
Top prep prospect Andrew Wiggins signs with Kansas
Top prep basketball prospect Andrew Wiggins told a small gathering of family and friends at his high school gym Tuesday that he will play at Kansas.

Investigators: Miss. suspect used detective's gun
The police detective killed while interrogating a murder suspect at department headquarters in Mississippi's capital city was shot four times before ...

Louisville's Ware breaks leg in game, has surgery
A gruesome injury that left Louisville guard Kevin Ware with a broken leg plunged Lucas Oil Stadium into horrified silence, with coach Rick Pitino ...

UCLA hires Steve Alford as new basketball coach
Steve Alford was hired as UCLA basketball coach on Saturday, spurning New Mexico days after he agreed to a new 10-year deal with the Lobos for a ...

High school coaching great Jack Curran dies at 82
Jack Curran spent more than a half century compiling records in high school basketball and baseball that might never be toppled. The 82-year-old ...
Okla. crowd stunned by wrong-basket buzzer-beater
With a one-point lead, 2.9 seconds to play and possession of the ball, all Hugo High School had to do was inbound the basketball and run out the clock ...
HS hoops player makes wild, buzzer-beating shot
It's going to be tough to top this buzzer beater just three days into March. Khalil Edney grabbed a loose ball and made a 55-footer as time expired ...
Correction: LAPD-Revenge Killings-The Ruins story
In a story Feb. 16 about the manhunt for former Los Angeles Police Officer Christopher Dorner, The Associated Press reported erroneously that section ...

Profiles of 4 believed killed by ex-LA policeman
Fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner was charged Monday with killing a Riverside police officer. He also is suspected of killing ...

Oregon 3-sport star sets sights on track team
It all began in 2011, when Oregon volleyball coach Jim Moore got a knock on his door shortly after the Ducks' season wrapped up. It was basketball ...
Coach shoots teen during robbery near Mich. school
A 70-year-old high school basketball coach shot and killed one teenager and wounded a second as they attempted to rob him outside the school, Detroit ...

4 sets of sisters power top girls team in Iowa
You could say the girls on the Mediapolis High School basketball team are like sisters to each other. And there's a good chance you'd be right.

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 ...

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 ...