With six months to go until the summer games, the city of Tokyo lit up the Olympic rings and celebrated the occasion with fireworks. 

The Miami Heat say Justise Winslow will miss at least two more weeks while recovering from a back injury. Winslow has played only once since Dec. 4 and is slated to be out for at least the remainder of January. The team originally called Winslow’s injury a back strain, then updated the diagnosis to a bone bruise. Winslow played off…

The fences are already up in downtown Miami at Bayfront Park for the Super Bowl LIV crowds, but fences won’t stop drones that are lifting off and taking to the sky.

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern has died three weeks after he was hospitalized due to a “sudden brain hemorrhage,” according to the NBA. He was 77.

Trejon Jacob scored a season-high 20 points, including a game-opening 3-pointer, as Florida International led wire-to-wire and defeated Stetson 83-67 on Sunday. Jacob shot 4-for-6 on 3-pointers. Devon Andrews added 18 points, making 8 of 11 free throws, and grabbed eight rebounds for Florida International (9-3), which won its sixth straight game. Antonio Daye, Jr. added 13 points, Eric Lovett…

While many in South Florida are still trying to figure out what they are going to get during holiday shopping this coming weekend, the area’s sports teams know exactly what they want – a win. It goes from the college game, where both FIU and Florida Atlantic know that a bowl win this weekend will look good on them –…

Three-time All-Star outfielder Matt Kemp has agreed to terms on a minor league contract with the Miami Marlins and is expected to take part in spring training. Kemp batted .200 in 20 games for the Cincinnati Reds last year before breaking a rib on April 21. He then spent time in the Mets’ minor league system. Kemp, 35, is a…

Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate, is aggressively opposing a Major League Baseball plan to cut 42 minor league teams across the country after 2020. Among the targeted are the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics in his hometown, Burlington. Defending low-profile ball clubs in far-flung places more fervently than anyone in the…

The Army and Navy academies are looking into hand signs flashed by students that can be associated with “white power” and were televised during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia on Saturday, school officials said. Cadets at West Point and midshipmen at the Naval Academy in the stands both appeared to display the sign during the broadcast, officials with the two...

Anthony Davis scored 33 points, LeBron James had 28 while coming within a rebound of a triple-double and the Los Angeles Lakers held off the Miami Heat 113-110 on Friday night. James had 12 assists and nine rebounds and Davis grabbed 10 rebounds for the Lakers. They improved to 23-3, extended the second-longest road winning streak in franchise history to…

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern has been hospitalized in Manhattan after suffering a “sudden brain hemorrhage,” according to the league. The league put out a statement Thursday night saying that Stern suffered the hemorrhage “earlier today for which he underwent emergency surgery. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.” Stern was at a Manhattan restaurant when he collapsed, and…

Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees have agreed to a record $324 million, nine-year deal, a person familiar with the contract told The Associated Press on Tuesday night.

With just 54 days before Super Bowl 54, the NFL is revealing what the big game’s opening night event at Marlins Park will offer fans. The January 27th event kicks off a week of Super Bowl festivities – starting with media interviews of players and coaches from both teams. It’s the only time they will come together before the big…

Duncan Robinson set Miami records for 3-pointers in a quarter and a half on his way to 29 points, and the Heat remained unbeaten at home this season with a 124-100 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night.

The track at UCLA’s Drake Stadium will be formally unveiled Friday as the Betsy and Rafer Johnson Track in honor of the 1960 Olympic decathlon gold medalist and his wife, a fellow alumnus.

Super Bowl telecasts by NBC and CBS will swap years in 2021 and 2022.

Super Bowl telecasts by NBC and CBS will swap years in 2021 and 2022.

The Anti-Defamation League is blasting the U.S. Olympic Shooting organization for partnering with firearms auction website Gunbroker.com which the I-Team discovered is also hosting sales of Holocaust relics and concentration camp memorabilia.

NBC Sports will stream the first of three NBC broadcasts of the 105th running of the Tour de France.

Here are some places soccer fans can go in South Florida to catch the games, cheer for their team and enjoy plenty of food and drink specials.