Sophie Gustafson has moved within two shots of leader Lorena Ochoa at the weather-delayed LPGA Tour Championship.Rains swamped the Houstonian Golf and Country Club b...

The NFL Players Association opposes commissioner Roger Goodell's call for players to tell their teams' medical staffs if they think a teammate shows symptoms of a concussio...

U.S. skier Resi Stiegler is out for the season after breaking two bones in her left leg in a crash during giant slalom training.The U.S. Ski Team said Friday that St...

Corey Fisher scored 18 points to lead No. 5 Villanova past No. 18 Dayton 71-65 on Friday in the second round of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off.Fisher was 10 for 12 from the...

Vancouver Olympic organizers didn't violate women ski jumpers' rights because they had no power to include their event in the 2010 Winters Games.The British Columbia...

Last February, Frank Rommel struggled to 13th place in the skeleton world championships at Mount Van Hoevenberg, and his four victories in the World Cup regular season quic...

Petter Northug enters the Olympic season as the man to beat in cross-country skiing, and he isn't doing much to downplay expectations.The 23-year-old Norwegian has a...

The NFL Players Association opposes commissioner Roger Goodell's call for players to tell their teams' medical staffs if they think a teammate shows symptoms of a concussio...

Malcolm Grant scored 18 points and Miami defeated North Carolina-Wilmington 67-60 on Friday.The Hurricanes (4-0) led 62-58 with 29 seconds to play and forced two Sea...

Scotty Hopson scored 25 points to lead No. 10 Tennessee to a 105-66 rout of East Carolina in the opening round of the Paradise Jam on Friday.The sophomore was 10 of ...

Tracy Smith had 16 points and 11 rebounds as North Carolina State beat Akron 66-45 at the Glenn Wilkes Classic on Friday.Dennis Horner also scored 16 points for the ...

The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.Mina Brees, an attorney from Austin, Texas, died Aug. 7 while visiting ...

Jimmie Johnson's run for his fourth straight Cup title starts from the pole.Johnson turned a lap of 173.919 mph on Friday to top qualifying at Homestead-Miami Speedw...

New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush has been held out of practice for the third straight day, and is listed as questionable for Sunday's game in Tampa Bay.Bu...

The ATP Tour will not reopen a doping case against Andre Agassi even though he admitted to lying about using crystal meth in 1997.Agassi revealed in his recent autob...

The NFL Players Association opposes commissioner Roger Goodell's call for players to tell their teams' medical staffs if they think a teammate shows symptoms of a concussio...

An Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews is expected to appear in court for the first time.Michael Barret...

Baltimore Ravens defensive end Dwan Edwards plans to appeal the $5,000 fine he received for a hit delivered to Cleveland Browns wide receiver Joshua Cribbs on Monday night....

Gani Lawal had 18 points and 14 rebounds to lead No. 21 Georgia Tech to a 70-62 victory over George Mason on Friday in the consolation round of the O'Reilly Auto Parts Puer...

Tulane's Kevin Sims made a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 19 seconds to play and the Green Wave held on to beat Penn State 63-60 Friday in the second round of the C...

Pitcher John Grabow became the first of the 171 free agents to reach agreement on a new deal, getting a $7.5 million, two-year contract Friday from the Chicago Cubs....

For so many years, the formula for winning a Cy Young Award was pretty simple: Win a lot of games.Denny McLain was a unanimous pick in 1968 and deservedly so. He pos...

Jeremy Mayfield sat in the back of his large barn Friday morning about 800 miles from where NASCAR's season-ending weekend was kicking off. Several hundred people surrounde...

FIFA suspended Iraq from soccer because of political interference in the national federation.Soccer's world governing body says it is "unacceptable" for Iraq's Olymp...

Manny Pacquiao proved he can be a box office hit. Now it's up to Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to see what they can do together.Pacquiao's big win over Miguel Co...

German prosecutors investigating match-fixing in soccer say 15 people in Germany and two in Switzerland have been arrested and about 200 games in Europe are under suspicion...

The New York Knicks won't sign Allen Iverson, believing any short-term gain would hinder their plans to build for the future.Team president Donnie Walsh said Friday ...

The NFL Players Association wants the league to remove the co-chairman of the league's committee on concussions because the union believes he is biased.Dr. Ira Casso...

Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick expects Jeff Gordon to drive at least "three or four" more seasons and the four-time Cup champion says he has no immediate plans to...

Alabama's Rolando McClain, Florida's Brandon Spikes and Missouri's Sean Weatherspoon are once again finalists for the Butkus Award, given annually to the nation's top lineb...

Manny Pacquiao is a box office hit, selling 1.25 million pay-per-views for his fight with Miguel Cotto in a performance that could set up the richest fight ever against Flo...

Federal attorneys want a judge to declare that Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Famer Mel Blount owes more than $631,000 in back taxes, interest and penalties.The Interna...

Eric Mangini expects Josh Cribbs to play when the Cleveland Browns go against the Detroit Lions on Sunday.Cribbs was strapped to a backboard and carted off the field...

Retired NBA star Jayson Williams will not be in a New Jersey courtroom Friday to enter a plea in the 2002 shooting death of a hired driver. State Superior Court Judge Edwar...

Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware has played in dozens of important games and hung out with some of the biggest stars in sports.Still, he was nervous when he m...

The Rose Bowl is out of reach for Penn State and Michigan State.But Saturday's regular-season finale will have a lot to do with determining where both Big Ten teams ...

Thierry Henry denied Friday that he was a cheat but said the "fairest solution" would be to replay the France-Ireland World Cup playoff that was decided by his hand ball.Johnson signs extension with Hendrick through 2015, Jenna Fryer

Jimmie Johnson, on the verge of a NASCAR record fourth consecutive championship, signed a contract extension Friday to drive for Hendrick Motorsports through the 2015 seaso...

Lee Westwood shot a 3-under 69 Friday to take a two-stroke lead after the second round of the Dubai World Championship, strengthening his chance of winning the European mon...

Serbian police say they have arrested another suspect in the fatal attack on a French soccer fan in Belgrade two months ago.Police say a 39-year-old man identified o...

The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gen...

Kazakhstan's state sovereign fund pledged $22 million in financial backing to the Astana cycling team Friday, ensuring the squad stays alive and Tour de France champion Alb...

France coach Raymond Domenech says he and his players see no reason to apologize for the Thierry Henry handball against Ireland that put the team into the World Cup....

U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro will play at next year's Queen's Club tournament in an effort to improve his grasscourt game ahead of Wimbledon.The fifth-ra...

Frank Williams says he is not preparing to relinquish control of the Williams Formula One team despite selling a minority stake on Friday.Williams and co-founder Pat...

There will be no rematch.Ireland's hopes for a replay of its World Cup qualifier against France ended Friday after both FIFA and the French Football Federation rejec...

Formula One team Williams announced Friday it has sold a minority stake in the team to an Austrian investment firm.Team principal Sir Frank Williams and co-founder P...

Ricky Williams is 32 and far from done. And even without Ronnie Brown, the once written-off Miami Dolphins are back in the playoff picture.Williams rushed for 119 ya...

Michelle Wie couldn't take the pain one week after taking the spotlight at Lorena Ochoa's tournament.Ochoa is back on center stage now, trying to steal the player of...

Tim Lincecum has been so dominant in his first two full major league seasons that even his top bosses don't know how he can get much better.Two NL Cy Young Awards, a...

The Game has lost a lot of luster.Ohio State has beaten Michigan five straight times, its best winning streak and the longest in the series since the 1920s.Th...

Irish soccer officials accused Thierry Henry of damaging the integrity of the game when he blatantly handled the ball to set up the goal that booked France's place at next ...

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Reliever Aaron Heilman was acquired Thursday by the Arizona Diamondbacks from the Chicago Cubs for two minor league prospects.The 31-year-old right-hander was 4-4 wi...

Pau Gasol had 24 points and 13 rebounds in his season debut, and Kobe Bryant scored 21 points while passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the Lakers' career scoring chart in Los A...

There was so much to talk about after No. 6 North Carolina held on for 77-73 victory over No. 15 Ohio State in the 2K Sports Classic semifinals Thursday night.There ...

James Webster Jr. has resigned as Tennessee State's football coach after five seasons.Webster announced his resignation Thursday after a season-ending 21-10 win over...

EASTBuffalo 63, Navy 53Lafayette 88, St. Francis, Pa. 77Mount Ida 82, E. Nazarene 71Nichols 84, Worcester St. 59Pittsburgh 71, E. Kentuck...

Scott Niedermayer scored a power-play goal 52 seconds into overtime and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Thursday night after blowing a three-goal lead...

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Kris Versteeg scored two power-play goals in Chicago's five-goal second period to help the Blackhawks rout the Calgary Flames 7-1 on Thursday night in a rematch of a first-...

Third-string quarterback Brandon Weeden threw for 168 yards and two touchdowns in the second half, leading No. 12 Oklahoma State back from an 11-point deficit for a 31-28 w...