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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Sixth-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber beat Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-3, 6-3 on Monday to ease into the second round of the Mercedes Cup.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — UConn football coach Bob Diaco has created a trophy and countdown clock, saying Monday he doesn't need UCF's permission to manufacture a rivalry game with the Knights.

NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) — Seeded players Karin Knapp and Ajla Tomljanovic lost in the first round of the Nottingham Open on Monday as top-level women's tennis returned to the central England …

CLEVELAND (AP) — High above downtown, there's no visible evidence of a painful 51-year professional sports championship drought — the longest for any major U.S. city.

PARIS (AP) — Serena Williams was only a few hours' removed from her second major trophy of 2015, putting her halfway to a true Grand Slam, when she expressed a wish for a particular outcome in…

S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands (AP) — CoCo Vandeweghe started the defense of her Topshelf Open title with a 7-6 (1), 6-1 win over Andreea Mitu on Monday as the season shifted to grass.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC has approved new events in snowboarding, Alpine skiing, speedskating and curling for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots have released linebacker Brandon Spikes the day after Massachusetts State Police found his damaged car abandoned in the median of an interstat…

PARIS (AP) — So here's how far Stan Wawrinka has come: Now that he is a two-time major champion, the guy ignores congratulatory phone calls from Roger Federer.

Fernando Alonso knew when he re-signed for McLaren that it would take time and a lot of hard work to get the British team back atop the Formula One standings.

PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal's loss in the French Open quarterfinals has dropped him three places to No. 10 in the ATP rankings, his lowest spot since April 2005, while champion Stan Wawrinka ros…

PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal's loss in the French Open quarterfinals has dropped him three places to No. 10 in the ATP rankings, his lowest spot since April 2005, while champion Stan Wawrinka ros…

PARIS (AP) — Rafael Nadal's loss in the French Open quarterfinals has dropped him three places to No. 10 in the ATP rankings, his lowest spot since April 2005, while champion Stan Wawrinka ros…

Ray Montgomery is tasked with finding difference-makers in his first year directing the amateur draft for Milwaukee.

Expectations should definitely be high for whoever is taken with the No. 1 overall pick Monday. 

BOSTON (AP) — Erik Barnard sat with his 3-year-old son along Fenway Park's third-base line, a few sections from where a woman was seriously injured when a broken bat flew into the stands two d…

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — LeBron James is headed back home to Ohio. And if that seemed like a big deal last July, he can't wait to hear how it sounds in June.

PARIS (AP) — Stan Wawrinka's French Open title brings back the old debate about who deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the elite in men's tennis.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Heather O'Reilly guesses she was about 14 when the United States last won a World Cup.

SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — Shortstop is the hot spot in this year's Major League Baseball draft.