Florida coach Todd Golden had just been hired and was armed with a vision to sell. Bruce Pearl had an established program at Auburn and could offer transfers a chance to play with future draft picks Jabari Smith and Walker Kessler. Advantage, Auburn, ...

The setting of San Antonio offers more than a nice home-state advantage to Houston in this year's Final Four. For Cougars coach Kelvin Sampson, Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs provided a career lifeline when his tumultuous tenure at Indiana e...

Baltimore Orioles All-Star shortstop Gunnar Henderson was activated from the 10-day injured list and will make his season debut on Friday night against the Kansas City Royals. Henderson has been sidelined with a right intercostal strain and missed the...

Northwestern basketball coach Chris Collins signed a multiyear extension to remain with the school. Athletic director Mark Jackson announced the agreement on Friday but didn't reveal any terms. CBS Sports said his new salary will put him among the hig...

Cooper Flagg of Duke was named the Associated Press men's college basketball Player of the Year on Friday, becoming just the fourth freshman to earn the award. Flagg garnered 41 votes and Johni Broome of Auburn earned 21 in the polling of a national m...

By Lisa Richwine and Rollo Ross LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -A half-century ago, in June 1975, "Jaws" swam into theaters, gave audiences a good scare and rewrote movie history. The shark thriller became the first summer blockbuster with a playbook that Hollywo...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean 'Diddy' Combs was hit with a new federal indictment on Friday charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking, court records showed. Combs, 55, had previously faced three criminal...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Audio streaming giant Spotify's royalty payments to artists from Nigeria and South Africa - its two biggest African markets - spiked to around $59 million last year as performers rode a wave of growing interest in music fro...

LONDON (Reuters) -British police charged actor-comedian Russell Brand with rape and a multiple counts of assault over a number of allegations between 1999 and 2005, a police statement on Friday said. Brand, 50, the former husband of U.S. pop singer Kat...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department will allow actor Mel Gibson to own guns again, despite his 2011 conviction on a domestic violence charge, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The Times, citing unnamed sources familiar with the Justice Depart...