(Reuters) -A lucky bounce boosted Andrew Novak's hopes of a first PGA Tour win at the Texas Open on Saturday after his wayward tee shot on the par-three 16th ricocheted off a fence behind the green, rolled down a bank and came to a halt just feet from ...

DARLINGTON, S.C. -- Hendrick Motorsports' William Byron won pole position for Sunday's Goodyear 400 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway (3 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) -- yet another supreme performance for his NASCAR Cup Series championship-lead...

Trinity Rodman made a triumphant return to the U.S. women's national team with a goal in the 2-0 victory against Brazil in a friendly in Inglewood, Calif., on Saturday. Rodman scored in the fifth minute and Lindsey Heaps added a penalty kick in the 66...

Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals has finally caught up to Wayne Gretzky, tying him for the most goals scored in an NHL career. While they each have 894 goals, the eras in which they played were far from equal. Ovechkin tied Gretzky's 31-year-...

All-American guard Paige Bueckers will leave UConn having already made a considerable mark on college basketball's most decorated program. Sunday's national championship game in Tampa, Fla., against defending champion South Carolina is Bueckers' final...

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...