Nevada catcher Travis Simas has been named the Western Athletic Conference baseball player of the week after driving in seven runs with three home runs and two doubles.

North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue thinks her counterpart from Michigan would look good in blue. But she could be left wearing green and white.

Quarterback Jeff Garcia is returning to the Bay Area after agreeing to a deal with the Oakland Raiders.

Cookie Miller and Alonzo Edwards plan to transfer from Nebraska after helping the Huskers to an 18-13 finish last season.

Hundreds of friends, family members and complete strangers came to the Squaw Valley Ski Resort to honor one of skiing's all-time greats.

Danica Patrick's season is off to a tough start after she crashed out early in the season-opening Honda Grand Prix.

The season opener between the Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox scheduled for Monday has been postponed because snow is in the forecast.

Tyler Hansbrough might win the national championship, but he was denied a second Naismith Award by Oklahoma's Blake Griffin.

Xavier head coach Sean Miller has turned down an offer to become the next head coach at Arizona.

Lamar Odom had 18 points and 10 rebounds, Kobe Bryant added 18 points and the Los Angeles Lakers edged the Clippers 88-85 Sunday night to remain a game behind Cleveland for the NBA's best record.

The Reno Bighorns beat the Thunderbirds 115-101 on Sunday afternoon. It's Reno's third consecutive victory.

Renee Montgomery scored 26 points, Maya Moore added 24, and unbeaten UConn cruised to its first title game in five years with an 83-64 victory over Stanford on Sunday night.

Kelenna Azubuike had 30 points and a career-high 15 rebounds, and the Golden State Warriors hung on to beat the Sacramento Kings 105-100 Sunday night with just seven healthy players in uniform.

Derek Lowe pitched eight superb innings, three Braves homered off Brett Myers and Atlanta beat the defending champions 4-1 in the major league opener on Sunday night.

Angel McCoughtry and Louisville played the second half like it belonged in its first Final Four.

Lakers coach Phil Jackson said Sunday that there's an "outside chance" Andrew Bynum could return to the team's lineup this week.

Joe Pavelski and Jonathan Cheechoo scored the tying and go-ahead goals during power plays, and the San Jose Sharks set a franchise record with their 52nd victory, beating the Anaheim Ducks 3-2 on Sunday night.

A Costa Rican newspaper is reporting New England Patriots star Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen got hitched - again.

Tony Schumacher raced to his second straight Top Fuel victory and third in a row in Las Vegas, beating Brandon Bernstein in the SummitRacing.com Nationals final Sunday with a 3.874-second run at 311.77 mph.

The University of Nevada (14-16, 3-1 WAC) baseball team lost a 17-14 slugfest in the final game of a four-game Western Athletic Conference series on Sunday afternoon at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park in Ruston, La.

Paul Casey won the Shell Houston Open on Sunday for his first PGA Tour victory, beating J.B. Holmes with a bogey on the first playoff hole.

Spanish swimmer Rafael Munoz has set a new world record in the men's 50-meter butterfly.

The Atlanta Braves will honor former pitcher Greg Maddux by retiring his number and inducting the four-time National League Cy Young Award winner into the team's Hall of Fame.

Ryan Briscoe held off Ryan Hunter-Reay to win the IndyCar Series season opener on the streets of St. Petersburg on Sunday.

Jeff Gordon has ended the longest winless drought of his career, beating Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson to finally win at Texas.