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LIV Golf, the Saudi-funded league known for its 54-hole events with shotgun starts, is expanding to 72 holes for the 2026 season and adding a few extra qualifying spots in a move that could boost its bid to be recognized by the Official World Golf ...

Facing headwinds on multiple fronts, Mike Locksley and Maryland are unmoved by fans' increasingly-louder calls for change as it heads to Rutgers Saturday -- at face value, one of the few remaining winnable opportunities on its schedule.

The NFL confirmed Tuesday it's changing the start times of its Week 16 games on Saturday, Dec. 20, to minimize overlap with the expanded College Football Playoff schedule.

With a surge in blowouts in the NFL, head coaches might want to take stock of two scenarios that backfired when star players were injured in the waning moments of games that were already way out of hand.

Jerry Jones made a deal to bolster the NFL's second-worst defense.

Victor Conte, the architect of a scheme to provide undetectable performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes including baseball stars Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Olympic track champion Marion Jones decades ago, has died. He was 75.

Karl-Anthony Towns scored a season-high 33 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, leading the New York Knicks to a 119-102 victory over the Washington Wizards on Monday night.

K.J. Lewis scored 14 points, grabbed five rebounds and had three steals and Georgetown beat Morgan State 87-70 in a season-opener on Monday.

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge are in the running for consecutive MVP awards.

Redshirt freshman Andre Mills scored 11 of his 13 points in the first half, and his former Texas A&M teammate Pharrel Payne led all scorers with 21 to lift the Terrapins to a 83-61 win over Coppin State in the Basketball Hall of Fame Series season ...