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Now that Brian Banks has been exonerated of a rape conviction that put him in prison for five years, the one-time prep football star has a message for NFL coaches: Give him a chance.

A former high school football star whose dreams of a pro career were shattered by a rape conviction burst into tears Thursday as a judge threw out the charge that sent him to prison for more than five years.

Brian Banks' Accuser Contacted Him on Facebook and Recanted Her Story

PORTMAN ADMITS HE’S ‘BORING’  Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, is often handed the boring white guy description when talking about potential vice presidential picks, and in an in depth Washington Post profile of the first term Ohio senator, he admits, “I told my staff that I’m...

TORONTO - Dave (Super) Mann, one of the most versatile players to ever wear the Toronto Argonauts uniform, has died. He was 79.

Joe Paterno earned a state pension of $13.4 million for his 61-year coaching career at Penn State.

Today in books and publishing: More grumbling about the weight of books, Esquire launches a boys only book club, and Mark Twain responds to a book banner.

President Obama returned to Joplin, Mo., tonight, one year after a monster tornado leveled the town on high school graduation day, to celebrate its remarkable recovery and the first class of graduates since the storm. “As I look out at this class, and across this...

A week before Texas Republicans head to the polls to select a Senate nominee, Gov. Rick Perry starred in a television advertisement on behalf of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who has poured millions of his personal fortune into the race. “Texas Republicans have an important...

(Reuters) - A judge denied a motion on Monday to delay the start of the child sex-abuse trial of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to court papers. As a result of the ruling from Judge John Cleland, of the Court of Common Pleas for Centre County, Pennsylvania, Sandusky's trial …

Today in sports: The Heat are falling apart, SEC football plays rough, and a Saints takes a big shot at the Commish. 

The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year's Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff.

How about a national championship game in Detroit? Or Minneapolis? What about Boston or New York?

A small study raises more concern about the long-term consequences of brain injuries suffered by thousands of soldiers — suggesting they may be at risk of developing the same degenerative brain disease as some retired football players.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is doubly cruel: it leaves many victims emotionally shattered and cognitively crippled. But because mild and moderate brain injuries do not show up on CT or other imaging, doctors and even family members are often skeptical …

Big Ten officials came out in favor of keeping bowl games as sites for college football's planned playoff on Tuesday, preferring to keep the Rose Bowl as the conference's postseason tradition.

Today in sports: St. Louis and the Rams settle in for vicious stadium sniping, Democrats may have lost the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world over gay marriage, and assessing the hypothetical market for Josh Hamilton.

ABC's prime time schedule for the fall:

Network upfront presentations (in which the new slate of programming is bragged about to advertisers) continue today, with ABC unveiling their Fall 2012 lineup.

Britney Spears and Demi Lovato are joining the judging panel on "The X Factor" this fall, part of Fox's effort to boost its underperforming music competition shows.

Jacob was the most popular name for baby boys in the United States in 2011 for the 13th year running, while Sophia knocked Isabella off the top spot for girls, a federal agency said Monday.

Fox is promising changes to underperforming competition shows "American Idol" and "The X Factor" and trying to breathe new life into "Glee" by moving it to a new night and adding guest stars Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Fox is promising changes to underperforming competition shows "American Idol" and "The X Factor" and trying to breathe new life into "Glee" by moving it to a new night and adding guest stars Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Some of the biggest increases in name popularity coincide with celebrity births.

Some of the biggest increases in name popularity coincide with celebrity births.

The University of Pittsburgh is going to court in hopes of expediting its exit from the Big East.

The USFL is back in business.

COMMENTARY | ABC News Nightline hosted a debate last night, primarily about the future of college football, but which directly and indirectly focused on the hot button sports story of the past year: concussions in sports.