Houston rookie Patrick Patterson(notes) returned home on the Rockets’ charter flight Saturday night, a few hours after chest pains and congestion forced him to leave Philips Arena in an ambulance. Team spokesman Bob Schranz said preliminary tests on Patterson, the NBA’s No. 14 overall draft pick, were precautionary and revealed no problems other than flulike [...]

Reserve J.R. Smith scored 28 points and Carmelo Anthony added 21 amid renewed trade talk, leading the Nuggets to a 130-102 win over a Miami Heat team missing LeBron James on Thursday night. Chris Bosh scored 24 points and Dwyane Wade added 16 for Miami, which lost two in a row for the first time [...]

Allen Iverson: may be 35, need a lesion removed from his right leg that will take four to six weeks to rehab from, and have no NBA team interested in bringing him aboard, but his manager, Gary Moore, is telling the Associated Press that his client isn’t planning on hanging up his high tops just [...]

The End of the Big 10 Anyone even remotely familiar with college sports, from football to basketball (and even the occasional swim fan) knows the intensity and riveting competition provided by The Big Ten Conference. It’s the oldest Division 1 college athletics conference in North America, and its 11 teams worship sports like no others [...]

Eight teams bid FIBA Worlds farewell  After six days of group play in the 2010 FIBA World Championships in Turkey, 16 teams have qualified for the knock-out stage of the tournament while eight squads are going home. Germany, Puerto Rico, Iran, Cote d’Ivoire, Lebanon, Canada, Jordan and Tunisia have been eliminated after failing to make [...]