As always, NBA Finals tickets are available _ but for some very steep prices on resale markets MIAMI (AP) — With the final week of the NBA season now here, ticket prices are going into overdrive. The online ticket resale ...

Team source: Kings hire Nuggets executive Pete D'Alessandro as new GM The Sacramento Kings hired Denver executive Pete D'Alessandro as their new general manager on Saturday. D'Alessandro will replace the departing Geoff Pet...

Woods back on top of Forbes list of highest-paid athletes Tiger Woods is back on top of Forbes' list of highest-paid athletes. The star golfer spent 11 straight years at No. 1 on the magazine's list before falling to third ...

What, you expected something else? LeBron James and his teammates weren't going to blow this one, not at home and certainly not with a third straight trip to the NBA Finals on the line. That it went seven games gave the pe...

Sacramento Kings sale to Ranadive group complete, closes at total franchise valuation of $534M The sale of the Sacramento Kings is finally complete. The Maloof family announced Friday that the agreement to sell the Kings an...

'Beautiful Game' becomes 'Pricey Game' with World Cup, Confed Cup changing Brazilian soccer RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It's an image as Brazilian as Carnival or Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue. Drummers pound out a Samba rhyt...

Report: Toronto Raptors trying to lure NBA's top exec, Masai Ujiri, from Denver Nuggets DENVER (AP) — Masai Ujiri has done a masterful job of reshaping the Nuggets into a Western Conference contender ever since Carmelo Anthony forced h...

Colangelo out as Raptors general manager, retains president's role TORONTO (AP) — Bryan Colangelo is still president of the Toronto Raptors, but he's no longer the club's general manager. The Raptors announced Tuesday tha...

Magic look for more lottery luck after finishing with NBA's worst record after trading Howard NEW YORK (AP) — Pat Williams is pretty good at being lucky, and he's got a hunch. "I got a funny feeling that this could be ano...

Grizzlies have sights set higher than Western Conference finals against 4-time champion Spurs MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — On the best playoff run in their short history, the Memphis Grizzlies refuse to be satisfied with just reaching their f...

Boxer Floyd Mayweather again highest-earning US athlete on Sports Illustrated list NEW YORK (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the highest-earning athlete in American sports for the second straight year. The boxer is projecte...

New Rutgers basketball coach Jordan doesn't have degree, though school's bio says he does New Rutgers basketball coach Eddie Jordan is not a graduate of the university as the school had claimed, another embarrassment for an athletic prog...