A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court.

The Jacksonville Jaguars are set to become the first NFL team to play two home games overseas.

KPRC 2 is teaming up with the Cody Stephens Foundation, Houston Christian University, and Memorial Hermann Southwest to provide free in-depth heart screenings for young people across the Houston area.

Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra are on opposite sides over one oddly persistent issue in the NBA: what coaches wear on the sideline.

Jack Hughes’ overtime goal delivered a huge audience for U.S. hockey and NBC.

The New York Jets don’t plan to let running back Breece Hall hit the open market at the start of the league year, while the futures of other top running backs such as Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker III and David Montgomery remain more in flux.

Craig Tiley will take over as the CEO of the U.S. Tennis Association this year.

The gold medal-winning U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team has visited President Donald Trump at the White House and later received about a 2-minute bipartisan standing ovation during his State of the Union address.

The Portuguese soccer federation says it is monitoring the situation in Mexico amid a surge in violence ahead of its friendly against the Mexican national team in March.

The Las Vegas Raiders are planning to keep star edge rusher Maxx Crosby despite the trade talk around the five-time Pro Bowl pick.

The Atlanta Falcons have informed quarterback Kirk Cousins they plan to release the 14-year veteran when free agency opens.

The Atlanta Braves have announced BravesVision as their local television home, beginning with the 2026 season.

Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown says a longtime dream will come true with his team set to play in the NFL game in Munich this year.

Milan is using the Milan Cortina Olympics to strengthen its image as a global city and to leave a lasting local legacy.

Bodø/Glimt pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history by knocking out Italian giant Inter Milan.

Houston Rockets forward Kevin Durant will be less than two months shy of his 40th birthday when the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics begin, but he says he told USA Basketball Managing Director Grant Hill he’d like to be considered for the U.S. men’s team when the time comes.

Houston hosted the Utah Jazz in a game that got out of hand quickly, as the Rockets held a double-digit lead through the entire second half and cruised to a 125-105 win.

Tre White scored a season-high 23 points and No. 14 Kansas bounced back from a surprising defeat with a 69-56 victory over No. 5 Houston.

Tempers flared in the first half of the San Antonio Spurs-Detroit Pistons game, a matchup of two of the NBA’s top teams on Monday night.

Basketball center Charles Bediako is asking the Alabama Supreme Court to let him play the rest of the season for the Crimson Tide.

The Milan Cortina Olympics averaged 23.5 million viewers in the United States, making it the most-watched Winter Games since 2014 with a 96% larger audience than the Beijing Games four years ago.

Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao have agreed to a rematch of their landmark 2015 bout.

The WNBA told the players’ union that it needs to get a deal in place by March 10 start the season on time.

The U.S. women’s hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Manchester United supersub Benjamin Sesko has given Manchester United a 1-0 win at Everton in the Premier League.

Two-time WNBA champion Kara Braxton has died after being in a car crash in Atlanta.

The most decorated men’s basketball player in Team USA history has announced his plans to return for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games.

Duke's win against Michigan has pushed the Blue Devils to No. 1 in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll.

Lindsey Vonn says she nearly lost her left leg following a crash at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

Mariia Vainshtein's family fled Ukraine shortly after Russia launched its invasion four years ago.

When the American men’s hockey team retreated to their locker room to celebrate their Winter Olympics gold medal win, they were joined by a special guest from the United States: FBI Director Kash Patel.

Tyler Reddick rebounded from a crash to become the first driver in 17 years to sweep the first two races of a NASCAR Cup Series season, winning in double overtime Sunday at Echo Park Speedway.

Jacob Bridgeman held on to win the Genesis Invitational at Riviera for his first PGA Tour title.

Nick Kurtz isn't changing much in his second big league season.

Three Premier League players have been targeted with racist abuse online after their games this weekend.

The twin Olympic cauldrons in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo have been extinguished, signaling the end of the most spread-out Winter Games.

Ebba Andersson has won the women’s 50-kilometer mass start in cross-country skiing as she turns a painful Olympic moment into redemption.

Eileen Gu defended her Olympic ski halfpipe title to make it six medals in six events over her Winter Games career.

Ryan Garcia won the WBC welterweight title with a dominant unanimous decision over Mario Barrios on Saturday night.

Authorities say Rondale Moore, an NFL receiver who had season-ending training camp knee injuries in each of the last two years after a standout college career at Purdue and a promising start with the Arizona Cardinals, has been found dead.

Cameron Boozer scored 18 points and No. 3 Duke handed another neutral-site loss to fellow blueblood Michigan, knocking off the top-ranked Wolverines 68-63 in a raucous possible Final Four preview in the nation’s capital.

The WNBA sent a counterproposal to its players’ union for a new collective bargaining agreement that included continuing to pay for all player housing this season, but not really changing its previous offer of revenue sharing.

Jacob Bridgeman is turning the Genesis Invitational at Riviera into a runaway.

No miracle needed.

After a 4-3 start this season, St. John’s is enjoying its most dominant roll in decades.

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit two homers in his spring debut as he prepares for the World Baseball Classic next month.

Bryce Hopkins had 15 points and 10 rebounds as No. 17 St. John’s breezed past Creighton 81-52 for its 13th straight victory — marking the school’s longest winning streak in 41 years.

Vinicius Junior was back on the score sheet for Real Madrid - but the Brazilian was not able to prevent the Spanish league leader from falling to a surprise 2-1 loss to Osasuna.

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo rewrites Winter Olympics history with a perfect sweep in men’s cross-country skiing.

Shohei Ohtani played for the first time in what is expected to be only a couple of Cactus League games for the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers before he departs the desert to join Japan for the World Baseball Classic.

Michigan is the No. 1 overall seed in the preliminary rankings by the committee that will select the 68-team men's field for the NCAA Tournament.

Manchester City has cut Arsenal’s lead at the top of the Premier League to two points with a 2-1 win against Newcastle.

The women’s Olympic freeski halfpipe final at the Milan Cortina Games has been postponed because of heavy snow in the Italian Alps.

Women are powering Team USA’s medal surge at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and they are setting records along the way.

Canada has not decided whether injured captain Sidney Crosby will play in the gold medal game at the Olympics against the U.S., coach Jon Cooper said.

Bill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the hearts of countless Pittsburgh Pirates fans for his historic walk-off home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, has died at the age of 89.

The U.S. team won its record-breaking 11th gold medal of the Winter Olympics when the trio of Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis took the title in mixed aerials.

Norway’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo completed his historic gold medal sweep of the men’s cross-country skiing events on Saturday by winning his sixth race and set the record for the most golds by one athlete in a single Winter Olympics.

The U.S. men's hockey team will play for gold against Canada and it has honored Johnny Gaudreau’s memory along the way.

U.S. freeskier Nick Goepper says he walked away from his nasty crash at the Olympics with only a knee sprain and a bone bruise.

Legal experts say a criminal investigation announced into whether negligence played a role in a deadly California avalanche could hinge on key decisions by guides leading the ill-fated ski trip.

Kellen Thames scored 16 points and No. 18 Saint Louis rallied from a 10-point deficit in the second half for an 88-75 win over VCU on Friday night in a game in which both benches emptied in the final seconds.

Floyd Mayweather says he is ending his nine-year retirement and returning to competitive boxing this summer.

Just over half the ball/strike challenges were successful on the first day of spring training games as Major League Baseball prepared for the first regular-season use of the automated ball-strike system — the so-called robot umpires.

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A judge in Tennessee has denied Joey Aguilar’s bid for an injunction that would have enabled the quarterback to continue playing for the Volunteers this fall.

UCLA coach Mick Cronin says he has apologized to Steven Jamerson II after sending him to the locker room during a blowout loss at Michigan State.

The much-anticipated but never guaranteed U.S.-Canada showdown for gold in men’s hockey at the Olympics is on.

Polish short-track skater Kamila Sellier suffered a scary cut above her left eye after another skater’s blade hit her in the 1,500 meters at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

It doesn’t take long to realize the number one athlete on that list is Spring native Chad Hedrick, who competed in not one but two Olympic Games in speed skating.

The two best bets to win the gold medal in women’s halfpipe skiing at the Winter Olympics were born in the United States.

Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong of the Netherlands has won her first Olympic gold and sixth career medal by finishing first in speedskating’s 1,500 meters at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

Canada’s controversial men’s team will have the curling power’s last chance at Olympic gold at the Milan Cortina Games.

Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe has been reminded of his “responsibilities as a participant in English football” after he triggered a storm of criticism for claiming Britain had been “colonized” by immigrants.

Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy has agreed to a new contract after leading the Brewers to division titles and getting selected as NL manager of the year each of his first two seasons.

Nathan MacKinnon scored the go-ahead goal with 35.2 seconds left to help Canada survive another scare at the Olympics, rallying to beat Finland 3-2 in the semifinals and advance to the men’s gold-medal game.

Johannes Dale-Skjevdal of Norway was the only biathlete to hit all 20 of his targets in the 15-kilometer mass start race Friday and skied his way to gold Norway’s 17th gold medal of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — breaking the record for the most gold medals won by a nation at a single Winter Olympics.

American freeskier Hunter Hess got to the end of his successful run in Olympic halfpipe qualifying, then bent his left thumb and forefinger into the shape of an “L.”.

Alysa Liu won Olympic gold in women’s figure skating by skating loose, smiling and doing it her own way.

Officials are working to lower the risks of more deadly slides in the area where an avalanche struck in California’s Sierra Nevada.

Paolo Banchero scored 30 points and the Orlando Magic beat Sacramento 131-94 on Thursday night for the Kings’ franchise-record 15th straight loss.

The City of Beverly Hills apologized to Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown on Thursday for initially stating that an event he hosted on the eve of the NBA All-Star Game was shut down because the city said it lacked a permit.

The recovery of skiers killed in the deadliest U.S. avalanche in almost 45 years is dragging out because of what experts say is a prime rule for rescuers: Don’t make yourself a victim.

The NBA is pushing new rules to cut down on tanking and keep teams trying to win.

Joe Gibbs Racing has sued former competition director Chris Gabehart.

On a night of American comebacks at the Milan Cortina Games, Alysa Liu delivered the U.S. its first women’s figure skating Olympic gold medal in 24 years.

After battling Hodgkin lymphoma, Giulia Marcelynas experienced Olympic magic in-person with help from Make-A-Wish.

Frank Del Duca and Josh Williamson put it all on the line in the two-man bobsled, placing fourth in what was a valiant effort at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

In the women’s cross-country skiing team sprint qualification, a dog ran onto the course and zoomed with two skiers across the finish line.

Ski mountaineering is the newest Winter Olympics event in 2026, but ice climbing could enter the picture when the French Alps host the Games in 2030.

The United States struck first before Sweden responded to send the game to overtime.

Simone Biles sits down with Maria Taylor to discuss what she enjoys about the Winter Olympics, share the advice she gives to athletes in high-pressure situations, explain where she stands on LA28 and more.

The Chicago Bears’ potential move to Indiana took another step forward when a key committee approved a plan to create an agency that would help get a stadium built.

Kyle Busch was once the most dominant driver in NASCAR.

Charlotte Hornets point guard LaMelo Ball had 11 points, seven rebounds and seven assists in a 105-101 loss to the Houston Rockets on Thursday night, one day after being involved in a two-car crash in Charlotte.

The United States has won its third Olympic gold medal in women's hockey.

American speedskater Jordan Stolz’s bid for a third gold medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics has come up short with a loss to China’s Ning Zhongyan in the 1,500 meters.

Alysa Liu won Olympic gold for the U.S. in women’s figure skating, ending a 24-year drought.

The six women killed in an avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada were among a group of eight close friends and experienced backcountry skiers on a trip together.

Verona hosts the Milan Cortina Winter Games closing ceremony in its ancient Arena di Verona on Sunday.