American soccer star Landon Donovan is so famous in Mexico that he's appearing in a new TV commercial for a product he'd never be promoting in the United States - gambling on a soccer lottery.

Have at it, boys.

Pro football players sought lawmakers' help Wednesday in preventing NFL owners from imposing a lockout after next season and said a league victory in a Supreme Court antitrust case could affect free agency and ticket prices.

Baseball owners unanimously ratified a five-year contract with umpires on Thursday, wrapping up a decade of labor peace in a sport once plagued by work stoppages.

General Motors Co. says an agreement with Tiger Woods that allowed the fallen golf star to have free access to its vehicles is over.

NBC Sports has announced a partnership to televise a half-dozen key prep races this spring leading up to the Kentucky Derby on May 1.

The new BCS executive director officially began his tenure Thursday by saying the often-criticized postseason represents a consensus among the 120 schools that play major college football.

Two major cable networks - ESPN and Discovery - said Tuesday they plan to start beaming 3-D entertainment into peoples' homes for the first time.

The University of Michigan is turning to former football player and Domino's Pizza CEO David Brandon to lead its athletics program.

A rookie wage scale is among the issues the NFL and the players' union are expected to discuss during labor negotiations this week.

Not only have David Stern's pleas to leave the guns at home been ignored, one player even brought his to work.

Bart Simpson and the Sugar Bowl game could disappear from the TVs of Time Warner Cable subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and other markets in a bitter dispute over fees that the Fox television network is demanding.