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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Hawks spent the past month doing little more than warming up for the playoffs.

The Big Ten's reputation as an underachieving football conference is so 2014.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It takes a certain self-confidence for a college freshman to embrace a potentially pejorative nickname like "The Unibrow."

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Super Bowl champion New England Patriots will be honored at the White House.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Chicago native Jabari Parker has a good idea of how challenging it might be for Milwaukee to face his hometown Bulls in the first round of the NBA playoffs, even if he's just …

Sweet-shooting Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors have the best record, an unmatched home-court advantage, and the understanding that means nothing now.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adrian Peterson has been cleared to return to the NFL. Now all that remains to be settled is where he will play next season.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Fish continued to die by the ton Thursday in a Rio de Janeiro lake that's slated to host Olympic rowing events, while city authorities and biologists argued about the cau…

BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles' early-season schedule is a journey into the past, exclusively on East Coast time.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thunder coach Scott Brooks says he expects to return as coach next season, despite speculation that his job might be in jeopardy.

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Rafael Nadal will begin his Wimbledon preparations at the Mercedes Cup in June as the Stuttgart tournament makes the switch from clay to grass courts.

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Rafael Nadal will begin his Wimbledon preparations at the Mercedes Cup in June as the Stuttgart tournament makes the switch from clay to grass courts.

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Rafael Nadal will begin his Wimbledon preparations at the Mercedes Cup in June as the Stuttgart tournament makes the switch from clay to grass courts.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Chicago coach Joel Quenneville is going back to veteran goaltender Corey Crawford for Game 2 against the Nashville Predators, and he says it was an easy decision.

MONTREAL (AP) — The Ottawa Senators say forward Mark Stone has suffered a microfracture of his right wrist, and his status is unknown for the rest of the Senators' first-round playoff series w…

SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton defended himself Thursday from the criticism surrounding his behavior at the Chinese Grand Prix, when he celebrated victory by sprayi…

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Huang Wenyi, a former laborer from China who didn't start playing golf until he was 22, shot a 6-under 66 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the…

MONACO (AP) — Grigor Dimitrov capitalized on Stan Wawrinka's awful display Thursday to rout the defending champion 6-1, 6-2 and reach the quarterfinals at the Monte Carlo Masters.

Serge Trezy came to the University of Wisconsin this spring having never played cornerback.

Khalil Iverson made it official Wednesday morning, signing a National Letter of Intent to join the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program starting next season.