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Cash-strapped Serie B club Bologna is nearing a sale to a North American group.

The Tampa Bay Rays expect to keep rolling without Andrew Friedman.

Fresh off another early playoff exit, the Los Angeles Dodgers overhauled their front office Tuesday.

The Los Angeles City Council has given developer AEG another six months to bring pro football back to the nation's second-largest city.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and players' union chief DeMaurice Smith will meet Tuesday to discuss the league's personal conduct policy.

IceArizona has agreed to sell a majority stake of the Arizona Coyotes to Philadelphia hedge fund manager Andrew Barroway.

NFL owners will meet Wednesday to discuss the league's personal conduct policy, vote on the sale of the Buffalo Bills and look at further international play.

The NFL has begun testing for human growth hormone for the first time, three years after the league and players' union tentatively agreed to do so.

From April to September, from Boston to Seattle, people sat down night after night after night to watch their hometown baseball team more than everything else on television.

A judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania senator and the state treasurer over the $60 million fine imposed on Penn State for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.

Kaka is Major League Soccer's highest-paid player.

For years, football fans have bemoaned the rule barring NFL home games that haven't sold out from being televised in the local market.

Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula are closing in on their purchase of the Buffalo Bills.

Nike is severing its business ties to Ray Rice a day after he was let go by the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL following the release of a video showing him striking his then-fiancee in February.

Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula are closing in on their purchase of the Buffalo Bills.

FIFA Vice President Jeffrey Webb says the governing body's image problems are harming football and it must work to regain trust over "ethics and morals." But Webb stopped short of criticizing Sepp Blatter, who has led FIFA since 1998 and is standing for a fifth term, instead praising the president for driving up revenue.

In the not-too-distant future, a football fan might be able to take a seat at the stadium, punch up any game on a seatback monitor, keep tabs on the real-time stats of a fantasy team, order up a hot dog and beer and even have a brand-new jacket brought to the seat if the wind kicks up.

Many NFL teams are following the leads of other sports — dropping prices for less desirable games while jacking up costs for the biggest matchups.

The NFL suspended Jim Irsay for the first six games of the season and fined him $500,000 for violating its personal conduct policy, coming down hard on the Indianapolis Colts owner Tuesday just hours after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor stemming from an embarrassing March traffic stop.