With the Tuesday death of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, PEOPLE readers reflect on the classic book

I first found baseball, or baseball found me, as Jim Bouton might say, back in the early 1980s. Situated as I was in central Indiana, it made perfect sense that I gravitated to the Cincinnati Reds, particularly because they were the only team on local television at the time. I bought into the club when they were hapless losers, oblivious to the glory days that lay just a few years in the past …

As I mentioned in the SNL Sketch Predictor on Friday, athletes generally make the worst SNL hosts. And I'm sorry to report that Eli Manning did not exceed my reasonably low expectations. That said, at least Manning's training and experience as a professional athlete meant that, even as his comedic talent failed … More »

Junior Seau, a homegrown superstar who was the fist-pumping, emotional leader of the San Diego Chargers for 13 years, was found shot to death at his home Wednesday morning in what police said appeared to be a suicide. He was 43.

Nominations for the 2012 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards, announced Tuesday, include: Best play: “Clybourne Park,” “Other Desert Cities,” “Peter and the Starcatcher,” “Venus in Fur.” Best musical: “Leap of Faith,” “Newsies,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” “Once.” Read full article >>

It was a proud moment for construction workers Monday when just after 2 p.m. they installed two 26-foot steel columns making the unfinished tower just over 1,270 feet tall — surpassing the height of the Empire State Building by 21 feet.

Nationals rookie right fielder Bryce Harper reaches to catch a fly ball in the fourth inning. / By Gary A. Vasquez,, US Presswire LOS ANGELES (USA TODAY) — Wearing shorts, flip-flops and a Washington Nationals cap pressed down over his Mohawk haircut, baseball's latest phenom comes out of the dugout and greets several family members after the game, exchanging one hug after another.

The NBA playoffs got off to about as bad a start as possible on Saturday, as Bulls point guard Derrick Rose suffered a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee during Chicago’s 103-91 victory against the 76ers.

Detroit Tigers left fielder Delmon Young apologized to his team and fans Friday, just before getting arraigned on a hate crime harassment charge for a fight at his hotel during which police say he yelled anti-Semitic epithets.

In one of late night host Jimmy Fallon's signature bits Tuesday night, "Slow-Jammin' the News," President Obama urged Republicans in Congress to vote to keep interest rates on student loans from doubling on July 1.