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BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — Venus Williams has withdrawn from the United States team for this weekend's Fed Cup playoff in Italy because of a personal matter.

BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — Venus Williams has withdrawn from the United States team for this weekend's Fed Cup playoff in Italy because of a personal matter.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Steelers cornerback Ike Taylor is retiring, ending a 12-year career in which he helped lead the team to two Super Bowl victories.

Bowl games paid more than a half billion dollars to college football conferences and schools last season, an increase of almost $200 million from the final season of the Bowl Championship Seri…

The obvious is not lost on Abby Wambach: She's getting older.

BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — Venus Williams has withdrawn from the United States team for this weekend's Fed Cup playoff in Italy because of a personal matter.

MONACO (AP) — Gael Monfils overcame a shaky start to rally past Russian qualifier Andrey Kuznetsov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday.

MONACO (AP) — Gael Monfils overcame a shaky start to rally past Russian qualifier Andrey Kuznetsov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday.

MONACO (AP) — Gael Monfils overcame a shaky start to rally past Russian qualifier Andrey Kuznetsov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday.

First impressions, second thoughts and the third degree:

Just one season after graduating from UW, Budmayr is back with the Badgers — this time to help the quarterbacks learn the system he mastered but rarely put into practice as a player.

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers have signed up two major Japanese financial institutions as domestic sponsors of the 2020 Games.

The 6-foot-1 Indiana native will have three years of eligibility remaining with the Badgers.

PARIS (AP) — Prize money at the French Open will rise to 28 million euros ($29.5 million) this year, an increase of 3 million euros from last year.

A look at what's happening all around the major leagues today:

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Hockey great Gordie Howe wanted to call it quits after a significant stroke robbed him of the ability to walk and talk normally.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Top-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine won her opening match at the Claro Open Colsanitas on Monday, beating Louisa Chirico of the United States 6-2, 6-1 in less than an hour.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alex Guerrero hit a bases-loaded single with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers overcame a four-run deficit for a 6-5 victory over the Se…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Griffin scored 22 points, DeAndre Jordan had a double-double and the Clippers eked out a 110-103 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night, moving Los Angeles in…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Jazz were without Gordon Hayward, Derrick Favors and Trey Burke for the second consecutive game Monday. For the second game in a row, the Jazz beat a playoff team.