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The 2011 ESPY Awards took place Wednesday in Los Angeles and tennis beauty Maria Sharapova looked stunning!

ESPN has it's own award show, detracting from real awards.

The 2011 ESPY Awards held at Nokia Theater in Los Angeles Wednesday night awarded the Dallas Mavericks with Best Team and attracted many celebrity guests, namely Justin Bieber.

Wednesday night, network ESPN honored a year of sports stars.

Kim Kardashian who is getting married to basketball player Kris Humphries in August is planning to invite at least 1,000 guests to her wedding.

New York Knicks scout Rodney Heard has been let go by the organization for violating NBA rules according to sources with Yahoo! Sports.

Yao Ming retired due to his persistent left foot injuries, reported Yahoo! Sports. The perennial NBA All-Star ended his career averaging 19 points per game, 9 rebounds per game, and almost 2 blocks per game.

Yao Ming has retired, according to Yahoo! Sports. He ended his 8 seasons in the NBA with averages of 19 points per game, 9 rebounds per game, and almost 2 blocks per game

NBA Houston Rockets Big Man Yao Ming has retired because of perennial foot injuries, reported Yahoo! Sports and USA Today.

China basketball star Yao Ming struggled with injuries

According to a report from Chinese Web site Sina's sport's section, Yao has made no decision to leave the Houston Rockets.

Yao Ming is calling it quits. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise for the oft-injured All-Star.

Chinese 7-foot-6 superstar Yao Ming has decided to retire from the NBA after eight seasons, according to Yahoo! Sports.

New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams, one of the brightest stars in the NBA, signed a contract to play for the Turkish professional basketball team Besiktas.

The New York Knicks will search the free agent market when the lockout ends.

Two groups of millionaires are fighting, but it's the fans of professional basketball who are already losing.

Amidst a worsening labor dispute in the NBA that threatens the start of the next season, the top player in the game may lead a barnstorming tour of China, the league’s biggest potential market.

Assuming the collective bargaining agreement between players and owners is resolved within the next week or so, the fallout from the lockout would continue into the regular season, with at least the first three games being impacted by the lockout. But will this disruption help or hinder the New York Jets and the New York Giants?

The Cavaliers' guard has been in courts with a woman referred to as RealMissHawaii

Some have touted Google+ as the Facebook killer. Others think it'll kill Twitter. An even crazier notion is that it'll kill emails.

The National Basketball Association has erased all photos of the league's current players amid a lockout which has shut players out of all activities related to the league.

Google+ promises to bring the social to all things Google. I, for one, will use it with caution.

The NBA should expand court size and raise the height of goals to invigorate the ailing game.

The National Basketball Association said Thursday it will begin a lockout of its players at 12:01 a.m. EDT on July 1 until it reaches a collective bargaining agreement with the league's players association.

Observers trying to read the tea leaves in the secret negotiations between players and owners in both the National Basketball Association and the National Football League see signs of talks going in opposite directions today.

Chinese NBA star Yao Ming has led a PSA campaign to create awareness about the need to prohibit shark finning

The New York Knicks may be making a run at the oldest player in the NBA in free agent center Kurt Thomas. The 38 year old Thomas played for the Chicago Bulls last year after signing a one year contract for $1.3 million to backup Joakim Noah.

The Dallas Mavericks may be losing their backup point guard J.J. Barea to free agency. Barea indicated that he would like to return to the defending champions, but would leave for the right price.

Lorenzo Charles, 47, has passed away on June 27, 2011 from a bus crash on Interstate 40 in Raleigh, North Carolina.