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Michelle Akers kisses Stormy, at her farm in Powder Springs, Ga. Akers was set to sell soccer memorabilia to pay for repairs caused by flooding.

Two-time Olympian Andrew Johnson showed Utah skiers that he can still crank it up on the cross-country ski track.

Hope Solo is the first keeper to be voted U.S. Soccer's female athlete of the year.

Lionel Messi claimed the World Player of the Year award on Monday to nearly complete his collection of football's greatest honors.

The Brazilian women's national soccer team won the City of Sao Paulo International Soccer Tournament on Sunday after beating Mexico 5-2 to finish thefour-team tournament undefeated.

Virginia coach George Gelnovatch holds the trophy following Virginia's victory over Akron in men's College Cup championship soccer Sunday.

With still one match to go, European runner-up Spain clinched their semifinal ticket at the 2009 women's handball World Championship here on Sunday.

"The state government walled us in, so more houses wouldn't be built in the forest" Officials say the wall is needed to keep the regions from spreading further into jungle Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Cement-block walls are being built around the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro.

As Brazil prepares to host the 2016 Summer Olympics international scrutiny is falling on Rio de Janeiro's favelas, or slums, where more than 5,000 people were murdered last year alone.

The Volleyball Hall of Fame has reached out to the international volleyball community ever since awarding the International Volleyball Federation the Court of Honor Award in 1993.

Now the 16-year-old Nitro native and Huntington High School junior is one of the rising stars.

Collaboration is certainly not a new concept but the way we've come to understand it has changed dramatically over the past few years.

Kayla Williams' whirlwind tour has one more stop. Williams, a Nitro native and junior at Huntington High School, was among four gymnasts selected Saturday to represent the United States at the World Gymnastics Championships Oct.

Rio de Janeiro may have won the vote to host the 2016 Olympic Games but it has the least-prepared infrastructure of the four cities which were in the running.

Expect plenty of highs when the Lowes come to town next weekend. The Lowe Family, a nine-member group that offers a blend of classical, Broadway, Irish, jazz, bluegrass, old-time favorites, six-part harmony and gospel, play the Mansfield Theater on Oct.

AP photo A tour boat passes under an 2016 Olympic banner spanning the Michigan Ave.

At 3:25 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Federal Way Transit Center, at 23rd Avenue South and South 317th St., police responded to a shooting in which a 19-year-old man was killed.

Argentina's coach, Diego Maradona, leaves the pitch after their 1-0 defeat to Paraguay in AsunciA3n.

The first Women's Professional Soccer championship game between the Los Angeles Sol and Sky Blue FC from New Jersey on Saturday will match the new league's most consistent team against its most chaotic.

Heather O'Reilly scored early and New Jersey's Sky Blue hung on to win the first Women's Professional Soccer final 1-0 over the 10-woman Los Angeles Sol on Saturday.