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It was vintage Kobe Bryant. The superstar keyed a 106-90 win over the Hornets in Game 5 with a vicious dunk that may have put the Lakers back on track for a title, writes Sam Amick.

Former PSV Eindhoven, Barcelona and Brazil superstar Romario gave a victory speech on Monday after taking a seat in the Brazilian lower congress having recently been voted in as a federal deputy in Rio de Janiero.

A spokesman says David Beckham will file suit in Germany against the U.S. magazine that published claims the soccer superstar had sex with prostitutes.

Make room, John Wall. Texas' Avery Bradley is a rising superstar, and he's got Texas atop Luke Winn's Power Rankings this week.

They were the stories that shaped the decade. From an injury that forever changed a franchise to the fall of a superstar, Don Banks looks at the 10 signature NFL moments of the 2000s.

LeBron James is leaving Cleveland - for Hollywood. The Cavaliers superstar and reigning NBA MVP will make his feature film debut by playing himself in an upcoming comedy.

LeBron James is hardly the first superstar to get dunked on for all the universe to witness. And he certainly won't be the last stud player to get 'posterized,' writes Steve Aschburner.

ST. LOUIS -- Monday night's home run derby is being billed as the Albert Pujols Show, but even Pujols himself knows that no matter what he does, no matter how many home runs he hits and how many lights he knocks out on the Big Mac sign, this year's derby is destined to be quickly forgotten like every other derby.

Except, of course, one, or more specifically, one man's one round.