SAN DIEGO -- Tiger Woods had his lowest opening round of the year since 2011. It wasn't enough to be among the leaders Thursday at the Farmers Insurance Open, but it was fine with him.
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Crystal Dangerfield scored 14 points and No. 3 UConn used a dominant third quarter to beat 23rd-ranked Tennessee 60-45 on Thursday night -- the first matchup in 13 years between the teams whose rivalry dominated the sport for over a decade.
NEW YORK -- Caught off guard in a quick split with Carlos Beltrán, the New York Mets want some continuity for a change.
LOUISVILLE -- Malik Williams had 13 points and grabbed two late rebounds leading to three free throws in the final 23 seconds, helping No. 6 Louisville hold off Georgia Tech 68-64 on Wednesday night.
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NEW YORK -- Known for two decades as No. 2, Derek Jeter is now linked to the number 1 -- as in, who was the lone Hall of Fame voter who didn't put a check mark next to his name?
WACO, Texas -- MaCio Teague scored 16 points, fellow transfer Davion Mitchell had 13 and Baylor held on to win its first-ever home game as the No. 1 team, beating Oklahoma 61-57 on Monday night.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The way Kyle Busch sees it, there is a flaw in the championship ring NASCAR awarded him last month.
Empire Maker, who won the 2003 Belmont Stakes to spoil Funny Cide's Triple Crown bid and went on to become a prolific stallion, died of a rare disease that compromised his immune system. He was 20 years old.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Evansville coach Walter McCarty has been fired, the university announced Tuesday.
NEW YORK -- When it comes to unanimous picks for baseball's Hall of Fame, Derek Jeter quite appropriately has the chance to be No. 2.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Johanna Konta wasn't sure even as she celebrated Christmas if she'd make the long trip to Australia for the year's first Grand Slam tournament because of her recovery from a chronic knee problem.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Jrue Holiday matched his season high with 36 points in his return after a five-game absence and the New Orleans Pelicans set a franchise record with 21 3-pointers, beating Memphis 126-116 Monday in the Grizzlies' annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Game.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Mike Vrabel knows wins and losses are the only true measure for the Tennessee Titans. Coming up one win shy of the franchise's first Super Bowl berth in 20 years even after a 2-4 start means they still have plenty of work ahead.
Baylor and Gonzaga were the only two teams in the top five that took care of business last week.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C -- Fifth-ranked Louisville went from looking dominant in the first half at North Carolina to clinging to a shrinking lead on the road in the final minutes.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- It's been three years since Serena Williams won a Grand Slam championship. Her drought without a title of any sort just ended, though, right before the start of the Australian Open.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Arrowhead Stadium rocked to Whitney Houston's "I Want To Dance With Somebody.'' Kansas City fans' half-century wait to boogie in the Super Bowl is over -- in great part due to their quarterback's magical feet, not to mention his majestic arm.
LA QUINTA, Calif. -- Andrew Landry was reeling after blowing a six-stroke lead on the back nine Sunday in The American Express.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C -- Fifth-ranked Louisville went from looking dominant in the first half at North Carolina to clinging to a shrinking lead on the road in the final minutes.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- From No. 2 pick in the draft to one of the last two teams standing.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- Lee Westwood secured his 25th European Tour win with victory at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Sunday.
No. 10 Kentucky 73, Arkansas 66
No. 11 Louisville 79, No. 3 Duke 73
DURHAM, N.C. -- Louisville's big lead was all but gone, leaving the 11th-ranked Cardinals clinging to a slim margin while the fans packed into Duke's famously hostile home arena were roaring at ear-ringing levels.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Nine years into his career and a little more than two years removed from a debilitating torn Achilles injury, Richard Sherman is still tormenting quarterbacks on a weekly basis.
TENNESSEE (11-7) at KANSAS CITY (13-4)
GREEN BAY (14-3) at SAN FRANCISCO (14-3)
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Nick Richards and No. 10 Kentucky could have wilted after coach John Calipari was ejected in the second half.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The San Francisco 49ers are one win away from accomplishing a turnaround that's been done only once before in the Super Bowl era.
The Titans haven't been to the Super Bowl since 2000. That's barely a blip on the football history screen: The Chiefs haven't been there since 1970. One of them is headed for the big game in Miami. Here's how they match up for the AFC championship:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Titans have found a way to fix the NFL's worst field goal unit: Ignore the kicker and just score touchdowns.
Here are a few things to watch in Southeastern Conference basketball competition this weekend.
LEXINGTON -- Kentucky's Rupp Arena is getting a new name.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Chiefs had just lost to the Tennessee Titans, their fourth defeat in the first 10 games of the season, and much of the optimism that surrounded the defending AFC champions had begun to evaporate amid the barbecue smoke that wafts over Arrowhead Stadium eac…
NEW YORK -- Carlos Beltrán is out as manager of the New York Mets before a single game, the latest fallout from the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal that has rocked Major League Baseball.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Titans benched Marcus Mariota for Ryan Tannehill in mid-October after a 2-4 start. Finding the No. 2 pick overall from the 2015 draft isn't that hard during their amazing playoff run.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- No tight end in NFL history has been as productive as George Kittle at catching the ball over the first three years of a career.
NEW YORK -- Stealing signals. Banging on a trash can. Beating the Dodgers in October.
BOWLING GREEN -- Taveion Hollingsworth matched his season high with 23 points, making a basket and three free throws in the final 11 seconds, to rally Western Kentucky to a 71-69 victory over Old Dominion on Thursday night.
NEW YORK — While the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox took decisive action in jettisoning their managers after Major League Baseball concluded they were involved in nefarious sign stealing, the New York Mets have stayed silent on Carlos Beltrán's future.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Bobby Petrino, a coach with a track record of on-the-field success and off-the-field embarrassments, will be the next coach at Missouri State.
TEL AVIV, Israel — As a baseball-crazed kid growing up in Miami, Danny Valencia dreamed of playing in the Major Leagues. The thought of heading to the Olympics, for a foreign country no less, never crossed his mind.
HONOLULU -- Brooks Koepka hasn't been the same since he tied for third in the FedEx Cup final in August, and hasn't felt entirely healthy since last March.
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Top-ranked doubles player Robert Farah says he tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid.
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A former Penn State football player claims in a lawsuit that Nittany Lions players hazed him and other younger teammates by imitating sexual acts in the shower and invoking Jerry Sandusky's name.
BANGOR, Maine -- A college swimming coach has endured a quadruple bypass after a heart attack, removal of cancerous tumors from his colon and wrists, and the amputation of part of his leg.
The European Tour and PGA Tour are trying to crack down on slow play with revamped policies that allow for swifter penalty shots and for officials to target players who are taking too long to play.
Alastair Johnston returned home to Scotland after an internship with IMG and brought with him 30 golf books that had been collecting dust in a storage room.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Freshman Jermaine Couisnard hit a 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded and South Carolina rallied from 14 points down in the second half to stun No. 10 Kentucky 81-78 on Wednesday night.
BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox need to find a new manager, and it sounds like they haven't gotten over their old one.
The air was considered hazardous for outdoor workers, and described as among the worst in the world. For professional tennis players, though, it was deemed to be OK for business.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Brett Favre vs. Steve Young. Aaron Rodgers dueling with Colin Kaepernick.
ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Falcons will have new uniforms for the 2020 season.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Titans safety Kenny Vaccaro listened to how coach Mike Vrabel praised his performance in Tennessee's wild-card win with the hint of a smile.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Rookie guard Ja Morant had 26 points and eight assists, Dillon Brooks scored 24 and the Memphis Grizzlies won their sixth straight game by defeating the Houston Rockets 121-110 on Tuesday night.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly is retiring from the NFL after eight seasons.
PITTSBURGH -- With 21 seconds left in overtime and Pittsburgh trailing by two, Panthers guard Trey McGowens put his head down and drove to the rim as he had so often as Pitt put a scare into No. 11 Louisville on Tuesday night.
NEW ORLEANS -- LSU coach Ed Orgeron is already thinking about what comes next for his national champions. More specifically, who comes next.
BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora on Tuesday, a day after baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred implicated him in the sport's sign-stealing scandal.
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ST. LOUIS -- Outfielder Austin Dean was acquired Tuesday by the St. Louis Cardinals from the Miami Marlins for 18-year-old minor league outfielder Diowill Burgos.
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