Skateboarder and three-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White is engaged to “The Vampire Diaries” star Nina Dobrev.

Biles and her teammates are celebrating their achievements at the Paris Olympic Games with a series of performances across the country, concluding in Detroit.

Top-seeded Zheng Qinwen of China claimed the Toray Pan Pacific Open title with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over American wild card Sofia Kenin on Sunday.

A new league format on the U.S. beach volleyball tour is bringing a team concept to what has always been a two-person sport.

Here are some of the awards that Victor Wembanyama received over the last 12 months: the NBA rookie of the year trophy, a spot on the All-Rookie team, a first-team All-Defense selection, three rookie of the month awards and most recently an Olympic silver medal.

Forward Trinity Rodman will miss a trio of upcoming matches for the U.S. women’s national soccer team as she continues to recover from a back injury.

Prince William has played catch with British teenagers at a flag football event organized by the NFL.

Jerry West has made history by becoming the first three-time inductee to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Even though Vince Carter played only a short time in Canada, his impact on Canadian basketball is still going strong.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner has beaten Novak Djokovic in straight sets to win the Shanghai Masters.

Novak Djokovic and Taylor Fritz have advanced to a semifinal matchup at the Shanghai Masters.

The International Olympic Committee has set a Jan. 30 date for its key presidential election meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.

A bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice" Olympic hockey team.

Gymnastics star Simone Biles is giving the men's side of the sport a welcome boost.

Carlos Alcaraz has won seven straight points in the decisive tiebreaker to beat top-ranked Jannik Sinner 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (3) and win the China Open to extend his recent mastery over his biggest rival as the Italian deals with an ongoing doping case.

The International Olympic Committee’s three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts.

While a vast majority of the 1,312 NHL games through June will take place in North America, the spotlight this season is on international play.

Stephen Curry got the question and didn’t even have to think about the answer.

Former world champion Gennady Golovkin is taking a leading role in World Boxing.

As the first St. Lucian to win an Olympic medal, sprinter Julien Alfred already has poetry, paintings and even a calypso song dedicated to her.

Not long after Edwin Moses figured out how to attack the solution to track’s ultimate math problem, he transformed himself into the best hurdler in history.

Seven candidates are competing for one of the biggest and best jobs in world sports that traditionally becomes available only every 12 years.

Thousands of mourners in Uganda have been paying their respects to Rebecca Cheptegei.

Top-ranked Nelly Korda won both her matches to carry the United States to a record 6-2 lead over Europe on the first day of the Solheim Cup.

Mauricio Pochettino began his tenure as U.S. men’s national soccer team coach saying his players should aspire to achieve as much as the American women.

The body of Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei — who died after being set on fire by her partner in Kenya — has been received by family and anti-femicide crusaders, ahead of her burial on Saturday.

When details from a scientific experiment that could have helped clear embattled Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva landed at the World Anti-Doping Agency, the leader of that organization’s reaction was unequivocal: “We have to stop that urgently,” he wrote.

France's counterterrorism prosecutor says authorities foiled three plots to attack the Olympic Games in Paris and other cities that hosted events this summer.

Parisian business owners and hotel managers were promised a summer like no other.

This time it really is au revoir.

A person with knowledge of the deal tells The Associated Press that star point guard Jamal Murray has agreed to a four-year, $208 million maximum contract extension with the Denver Nuggets.

France has defeated Argentina 3-2 on penalties under the lights of the Eiffel Tower for the gold medal in blind football on the penultimate day of the Paralympic Games.

The final act of the Paralympics in Paris will be a giant dance party.

United States Women’s head coach Emma Hayes says there is much work to be done before female managers are given a chance in men’s soccer.

Hockey star Brianna Decker, former NHL players Kevin Stevens and Matt Cullen, late Chicago Blackhawks founder Frederic McLaughlin and the 2002 Olympic gold medal-winning paralympic sled hockey team are being inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.

Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei’s horrific death after being doused with petrol and set on fire by her boyfriend has again brought to the fore Kenya’s tragic history of domestic violence against female athletes.

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever clinched a playoff berth without playing.

Golfweek reports there will be a made-for-TV match involving top players from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf.

Jarryd Wallace and Noelle Lambert begin competition at the Paralympics in the long jump Wednesday and Thursday respectively.

A Ugandan athlete has been attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend and is being treated for burns on 75% of her body.

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Martine Grael will become the first woman to helm an an F50 foiling catamaran in SailGP when a new Brazilian team debuts in the fifth season of tech billionaire Larry Ellison’s global league.

Ella Sabljak helped Australia win the bronze medal in wheelchair rugby at the Paris Paralympics then turned her thoughts to growing the sport.

Soccer fans are known for being loud and rowdy.

After the U.S. women’s goalball team did not qualify for the 2024 Paralympics for the first time in 40 years, Eliana Mason has managed her disappointment and shifted her focus to support her fiancé, Calahan Young, as he competes as captain of the U.S. men’s goalball team.

Paralympics organizers say triathlon competitions in Paris scheduled for Sunday have been postponed for a day because of concerns about water quality in the Seine River after heavy rainfall.

Minority athletes don’t just bear their countries’ hopes for gold at the Olympics and Paralympics.

For Ukrainian volleyball player and infantry officer Dmytro Melnyk, coming to Paris to compete at the Paralympic Games has come at a cost.

Adam Berdichevsky cried before his wheelchair tennis match at the Paralympics.

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

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee is giving its Paralympians an advantage long held by its Olympians: a training facility of their own.

Zakia Khudadadi has made history at the Paris 2024 Paralympics by becoming the first athlete from the Refugee Paralympic Team to win a medal.

Concerns over water quality in the Seine River have resurfaced at the Paralympic Games with organizers changing the schedule for para triathlon races.

Great Britain’s Jodie Grinham returned to the Paralympic stage Thursday for the first time since Rio 2016, this time seven months pregnant.

Miles Krajweski and Jayci Simon are trying to win Team USA’s first para badminton medal in the SH6 mixed doubles event for players of short stature.

Frances Tiafoe is getting the rematch he wants, a second shot at Ben Shelton at the U.S. Open.

The Paralympic flag was raised into the night sky as Paris celebrated the start of its second Olympics on Wednesday.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday was meeting with nearly three dozen athletes from the nation’s Olympic delegation in the capital, Brasilia.

French performer Barbara Butch carried the Paralympic torch on Sunday evening in an act of defiance after being targeted by hate speech over her appearance in the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.

Tennis fans who can’t decide which players have the best shot at doing well at the U.S. Open aren't the only ones.

Lydia Ko has captured her third major title and first in eight years by winning the Women’s British Open by two strokes at the home of golf at St. Andrews.

Nacer Zorgani has had a busy summer.

Carlos Alcaraz has cut short a pre-U.S. Open training session after twisting his right ankle but said he isn’t worried that it’ll be a problem for the year’s last Grand Slam tournament.

As Paris transitions from the Olympics to the Paralympics, the city is adapting both its venues and its energy for the next big event.

Former gold medalists Steve Serio and Nicky Nieves have been chosen as the United States’ flagbearers for the Paralympics opening ceremony.

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Valentina Petrillo fell in love with athletics as a 7-year-old while watching Italian sprinter Pietro Mennea win gold in the 200 meters at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Tennis is having a moment right now as the U.S. Open arrives to wrap up the 2024 Grand Slam season.

Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz have been placed on opposite sides of the U.S. Open bracket and could meet in another big final after Wimbledon and the Paris Olympics.

Yes, Coco Gauff is a Grand Slam champion.

Fresh off the Olympics, U_S_ breakout star and medalist Stephen Nedoroscik will compete on the upcoming season of “Dancing With the Stars.”.

WNBA players would like more of a break after the All-Star Game and Olympics before league play resumes.

Tamirat Tola and Hellen Obiri will look to defend their New York City Marathon titles this November.

Brooks Koepka is a winner on LIV Golf again after beating Jon Rahm in a playoff at the Greenbrier.

Hideki Matsuyama has won the FedEx St. Jude Championship just like everyone expected.

Former President Donald Trump has again decried two gold medalist Olympic athletes, falsely labeling the female boxers as men.

An outpouring of fans greeted Algerian boxer Imane upon arrival back in her hometown on Friday and at a parade in Tiaret, the nearby regional capital.

Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu has received the Olympic bronze medal that was first awarded to U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles but later revoked over a scoring controversy.

The U.S. women’s soccer team has returned to the top of the FIFA world rankings after winning gold last weekend at the Paris Olympics.

If Colin Kaepernick wants to join the Los Angeles Chargers, it will not be until next year at the earliest.

American gymnast Jordan Chiles called an arbitration panel’s decision that she must return the bronze medal she was awarded in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics “unjust” and a “significant blow” in a message she posted on social media.

Australian breaker Rachael Gunn says the backlash to her much-ridiculed Olympic performance has been “devastating,” adding that she took the competition seriously and gave her best effort.

Olympic bronze medalist Hideki Matsuyama will be starting the lucrative FedEx Cup playoffs without his coach and caddie.

Rome’s mayor and several others have denounced the defacing of a street-art celebration of Paola Egonu.

French prosecutors say they are investigating a complaint made by Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif for online harassment.

Golf has been part of the Olympics for the last three Summer Games and continues to deliver big stars to the podium and memorable outcomes.

USA Gymnastics officials say an arbitration panel won’t reconsider a decision asking gymnast Jordan Chiles to return the bronze medal she was awarded in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics.

Although he is most prominently known for his decades-long rap career and being everyone’s “uncle,” Snoop Dogg has proven his talent extends beyond what he does in the recording studio.

French prosecutors say they are investigating a British man who climbed the Eiffel Tower on the last day of the Paris Olympics.

The on-again, off-again relationship between the Olympics and baseball is heading toward another reconciliation in 2028.

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

Snoop Dogg brought out Dr. Dre, Billie Eilish and Red Hot Chili Peppers all performed from a California beachside during the handover to the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

The U.S. women’s basketball players have been saying for years that winning in the Olympics wasn’t as easy as it has looked during the record run to eight straight gold medals.

Paris has closed out two and a half extraordinary weeks of Olympic sports and emotion with a star-studded show in France’s national stadium.

The contest for most gold medals at the Paris Olympics ended in a 40-40 tie between China and the United States.

Standing on the medal stand with her third gold medal draped around her neck, Brittney Griner looked at the U.S. flag with tears streaming down her cheeks during the national anthem.

A’ja Wilson scored 21 points and the U.S. survived the biggest challenge of its unprecedented run to eight straight gold medals with a 67-66 win over France on Sunday.

Simone Biles stole the show at the Paris Olympics with a captivating comeback that had everyone watching everything she did both in and out of the gymnasium.

The French lawyer for Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif has filed a legal complaint in France for online harassment.

Stephen Curry had only five 3-pointers in his first four games of the Olympics combined.

The closing ceremony for the Paris Olympics will bring out several stars: Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and Red Hot Chili Peppers are scheduled to perform.