The Kansas Parole Board on Friday granted parole to Thomas Bird, who has served 20 years of a life sentence for killing his wife, Sandy, while having an affair with his secretary, Lorna Anderson.

"Thomas has been such an iconic and well-loved bird," said Craig Shepherd, who runs the Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust where Thomas spent his last years. "It's lovely that he is going to be ...

Larry Bird and Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons were embroiled in a controversy in 1987. It all stemmed from Zeke's comments on Bird, in which he said that if the Celtics star was black ...