
May 15 - By Steve Douglas, AP Sports Writer
With the Ryder Cup a little more than four months away, Europe's top players couldn't pick a better tournament to impress team captain Jose Maria Olazabal than this week's World Match Play Championship in southern Spain.

May 15 - By Associated Press
Images of Pastor Maldonado celebrating his Formula One victory in the Spanish Grand Prix are being replayed to patriotic music on Venezuelan television. President Hugo Chavez is also heaping praise on the driver.

May 15 - By Colin Fly, AP Sports Writer
Kentucky Speedway general manager Mark Simendinger said there's no excuse for last year's traffic blunders at the inaugural Sprint Cup Series race at the track in Sparta.

May 15 - By Jenna Fryer, AP Auto Racing Writer
Kurt Busch was fined $50,000 by NASCAR on Tuesday for reckless driving on pit road at Darlington and a post-race altercation with Ryan Newman's crew members.

May 15 - By Andrew Dampf, AP Sports Writer
Wimbledon's all-white dress code won't be in place for the Olympics. And the traditional dark green backdrop around the courts will be gone, too.

May 15 - By Andrew Seligman, AP Sports Writer
The doctor who operated on Derrick Rose's knee insists the Chicago Bulls' star can dominate again.

May 15 - By Doug Ferguson, AP Golf Writer
In more peaceful times, when Tiger Woods had gone six months without losing and golf seemed to revolve around him, he ended a monthly newsletter with a rare trip to the soap box to complain about the pace of play on the PGA Tour.
May 15 - By Associated Press
Jeffrey A. Hathaway has been hired as the athletic director at Hofstra.

May 15 - By Rick Gano, AP Sports Writer
Adam Dunn has driven last season behind him the best way he knows how. With his bat.
May 15 - By Associated Press
Brazil's sports minister is dismissing delays in stadium construction for the 2014 World Cup and says construction work in the northeastern city of Salvador will be completed in time for next year's Confederations Cup.

May 15 - By David Ginsburg, AP Sports Writer
Four days before the Preakness, I'll Have Another trainer Doug O'Neill was feeling very skittish about his pending appearance on the grand stage.
May 15 - By Associated Press
Bulgarian tennis player Dimitar Kutrovsky has been banned for two years after testing positive for a banned stimulant.

May 15 - By Hank Kurz Jr., AP Sports Writer
VCU is looking to make the most of its rise to prominence in men's basketball and President Michael Rao said moving to the Atlantic 10 is "the next step."
May 15 - By The Associated Press, HOPD
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May 15 - By Associated Press
The president of the Syrian Olympic Committee says the war-torn country will send 20 sports officials and 10 athletes to the London Games.
May 15 - By Associated Press
The NFL, its players' union and the NCAA are donating money to provide new helmets to youth football players in low-income communities.

May 15 - By John Leicester, AP Sports Columnist
Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous, too, the thousands of Olympians speaking a multitude of tongues will find and settle into their rooms at London's new, purpose-built Olympic Village this July. And, in what is now Olympic tradition, they will celebrate their presence by draping their nations' flags from the windows and balconies.