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In the booming world of NCAA volleyball, it's Final Four time. The championship tournament semifinals are Thursday, with Texas A&M facing Pittsburgh and Wisconsin against Kentucky and the winners advancing to Sunday's championship match.

Anthony Joshua losing to Jake Paul would be "an absolute disaster and awfully embarrassing," the British fighter's promoter said Wednesday.

After a short and unsuccessful stint in the major leagues, Cody Ponce was pitching in Asia and still trying to find a mental approach that worked for him on the mound.

With Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs officially eliminated from playoff contention, the upcoming playoffs will be the first since the 1998 season that don't feature at least one of Mahomes, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning at quarterback.

Jayden Daniels was "frustrated, disappointed" during his second year in the NFL, he said Tuesday, by the various injuries he called "just freak accidents" that limited him to seven games before the Washington Commanders shut him down.

The men's basketball game between Brown and Southern California scheduled for Sunday in Los Angeles has been canceled. So has the women's game against Monmouth, which was set for Sunday in Rhode Island.

The successful return of 44-year-old quarterback Philip Rivers has retired signal-callers like Matt Ryan and Tom Brady insisting that they could make an NFL comeback of their own, citing the lost art of reading opposing defenses.

Australian Olympic track athletes Michelle Jenneke and Alex Beck are engaged.

Mikaela Shiffrin isn't just winning every slalom of the Olympic season. She's winning them by an average of more than 1.5 seconds -- an eternity in ski racing.

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who suffered a season-ending injury to his left knee Sunday, successfully underwent surgery in Dallas Monday and has begun rehab.