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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck says he is focused on football — not the contract negotiations everybody else wants to discuss.

Tsipis named Sasha Palmer as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, and Myia McCurdy as an assistant coach.

ARDMORE, Okla. (AP) — A judge in Oklahoma has delayed the sentencing for Justin Blackmon after the suspended Jacksonville Jaguars receiver said he is in the process of completing court-ordered alcohol abuse courses.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Baylor University has kept its assistant coaching staff intact after firing head coach Art Briles despite a scathing report that concluded multiple football "coaches" acted inappropriately in handling sexual assault allegations against their players.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Dallas Cowboys running back Darren McFadden has sued his longtime business manager, saying he misappropriated and mishandled money over the years, including $3 million lost in a bitcoin business venture.

NEW YORK (AP) — Muhammad Ali was not a rapper, but to many of the genre's best lyricists, he was influential in paving the way for hip-hop stars to succeed and had a lasting impact on the art form.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko on Thursday denied allegations in a German documentary that he intervened to conceal a soccer player's positive drug test, dismissing the report as "laughable" and "implausible."

DETROIT (AP) — Free shredding of sensitive documents and recycling of small electronics is being offered Saturday at the home of the Detroit Tigers.

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban will tee it up in his native state during The Greenbrier Classic's pro-am event.

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio State star and NFL player Christopher "Beanie" Wells has testified against a man suspected of trying to extort at least $65,000 from him over a botched drug deal.

BOSTON (AP) — Aaron Hernandez has hired the lawyer who famously won an acquittal for Florida mom Casey Anthony to represent him in his upcoming double-murder trial.

SOMERSET WEST, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by former Grand Slam tennis champion Bob Hewitt on Thursday and ruled he must serve a six-year jail sentence for the rapes and sexual assaults of young…

VIENNA (AP) — Maria Sharapova's racket supplier reinforces its support of the five-time Grand Slam champion, one day after she was banned for two years for doping.

Milwaukee could go one of several ways with its choice in the first round.

Ballard joins freshmen Aleem Ford and D'Mitrik Trice in UW's Class of 2016.

Reuvers, who is listed as a four-star recruit with a scouts grade of 83, committed to the Badgers on May 18.

TENNIS

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Every year on the same day, Muhammad Babar plans to walk past a soaring clock tower that juts 180 feet toward the sky, through a gate and into Cave Hill Cemetery, one of his city's greatest…

CLEVELAND (AP) — It's been the postseason of blowouts.

SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies have lots of options — and uncertainty — at the top of the Major League Baseball draft.