NBA Western Conference
US closes in on basketball World Cup, tops Puerto Rico 83-75
Jul. 01, 2022 10:26 PM EDT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Justin Jackson scored 26 points, Langston Galloway added 18 and the U.S. men's basketball team took another step toward qualifying for...
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press Jun. 09, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
June 14
1922 — Gene Sarazen edges Bobby Jones and John Black to win the U.S. Open tournament.
1934 — Max Baer stops Primo Carnera in 11th...
AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead
By The Associated Press Feb. 10, 2022 11:11 AM EST
Feb. 15
1932 — Eddie Eagen, as a member of the four-man U.S. bobsled team, wins a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. He...
AP Sportlight
By The Associated Press Feb. 03, 2022 11:01 AM EST
Feb. 4
1861 — The Philadelphia Athletics beat Charter Oak 36-27 in a baseball game played on frozen Litchfield Pond in Brooklyn, N.Y., with the players...

Timeline of NBA in 1980s as league celebrates 75th season
By The Associated Press Jan. 17, 2022 10:45 AM EST

Former NBA great Yao Ming addresses Peng Shuai, Olympics
By Ken Moritsugu Jan. 17, 2022 06:22 AM EST
Ginobili, Chambers, Whalen among 1st-time hoop hall nominees
Dec. 21, 2021 05:08 PM EST
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Former San Antonio Spurs star Manu Ginobili, SuperSonics and Suns forward Tom Chambers and Olympic and WNBA champion Lindsay Whalen are...