WASHINGTON — Laying off 17 people in the Charlotte Checkers front office of 25 felt like gutting a team for Chief Operating Officer Tera Black. "The front office is a team just as much as the team on the ice," she said. "We never want to go through that again." Similar scenes played out across [...]

A figure sprints toward the camera along a walkway at an apartment complex, first in real time, then in slow motion before going back to real time. The woman is dressed in a tracksuit, she's fast and the spoken word-song playing over the video says "it's me against me." More than 20,000 people have viewed [...]

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jeff Gordon called NASCAR races for Fox when his old boss popped in for a visit and left behind a note. Rick Hendrick had good-naturedly posted hours of his 12-plus-hour work days for his former star driver. Those are the grueling demands of the job when you own more than [...]

LOS ANGELES — Aaron Donald and Von Miller were able to keep the Los Angeles Rams within striking distance of capturing their first Super Bowl championship in 22 years. The Rams sacked Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow six times during the second half. With Burrow and the offense unable to muster any consistency during the [...]

With millions of dollars pouring into endorsements for college athletes, the latest battleground in the recruiting wars is the statehouse: A handful of states are already considering changing barely-dried rules to help their flagship schools land — or keep — top prospects. Over the past three years, at least 25 states put laws or executive [...]