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Walt Weiss hired as Colorado Rockies manager
Walt Weiss is making the rare jump from the high school dugout to the big leagues. The Colorado Rockies hired the former major league shortstop ...
Former Texas coach Royal dies at age 88
A son of Depression-era Oklahoma, Darrell Royal came to Texas to take over a sleeping giant of a football program. Over 20 years, his folksy approach ...
Voter's guide to BCS title contenders
The participants in the BCS championship game are essentially determined by voters — poll voters specifically. So in the spirit of election day, here ...
K-State coach Snyder hopes Klein plays vs TCU
Kansas State coach Bill Snyder is hopeful injured quarterback Collin Klein will be available for next Saturday's game at TCU. The Heisman Trophy ...
Kentucky fires football coach Joker Phillips
Kentucky football coach Joker Phillips knew after Saturday's embarrassing loss to Vanderbilt that keeping his job would be tough. The end came a day ...
NCAA approves tougher sanctions for rule-breakers
The NCAA is demanding everyone in college sports play by the same book. Those who deviate from it and flout the rules will soon be paying a steeper ...
Australia's Sermanni hired as new US women's coach
When Tom Sermanni shook hands with Pia Sundhage after her last game as coach of the U.S. women's soccer team, he should have asked her for a few tips.
Column: No. 600, a win we all should celebrate
So much football, so many great story lines, both college and pros. Georgia knocks Florida from the ranks of the unbeaten. Notre Dame keeps Irish eyes ...
Column: 'All they had to do was look for the hat'
There's a very good reason why coaches on NFL and college football sidelines this weekend are dressed exactly like the guys down at your car wash — ...
Lolo Jones selected to US bobsled team
Lolo Jones showed up in Lake Placid three weeks ago, unsure where her first foray into bobsledding could lead. The answer might be another Olympics ...
SEC coaches adapt to league's speed, talent
College football is college football, right? Not in the Southeastern Conference, home to six straight national championships and the inside track to ...
Twins add Brunansky, Cuellar, Steinbach to staff
The Minnesota Twins have finalized their overhauled coaching staff, hiring two familiar former players and a well-regarded minor league teacher to ...
Sandusky accuser tells of abuse ordeal in new book
A young man whose sexual-abuse claims triggered the investigation of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says in his new book ...
Assistant coach of SAfrica soccer team killed
Thomas Madigage, the assistant coach of South Africa's national soccer team, was killed in a car crash early Friday. He was 41. Madigage died after ...
Coach quits in Maine Zumba prostitution scandal
A long-time high school hockey coach whose name appeared on a list of men accused of paying a local Zumba fitness instructor for sex has stepped down, ...
Plenty of changes as Big 12 hoops season nears
Bob Huggins is back in the Big 12, this time with West Virginia. TCU has joined the fold, too, and everyone else converged on the Sprint Center on ...
Column: Knight not living in past, will auction it
Here are a few things you won't find among the many items Bob Knight is putting on the auction block over the next two months in New York: The tampon ...
Football coach accused of hitting Utah boy in game
A youth football coach struck a 13-year-old player from an opposing team near the sideline during the fourth quarter of a tied game, giving the boy ...
Column: O'Brien engineering Penn State turnaround
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien settled in behind a microphone early in the afternoon for what was, by far, the second most-anticipated talk of the day ...
Sandusky gets at least 30 years, denies wrongdoing
In what sounded at times like a locker room pep talk, Jerry Sandusky rambled in his red prison suit about being the underdog in the fourth quarter, ...
In 1 year, Big 12 goes from turmoil to terrific
In the span of a year, the Big 12 has gone from turmoil to terrific on television once again. A conference whose football future was uncertain with ...
Skater Cho says tampering was 'biggest mistake'
Olympian short-track speedskater Simon Cho said Friday he agreed to a coach's demand to tamper with a Canadian rival's skates last year after the ...
Eichorst leaves Miami, to be the AD at Nebraska
Shawn Eichorst left his job as athletic director at scandal-ridden Miami on Thursday and accepted a five-year contract to succeed Tom Osborne at ...
McQueary files defamation suit against Penn State
A former Penn State graduate assistant who complained he saw former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky showering with a young boy on campus and ...
All that offense keeps fans coming to the stadium
When West Virginia Athletic Director Oliver Luck was looking for a new football coach, he wanted one who would not only win, but do it in a way that ...