Ben Eager scored the go-ahead goal at 5:52 of the third period, and Antti Niemi made 19 saves in the Chicago Blackhawks' 3-1 victory over the reeling Calgary Flames on Thur...

Andre Greipel of Germany has won his third stage of the Tour Down Under to consolidate his overall lead with two stages remaining.Greipel, who won the opening two st...

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Justine Henin beat No. 27 Alisa Kleybanova 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 on Friday to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open, staging another memorable rally in her first Grand Slam...

San Francisco Giants second baseman Freddy Sanchez underwent left shoulder surgery and might not be ready by opening day.Manager Bruce Bochy confirmed to The Associa...

Chris Gradnigo scored 23 points, Tyren Johnson added 21 and Louisiana-Lafayette used a big second half run to beat New Orleans 70-53 on Thursday night.The pair outsc...

Corey Hassan scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Liam Potter added 13 points and 10 boards to lead the Sacred Heart past Central Connecticut State 71-53 on Thursda...

Russell Johnson recorded a double-double, scoring 15 points and pulling down 11 boards, to lead Robert Morris to a 65-50 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Thursday night....

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Matt Moulson scored the decisive goal in a shootout and the New York Islanders beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 on Thursday night for their sixth straight victory at Nassau Co...

Seven-time major winner Justine Henin is through to the fourth round at the Australian Open, her first Grand Slam tournament since ending a 20-month retirement.Henin...

Scottie Upshall scored three goals in the third period and the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Nashville Predators 4-2 Thursday night.Matthew Lombardi had a goal and an ass...

Mick Hedgepeth scored 12 points and had 12 rebounds for his third double-double of the season to help Belmont defeat Campbell 66-55 on Thursday night.Keaton Belcher ...

Frank Davis scored 25 points and Jud Dillard added 23 points as Tennessee Tech defeated Austin Peay 94-90 on Thursday night.Dillard was 11-for-12 from the field and ...

Michael Orock scored 17 points and T.J. Czeski added 10, including four points in the final 1:05 of overtime, to lead Wagner past Long Island University 65-59 on Thursday n...

Sophomore Jarvis Jones hit a 3-pointer from the right corner with .4 seconds left, giving East Tennessee State a 71-69 victory over Lipscomb on Thursday night.Jones ...

Matt Bouldin scored a career-high 32 points and No. 15 Gonzaga beat Pepperdine 91-84 Thursday night to take sole possession of first place in the West Coast Conference....

Robert Glenn and Alex Young each scored 24 points to lead IUPUI to an 75-60 victory over Southern Utah Thursday night.Leroy Nobles added 12 points and Billy Pettifor...

Nick Schneiders scored 18 points and had 10 rebounds to lead South Carolina-Upstate to a 64-50 victory over North Florida on Thursday night.The Spartans (3-15, 3-6 A...

Akeem Bennet scored 12 points, including a tie-breaking 3-pointer with 1:18 remaining, and St. Francis (N.Y.) held on for a 63-60 victory over Mount St. Mary's (Md.) on Thu...

James Feldeine scored 18 points and Quinnipiac defeated Bryant 84-59 on Thursday night.After the scoring went back and forth in the first 6 minutes, the Bobcats (12-...

Nick Murphy had 23 points and 12 rebounds and Jacksonville State rallied to defeat Tennessee State 85-67 on Thursday night.The Gamecocks (8-10, 4-4 Ohio Valley Confe...

Will Campbell scored 12 points and Monmouth (N.J.) opened the second half with a strong run to rout St. Francis (Pa.) 69-40 on Thursday night.Justin Sofman had 10 po...

Drew Miller scored his first career shootout goal in the eighth round and the Detroit Red Wings survived Minnesota's third-period rally to beat the Wild 4-3 on Thursday nig...

LaTreze Mushatt and Jay Couisnard scored 14 points each and UMKC held off Western Illinois 61-57 Thursday night to end a three-game losing streak.Spencer Johnson had...

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James Washington scored 20 points, going 8-for-8 from the foul line in the final 1:10, to help Middle Tennessee State hold off Louisiana-Monroe 69-60 on Thursday night....

The Cavaliers haven't lost their holiday spirit.Cleveland showed its Christmas Day win over the Los Angeles Lakers was no gift as LeBron James scored 37 points, incl...

Brandon Hazzard scored 18 points to lead five Troy players in double figures as the Trojans defeated Western Kentucky 77-69 on Thursday night.Yamene Coleman and Rich...

Alex Franklin scored 22 points to help Siena defeat Loyola (Md.) 67-61 on Thursday night.The Saints (16-4, 9-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) scored five straig...

The Washington Wizards have taken what seems like eons to play just 41 games, just half the NBA season."For me, it felt like about 86 games," guard Randy Foye said T...

Brandon Wood scored 16 points to lead four teammates in double figures and Valparaiso defeated Illinois-Chicago 64-58 Thursday night.Howard Little scored 14 points, ...

The Los Angeles Clippers will be without guards Eric Gordon and Sebastian Telfair against the Denver Nuggets because of injuries.Gordon and Telfair were both hurt du...

Nick Barbour scored 20 of his 24 points in the first half, hitting five 3-pointers, as High Point routed Liberty 81-53 on Thursday night.The Panthers (10-8, 5-3 Big ...

Anthony Johnson scored 16 points and had 11 rebounds to lead Fairfield to a 70-50 victory over Marist on Thursday night.Johnson scored his 1,000th career point on a ...

If there can be a playoff game in January, this was it. The Washington Capitals only hope that beating the Pittsburgh Penguins during the season will show them how to get i...

Grayson Flittner scored five of his 13 points in the final 2 minutes of overtime, leading Gardner-Webb to a 64-57 win over Presbyterian on Thursday night.Down 57-55 ...

Brandon Reed scored 25 points to lead Arkansas State past Florida International 76-61 on Thursday night.The Red Wolves (11-7, 6-1 Sun Belt Conference) used a 17-5 ru...

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Alvin Abreu scored 22 points and New Hampshire held off struggling Maryland-Baltimore County in a 62-58 win on Thursday night.Ferg Myrick had 15 points and Tyrone Co...

The South African consulate will sponsor a mini World Cup tournament in New York just ahead of the start of soccer's championship.Thirty-two adult corporate teams wi...

Sean Smith scored 20 points to lead North Carolina-Asheville to a 66-53 victory over Winthrop on Thursday.Smith went 6-for-9 from the 3-point line to help the Bulldo...

Greg Gantt scored a career-high 29 points and Florida Atlantic overcame an early 10-point deficit, then held off Arkansas-Little Rock 77-74 on Thursday night.The Owl...

Tim Johnson hit a jump shot with 1 second left to lift Wofford past The Citadel 44-42 on Thursday night, its sixth-straight win.The Terriers (13-7, 5-2 Southern Conf...

Matt Moulson scored the decisive goal in a shootout and the New York Islanders beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 on Thursday night for their sixth straight victory at Nassau Co...

Art Parakhouski scored 30 points and had 11 rebounds to lead three Radford players with double-doubles as the Highlanders rolled past Virginia Military Institute 109-91 on ...

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Bryan Dougher scored 20 points, including a late free throw, to lead Stony Brook to a 65-60 win over Vermont on Thursday night.Marqus Blakely hit two layups to pull ...

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Right-hander Vicente Padilla decided to stay with the Los Angeles Dodgers after his outstanding performance down the stretch last season, agreeing Thursday to a one-year co...

R.J. Umberger tipped in Anton Stralman's power-play slap shot with 1:16 remaining, giving the Columbus Blue Jackets a come-from-behind 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins Th...

Martin St. Louis scored a power-play goal with 9.8 seconds left in overtime to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 3-2 comeback victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday ...

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Eric Staal scored three goals in his first game since becoming Carolina's captain and the Hurricanes beat the Atlanta Thrashers 5-2 on Thursday night for a rare road victor...

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EASTBridgewater, Va. 74, S. Virginia 56Cabrini 88, Neumann 79Concordia, N.Y. 76, Caldwell 67, OTFairfield 70, Marist 50Farmingdale 81, St...

Porsha Phillips scored the go-ahead basket off a pass from Ashley Houts with 39 seconds remaining, then added two free throws that clinched No. 8 Georgia's 53-50 upset of t...

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Andrew Goudelock scored 28 points to help the College of Charleston defeat Furman 92-80 on Thursday night.After Justin Dehm's 3-pointer put Furman (9-9, 3-4 Southern...

Peter Regin is enjoying his recent offensive outburst fully because it coincides with the Ottawa Senators' longest winning streak of the season.Regin picked up his t...

Dan Carcillo's bloody knuckles came at the expense of an unlikely victim.Ray Emery made 24 saves for his second shutout of the season, and James van Riemsdyk and Mik...

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Dinara Safina advanced to the fourth round of the Australian Open on Friday, winning her first match on the major's marquee court since her lopsided loss to Serena Williams...

Mikko Koivisto scored 15 points and Ben Stywall had his ninth double-double of the season to help North Carolina-Greensboro overcome an early double-digit deficit to beat C...

Verdell Jones III hit two late long jumpers, Devan Dumes scored 10 of his 15 points in the second half and Indiana held off Penn State 67-61 on Thursday night for its first...

Gerald McLemore scored 21 points to lead Maine to its fourth straight America East Conference win, 63-54 over Albany (N.Y.) on Thursday night.Sean McNally added 14 p...

Jeremy Hazell scored 25 points and Seton Hall held off a late Louisville rally to post an 80-77 victory on Thursday night, handing the Cardinals their third straight loss.<...

Octavio Dotel agreed Thursday to a $3.5 million, one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the only club that offered him the chance to be a closer.The deal cal...

Joe Zeglinski scored 16 points and hit the game-winning 3-pointer to lift Hartford to a 64-63 win over Binghamton on Thursday night.Trailing 61-51 with 4:52 left, th...

Kaylin Johnson hit a 3-pointer with 17 seconds left to give Samford a 50-49 win over Elon on Thursday night.The Bulldogs (8-10, 2-1 Southern Conference) trailed 49-4...

The significance of the stunning victory was not lost on Miami coach Katie Meier, whose team had just ended Maryland's 48-game home winning streak in dramatic fashion.<...

Chasity Clayton scored 17 points and No. 15 Florida State beat Harvard 96-52 on Thursday night.Courtney Ward and Alexa Deluzio hit back-to-back 3-pointers to key a 1...

Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant is the 15th player in NBA history to reach 25,000 career points and the youngest to hit the milestone.Bryant reached the mar...

Fred Couples and Tom Watson are featured on the larger-than-life Mitsubishi Electric Championship posters that greet travelers at tiny Kona International Airport.Whi...

Police and hospital security patrolled the streets. Property owners asked for quiet. One business owner told of a photographer offering big money just to stand on his roof ...

Quarterback Joe Namath talked about the New York Jets and a range of topics during a 45-minute interview with The Associated Press ahead of this weekend's NFL conference ch...

NEW YORK — Allen Iverson was voted to start in the All-Star game Thursday, while Steve Nash and Tim Duncan made late moves to claim starting spots for the Western Confere...

Eric Chavez is already embracing his new role with the Oakland Athletics this season: backup and utilityman.The six-time Gold Glove third baseman has ordered himself...

His fans from Seattle to Venezuela call him "King Felix."Yet it's another, more personal title that Felix Hernandez cites as the reason his career took off last year...

East Carolina has turned to former Texas Tech defensive coordinator, and Pirates alum, Ruffin McNeill to replace Skip Holtz.The school announced the move Thursday af...

Graham Watanabe has secured his spot on the U.S. Olympic snowboardcross team with a second-place finish at a World Cup event in Canada.Watanabe finished behind Pierr...

A controversial technical foul that cost Washington State a basketball victory over Oregon will not be overturned.WSU athletic director Jim Sterk said a review of th...

Joe Namath is singing.It's midmorning, midweek in sun-splashed South Florida, a few days ahead of the New York Jets' biggest game in more than a decade, arguably the...

Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees — and Mark Sanchez? Yep, the rookie from Southern Cal is keeping some heady company. He's gotten a whole lot further than some of ...

Michael Vick returned to the site of his gruesome dogfighting crimes, looked at an empty dog bowl left behind in a dingy cage and wondered how he ever could have risked fam...

The judge in Mike Leach's lawsuit against the university has order the sides to try to work out a resolution.State District Judge William Sowder on Thursday ordered ...

Boston Celtics forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis has been fined $25,000 for directing inappropriate language at a fan.NBA executive vice president of operations Stu Jack...

Evgeni Plushenko aced his last major test before seeking a second consecutive Olympic gold next month by winning the European figure skating championships on Thursday.<...

Right-hander Todd Coffey and the Milwaukee Brewers have avoided salary arbitration, agreeing to a $2,025,002, one-year contract.Coffey became a key reliever in Milwa...

Bob Huggins quoted John F. Kennedy at his introductory news conference at Kansas State, telling anyone who'd listen there was no reason to shoot for second when first was a...

A second university has learned that its indoor practice facility for football is vulnerable to the same type of winds that toppled the Dallas Cowboys' practice building la...

David Freese's drunk driving arrest in December has not dislodged him as the top contender for the St. Louis Cardinals' third base job.But the 26-year-old Freese kno...

Cavaliers starting point guard Mo Williams will miss at least one month with a sprained left shoulder, a major blow to the Eastern Conference's top team.An MRI revea...

Kobe Bryant is taking a pass on the slam dunk contest, no matter what Shaquille O'Neal has in mind.Bryant nearly burst out laughing Thursday when asked about O'Neal'...

Cavaliers starting point guard Mo Williams will miss at least one month with a sprained left shoulder, a major blow to the Eastern Conference's top team.Williams inj...

Amid the towering columns that will anchor the Florida Marlins' new ballpark stood the 6-foot-7 pillar of their pitching staff.Josh Johnson had just signed a $39 mil...

The king of tennis met the British prince.Roger Federer had just dismissed another of his subjects — a 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Romania's Victor Hanescu at the A...

Ferguson Jenkins says Mark McGwire owes an apology to all those pitchers who gave up his home runs. The Hall of Fame ace sent an open letter to The Associated Press this we...

The fate of the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname has gone into triple overtime.North Dakota's Board of Higher Education voted 5-3 Thursday to del...

Octavio Dotel has agreed to a one-year contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the only club that was offering him the chance to be a closer.The deal was completed Thu...

Woody Johnson watches his team practice as often as he can, standing on the sideline while letting football push the sadness aside for a few moments.The New York Jet...

Evgeni Plushenko of Russia has won the European Figure Skating Championships, his last major test before going for a second straight Olympic gold medal next month.Pl...

Jets coach Rex Ryan sent a game ball to Marty Schottenheimer after last weekend's playoff upset of the San Diego Chargers, the team that fired the father of New York's offe...

Pablo Andres Escobar is joining the Kansas City Wizards. No, he's not related to the deceased drug lord.While the 22-year-old defender is from Colombia, where he pla...

The Minnesota Vikings and New Orleans Saints had some off-the-field help from the courts to make it to the NFC championship game.Two starting defensive linemen on ea...

New audio recordings are being released from the Tiger Woods car crash investigation.In one recording released Thursday, Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Josh Evans te...

Never mind those pretty dresses, tuxedoes and bling that would make a socialite jealous. There's a good ol' rumble going on in American ice dancing.Meryl Davis and C...

Hannah Kearney led an American sweep of the top four places in a World Cup moguls event Thursday at Whiteface Mountain.Michael Morse finished fifth behind winner Gui...

Mark Herzlich roamed the dome-covered football field at Boston College's Alumni Stadium, sharing with his teammates the techniques and wisdom that had him destined for NFL ...

Stephen Jackson's demand to be traded from Golden State came with a declaration that he wanted to play for a winner. So there was plenty of chuckling around the NBA when Ja...

Instead of honing his swing this offseason, Miguel Cabrera focused on getting sober. "My drinking was a problem, and I feel good without it. I feel like a new man," he said...

The Pac-10 has reprimanded Southern California women's basketball coach Michael Cooper for a profane postgame comment about archrival UCLA.Pac-10 commissioner Larry ...

Right wing Georges Laraque has played his last game for the Montreal Canadiens.Laraque is not happy with the decision, or the timing of Thursday's announcement. The ...

Investigators are questioning three leading Chinese soccer officials about allegations of match fixing, state media reported Thursday.The move is the latest in a pus...

Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Tommie Boyd has been charged with criminal sexual conduct after authorities say the high school track coach had sexual contact with a tee...

David Freese's drunk driving arrest in December has not dislodged him as the top contender for the St. Louis Cardinals' third base job.But Freese, 26, knows he has t...

The Turin Games were well under way by the time Emily Hughes became an Olympian. The opening ceremony was over, the flame was in full blaze, a couple of gold medals had eve...

Florida Marlins president David Samson says the team won't trade second baseman Dan Uggla this winter.The Marlins will go into the season with the team they have now...

One of Nebraska coach Doc Sadler's preseason goals was to make the NCAA tournament, and he's sticking to it even though the Cornhuskers are the only team in the Big 12 with...

Joe Blanton got his reward for consistency and durability.Blanton and the Philadelphia Phillies agreed to a $24 million, three-year contract that avoided a salary ar...

The front line looked imposing. The veteran leadership was there. And with an infusion of young talent, North Carolina entered the season looking ready to defend its nation...

Argentina coach Diego Maradona has toured the main stadium in Johannesburg ahead of the World Cup in South Africa.Maradona also handed out gifts to children and socc...

Todd Lodwick is the second American to ever make five Winter Olympics, headlining a powerful U.S. Nordic combined team that includes fellow world champions Billy Demong and...

Heavy rains forced the postponement of the second round of the Bob Hope Classic on Thursday, wiping out a day of competition at the tournament for the first time in 30 year...

Right wing Georges Laraque has played his last game for the Montreal Canadiens.Laraque is not happy with the decision, or the timing of Thursday's announcement. The ...

There's a rhythm to Kikkan Randall when she steps onto her cross country skis and churns across a start line.Kick and glide, kick and glide. Double pole up a hill. C...

Wade Phillips is sticking around as coach of the Dallas Cowboys for two more years.Dallas won the NFC East for the second time in Phillips' three seasons. The team a...

Have at it, boys.NASCAR is relaxing some of its rules this season, and encouraging drivers to show more aggression and emotion, in large part to answer a growing fan...

So far, this week has been a perfect microcosm of the Miami Heat season. Blowout winners Tuesday night against Indiana, blowout losers 24 hours later in Charlotte.An...

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is moving its enshrinement ceremony to Aug. 13, avoiding a conflict with the world championships.The Hall expects to we...

Sweden hockey coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson will quit at the end of the season, but remain for the Vancouver Olympics.The Swedish Ice Hockey Association announced the m...

The U.S. Olympic Committee found a sponsor that will help alleviate one of the biggest distractions for athletes when the games come around: taking care of their families.<...

Serguei Sednev used perfect shooting to win a 20-kilometer mass start race Thursday in the biathlon World Cup.The Ukrainian didn't miss a single target and finished ...

Cavaliers starting point guard Mo Williams will miss Thursday's game against the Los Angeles Lakers — and potentially more time — with a sprained left shoulder.W...

Freddy Adu is confident his game will pick up in Greece despite a spotty career in Europe.The 20-year-old American forward joined Greek club Aris on Jan. 6 in an 18-...

Lindsey Vonn is smiling again.The two-time overall World Cup champion is ready to put shaky technical races behind her and get back to her favorite speed races — t...

That epic match in 2008, Lleyton Hewitt remembers it well.It set a record just for starting — at 11:47 p.m. it was the latest start for a singles match in Australi...

Ian Poulter of England shot a 7-under 65 Thursday to share a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Abu Dhabi Championship.Poulter made seven birdies, includin...

British Olympic officials are preparing a contingency plan in case the national ski and snowboard federation goes bankrupt before next month's Winter Games in Vancouver.Domnina-Shabalin lead after original dance

Ice dancers Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin held their lead at the European Figure Skating Championships with an original dance to Australian aboriginal music that pushed...

Bode Miller has posted the fastest time in the final downhill training prior to this weekend's races at Hahnenkamm.The American finished the Streif course in 1 minut...

Buffalo Sabres forward Jochen Hecht is one of six NHL players selected to play for Germany at next month's Winter Olympics.The others announced by Germany's coach Uw...

The Williams sisters held court at the Australian Open on Thursday, a back-to-back Venus-Serena doubleheader that left the siblings still in the mix for yet another Grand S...

Defending champion Serena Williams had no problems beating Petra Kvitova 6-2, 6-1 to move into a third-round match against Carla Suarez Navarro, who ended her sister Venus'...

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Portuguese national champion Manuel Cardoso won the arduous third stage of the Tour Down Under on Thursday while Lance Armstrong ended a day of sapping heat 30th on the sta...

Sidelined by a foot injury, Houston Rockets star Yao Ming says he's finding a new kind of satisfaction as owner of his former Chinese team, the Shanghai Sharks.Yao b...

Back on the court where he won his only Grand Slam title, Novak Djokovic overcame an early struggle against a journeyman Swiss player before advancing to the third round of...

Chauncey Billups matched his career high with 37 points, including 10 in overtime, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Golden State Warriors 123-118 on Wednesday night for thei...

Venus Williams has won her second-round match at the Australian Open, beating Sybille Bammer of Austria 6-2, 7-5.Williams fell behind 2-0 in the second set Thursday ...

Baron Davis scored 11 of his 23 points in the final 3:52, Marcus Camby pulled down a season-high 25 rebounds and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Chicago Bulls 104-97 on W...

Brandon League and the Seattle Mariners settled on a one-year contract Wednesday night for $1,087,500, avoiding an arbitration hearing.The right-handed reliever was ...

Daniel Sedin scored on the power play 1:39 into overtime and assisted on Vancouver's two goals in regulation as the Canucks sent the Edmonton Oilers to their ninth straight...

Sherron Collins had 28 points and hit his fifth 3-pointer with just over a minute left, helping No. 3 Kansas outlast No. 25 Baylor 81-75 Wednesday night.Kansas (17-1...

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EASTAlbright 86, Arcadia 63Army 68, American U. 48Bentley 71, Adelphi 67Bluffton 91, Defiance 83Brooklyn 83, CCNY 61Cheyney 60, We...