2006 — Kobe Bryant scores a staggering 81 points — the second-highest total in NBA history — and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 122-104.

Coming off a tough loss to the Clippers, the Lakers have little trouble defeating the NBA's worst team, the Washington ...

Kenesaw Mountain Landis takes office as baseball’s commissioner. 1947 — Carl Hubbell, Frank Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Houston Rockets come into Martin Luther King Day at No. 2 in the Western Conference. Something most people people at the start of the season would not have thought possible. At 28-13, the ...

With a Monday afternoon matchup between the Houston Rockets and the Detroit Pistons approaching, the home team could be down a starter. According to the official NBA injury report, the veteran ...

Fred VanVleet sent his lob to Amen Thompson impossibly high, as if by then the Houston Rockets needed just one thing, one more jaw-dropping, crowd-screaming highlight. The Rockets got it, with ...

Professional prizefighters come in all shapes and sizes and from all manner of backgrounds and locales, from the inner city of Brooklyn to the countryside of Uzbekistan, from broken homes and ...

The Houston Rockets have suprised a lot of people around the NBA. They are currently second in the Western Conference, a game in front of the Memphis Grizzlies. Their 27-13 start to the season is ...

HOUSTON — After consecutive losses at home, the Detroit Pistons got back on track on the road. The Pistons defeated the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center, 107-96, on Monday afternoon to move back ...

Family, friends, and dignitaries gathered to honor the legacy of the late boxing icon Joe Frazier on what would have been his 81st birthday on Sunday. The Frazier family placed a Philadelphia ...

The Rockets have a big choice to make about trading for a star like De'Aaron Fox. Here are the variables they need to consider. Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka / Soobum Im/GettyImages The ...