
Flanagan best US hope in Boston Marathon in years
Shalane Flanagan grew up in nearby Marblehead watching her father run the Boston Marathon. Her mother was a marathoner, too, setting the women's world ...
Snowboarder Chelone Miller dies at age 29
Snowboarder Chelone Miller, the younger brother of Olympic gold medalist Bode Miller, died Sunday in the area of Mammoth Lakes, Calif. He was 29.

WADA backs HGH test against 'extremist' NFL union
The World Anti-Doping Agency defended its test for human growth hormone on Wednesday and accused the NFL players union of being "extremist" for ...

Northug clinches overall cross-country WCup title
Petter Northug of Norway clinched the overall cross-country World Cup title Sunday with a convincing victory in the final race of the season.
APNewsBreak: IOC to retest 2006 Turin samples
With the eight-year deadline approaching, the IOC will retest doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in a bid to catch any drug cheats ...

Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods say they're dating
Sports has a new power couple: Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn confirmed they're dating. Two months after rumors began circulating in Europe, Woods and ...

Felix Neureuther wins final World Cup slalom
Felix Neureuther of Germany edged overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher to win the men's season-ending slalom race on Sunday. Neureuther hung on ...

Ted Ligety gets 6th World Cup giant slalom win
Ted Ligety capped his dominant season in giant slalom with a sixth World Cup win Saturday, fueling comparisons with the best GS skier in history.

Ted Ligety leads 1st run of World Cup giant slalom
Ted Ligety of the United States showed his supremacy in giant slalom again on Saturday, taking a big lead in the first run at the World Cup finals.

Svindal concedes overall WCup title to Hirscher
Aksel Lund Svindal conceded the overall World Cup title to defending champion Marcel Hirscher after both his favored speed events were canceled by bad ...

Vonn retains WCup downhill title without racing
Lindsey Vonn had the weather on her side this time when it came down to deciding a World Cup title. Fog canceled racing on Wednesday, giving the ...

Injured Vonn retains World Cup downhill title
Injured Lindsey Vonn won a record sixth straight World Cup downhill title without having to show up on the mountain Wednesday. Fog canceled the race ...

Kostelic wins WCup slalom; Hirscher takes globe
Ivica Kostelic of Croatia won a rain-drenched World Cup slalom Sunday while Marcel Hirscher of Austria clinched the season title in the event after ...

Northug, Kowalczyk win cross-country races
Petter Northug of Norway dominated a men's 15-kilometer classical race Sunday to gain ground in the overall cross-country World Cup standings, while ...

Ligety of US wins World Cup giant slalom title
Ted Ligety of the United States won his fifth giant slalom of the season Saturday to clinch the World Cup discipline title with a race to spare.

Randall of US wins cross-country WCup sprint title
Kikkan Randall of the United States clinched the cross-country World Cup sprint title on Saturday by edging Norwegian world champion Marit Bjoergen ...

Randall clinches cross-country WCup sprint title
Kikkan Randall of the United States clinched the cross-country World Cup sprint title on Saturday by beating Norwegian world champion Marit Bjoergen ...

Ligety wins World Cup GS title with race to spare
Ted Ligety clinched the World Cup giant slalom title Saturday by winning his fifth race of the season. It's the American's fourth discipline title ...
France's Theaux wins men's downhill in Norway
Adrien Theaux of France earned his second career World Cup victory Saturday by narrowly beating home favorite Aksel Lund Svindal in a downhill.

Tina Maze breaks 2,000-point mark
Tina Maze of Slovenia broke the record for points in a World Cup season on Saturday by winning a downhill, which also made her only the third woman ...

Northug wins individual 15K at Nordic Worlds
Petter Northug won his first gold medal of this year's Nordic world championships on Wednesday in the 15-kilometer individual freestyle. The Norwegian ...

Slovenia's Tina Maze clinches World Cup title
There was only one fitting way for Tina Maze to wrap up the overall World Cup title — with another victory, and with plenty of time to spare.

Tina Maze wins super-combi, clinches overall title
Tina Maze of Slovenia clinched her first overall World Cup title Sunday, winning the super-combined for her eighth victory this season with nine races ...

US wins historic gold medal at Nordic Worlds
Kikkan Randall and Jessica Diggins gave the United States its first world championship gold medal in cross-country skiing Sunday by winning the ...