The NCAA’s Board of Directors approved an expanded men’s basketball tournament Thursday, passing a proposal that will take the field from 65 teams to 68 next season. The move comes one week after NCAA officials recommended the first expansion of March Madness since 2001, when the tourney added one team to the 64-team field that [...]

LeBron James is not expected to miss any of Cleveland’s playoff games because of his strained right elbow and bone bruise. The Cavaliers say James was re-examined Wednesday night by team doctors, who took more X-rays and an MRI. The tests revealed the strain and a bruised bone near the elbow. James will have daily [...]

Tiger Woods sent drives on the 17th and 18th holes into the water and was seven shots behind the early leaders midway through the opening round at the Quail Hollow Championship on Thursday. Following a five-month hiatus and ensuing sex scandal, Woods is playing his second U.S. PGA Tour event this season and hoped to [...]

AP – The French Justice Ministry says former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega won’t have prisoner-of-war status in France but will be allowed visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Read more

AP – European and U.S. stock markets rose Thursday as investors hoped for a quicker — and perhaps bigger — bailout for debt-ridden Greece and after a fairly upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy by the Federal Reserve. Read more