
Pitcher safety against liners still issue for MLB
Cleveland Indians reliever Vinnie Pestano has a recurring dream. A batter hits a line drive right back up the middle and it's screaming toward his ...

Mum's the word on Hossa amid NHL's injury culture
Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville didn't want to talk about the injury that forced him to scratch forward Marian Hossa from the Stanley Cup ...

James, Heat beats Spurs 103-100 in OT; Game 7 next
LeBron James saved a championship reign, canceled a celebration. The toughest part now might be topping this performance in Game 7. "It's by far the ...

Altidore scores, US beats Honduras 1-0
No amount of tight defense could keep Jozy Altidore from doing what he does best. Altidore has been money in scoring timely goals for the U.S.

AL West-leading A's beat Rangers, Darvish 6-2
Facing Yu Darvish has been no problem for the Oakland Athletics. They have beaten the Texas Rangers' Japanese ace four times, more than any other team

UCLA defeats Wolfpack 2-1 at College World Series
Never has a team swinging metal bats produced so few runs through two College World Series games yet found itself in such an enviable position.

North Carolina ousts Tigers from CWS with 4-2 win
Home runs are few and far between at the College World Series these days, which made Brian Holberton's first-inning shot all the more important for ...

Wheeler, Harvey lead Mets' sweep of Braves
After a long day at Turner Field, the future suddenly looks a lot brighter for the New York Mets. Just imagine Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler at the top ...

Oly sprinter Campbell-Brown suspended amid probe
Veronica Campbell-Brown's agent insists one of the cornerstones of Jamaica's wide-ranging sprint success "is not a cheat," even though the test ...

Yankees INF Youkilis needs surgery, Teixeira to DL
They come back for a bit, then they're gone again. So it goes for the New York Yankees and many of their ailing stars this season. Kevin Youkilis ...

Surprise Hossa scratch part of NHL injury culture
Marian Hossa is one of the Chicago Blackhawks' top scorers, with three game-winning goals already this postseason. And then, suddenly, he wasn't in ...

MGM, AEG to develop 20K seat Las Vegas Strip arena
Years of talk about building an arena capable of hosting professional sports and big-name concerts yielded an announcement Tuesday that casino giant ...

Datsyuk, Red Wings agree on $22.5M, 3-year deal
The Detroit Red Wings accomplished their No. 1 goal of the offseason Tuesday by agreeing to a $22.5 million, three-year deal with Pavel Datsyuk.

AP Interview: Wiggins will be strong in 2014
The director of the Tour de France expects Bradley Wiggins to come roaring back in 2014 after not defending his crown in this year's race that starts ...

Australia, South Korea, Iran qualify for World Cup
Australia, Iran and South Korea won spots at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil on a dramatic final day of Asian qualifying Tuesday. Australia beat Iraq 1-0 ...

Spurs' coach puts Pop into news conferences
During his team's Game 3 rout of the Heat, Gregg Popovich was shown on TV talking to his players while they were in the process of burying Miami with ...
AP Source: Couture agrees to extension with Sharks
The San Jose Sharks have agreed to a contract extension with star center Logan Couture to keep him off the market next summer. A person familiar with ...
US collegians to host Cuba in July
The U.S. collegiate national baseball team will host its Cuban counterpart next month in a five-game international "friendship" series. The Triple-A ...

Diving great Greg Louganis to marry in fall
Former Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis plans to get married this fall. People magazine says the 53-year-old Louganis will marry paralegal Johnny ...

England's Rose blooms after 17-year wait for major
Ever since Greg Norman's final-round implosion allowed Nick Faldo win the Masters in 1996, a generation of fine English talent has come up short in ...

5 things to watch for in Game 6 of NBA Finals
Five things to watch for in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, as the San Antonio Spurs try to clinch their fifth title and end the Miami Heat's reign on ...

Rask shuts down Blackhawks as Bruins take 2-1 lead
The puck bounced off the post and rolled across the crease, away from the goal line. The red light flashed briefly, but replays would confirm that ...

Padres beat Giants 5-3 on safety squeeze in 13th
Andrew Cashner provided quite the thrilling warmup for his Tuesday start against San Francisco: a tiebreaking bunt as a pinch hitter in the 13th ...

Heat have no room for error versus Spurs in Game 6
They lost three times in three months in one of the most overpowering stretches the NBA has ever seen. Now the Miami Heat have lost three times in ...

Freeman's homer in 9th lifts Braves over Mets 2-1
The Atlanta Braves waited a long time to get going. Finally, at 1:22 a.m., Freddie Freeman gave them a most improbable victory. Freeman hit a two-run ...