Author: Dan Wolken, USA TODAY

Rich Strike, a horse that Eric Reed and Rick Dawson claimed out of a cheap maiden race last September for $30,000, won the Kentucky Derby.

Wagering the Kentucky Derby is always a tough task. USA TODAY Sports’ Dan Wolken tells us how to bankroll $100 at the Run for the Roses.

It’s Kentucky Derby week, and banned horse trainer Bob Baffert is nowhere to be found at Churchill Downs.

Mark Emmert leaves a job that few qualified people will want and an NCAA that has lost credibility with its members, Congress and the general public.

There’s a generation of people for whom coaches like Mike Krzyzewski and Nick Saban were the American dream. Jay Wright showed those days are over.

The Billie Jean King Cup qualifier between U.S. and Ukraine is a unique sporting event. Ukrainian Lyudmyla Kichenok: ‘We’re playing with them.’

Kansas was in big trouble. And then, the Jayhawks were controlling everything, rolling downhill, making the big shots that missed by miles earlier.

As Ochai Agbaji buried Villanova under a barrage of threes, this Kansas team proved it should be the favorite to win the championship on Monday.

Why Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski will walk off the floor at Cameron Indoor Arena next March as the greatest college basketball coach of all time.