National Sports

Online voting has begun for starters in Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game at Seattle on July 11.

French Sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera says Novak Djokovic’s political message about Kosovo was “not appropriate. and warned the former top-ranked Serb player he should not do it again.

Clayton Kershaw says he disagrees with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to welcome a satirical LGBTQ+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team’s annual Pride Night.

A major injury in his final collegiate game led JT Giles-Harris to Hampton. Now, after two years, he's leaving to focus on his professional playing career and playing in the 2023 World Lacrosse Championships.

Finally, we have a title-series matchup: The Miami Heat, champions of the Eastern Conference even after getting in as only the No. 8 seed, will take on the Western Conference champion Nuggets in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

A lower-level German soccer team called its punishment for stopping a game in protest after racist abuse was apparently directed at team captain Marcus Coffie “a slap in the face.”

It’s called “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” because the Indianapolis 500 is supposed to be one of the most dramatic and difficult races in the world.

The Vegas Golden Knights advanced to their second Stanley Cup Final with a 6-0 rout of the Dallas Stars, who had extended the Western Conference finals to six games after losing the first three.

Owner Roger Penske adds a victory in NASCAR's longest race after one of his drivers also won the Indy 500. Denny Hamlin says Chase Elliott intentionally wrecked him.

Horse racing’s oversight authority will hold an emergency summit Tuesday in the wake of 12 horse fatalities in the past month at the home of the Kentucky Derby.

Josef Newgarden finally captured his long-awaited Indianapolis 500, making an audacious pass of Marcus Ericsson during a frantic 2.5-mile sprint to the finish.

The Milwaukee Bucks are finalizing a deal to make Adrian Griffin their head coach after he spent the last five seasons as a Toronto Raptors assistant, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.

The former ODU star quarterback is back to participate in his two-day Taylor Heinicke Youth Football Camp. “Every time I have a chance to come back here and give back, I’m always willing to take the time to do that,” he said.

The Arizona Cardinals have released three-time All-Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins in a salary cap move made after they failed to find a trading partner in the offseason.

There are many reasons why Katherine Legge is the only female driver starting in this year’s Indianapolis 500. The women’s movement that once promised to bring many more into racing appears to have stalled.

Auto racing’s biggest weekend looms with the 107th Indianapolis 500, Coca-Cola 600 in NASCAR and Formula One’s Monaco Grand Prix.

LeBron James began the final game of his 20th NBA season with the highest-scoring postseason half of his matchless NBA career. He ended the night by questioning how much longer he plans to chase history.

The Denver Nuggets overcame LeBron James’ 31-point first half and a 15-point halftime deficit with a tenacious finish in Game 4 to earn their first conference title in their 47 NBA seasons.

The 2025 NFL draft will take place inside and around Lambeau Field and Titletown, the collection of shops and restaurants surrounding the stadium.

During a four-day stretch at the PGA Championship, Michael Block held his own against the world’s best, became a gallery favorite, made a hole in one and finished tied for 15th with a score of 1-over 281.

Carmelo Anthony, the star forward who led Syracuse to an NCAA championship in his lone college season and went on to spend 19 years in the NBA, announced his retirement on Monday.

A son of longtime Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler has resigned from his position with the Wolverines, with the school saying it was aware of his social media activity that may have caused “pain” in the community.

Six weeks after letting a two-shot lead get away on the final day of the Masters, Brooks Koepka fended off challenges from Viktor Hovland and Scottie Scheffler to win his third PGA Championship.

Larson earns his third All-Star victory and $1 million in the winner-take-all race, which continues a pattern of relatively non-competitive short-track competition this year.

Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, the unstoppable running back who retired at the peak of his brilliant career to become an actor and a prominent civil rights advocate during the 1960s, has died. He was 87.