LOS ANGELES - Blake Griffin was back in his usual place on Wednesday, front and center with the Clippers.
It may sound fanciful, but volleyball's global governors believe the game can become China's national sport.
China's Sun Yang, the enfant terrible of competitive swimming, is set to undergo another test of his fragile temperament at the world championships after a turbulent 2016 Rio Olympics.
MONACO - Usain Bolt says he is over his early-season setbacks and running into form at the right time to sign off his career with two more gold medals at next month's World Athletics Championships in London.
Malaysian Cheong Jun Hoong upstaged China's gold-medal hopefuls in Wednesday's final of the women's 10-meter platform at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest.
EL SEGUNDO, California - The LA Lakers' impressive run to a Las Vegas summer league championship was still on Magic Johnson's mind when he returned home to introduce Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, his biggest free-agent signing to date.
MADRID - Police raided the headquarters of Spain's soccer federation on Tuesday and arrested federation president Angel Maria Villar as part of an anti-corruption probe.
NEW YORK - The roar of the engine was replaced by a furious whirring as the future of motorsports came to Brooklyn on the weekend.
BRISTOL, England - Captain Heather Knight said England are yet to reach their best in the Women's World Cup, despite beating South Africa by two wickets in Bristol on Tuesday to reach the final.
LONDON - Chelsea manager Antonio Conte signed a new two-year deal with the Premier League champion on Wednesday as the club moved to quash rumors of a rift that was reportedly pushing him close to an exit from Stamford Bridge.
While President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have drawn a blueprint for top-level soccer cooperation between the two countries, grassroots exchanges among clubs, organizations and companies are flourishing.
GUANGZHOU - Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday moved to end speculation about the future of star striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang by insisting the Gabon international is going nowhere.
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