Sports News Update

The college student who got national attention for catching two home run balls is back in the spotlight at Great American Ball Park.

National Football League owners voted on Tuesday to allow a five-year extension of the Buffalo Bills deal to play selected home games in Toronto, Canada.

Joe Girardi was frustrated. Six losses in seven games left the New York Yankees last in the AL East.

Joe Girardi was frustrated. Six losses in seven games left the New York Yankees last in the AL East.

The NFL made thigh and knee pads mandatory equipment for the 2013 season, something the players' union was not pleased with.

The NFL made thigh and knee pads mandatory equipment for the 2013 season, something the players' union was not pleased with.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Golden State Warriors will return to San Francisco, where the National Basketball Association franchise’s owners plan to build a privately financed arena on the city’s waterfront, team officials and Mayor Edwin Lee said on Tuesday.

International and U.S. Olympic leaders are close to finalizing a deal to settle the long-running financial dispute that has soured relations and undermined recent American bids for the games, a senior official said Tuesday.

(Reuters) – The late Joe Paterno, the Penn State University football coach whose six-decade career ended abruptly last year in controversy, earned a $13.4 million pension for running one of the sport’s most successful programs, a family spokesman said on Tuesday. Paterno’s widow, Sue, will get the initial $10.1 million payment at the end of May, according to family spokesman Dan McGinn, four months after her husband died at age 85 of lung cancer and after being fired amid a child sex abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. …

Federal weapons charges have been filed in Los Angeles against two men accused of brutally assaulting a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium during opening day last year.