DALLAS — The Big 12 has approved a five-year agreement with RedBird Capital Partners, becoming the first known conference in major college sports to strike a league-wide, private capital deal, multiple people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday. The people spoke ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The NCAA has agreed to overhaul its restrictions on athletes accepting prize money before enrolling in college under the terms of a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by North Carolina women's tennis champion Reese Brantmeier. The NCAA agreed to pay ...

In the eight years since the Supreme Court cleared the way for legal sports gambling across the country, the bad headlines for college sports have picked up. Coaches being tainted by scandals at their programs. The social media pressure on athletes to perform for gamblers. The arrests and ...

BOSTON — One of two men who helped carry a fellow runner across the finish line of the Boston Marathon said he had been struggling earlier himself but drew strength from the supportive crowd. "If I had to go farther, I would have," Aaron Beggs said in an interview Thursday. "It's fight or ...

NEW YORK (AP) — St. John's Zuby Ejiofor was chosen as the Lt. Frank J. Haggerty Award winner by the Met Basketball Writers Association on Thursday. The 6-foot-9 senior forward averaged 16.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and shot 53.6% from the field for the Red Storm (30-7). He was honored as the Big ...

AJ Dybantsa has made it official: He's entering the NBA draft. The BYU forward — widely expected to be a top candidate to be the No. 1 pick — made the announcement Thursday. Dybantsa led the nation by averaging 25.5 points per game in his lone college season, along with 6.8 rebounds and ...