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Orb trainer McGaughey fights nerves at Preakness
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Early Saturday morning, Shug McGaughey was walking back and forth in front of the stakes barn at Pimlico....

Wrestling rules changed to keep sport in Olympics
MOSCOW (AP) -- Wrestling's governing body hopes rule changes designed to make matches more exciting and easier to understand will get the sport back in the Olympics....

Documentary is an ode to NYC playground basketball
NEW YORK (AP) -- Half-moon hoops, double rims, chain-linked fences for out-of-bounds lines and no net that anyone can recall....

What to watch for at the Preakness
BALTIMORE (AP) -- All eyes will be on Kentucky Derby winner Orb in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. The 3-year-old colt will take on eight challengers in the second leg of the Triple Crown. If he wins, Orb will attempt to become the first Triple Crown champion since Affirmed in 1978 at the Belmont Stakes on June 8. In the Preakness, Orb will be facing five horses he defeated in the Derby and three who did not run in the race....

FILA approves new rules to keep wrestling in games
MOSCOW (AP) -- Wrestling's governing body has approved new rule and constitutional changes aimed at modernizing the sport and keeping it in the Olympics after 2016....

Denmark's Hoyer wins presidency of badminton body
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Former Olympics champion Poul-Erik Hoyer has pledged to improve the image of badminton after winning the presidency of the sport's world governing body....

10 Things to Know about the Preakness _ and beyond
BALTIMORE (AP) -- There are only two outcomes when it comes to Saturday's Preakness Stakes - either the Kentucky Derby winner Orb wins the race to set up a Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes in three weeks, or another horse pulls an upset and prevents a shot at history....