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An Alabama circuit judge on Monday denied Alabama basketball player Charles Bediako's motion for a preliminary injunction, ending the 7-foot center's collegiate eligibility and his season with the Crimson Tide.

Duke coach Jon Scheyer said Monday a team staffer injured during a court-storming following a last-second loss at rival North Carolina is OK but had a bloody lip and was caught up under fans.

Lindsey Vonn's father said Monday that the American superstar will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her left leg in the downhill over the weekend.

You can't sell "The Halo" with the promise of something worth watching in a couple of years. You can't sell your new opulent seats while asking your "venue guests" to continue to digest losing with the hope that someday soon the "arena experience"

Lindsey Vonn says she "sustained a complex tibia fracture that is currently stable but will require multiple surgeries to fix properly" after her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill.

Calls for the International Olympics Committee to revoke a sex-disputed boxer's gold medal resurfaced after the athlete acknowledged carrying a gene found in biological males and undergoing treatment to reduce testosterone.

Team USA's women's halfpipe snowboarding team defended skier Hunter Hess on Monday, a day after President Trump criticized the athlete for saying he didn't want to "represent everything that's going on in the U.S."

Sidney Crosby is 16 years removed from his first Olympics, when he scored the golden goal to give Canada a much needed title on home ice at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

Serena Williams passed another stage on the path to a possible comeback to professional tennis, being listed Monday by the sport's drug-testing organization as eligible to return to competition on Feb. 22.

The fallout from Lindsey Vonn's devastating crash in the Olympic downhill included a key question: Given her severely injured left knee, should she have even been allowed on a course that is dangerous even to perfectly healthy skiers?