals.    He emerged Thursday, "encouraged."    Erik Spoelstra's Miami Heat exulted at Wednesday night's buzzer with a 103-102...

It is not unusual for a WNBA team to wait until the last possible moment to make its final roster cuts, and that's exactly how it transpired Thursday for the Sun. First-year coach Anne Donovan put 13 players through one final practice in the morning....

The Sports Xchange NBA Roundup: James heads All-NBA team Miami Heat superstar LeBron James received 119 votes and was named first-team All-NBA on Thursday. Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers made the team for the 11th time, tying him with Hall of...

Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert kept it respectful throughout his media session Thursday. On his personal Twitter account, he was more blunt. Hibbert implied Miami Heat forward Shane Battier may have committed a dirty play in the first quarter of...

May 23 (Reuters) - Most Valuable Player LeBron James of the Miami Heat and veteran Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers headlined the list of players selected for the All-NBA team, the league said on Thursday. Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder,...

A former Roanoke College coach has been named the head coach of the North Cross’ varsity boys basketball team. North Cross announced Thursday that it has hired Ed Green as its new coach. Green takes over for Bill Hodges, who retired because of...

Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel is not backing down. If anything, he feels even stronger about his team's chances after Wednesday night's 103-102 overtime loss to the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. "We're very encouraged," he...

By Larry Fine May 23 (Reuters) - The star-studded U.S. national basketball team cannot afford to get complacent about being the sport's superpower given the pace of emerging talent around the globe, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said on Thursday. According...

  This time it was unanimous for LeBron James.    Unlike the media vote for 2013 Most Valuable Player, which left him one first-place vote shy of becoming the NBA's first unanimous MVP, the Miami Heat forward was listed first-team on each of the 119...