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ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis city officials say the owner of the Rams isn't returning calls, so they plan to work directly with the league on keeping an NFL team in town.

While the college football season won't officially end until Oregon and Ohio State play in the inaugural College Football Playoff national championship game, all 38 postseason games with "bowl…

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Steven Gerrard is the next big star in the LA Galaxy.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A woman who says Florida State University football player Jameis Winston sexually assaulted her in 2012 is suing the university's board of trustees.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is going to the NFL.

PARIS (AP) — The Korean Grand Prix has been dropped from the 2015 Formula One calendar, reducing the season to 20 races.

The new playoff era is drawing lots of college football fans to bowl game broadcasts. But it isn't necessarily bringing more fans into stadium seats.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cavaliers will have star guard Kyrie Irving back in the lineup after he missed one game with a sore back, but the team does not yet know when newly acquired guards J.R. Sm…

CHENNAI, India (AP) — Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka advanced to the quarterfinals of the Chennai Open by beating Croatian teenager Borna Coric 6-1, 6-4 Wednesday.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Top seed Novak Djokovic moved his Qatar Open debut into the quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-1 defeat of Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine on Wednesday.

LONDON (AP) — A sponsor for English soccer club Oldham says the "imminent signing" of convicted rapist Ched Evans has prompted the company to end its backing.

SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Top seed Simona Halep cruised into the quarterfinals of Shenzhen Open by defeating Russian wild card Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-2, 6-2 in the second round on Wednesday.

The quarterback said Tuesday on his weekly radio show on ESPN 540 in Milwaukee that re-injuring the calf in Sunday's divisional round playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys was not a concern.

PARIS (AP) — Still hampered by an injury to his right forearm, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga has pulled out of the Australian Open.

Even when Penn State has been the dominant force in the Big Ten Conference, the Lady Lions have had their struggles against the University of Wisconsin.

The University of Wisconsin men's hockey team will help Arizona State usher in its first season in NCAA Division I, hosting the Sun Devils in 2015-16.

The Badgers (14-1, 2-0 Big Ten) play host to the Boilermakers (10-5, 2-0) at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Kohl Center.

The Green Bay Packers say they will make 300 standing-room-only tickets available for Sunday's NFL playoff game against Dallas at Lambeau Field.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Pete Rose didn't want it to be about him, not on a day when four new members were elected to baseball's most exclusive club.

NEW YORK (AP) — Next January the Hall of Fame focus will turn to Ken Griffey Jr., Trevor Hoffman and Billy Wagner after an unprecedented dominance by starting pitchers over a two-year span.