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PHOENIX (AP) — Spicing up the NFL's dullest play, the extra point, appears to be coming for the 2015 season.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro's mayor has defended the city's controversial Olympic golf course, which has been criticized by environmental activists and is at the center of complicated…

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Joe Gibbs Racing President J.D. Gibbs is undergoing treatment for "symptoms impacting areas of brain function," which likely stem from a head injury suffered earlier in life.

PHOENIX (AP) — Vikings coach Mike Zimmer "fully expects" Adrian Peterson to be with the team for the 2015 season, adding Wednesday there are "no plans" to trade the star running back.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — The FBI is investigating social media threats made against New York Islanders defenseman Nick Leddy.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Major League Soccer has awarded an expansion franchise to Minneapolis with play to begin in 2018.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — New York Mets pitcher Zack Wheeler has had Tommy John surgery, which likely will sideline him until late next spring.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A person familiar with negotiations has told The Associated Press that Bobby Hurley has agreed to a new contract with the University at Buffalo that will make him the Mid-…

CANTU, Italy (AP) — Former NBA All-Star Metta World Peace has signed for Italian team Pallacanestro Cantu for the remainder of the season.

LONDON (AP) — Two lower-ranked tennis players have been suspended and fined for violating the sport's match-fixing rules.

LONDON (AP) — Two lower-ranked tennis players have been suspended and fined for violating the sport's match-fixing rules.

LONDON (AP) — Two lower-ranked tennis players have been suspended and fined for violating the sport's match-fixing rules.

Marcus Paige, the driving force behind the North Carolina men’s basketball team, was distraught to the point of tears.

LOS ANGELES — A little more than an hour after the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team had opened the NCAA tournament with a victory over Coastal Carolina last Friday night, Frank Ka…

The group only intercepted four passes last season, two of them by then-senior Peniel Jean.

Some pitchers have trouble finding the plate. Edwin Jackson of the Chicago Cubs had a much bigger problem: He couldn't find the ballpark.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Long before any of that major league money starts landing in their bank accounts, most players are in a similar predicament as everyone else in the regular workforce.

Rick Robinson was settling into his new job as the baseball coach at Tennessee-Martin, moving some things around his office when he came across a few articles that had been written about the p…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Austin Carr never imagined his record would last five years. It has stood for 45.

Princeton coach Courtney Banghart was back in her office a day after her Tigers' perfect season came to an end.