MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton probably won't be available for the beginning of the season after undergoing surgery on his left wrist this summer. "Hopefully soon after that." the three-time All-Star said Sunday at the Bucks' Media Day event. Middleton said he ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson is retiring from full-time racing and will turn his focus toward spending time with family. He figures his future schedule will include no more than 10 bucket-list events, but the 47-year-old had no idea Monday what that will ...

LONDON (AP) — Tyson Fury has ruled out fighting fellow British heavyweight Anthony Joshua after his self-imposed deadline expired. Fury set Joshua's camp an ultimatum on Friday night, insisting he would walk away from the long-anticipated fight if a deal could not be done by Monday. In a ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — James Harden leaned into a microphone and deadpanned that he lost 100 pounds over the summer. Joel Embiid's summer vacation — at least, according to the NBA scoring champion — was spent entirely in bed. And what of that NBA investigation into the Philadelphia 76ers ...

TORONTO (AP) — The reigning NBA Rookie of the Year is ready to run the offense a lot more often in his second season. Raptors star Scottie Barnes, who stands 6-foot-7 and weighs 225 pounds, is listed as a guard/forward on Toronto's training camp roster and projects to be one of several ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rob Thomson has the sparse office decor of a manager who still has interim in his title. He also has the Philadelphia Phillies on the brink of their first playoff berth in 11 years. Get there -- and end the longest postseason drought in the National League -- and maybe ...

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Carson Wentz is not channeling his inner Chicken Little after the Washington Commanders fell to 1-2 on the season. "We've got to fix some things," Wentz said. "I don't think it's anything major. I don't think it's anything like 'Oh boy, the sky is falling.'" In the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — While the Carolina Panthers finally got their first victory of the season with a 22-14 win over the New Orleans Saints, the passing game remains a major issue. Baker Mayfield has struggled since his arrival in Carolina, completing just 51.9% of his passes for 550 yards ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There is a scene in Jimmie Johnson's coffee table book "One More Lap" in which the seven-time NASCAR champion and future Hall of Famer gives a dramatic reading of an excerpt from a biography of the late journalist Hunter S. Thompson. The author, Robert Sullivan, notes ...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Rockets still have a long way to go after finishing with the league's worst record for the last two seasons as they embarked on a complete rebuild. This season is likely to be another tough one for this extraordinarily young team, but one of its rising stars issued ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The injury bug usually waits until midseason to start bothering the Oklahoma City Thunder. This time, it attacked in the offseason. No. 2 overall draft pick Chet Holmgren was ruled out for the season after suffering a foot injury last month. Now, top returning scorer ...

Alabama has mostly breezed through the first month of the season, with one big scare and three games that were frightfully but predictably easy. How good is 'Bama, really? Check back in a few weeks. The second-ranked Crimson Tide (4-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) start a three-game stretch ...

DETROIT (AP) — Cade Cunningham packed on about 10 pounds of muscle in his first NBA offseason, hoping the added weight will help him lift his game and the Detroit Pistons to another level. The 6-foot-6, 228-pound guard put in a lot of work and it shows. "I didn't recognize him," Pistons ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — All-Star point guard Ja Morant borrowed a professional camera for photos of his teammates, even turning the lens on reporters covering the Memphis Grizzlies' media day Monday. Ziaire Williams, going into his second NBA season, used a disposable camera from the podium ...

DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic didn't really have time to get out of playing shape after leading Slovenia at the EuroBasket tournament coming off a trip to the Western Conference finals with the Dallas Mavericks. Therefore, the topic on the eve of training camp was how to ease the young superstar ...

DENVER (AP) — Jamal Murray spotted his two-time reigning MVP teammate in the open and quickly hollered out to him. "Grab me a grape," the Denver Nuggets point guard said with Nikola Jokic breaking toward a fruit tray Monday at media day. With that, Jokic dished out his first assist of the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Miles Bridges' future with the Charlotte Hornets remains uncertain as the team prepares to open training camp on Tuesday. Bridges, the team's leading scorer last season, was charged with three counts of felony domestic violence in June. According to the Los Angeles ...

TORONTO (AP) — Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah has been honored with a sportsmanship award for defending teammate Alejandro Kirk after the catcher was criticized online for his weight. Manoah received a roughly $73,000 ($100,000 Canadian) sponsorship prize and immediately donated it to ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Several months after the basketball world collectively assumed Russell Westbrook and the Los Angeles Lakers were definitely headed for a breakup, the guard reported to training camp Monday wearing the same gold jersey. Westbrook's return to the Lakers is among the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A dramatic roster overhaul has left the Utah Jazz with a load of new faces entering this season. Utah traded Royce O'Neale, Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell, and Bojan Bogdanovic in separate deals over the summer, effectively tearing down a team that endured a series of ...