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Sean O'Hair wants to be known for his game, not how he was pushed into the professional ranks while still in high school by an overbearing father. With the way O'Hair is playing these days, his past is becoming less of the story, though it's no less disturbing. O'Hair shot a season-best 5-under 65 on Thursday in the EDS Byron Nelson Championship to take a one-stroke lead over defending champion... More Info...  

The Kansas City Chiefs quickly dispelled rumors they are shopping Pro Bowl running back Larry Johnson before this weekend's NFL draft. Team spokesman Bob Moore said Thursday the Chiefs have not offered Johnson to anybody and that no team has been given permission to speak with him. "Anybody who is reporting it's true is simply not telling the truth," Moore said. More Info...  

Though the Bay Area is abuzz with excitement for the Golden State Warriors' first home playoff game in 13 years, the Warriors are getting a few remedial lessons in keeping their cool. Warriors coach Don Nelson said Thursday he will fine Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson for being ejected from Golden State's 112-99 loss in Game 2 of the club's first-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks. More Info...  

No paint, no ink, no ketchup. Nothing but Curt Schilling's blood was seeping through his socks in the 2004 postseason, current and former Red Sox said Thursday after a rumor resurfaced that the pitcher milked his injury for drama while helping Boston end its 86-year title drought. On Wednesday, Baltimore announcer Gary Thorne said during his broadcast of the Red Sox-Orioles game that Boston backup... More Info...  

Police conducting a drug investigation raided a house owned by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and found dozens of dogs, some injured and emaciated. Police also found items associated with dog fighting. State Police Sgt. D.S. Carr said Vick's relative, Davon Boddie, 26, lives in the house. Vick owns the property, but doesn't live there and wasn't present when a search warrant was executed in... More Info...  

Sammy Sosa is "Slammin' Sammy" once again. Sosa hit two homers to reach 594 for his career, but Paul Byrd and the Cleveland Indians beat the Texas Rangers 9-4 Thursday for their fifth straight win. Sosa's 439-foot drive leading off the sixth inning against Byrd (2-1) made Jacobs Field the 44th major league ballpark in which he has homered. More Info...  

The New Jersey Devils are going into their playoff series against the Ottawa Senators without their captain. Patrik Elias will be sidelined for the first game of the second-round series on Thursday because of a lingering cold. He is expected to play in Game 2 on Saturday. "He is much better," Devils coach Lou Lamoriello said after the Devils' pre-game skate. More Info...  

UCLA starters Darren Collison and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute said Wednesday they will return for their junior years rather than enter the NBA draft. Collison, who was second in the Pac-10 in assists and led the league in steals, and Mbah a Moute, who was the Bruins' leading rebounder, made the announcement four days before the deadline for underclassmen to declare for the draft. More Info...  

Mark Prior is out for the rest of the season. His once promising future with the Chicago Cubs is unclear, although surgery on his right shoulder is not considered career-threatening. Dr. James Andrews operated on the 26-year-old right-hander Tuesday in an arthroscopic procedure in which he also worked on Prior's rotator cuff. More Info...  

Larry Brown hopes to return to coaching -- again. The Hall of Fame coach received permission from the Philadelphia 76ers to interview for the Memphis Grizzlies' vacancy, a team spokesman said. Brown reportedly was to meet with Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley on Wednesday. Grizzlies spokeswoman Stacey Mitch referred calls about the search to Stan Meadows, senior corporate counsel for the team. More Info...  

Latest news and information from the world of sports. Depressed and humiliated. That's how Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson described the mood of his team Wednesday. "It's accurate. I don't know how you wouldn't be after what happened last night," forward Luke Walton said after the Lakers watched the horror show that was Game 2 of their first-round NBA playoff series against the Phoenix Suns. More Info...  

Two-time champion Tony Stewart likened NASCAR to professional wrestling and accused it of using bogus caution flags to shape races in biting comments made on his weekly radio show. More Info...  

Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer will be paid the same base salary as football coach Greg Schiano under a seven-year contract extension announced Wednesday. Stringer will earn $450,000 in base pay and could earn up to $500,000 in additional compensation under terms of the agreement, Rutgers said. More Info...  

The St. Louis Rams' long search for a return man ended Wednesday when the team acquired Dante Hall from Kansas City in exchange for a fifth-round pick in this weekend's draft. "We have filled a need with one of the top players in football at his specialty, returning punts and kicks," Rams coach Scott Linehan said. More Info...  

Sam Mitchell remembers the advice he got from Bill Fitch when he was cut by the Houston Rockets in 1985. Fitch told him to persevere, regardless of what others say. Mitchell did just that, as a player and a coach. On Tuesday, he was honored as NBA coach of the year after leading the Toronto Raptors to a franchise record-tying 47 victories and their first Atlantic Division title. More Info...  

A year ago, Dallas Braden was trying to recover from a serious shoulder injury. Earlier this month, the left-hander was pitching in Double-A for the Midland RockHounds. Given the opportunity to start for the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday, Braden had more difficulty containing his emotions than the Baltimore Orioles. More Info...  

Latest news and information from the world of sports. Dirk Nowitzki is tall enough to shoot over almost anyone. He's accurate enough to shoot from almost anywhere. Yet surround him with a bunch of pesky defenders and the big German struggles. Case in point: Game 1 of the playoffs against Golden State. With a variety of guys between 6-foot-3 and 6-9 charging at and swarming around the 7-footer, Nowitzki had one of his worst games of the season. More Info...  

The Seattle SuperSonics began overhauling their basketball operations on Tuesday, firing head coach Bob Hill and removing Rick Sund as general manager following one of the worst seasons in franchise history. Seattle went 31-51 in Hill's only full season as head coach, the Sonics' worst record since they finished with an identical mark in 1985-86. More Info...  

Even after Denver's Game 1 victory over the Spurs, Marcus Camby knows there are still plenty of doubters. "It doesn't matter what everyone else thinks," the Nuggets' center said. "Our mind-set is that us 15 players out here, (we're) the only ones who probably really think we can beat the Spurs." Denver will try to pull off a real stunner -- winning two games on the Spurs' home floor -- in Game 2 on... More Info...  

It didn't take long for Tom Renney's views about the Sabres not being the "cream of the crop" to reach Buffalo's locker room Tuesday. Whatever the New York Rangers coach's intentions were in making that comment a day earlier, the top-seeded and President's Trophy-winning Sabres made sure they interpreted it in the worst possible light. More Info...