... without violating antitrust law. The case is important to other professional sports besides football. The National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League both filed friend-of-the-court briefs siding with the NFL. Notably ...

... ended its sports lottery, which brought in about $2.5 million a year in tax revenues, in 2007. The National Basketball Association had sued the state over the lottery and the NCAA had vowed not to hold any postseason games there as long ...

... Department official Alger Hiss of having been part of a Communist cell, a charge Hiss denied. In 1949, the National Basketball Association was formed as a merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League. In 1980 ...

... made its way into that at-times-explicitly-apolitical space, the pro sports locker room. In the National Basketball Association, for example, superstar LeBron James held fundraisers and wore Barack Obama T-shirts to the arena. Kevin ...

... was of exceptionally high caliber. Sidney Moncrief showed again why he might be the best guard in the National Basketball Association. The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Celtics in four games to win their best-of-seven series in four successive ...

... taking the game high above the rim. But Jordan was more than a star guard who lifted the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association championships. Jordan -- who will announce his retirement from the NBA today in Chicago -- was the central ...

... known, there was no decision left to be made. The games had to be postponed. Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association soon agreed with the wisdom of local officials. And then we waited for the National Hockey League. The ...

... SPIRITSold the contract of C Alex Trezza to Worcester. SUSSEX SKYHAWKSReleased C Jeremy Booth. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHARLOTTE BOBCATSNamed Scott Howard director of scouting, Rich Sheubrooks director of global scouting and ...

... the contracts of INF Josue Lopez, LHP Donny Langdon and C Mike DeCarlo to Pensacola (AA). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DALLAS MAVERICKSSigned G Devin Harris to a five-year contract extension through the 2012-13 season ...

... SPIRITSold the contracts of RHP Ryan Bicondoa, OF John Welch and INF Jerson Perez to Worcester. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICSSigned C Esteban Batista and F-G Dahntay Jones. MEMPHIS GRIZZLIESNamed Dustin Krugel director ...