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The Mavs were split on the holiday shoe gear with about half the guys going with the garish Nike green Christmas sneakers.Apparently in an attempt to match, the Mavs broke out their alternate green uniforms for the first time this season.'The uniforms, yeah,' James Singleton said. 'The shoes I don’t know about. Christmas spirit, though, right?''It’s just one game,' J.J. Barea said.Dirk Nowitzki was the big winner. His signature Nike Air Max Spot Up shoes had a fairly attractive blending of green, red and white.Jason Terry wore special shoes, too, but Reebok must have missed the memo about making them Christmas colors. Terry’s were blue and silver. Hanukkah high-tops anyone?On the coaching front, Rick Carlisle wore a holiday-themed tie sent to him from the Boys & Girls Club of America chapter in his hometown of Ogdensburg, N.Y.— Jeff Caplan

Baseball may eventually have a future in China. It seems the same can't be said for the baseball venues built for the Beijing Olympics.

A recent article in the Toronto Star describes Toronto's bid for the 2015 Pan American Games. Toronto, Bogota, Colombia and Lima, Peru are the 3 candidate cities and the selection will be made next fall by the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO). Speculation is that Toronto is favored to win based on its infrastructure advantages and the fact that neither Canada or the USA has hosted since 1999. (The USA isn't bidding due to the conflict with the 2016 Chicago Olympic Bid.)The PANAM Games Handball tournament has historically served as the Pan American region's automatic qualification for the Olympic Games. The 2011 PANAM Games will be in Guadalajara, Mexico and the winner of both the Men's and Women's tournament will qualify for London 2012. If the qualification format is maintained the 2015 tournament will serve as Pan American qualification for the 2016 Olympics. For the USA, this may be academic if Chicago is selected as the host city for 2016. (Host nations automatically q

PHOENIX, Arizona, December 25. THE Morning Swim Show is taking a look back at nine days of the best swimming in history with our year-end series "Nine Days of Beijing."Day 3 of the series fe...

With Penn State gearing up for next Thursday's Rose Bowl, Sports Wit' will become Sports Nit' for the next six days. Look for "You Talkin' To Me" with a Penn State focus, special reports from sunny California by Penn State beat writer Jeff McLane, and all sorts of fun facts about the Nittany Lions and the Southern Cal Trojans.

Four months after serving as host of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China is mulling a bid to host the 2018 Winter Games in the northern city of Harbin, state media said on Thursday, quoting a government official.

Washington, December 25 : Ace swimmer Michael Phelps might have been branded "Golden Olympian" after he created history by winning the most gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, but his coach Bob Bowman feels that he may not be as invincible when he competes at the national and world championships in the near future.

NPR's Tom Goldman relives the highlights: A remarkable Super Bowl upset. The epic Wimbledon final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Open with a bad knee. Record-smashing performances at the Olympics. And, the Celtics and Lakers back in the NBA finals.

St. Mark's senior burns through records By CHUCK DURANTE . Special to The News Journal . December 25, 2008 Bunched among a host of talented juniors last year, Greg Morrin of St. Mark's High devoted his summer to breaking away...

Rutgers spent the first half of this season searching for that special player who could duplicate Ray Rice's game-breaking ability. The Scarlet Knights wound up with two: senior quarterback Mike Teel and junior All-American wide receiver Kenny Britt.