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Column: Set your DVR for Pro Bowl. Now. Seriously
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell warned players a while back that he was prepared to drop the Pro Bowl if they didn't pick up the level of play.
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 ...
Creighton's Josh Jones: Giving up basketball hurts
As hard as it is for Creighton's Josh Jones to give up basketball, he says it's not worth risking his life to keep playing. Doctors advised Jones to ...
Net loss: Brooklyn fires coach Avery Johnson
Coach of the month in November, out of a job by New Year's. The Brooklyn Nets have elevated expectations this season, and a .500 record wasn't good ...
Brewer's 27 points lead Nuggets past Lakers
Kobe Bryant went on another scoring tear for the Los Angeles Lakers. This time, it wasn't enough. Corey Brewer matched his career high with 27 points ...
Smith's baseline jumper at buzzer beats Suns 99-97
Without Carmelo Anthony and Raymond Felton, the New York Knicks still had enough to eke out a 99-97 victory in Phoenix, thanks to a pair of very late, ...
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.
James leads Heat over Thunder in Finals rematch
Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook combined to score 54 points, more than any set of teammates had managed in a game against Miami all season.
Clippers beat Nuggets 112-100 for 14th win in row
The Los Angeles Clippers didn't finish their 14th consecutive victory well. They were good enough through the first three quarters that it didn't ...
Lakers beat Knicks 100-94 to get to .500
The pieces of the puzzle that have been the Lakers' confounding season so far are starting to fall into place. Kobe Bryant engineered a second-half ...
Rondo leads Celtics past Nets 93-76
Rajon Rondo lost his cool, and any chance at history, in the second quarter when Boston last met Brooklyn. This time, the second period featured some ...
Column: Seattle isn't just sleepless, it's loud!
That dull roar still rumbling between your ears a day later is not your imagination. It's the echo from the 49ers-Seahawks game Sunday night, when an ...
Sports year: Sad sagas the story of 2012
Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his life in prison, Penn State football played under NCAA sanctions and Joe Paterno passed away. Lance Armstrong ...
Duke still No. 1 in AP poll; Pitt, K-State move in
Duke and Michigan remain the top two teams in The Associated Press' college basketball poll while Syracuse drops from third to ninth after its first ...
AP photographers captured the year in sports
From London to Los Angeles, Miami to Medinah and just about everywhere else imaginable, Associated Press photographers captured countless images from ...
Column: NFL's 'nice little story' gets even better
The Colts were a nice little story six weeks ago. That's when a team that started 1-2 and had "rebuilding" written all over it responded to the loss ...
Spradling helps K-State beat No. 8 Florida 67-61
Leave it to the kid from suburban Kansas City to help Kansas State finish off a banner day for the college hoops programs that the city calls its own.
Bowers lifts No. 12 Missouri over No. 10 Illinois
After a long wait, Jabari Brown is finally feeling like part of the Missouri basketball program. Making his first start of the season, Brown had 18 ...
McLemore's 22 gives Kansas huge road win, 74-66
It's not supposed to be this easy for a kid playing his first collegiate road game. Kansas' Ben McLemore, a redshirt freshman surrounded in the ...
No. 1 Stanford topples No. 10 Tennessee 73-60
Stanford forward Chiney Ogwumike has at least one career achievement that eluded her older sister. Ogwumike had 21 points and a career-high 19 ...
Temple upsets No. 3 Syracuse 83-79
Khalif Wyatt had never been in Madison Square Garden let alone played there. The Philadelphia native left the building on Saturday after scoring a ...
Leagues poised to challenge NJ over sports betting
Four major professional sports leagues and the NCAA are poised to move forward with their legal fight over New Jersey's plans to allow sports gambling
Anthony, 3 others tossed as Bulls beat Knicks
Bottled up by the Bulls and baffled by the officials, Carmelo Anthony expected to spend the final minutes of the Knicks' loss alone in the locker room
Clippers win 12th straight to set franchise record
The Los Angeles Clippers weren't ready to celebrate after they set a record for the longest winning streak in the annals of a franchise that has a ...
AP source: NHL players closer to dissolving union
NHL players gave the executive board the right to take steps to dissolve the union, and they signed off on it in overwhelming fashion. In a vote this ...