With their next opponents waiting, the San Antonio Spurs and Toronto Raptors can set up second-round showdowns with Game 6 victories
Jockey Luis Saez has been named to replace injured Robby Albarado aboard J Boys Echo for the May 6 Kentucky Derby
Lexi Thompson had tears welling up in her eyes when talking about how difficult things have been since the 4-stroke penalty that cost her a chance to win the LPGA Tour's first major of the year
Boston's mayor and top cop are standing by the police department's tactics after an Associated Press review found little has changed in how often minorities are subject to police stops, searches and frisks
Oklahoma's new attorney general says the state is moving forward with new protocols for executing death row inmates, despite a recommendation from a bipartisan study group that a death penalty moratorium remain in place
President Donald Trump has recognized the National Teacher of the Year, and says nothing is more important than being a teacher
Texas prison officials are asking a federal judge to rescind a U.S. Food and Drug Administration order that blocks the corrections agency from receiving a foreign shipment of a drug to use for executions
Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia is sitting out Wednesday's game against the Yankees with a sore left knee, his third straight since the Orioles' Manny Machado slid into the back of his leg
The Government Accountability Office's report on reducing agency fragmentation, overlap, and duplication shows the federal government could save tens of billions of dollars — if agencies choose to act on the recommendations and Congress offers its help.
Defending champion Rafael Nadal cruised past Rogerio Dutra Silva of Brazil 6-1, 6-2 to reach the third round of the Barcelona Open on Wednesday
FIFA has confirmed that video replays will be used at the World Cup for the first time in 2018
Milwaukee Bucks coach Jason Kidd hopes his players build on the lessons learned from a blowout loss to Toronto in Game 5 of their opening-round playoff series
A Georgia death row inmate convicted of killing a 73-year-old doctor is set for execution next month
A jailhouse friend of Aaron Hernandez is suggesting the former NFL star hinted at his suicide weeks before he was found hanging by a bedsheet in his prison cell last week
Bubba Watson says the new team format at the Zurich Classic in New Orleans will put more of the "fun side of golf" on display