Miami, FL (SportsNetwork.com) – Mario Chalmers is returning to the Miami Heat. The Heat officially re-signed the 6-foot-2 point guard on Monday. Chalmers, who has spent his entire six-year NBA career with the Heat, started each of the 73 games in which he appeared last season and averaged 9.8 points, …

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Oakland Raiders rookie quarterback Derek Carr returned to practice three days after being knocked out of a preseason game with a concussion and sore ribs. Carr practiced on a limited basis Monday and his status for the upcoming exhibition game in Green Bay on Friday night remains …

LATROBE, Pa. – The Pittsburgh Steelers are going shopping. General manager Kevin Colbert said Monday the team hopes to use some of its remaining room under the salary cap to lock down a potential free agent before the regular season begins. The Steelers have four starters entering the final year …

At a dinner party in Washington the other night, I was asked a question I’m often asked. No, not, “Can I buy a vowel?” but, rather, “Why is Hollywood so uniformly made up of liberal Democrats?” There are a lot of theories on the subject, and I have a few …

Today is April Fool’s Day. So it might be appropriate to note the hoaxes, con jobs, frauds and pranks which the New York Times has been suckered by since the Jayson Blair fraud and plagiarism scandal in 2003. Blair, you’ll recall, was the young New York Times reporter who plundered …

It is not necessary to have an opinion about where President Obama was born to know that his lack of candor has cost him public trust. Obama’s approval ratings are in the mid-40s, while his disapproval ratings hover at the 50 percent mark. The president’s release of his birth certificate …

“Prayer,” said the poet Hannah More, “is the cry of faith to the ear of mercy. The confession of need to Him who alone can relieve it.” These words were given to the world two hundred years ago. They are a timeless, beautiful reminder that God both hears and answers …

This February 6, 2011 marks the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth. Reagan died June 5, 2004 at the ripe old age of 93. Ironically, throughout that long life, he had been a model of fitness. If not for Alzheimer’s disease, it is quite possible we might be watching news clips …

Now that the NFL has reached agreement with its players and settled the important economic issues that had marked a difficult and contentious few months of labor uncertainty, there will be the usual media efforts to determine which side won. But such debates miss the point and tend to perpetuate …

The Scripps Howard News Service didn’t mince words. “Should Tim Tebow be so flamboyant about his faith?” read Sunday’s headline. Columnist Joel Mathis spoke on behalf of the Almighty and declared that Jesus wants the Denver Broncos quarterback to take it down a notch. “But most of us have learned …