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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Defending champion Venus Williams is out of the Dubai Tennis Championships after losing in the third round in straight sets to 11th-seeded Lucie Safarova.

Richter and Underwood were classmates and teammates at Madison East, graduating in 1959. They're still friends, and still supporting East.

PARIS (AP) — A group of Chelsea fans have been filmed preventing a black man from boarding a subway train in France before the team's Champions League game at Paris Saint-Germain.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A post-practice interview session was wrapping up Monday night, and Josh Gasser was eager to unwind.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ryan Grigson will go anywhere and do practically anything to find football players.

One of college basketball's greatest rivalries and a showdown between two Pac-12 powers highlight this week in college basketball.

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo Olympic organizers have added camera manufacturer Canon Inc. to its list of domestic sponsors for the 2020 Games.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — It's been more than three decades since his landmark goal became the centerpiece of the U.S. Olympic hockey team's Miracle on Ice. For 60-year-old Mike Eruzione, it st…

The Aquinas High School girls basketball team didn’t want to allow Central to think it had a chance to win Tuesday night at Mark Sutton Memorial Gymnasium.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored his NHL-leading 37th goal and assisted on Joel Ward's winner with just more than four minutes remaining to lift the Washington Capitals to a testy 3-1 wi…

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Jordan Woodard scored 11 of his 13 points in the second half, and No. 17 Oklahoma rallied for a 71-69 win over Texas on Tuesday night.

Erin Hennessy didn’t know what to expect after she was introduced as a starter for the Central High School girls basketball team on Tuesday night.

TORONTO (AP) — Nick Bjugstad scored the go-ahead goal on a power play early in the second period and the Florida Panthers defeated the struggling Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Tuesday night.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Top-ranked women's golfer Lydia Ko may only be 17 but is already planning for her retirement and says it could come by the time she's 30.

GALESVILLE — The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School boys basketball team didn’t have its best performance of the season Tuesday night, but the Red Hawks had enough to defeat Logan 55-42 in a…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Pekka Rinne made a season-high 42 saves, and the Nashville Predators extended their winning streak to a season-high six straight games by beating the San Jose Sharks 5-…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jamie Benn had his first career hat trick and Kari Lehtonen was stingy in net again in the Dallas Stars' 4-1 rout of the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kentucky understands that its brand name often brings out the best efforts from opponents.

LODI, Wis. — Sparta High School wrestling coach Mike Roddick had a feeling that things were going to work out for the Spartans Tuesday night.