(Editor’s note: Fractions of a second or a slight misstep during the Olympics can alter the career, the legacy and the earning potential of athletes. The Associated Press...
Sha’Carri Richardson set the tone for her own comeback story a year ago when she won the 100-meter U.S. title , then the world championship , and brashly proclaimed: “I’m...
Simone Biles is eager for a chance to put the Tokyo Olympics firmly in her rearview mirror.
Three years after she memorably pulled out of multiple finals to protect ...
LOS ANGELES — After organizers for Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog-eating contest said Joey Chestnut wouldn’t compete this year because of a deal with a rival bran...
Mike Tyson's fight with Jake Paul is now set for Nov. 15 after the former world heavyweight champion fell ill on a flight last month.
The fight was originally set for Jul...
PARIS — Novak Djokovic has decided to have surgery for a medial meniscus tear in his right knee and could miss Wimbledon, the French newspaper L'Equipe reported Wednesday...
PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic was laying on his back on a French Open sideline early in the second set Monday, wincing while his bothersome right knee was manipulated by a...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey drew post position No. 1 on Monday, and Kentucky Derby champion Mystik Dan will start in post No. 3 f...
PARIS — Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka stayed out of the rain and moved into the third round of the French Open on Thursday.
The second-seeded Sabalenka beat J...
BALTIMORE — Even without a Triple Crown on the line, the upcoming Belmont Stakes is one of the most anticipated horse races in the sport's history.
That's because it's b...
GENEVA — Slippery Rock High School graduate and Geneva College senior first baseman Julia Hart has been named first team All-Presidents’ Athletic Conference.
Hart hit .40...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The second jewel of horse racing's Triple Crown could be missing 150th Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan and other co-stars, quashing hopes for a r...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two horses fell and unseated their riders in the second race at Churchill Downs on Thursday, two days before the historic track hosts the 150th Kentucky...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — As a record crowd cheered, American Pharoah rallied from behind and took aim at his remaining two rivals in the stretch. The bay colt and jockey V...
Bresnahan wins in harness racing
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Mississippi Al, trained by Nathan Bresnahan of Butler, won a race Thursday when another horse was disqualified dur...
NEW WILMINGTON — Knoch graduate Michael Phillips, a junior on the Westminster College men’s swimming team, has been named Academic All-District.
A finance major, Phillips...
This year's WrestleMania is just days away, but the WWE's marketing campaign for its biggest premium live event of the year was kicked into overdrive months ago.
In Febr...
MIAMI — Sean O'Malley emphatically defended his bantamweight belt Saturday night, unanimously outpointing Marlon “Chito” Vera in UFC 299.
In a fight that he controlled fr...
Chris Mortensen, the award-winning journalist who covered the NFL for close to four decades, including 32 as a senior analyst at ESPN, died Sunday morning. He was 72.
ESP...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum and his coach died in a car crash in Kenya late Sunday, a fellow athlete who went to the hospital and saw...
The 2026 World Cup final will be played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on July 19.
FIFA made the announcement Sunday at a Miami television studio, all...
MELBOURNE, Australia — Jannik Sinner ended one of Novak Djokovic's perfect streaks in an Australian Open upset and then got to relax while Daniil Medvedev rallied from tw...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Her hand and her legs were shaking, she’d missed nine match points but also saved six, and Anna Blinkova was 41 points into a wild tiebreake...
TAMPA, Fla. — A teenage girl’s car flipped on a Tampa highway over the weekend. Then Hulk Hogan showed up.
TMZ reported that the WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, whose real nam...
PARIS — As the New Year begins, so does the countdown on Kylian Mbappé's future.
It promises to be a nervous start to 2024 for Paris Saint-Germain and its fans with specu...
