Arthur Ashe

Damion Thomas couldn't have picked a better year to start running track at Lauderdale Lakes Middle School. The eighth-grade standout won the 100-meter hurdles and the 400-meter dash before helping the 4-by-400 meter relay team take second place as the...

It's official: The Broward school district will overhaul five schools next year – closing some and repurposing others – in what officials call a holistic approach to helping 2,000 students in primarily low-income communities. "We tend to...

The Broward school district and the teachers union reached agreement to give teachers at "priority schools" (those with grades of Ds and Fs) additional compensation based on performance. The money would come from district grants. Teachers rated...

LEXINGTON, Ky. – University of Kentucky women’s basketball junior guard Kastine Evans has been awarded the prestigious Darrell A. VanMeter Community Service Award and will be honored Monday night at the Annual Spring Honors and Recognition...

The boos and the catcalls echoed as Tommie Smith and John Carlos walked off the medal stand in the summer of 1968, track shoes in their hands to symbolize the poverty of their youth. The noise reached a crescendo as they stepped into a tunnel labeled...

Strawberry nachos in Oxnard? Playing dress-up in your finest big-band-era garb for a weekend of music in Ventura? Toasting Mother Nature at an Earth Day festival in Santa Barbara? Take your pick. The Central Coast is ripe with plenty of escapes this...

Injuries may have put a damper on the first half of the season for the Laguna Beach High boys' tennis team, but they haven't stopped the Breakers from once again taking control of the Orange Coast League race. At the start of the second half of the...

Robin Roberts, host of "Good Morning America" and one of the first female anchors for ESPN, will receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2013 ESPYs on July 17 in Los Angeles. Roberts has twice been stricken by serious illness in recent years and...

  There is no one in the history of the world quite like Mr. T. What other person has ever had a mohawk, starred in a No. 1 TV series, starred in a "Rocky" movie and main-evented two WrestleManias? No one else, that's who. Now you can add one more...

  Join Times Lakers writer Mike Bresnahan and Clippers writer Brad Turner at 11:30 a.m. today for a video chat about the Lakers and Clippers. The Lakers have lost three in a row and are in danger (again) of missing the playoffs. But even with those...

  This is anything but a slam-dunk. Heck, it’s not even a sky hook. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wants to be the next UCLA basketball coach. The former Bruins star, appearing on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Tuesday night, said, “I would certainly be...

ABC's Robin Roberts has received the prestigious Peabody Award for sharing her health story in frank and detailed terms. The citation to her "Robin's Journey" reporting reads: "By allowing her network to document and build a public service campaign...