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SUPER BOWL WATCH: Katrina, Coin flip bets, Modell
Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game: ...
A map for including disabled students in sports
After a tough 5-1 loss, Jordan Anderson was sweaty, short of breath and sorry he hadn't played stronger defense during the floor hockey game at ...
Ohio judge weighs whether to keep rape trial open
A battle over closing the trial of two Ohio high school football players charged with raping a 16-year-old girl appeared to end Friday as an attorney ...
AP Source: Reds will host 2015 All-Star game
The Reds will host the 2015 All-Star game at Great American Ball Park, the city's first since 1988, a person familiar with the decision told The ...
Golden era for QBs, with great stories around NFL
The two kids from Northern California burst from NFL afterthought to championship contender in eerily similar fashion a decade apart. Tom Brady and ...
Researchers: NFL's Seau had brain disease
When he ended his life last year by shooting himself in the chest, Junior Seau had a degenerative brain disease often linked with repeated blows to ...
Witness cooperation urged in football rape case
Students withholding information about an alleged rape in eastern Ohio last summer are thwarting investigators, school officials said Thursday, as the ...
NFL star Junior Seau suffered from brain disease
Junior Seau, one of the NFL's best and fiercest players for two decades, suffered from a degenerative brain disease often associated with repeated ...
Franklin swims in 1st meet of year for high school
It's hard to determine which meant more to Missy Franklin: Meeting singer Justin Bieber backstage at a recent concert or swimming in her first high ...
Puerto Rico sees hints of baseball revival
On an island where the name of Roberto Clemente is emblazoned on stadiums, streets and schools, baseball is making a rally. In the past year, Major ...
Steroids loom in major-college football
With steroids easy to buy, testing weak and punishments inconsistent, college football players are packing on significant weight — 30 pounds or more ...
Violence, gangs scar Chicago community in 2012
It was February, the middle of lunch hour on a busy South Side street. The gunman approached his victim in a White Castle parking lot, shot him in the ...
Newtown trying to give kids a sense of normalcy
The children at the Sandy Hook Elementary school won't be returning to classes for another week, but officials from the town, school district and ...
SMU good fit for Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown
Larry Brown was a young assistant on coach Dean Smith's staff at North Carolina in the mid-1960s when he turned down his first head coaching offer.
Top prospect Parker chooses Duke
Jabari Parker still had just about everyone guessing. Then, he pulled out that blue T-shirt with a white "D," and, finally, it became clear.
Sudanese teens at center of recruiting controversy
Four young men from war-ravaged Sudan tower above their teachers and fellow students on the pastoral grounds of a century-old school in suburban ...
Neb. school officials avoid charges in abuse case
Three western Nebraska school officials accused of failing to report allegations that high school wrestlers sexually assaulted a young teammate at a ...
Family: NFL great Jack Pardee ill with cancer
Jack Pardee, one of Bear Bryant's "Junction Boys" who went on to become an All-Pro linebacker and an NFL coach, has been diagnosed with gall bladder ...
Suspect's family has questions in monkey killing
A 22-year-old man who police say killed a monkey after breaking into the Boise zoo has encountered run-ins with the law in the last three years that ...
Phelps, Franklin big winners at Golden Goggles
In a year when she raced at the Olympics, Missy Franklin's greatest stress might come from deciding whether to compete for her high school team.
College football's winningest coach retires
John Gagliardi put sleepy little Collegeville, Minn., on the national college football map with a style all his own. After 60 years at Division III St
Yulee RB Henry breaks national HS rushing record
Derrick Henry has broken one of the most coveted and long-standing records in the history of high school football. Henry broke Ken Hall's career ...
North Carolina QB sets prep mark in 104-80 win
Will Grier is still trying to get his head around throwing for a national record 837 yards passing and 10 touchdowns in his team's 104-80 win in a ...
Weiss takes unusual coaching path to majors
A few of his high school players sauntered out to the diamond on a balmy Thursday afternoon, congregating near the infield grass that's beginning to ...