Joe Student

The NFL opens its 2012 regular season on Wednesday night when the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants host the Dallas Cowboys. Fifteen other games fill out the schedule of the new season’s first week. Here’s a preview of the action: Wednesday, Sept...

Leanna Decker is a 21-year old model from Huntington, West Virginia. Leanne also happens to be Playboy’s Cybergirl of the Year for 2012, so there’s a good chance you’ve seen her online prior to now.

Abigail Ratchford is a model from Scranton, Pa. — home of the Dunder-Mifflin Paper Company (see ‘The Office’), Vice-President Joe Biden (see the Oval Office) and one of the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parades (see the parole office).

Noriatsu Osaka had three home runs and a triple, as the team from Tokyo, Japan beat Goodlettsville, Tennessee, 12-2, on Sunday in the championship game of the 2012 Little League World Series in South Williamsport, PA.

A busy late summer sports weekend finds a full schedule of NFL preseason games, a NASCAR night race and the Little League World Series. Here’s what to watch this weekend:

A lightning strike in a parking lot outside a NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway on Sunday killed one fan and injured nine others, race officials said.

Major league teams have until 4 p.m. on Tuesday to make a non-waiver trade to help their team. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers continued winning streaks on Sunday. Here’s what’s happening in Major League Baseball:

San Francisco Giants’ teammates Melky Cabrera and Pablo Sandoval delivered big hits early, as the National League shutout the American League 8-0 in the 2012 MLB All-Star game Tuesday night in Kansas City.

Major League Baseball announced which players will represent their respective leagues at the All-Star Game in Kansas City on July 10. Here’s what’s happening in MLB this week:

LeBron James recorded a triple-double, and the Miami Heat won the 2012 NBA title with a 121-106 rout of the Oklahoma City Thunder in Miami on Thursday night.

Baseball, football and basketball player salaries keep rising, but a competitor outside of those popular team sports is the world’s highest paid athlete.

The Miami Heat advanced to the NBA Finals for the second consecutive year by eliminating the Boston Celtics, 101-88, in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Saturday. The Heat will play the Oklahoma City Thunder, the NBA’s Western Conference champions, in the 2012 NBA Finals, starting Tuesday night in Oklahoma City.