Sports

U silent on sex harassment report; regents search for leaker
University of Minnesota regents wouldn't respond to a KSTP news report alleging an athletics department official had sexually harassed an employee but said they'd launched an inquiry to find the leaker and urged KSTP to cooperate.
Sex assaults in high school sports minimized as 'hazing'
Across the U.S., perhaps nowhere is student-on-student sexual assault as dismissed or as camouflaged as in boys' sports, an Associated Press investigation found.
Always Dreaming wins 143rd Kentucky Derby
The thoroughbred favorite was able to pull ahead of Lookin at Lucky in the slop, landing both trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey John Velazquez their second Derby victory.
U.S. bobsledder Steven Holcomb, 37, found dead
Steven Holcomb, the longtime U.S. bobsledding star who drove to three Olympic medals after beating a disease that nearly robbed him of his eyesight, was found dead in Lake Placid.
The Minnesota Twins begin a three-game series against the Red Sox tonight at Target Field.
Boston Red Sox fan reports a racial slur, and a lifetime ban results
"I thought that surely I'd misheard him," says Calvin Hennick, the white father of a mixed-race son, of his encounter with a fan in Boston. The man he reported has been banned from Fenway Park.
Boston sports struggle with perception built on racist past
Boston's reputation as a racist sports town developed through decades of barriers broken and maintained, intertwined with broader struggles for progress along with today's climate of racial tension that sports can't avoid.