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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana University student who is a poet and a performer has been named the Indianapolis 500's first official poet since the early 20th century.

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court held a hearing Thursday into a decades-old paternity dispute over whether two of Spain*s most well-known bullfighters — men who share the same show name "El Cordobes" — are really father and son. Among…

The Wisconsin icon says the sun has set on his competitive running career.

CHICAGO (AP) — For once, the key to the first round of the NFL draft doesn't belong to the team picking first.

Two blockbuster trades at the top of the NFL draft have revealed exactly where the league is in 2016.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Prosecutors will have to present witnesses against the man accused of killing retired New Orleans Saints player Will Smith at a hearing Thursday, unless a grand jury indicts him first.

LA CRESCENT — The rain fell as La Crescent High School baseball coach Rick Boyer hit ground balls, fly balls and line drives toward his players at George Horihan Field on Wednesday.

Lloyd “Albie” McKinney sat surrounded by concrete.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Renowned basketball coach Bob Knight on Wednesday threw his support behind Donald Trump's presidential campaign, less than a week before Indiana voters go to the polls in the state's primary.

HIGH SCHOOL STANDINGS

CHICAGO — Jake Arrieta will have to wait for his chance to match Johnny Vander Meer.

MADISON — Unlike many others in his position, Joe Schobert never experienced the hard-hitting reality that his childhood dream was simply that.

SEATTLE (AP) — Nintendo of America plans to sell its controlling stake in the Seattle Mariners to a group of minority owners led by John Stanton, who would become the team's chairman and chief executive officer.

Schobert has likely positioned himself to be a Day 2 selection in this week’s NFL Draft, which begins with the first round Thursday night in Chicago.

MONTREAL (AP) — Russia was responsible for more doping violations than any other country in 2014, while track and field was the sport with the worst doping record over the year, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Philadelphia third baseman Maikel Franco has agreed to sell 10 percent of his future earnings for $4.35 million to a company called Fantex, which plans to sell securities to investors.

NEW YORK (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama wrapped up her speech to dozens of U.S. athletes to mark 100 days before the Rio Games and immediately headed over to a temporary court set up in the middle of Times…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Olympic flame was handed to organizers of the Rio de Janeiro Games in Athens on Wednesday, 100 days before the opening ceremony in Brazil.

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas judge has set a $1,500 bond for former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel in his misdemeanor domestic assault case.