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Though almost invisible at previous tournaments, Chinese fans are impossible to miss at this year's World Cup. Russian stadiums are filled with with…
Tens of thousands of fans lined the route along Constitution Avenue and thousands more gathered on the National Mall to celebrate the Stanley Cup champion…
For the second straight year, throngs of Golden State Warriors fans turned out for a victory parade to celebrate a team some are calling an NBA dynasty…
The Washington Capitals returned home to DC with their first NHL title, after a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights Thursday night in Game 5 of the…
Hockey fans in Washington, D.C. had something to celebrate as the Washington Capitals won their first Stanley Cup championship in the team's 43-year…
Fans packed D.C. streets after the Washington Capitals raised the Stanley Cup on Thursday night. It's the team's first National Hockey League championship…
A former medical school dean at Michigan State University is ordered to trial after a judge hears testimony about sexual harassment against students (June…
Less than a month after the Supreme Court cleared the way for sports betting, Delaware has taken advantage of the rule, putting legal wagering within…
Professional distance swimmer Ben Lecomte sets off from Choshi, Japan in an attempt to become the first person to cross the Pacific Ocean. He's trying to…
Stephen Curry hit nine 3-pointers - a new NBA Finals record - and scored 33 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 122-103 victory over the…
Serena Williams has called off her Grand Slam comeback, pulling out of the French Open because of a chest injury before she was supposed to play Maria…
The Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 124-114 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. A charge called on the Warriors' Kevin Durant was changed to a…
President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, more than 100 years after what many…
The leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee and other sports are answering questions on Capitol Hill on how they plan to protect athletes from sexual abuse.
Before chairlifts carried skiers up mountains, they had to hike up. Now volunteers, National Forest Service and landowners are working to thin trees in a…
A panel tasked with reforming college basketball says the NCAA should work to end the one-and-done era and punish coaches and programs that cheat more…
Thunder coach Billy Donovan offers condolences after Spurs coach Gregg Popovich's wife dies
Loyola’s Sister Jean is made into bobblehead and it becomes biggest selling ever for National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum. (March 27)
Competitors took to the snowy trail as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicked off Sunday in Alaska. Sixty-seven teams are signed up for the 1,000-mile…
An Olympic snowboarder is taking advantage of the winter weather battering the UK. Billy Morgan, a British bronze medalist the Pyongchang Winter Olympics,…
The 46th running of Alaska's famed Iditarod dog race kicks off Saturday amid the most turbulent year ever. Among the multiple problems: a doping scandal,…
Presidential daughter Ivanka Trump arrived in South Korea Friday for the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Ivanka will…
Whether they are victorious or suffer a defeat, athletes at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic games haven't held back on their emotions. (Feb. 23)
Upside down may not be a usual perspective for most of us, but at the Pyeongchang Olympic Games, many athletes see the competition that way. (Feb. 23)
There was elation and exasperation for American and Canadian fans respectively on Thursday, after the United States defeated their rivals in a penalty…
After finishing her likely last Olympics at a place where her beloved grandfather served during the Korean War in the 1950s, Lindsey Vonn says she's…
Flags play an integral role at the Olympics as symbols of national pride. (Feb. 21)
Former University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino said the NCAA "cannot rewrite history" after the NCAA announced that Louisville must vacate…
At the Pyeongchang Olympics, most days are very cold and very bright. Associated Press photographers in Pyeongchang are catching some stunning images as…
Olympians at the Pyeongchang Games move so fast in some images it looks as if they are surrounded by clones. But in fact, it's a photographer's lens…
Louisville must vacate its 2013 men's basketball title following an NCAA decision to uphold sanctions against the men's program in the sex scandal case.
When word broke that a Russian Olympic curler was facing a doping charge, the curling world was floored. Not because of the tired cliche that curling…