Shohei Ohtani has been named The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for the third time.

A federal judge set a Jan. 8 hearing for NASCAR’s motion to throw out an antitrust lawsuit filed against the stock car series teams backed by Michael Jordan-owned 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports.

The two teams suing NASCAR over an antitrust complaint have been granted a preliminary injunction that will allow them to compete as chartered teams in 2025.

A new court filing says NASCAR rejected Front Row Motorsports’ agreement to purchase a charter from Stewart-Haas Racing unless the team and 23XI Racing dropped their federal antitrust lawsuit against the stock car series.

NASCAR opened the season with washouts in the first two races of the year that could have set the tone for a miserable 2024 campaign.

It was an emotional farewell from tennis for Nadal this week after Spain was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup in Malaga.

Dalton Knecht could only shrug when he buried his fourth consecutive 3-pointer and sent the Los Angeles Lakers’ entire arena into a frenzy.

The two teams suing NASCAR over an antitrust complaint said Saturday they will compete in 2025 as “open teams” after the sanctioning body removed anticompetitive release claims that will allow them to race while the legal process continues.

NASCAR President Steve Phelps defended the four drivers racing for the Cup Series championship even though others had better statistics than the finalists.

A federal judge has denied a motion by two NASCAR teams — one owned by Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan — to be recognized as chartered teams as they proceed in an antitrust lawsuit against the stock car series and chairman Jim France.

NASCAR heads into its championship weekend locked into a federal antitrust lawsuit with NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan.

Retired NBA great Michael Jordan and his fellow owners of two NASCAR teams headed to federal court for a hearing in their antitrust fight against the stock car series over what they say is an unfair business model.

Garrett Wilson made a dazzling one-handed 26-yard go-ahead touchdown catch early in the fourth quarter and the New York Jets snapped a five-game losing streak by beating the Houston Texans 21-13.

Garrett Wilson made an acrobatic one-handed 26-yard touchdown catch that gave the New York Jets the lead against the Houston Texans in the fourth quarter and sent the MetLife Stadium crowd into a frenzy.

The hardest hit that Tyler Reddick took at Homestead-Miami Speedway wasn’t from a bounce into the wall or from another driver crashing into him.

Michael Jordan won a championship in Phoenix in 1993.

The Boston Celtics begin this season as the NBA champions.

Boundaries between work and family don’t just blur in the new CBS sitcom “Poppa’s House” starring father-and-son comedy duo Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. They shatter.

Spike Lee had a memorable first trip to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Michael Jordan welcomed a couple newcomers to it.

The two teams suing NASCAR have asked for a court order to compete under the 2025 charter agreement as their antitrust case moves through federal court.

It’s most fitting that NASCAR this weekend races at Talladega Superspeedway, site of one of the first major disputes between drivers and the top stock car series in the United States.

Sports teams and organizations have launched their own relief efforts to help those impacted by the devastation from Hurricane Helene.

The final six weeks of the NASCAR season will play out under the shadow of a lawsuit filed by the 23XI team and Front Row Motorsports against the series.

NASCAR is facing a federal antitrust lawsuit from two of its teams, including one co-owned by Michael Jordan.

Joe Wolf, a former North Carolina captain for Dean Smith who went on to play for seven teams in an 11-year NBA career before becoming a coach, has died.

23XI Racing says it skipped a deadline to sign a new charter agreement with NASCAR because “it did not have an opportunity to fairly bargain” for a new contract.

NASCAR's 10-race playoffs begin Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway under something of a cloud.

Chase Briscoe went three-wide to pass Kyle Larson and Ross Chastain for the lead, then outran two-time series champion Kyle Busch to win the Southern 500 and make the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.

Bubba Wallace believes he can have success at Darlington this weekend and make the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs for a second straight season.

The traditional roll call at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago became a boisterous dance party, with each state’s delegation announcing their votes for presidential nominee Kamala Harris to a song befitting their state.

Tyler Reddick took the lead on a restart in the second overtime to win at Michigan International Speedway, opening up another spot for a driver in NASCAR’s playoffs.

NASCAR suspended the FireKeepers 400 until Monday, running out of time Sunday to run a race that was delayed and interrupted by rain.

As the Olympics close in Paris, Los Angeles has now taken the torch.

Rory McIlroy got plenty of text messages after his late collapse at the U.S. Open last month.

Jalen Brunson has become the fourth player to score 40 or more points in four consecutive postseason games, the first since Michael Jordan in the 1993 NBA Finals.

Michael Jordan’s new life suddenly seems just as satisfying as his old one.

Tyler Reddick stole a victory at Talladega Superspeedway when front-runner Michael McDowell, swerving up and down the track trying to block Brad Keselowski, wound up crashing with the finish line in sight.

One of NASCAR’s top track owners deleted social media posts he made in a back-and-forth spat with top driver Denny Hamlin that began when Hamlin criticized the repaving of Sonoma Raceway in California.

A collection of sneakers that basketball superstar Michael Jordan wore as he and the Chicago Bulls won six NBA championships has fetched $8 million at a New York auction.

Chicago Bulls fans booed former general manager Jerry Krause on Friday night during a halftime ceremony to honor the organization’s greats, seemingly moving his widow to tears and drawing criticism from former players.

Philadelphia 76ers President Daryl Morey is the executive producer of a basketball-themed musical called “Small Ball.”.

LeBron James was the youngest player on the floor when he made his NBA debut 20 years ago.

Brendan Malone, father of Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone and champion of ‘The Jordan Rules’ that helped the Detroit Pistons beat the Chicago Bulls on the way to two championships, has died at 81.

The Charlotte Hornets say the sale of the majority stake in the franchise from six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan to Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall has been finalized.

Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges has apologized for “the pain and embarrassment” caused by the domestic violence investigation that kept him out of the league last season.

The USS Silversides was a vital weapon for the U.S. Navy during the Pacific Theater of World War II

The Charlotte Hornets are leaning toward keeping the pivotal No. 2 pick in Thursday night's NBA draft.

The timing of Michael Jordan’s decision to sell his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets leaves the franchise in flux, with several key personnel decisions upcoming.

Michael Jordan is finalizing a deal to sell the majority share of the Charlotte Hornets, a move that will end his 13-year run overseeing the organization, the team announced Friday.

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.

The Denver Nuggets are rolling along behind their dynamic duo of Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray.

The jacket that Michael Jordan famously and grudgingly wore while receiving an Olympic gold medal has been in Brian McIntyre’s possession for more than three decades now.

Kevin Durant and Nike have agreed to a lifetime contract, making him just the third NBA player to receive such a deal, joining Michael Jordan and LeBron James.

The NBA regular season had no shortage of moments that stood out.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says he's hopeful that a new collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players can get done by the end of this week, though he stopped short of predicting that a deal would actually get struck.

Michael Jordan is considering selling the Charlotte Hornets.

An 82-year-old Colorado man has been charged with selling and trading fake Michael Jordan basketball cards.

Serena Williams will be honored for her tennis achievements, business success and efforts to uplift the community at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend.

Ben Affleck is promoting his movie “Air” at NBA All-Star weekend.

The San Antonio Spurs are hosting the largest crowd ever for an NBA regular-season game in their return to the Alamodome.

Chris Kirk in the lead might have been the only shred of normalcy in the Sony Open.

The San Antonio Spurs are set to break the NBA’s single-game attendance record on Friday night when they host the Golden State Warriors.

Jalen Hurts returned from a sprained right shoulder and threw for 229 yards under a conservative game plan in his first game in three weeks and the Philadelphia Eagles finally clinched the No. 1 seed in the NFC with a 22-16 win over the New York Giants on Sunday night.

There’s been an evolution of the NBA’s Most Valuable Player trophy in the 70 or so years since it was first awarded.

The NBA Most Valuable Player award has been renamed The Michael Jordan Trophy.

Kevin Durant had 29 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists, becoming the first player since Michael Jordan to score at least 25 points in his team’s first 12 games, and the Brooklyn Nets routed the New York Knicks 112-85 after making Jacque Vaughn their head coach.

Jimmie Johnson’s NASCAR retirement and IndyCar experiment lasted all of two seasons.

Houston Astros rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña put on quite an all-around performance Thursday night in Game 5 of the World Series.

James Harden is expected to miss about a month because of a right foot tendon strain.

Udonis Haslem thought he would be able to walk around unnoticed at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Bubba Wallace is missing Sunday’s NASCAR race, and that’s evidently not his only sanction after losing his cool in Las Vegas last weekend.

North Carolina is No. 1 in the preseason AP Top 25 men's basketball poll.

NASCAR heads into Sunday's playoff elimination race with another issue to address.

Baseball is fun again in the Pacific Northwest in a way that it hasn’t been in more than two decades.

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Charlie Puth and The Cult, Mila Kunis starring in the Netflix thriller “Luckiest Girl Alive,” and “30 Rock” star Jack McBrayer leading the second season of “Hello, Jack.

Roger Federer says in an interview with The Associated Press that he thinks impossible to compare the careers of top players such as him, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

Roger Federer is leaving tennis after more than two decades as a pro player with a style that rarely betrayed the effort behind his mastery.

Denny Hamlin the driver finds himself in the most enviable of positions heading into Saturday night’s race at Bristol.

Bubba Wallace won his second career NASCAR Cup Series race and denied the playoff field of an automatic spot in the next round for the second straight week when he held off championship contenders Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell to win at Kansas Speedway.

It didn’t seem much could still go wrong this year for Kyle Busch until his engine blew with 22 laps remaining in NASCAR’s opening playoff race.

Justin Lower lost his PGA Tour card in brutal fashion when he three-putted from 60 feet on the final hole of the regular season.

A documentary on the 2008 U.S. men’s basketball team known as the “Redeem Team,” with executive producers including LeBron James and Dwayne Wade, will premiere on Netflix this fall.

By mid-January, LeBron James could be the NBA’s scoring king.

Kevin Harvick took the lead from Joey Logano with 66 laps to go and held off Christopher Bell at Richmond Raceway on Sunday for his second consecutive NASCAR Cup Series victory.

Bubba Wallace and 23XI Racing have announced a multiyear contract extension ahead of Wallace’s final push to earn a spot in NASCAR’s playoffs.

There was no masking Richard Childress’ anger when he learned that star driver Tyler Reddick was leaving his race team.

Tyler Reddick closed the best month of his NASCAR career with a victory in overtime on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Kyle Busch is getting antsy about not having a contract next season.

First-place finisher Denny Hamlin was disqualified when his No. 11 Toyota failed inspection, giving Chase Elliott the NASCAR Cup Series victory Sunday at Pocono Raceway.

23XI Racing signed Tyler Reddick for the 2024 season.

The man accused of opening fire at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago legally bought five weapons, including two high-powered rifles.

Chase Elliott salvaged a crummy day for Hendrick Motorsports and interrupted a potential Toyota rout by winning the rain-drenched race at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday night.

Steve Clifford is heading back to Charlotte.

The goal was enormous: Return to the NBA’s mountaintop.

He hit a championship-winning shot with Michael Jordan.

The Boston Celtics realize they must find an answer to Stephen Curry and do a better job making things difficult for the two-time MVP.

The Charlotte Hornets have agreed to terms on a contract with Golden State Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson to be their next head coach, says a person familiar with the situation.

Denny Hamlin has warned Ross Chastain that there's still some retribution due after the eighth-generation watermelon farmer wrecked him in Sunday's race at World Wide Technology Raceway.

Jin Young Ko never seems to stress.

The ball was moving, the shots were falling and the arena was rocking in a very familiar third quarter for the Golden State Warriors.