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Alex Ovechkin says he wants a meeting of NHL players to talk about participating in the 2014 Winter Olympics.

A streaker who disrupted a New York Mets game by jumping onto Citi Field naked except for a stuffed monkey tied around his waist has been banned from the ballpark for a year.

Tampa Bay slugger Carlos Pena has had season-ending surgery to repair two broken fingers on his left hand.

Pro Bowl wide receiver Anquan Boldin briefly tested his sore hamstring on Thursday, then watched the rest of practice.

The NFL is looking into Brett Favre's remarks that he had a torn right biceps tendon last season even though he was not listed on the New York Jets' injury report, a league spokesman said in an e-mail.

Alex Gordon and Alberto Callaspo homered, leading the last-place Kansas City Royals past the Detroit Tigers 7-4 on Thursday for a surprising three-game sweep of the AL Central leaders.

Derek Jeter had three hits on Wednesday to tie Lou Gehrig's all-time Yankees hit record.

So here is what 17-year-old Melanie Oudin of Marietta, Ga., was doing about 20 minutes before heading out to play in the first Grand Slam quarterfinal of her nascent career: affixing her signature to an endorsement contract.

Rory Sabbatini understands being passed over by Greg Norman for the International team that will play the United States next month in the Presidents Cup. He doesn't understand why he wasn't given a courtesy call to explain the situation.

Led by the pairings of Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde and Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva, doubles specialists dominate the list of nominees for the 2010 class at the International Tennis Hall of Fame