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BALTIMORE - The worst part wasn't so much that Shug McGaughey was disappointed for himself that Orb didn't win the Preakness.

CHICAGO - Fresh on the job, Flip Saunders, the Minnesota Timberwolves' new president of basketball operations, worked the room when NBA executives, coaches, scouts and 60 prospects in the June draft gathered in Chicago for three days last week.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Charlotte Bobcats are on their way to becoming the Charlotte Hornets.

The first clue that Saturday would not be business as usual at the HP Byron Nelson Championship occurred when flags were lowered to half staff at the Four Seasons Resort.

Gary Stevens became the oldest jockey to win the Preakness on Saturday, and the 50-year-old Hall of Famer has Clark Masterson to thank.

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LOS ANGELES-When I think of our local baseball teams and their supporters, I envision my wife in a bathing suit.

BALTIMORE - Whether it's a Sunday night football game or the third Saturday in May at Pimlico, when NBC Sports floods the zone with members of its A-Team, the telecast is almost always a winner.

BALTIMORE - D. Wayne Lukas, his silver hair sparkling like the trophy he had just won for a record sixth time, his black suit and white shirt perfectly tailored and pressed, looked like anything but what he proudly claimed to be - a ruthless hitman.

A police chief who had stood up repeatedly to the Taliban was shot and killed in a drive-by attack by four insurgents on motorcycles, officials said Saturday.

PHILADELPHIA - You could say that Kyle Kendrick kept the Phillies in the game on a cloudy, drizzly afternoon in which he did not have his best stuff or command. Then the beleagured bullpen put a match to it.

BEIRUT - Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed skepticism that a planned U.S.-Russian peace conference could help stop the bloodshed in his country, according to an interview published Saturday in an Argentine newspaper.

If they are going to continue to be successful, if they are going to hang around toward the top of the American League East standings all year, the Orioles have to buck this recent trend of short, uneven starts from their rotation.

Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Nigeria to ensure its army does not violate human rights as it pursues radical Islamists in the northeast region.

A movement is afoot to have Mariano Rivera be the starting pitcher in the All-Star Game, which this year will be played at Citi Field in New York.

MIAMI - Declaring it was necessary to "protect the safety of the community" and the "integrity of the (court) system," a Florida judge ordered a western Miami-Dade woman to remain in jail, at least for now, while she awaits trial on charges she killed her infant son by leaving him to bake in a hot car.

A practically perfectly executed game got the Detroit Red Wings the split they came into Chicago hoping to achieve.

Larry Stone's power rankings

Dylan Donahue scored just one goal, but it might have been the most important one of the season for the Syracuse men's lacrosse team.

That's one header he'll never forget.

North Korea fired three short-range missiles off its east coast Saturday, following through on months of threats to conduct a missile launch.

The Cornell men's lacrosse team is on a mission.

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A motive remains unclear in the slaying of 36-year-old Army veteran and soon-to-be college graduate Maribel Ramos, whose body was found in a remote Orange County canyon.

Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, who at age 50 came out of retirement earlier this year, led Oxbow to a wire-to-wire victory in 1:57.54 and a big upset of Kentucky Derby winner Orb on Saturday in the 138th Preakness at Pimlico Race Course.

It was the kind of game the Indians would have lost last year or most of the last century. But this is not your grandfather's Indians, maybe not even your older cousin's.

Gunmen have shot dead a senior intelligence officer in Yemen, a security official said Saturday.

Gunmen have shot dead a senior intelligence officer in Yemen, a security official said Saturday.

Commuters face a potential nightmare of detours and traffic jams after the collision of two Metro-North trains near the Fairfield-Bridgeport line in Connecticut Friday night.

Two young employees at Tibco Software Inc. recently challenged the head of the company to a pull-up contest, and Vivek Ranadive didn't hesitate to accept.

This lockout-shortened season has been an easy ride for the Chicago Blackhawks.