NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five-time Olympic gold medalist Sue Bird, WNBA superstar-turned-activist Maya Moore and 10-time NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony have been elected into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Bird is the most decorated player in FIBA...

Yaxel Lendeborg, listed by 247Sports as the No. 1 transfer player in the nation, has committed to Michigan. The 247Sports transfer portal listings confirmed the move on Saturday. He spent the past two seasons at UAB after starting his career at the ju...

Pitt star guard Jaland Lowe is transferring to Kentucky. The 247Sports transfer portal tracker confirmed the news Saturday morning. The tracker listed him as a four-star transfer and the No. 20 overall player available. Lowe, who entered the transfer...

Jose Ramirez hit three home runs and Brayan Rocchio had two hits and three RBIs to lead the Cleveland Guardians to an 8-6 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night in Anaheim, Calif. Ramirez hit a solo homer in the first inning and a two-run...

Jalen Green and Alperen Sengun combined for 65 points and the Houston Rockets rode a scorching second quarter to a 125-111 victory over visiting Oklahoma City on Friday, ending the Thunder's 11-game winning streak. Green scored 34 points, Sengun added...

BAMAKO (Reuters) -Grammy-nominated Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko, who won global fame by moulding traditional West African sounds with Western rock and pop influences as one half of the blind duo Amadou & Mariam, has died aged 70, the Malian governme...

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...