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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals turn to a 23-year-old rookie to save their season, but not just any 23-year-old rookie: the hardest-throwing starting pitcher in the major leagues.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chivas USA has ceased operations after 10 years in Major League Soccer, with the league planning a new franchise for Los Angeles that will begin play in 2017 with new owners…

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan coach Brady Hoke says linebacker Joe Bolden, the player who planted the stake in the ground before the Michigan State game, would not be disciplined.

PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic will have to put fatherhood to one side for a few weeks as he tries to fend off Roger Federer for the year-end No. 1 ranking.

LeBron James returned to Cleveland, Kevin Love joined him and suddenly the Cavaliers had the makings of the latest superteam.

MIAMI (AP) — A trial date has been set for four men charged in Major League Baseball's performance-enhancing drugs scandal.

PARIS (AP) — American qualifier Sam Querrey reached the second round of the Paris Masters by beating 2012 runner-up Jerzy Janowicz 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Madison Bumgarner barely broke a smile walking around the San Francisco Giants' clubhouse late Sunday night following a brilliant pitching performance that has his team on…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The captain of the South African national soccer team was fatally shot at his girlfriend's house during an attempted robbery Sunday night as he tried to apprehend the intru…

LONDON (AP) — Marussia has become the second Formula One team in four days to be placed into bankruptcy protection and will not race at the United States Grand Prix on Sunday.

New Orleans shows that a team with a good quarterback and a balanced offense still gives the Green Bay defensive coordinator's unit trouble.

The Packers quarterback appears to tweak his left hamstring as New Orleans ends Green Bay's four-game winning streak in convincing fashion.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hall of Famer Juan Marichal mingled in the San Francisco clubhouse and waited patiently for his chance to share a kind, congratulatory word with Madison Bumgarner.

Herring didn’t show up on the stat sheet in terms of tackles, but it’s hard to discount his 6-foot-3, 283-pound presence, his experience and his emotional impact.

The Cornhuskers had won 17 straight matches against UW dating to 1978.

Fans were lined up at the doors an hour before tipoff and a record crowd watched the White team rally to pull out a 57-56 victory.

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals seemed headed for a tough loss, the Philadelphia Eagles a big road victory.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Robert Streb hasn't seen many early indications of a happy ending throughout his career.

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr. roamed around Martinsville Speedway as a child, soaking in the sights and the sounds and the smells while his dad collected six of the treasured gra…

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Teddy Bridgewater was coming off one of his better weeks of practice, so Minnesota coach Mike Zimmer had a good feeling about the way the rookie quarterback might play again…