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Looters broke windows and looted an Adidas store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles on Saturday.

During LA Lakers exit interviews, Nick Young shares that Kobe Bryant refused to sign his Adidas shoes and threw them in the trash and Metta World Peace talks about Kobe’s speech pregame. Recorded on April 14, 2016

Kanye West has been denied a permit to build an amphitheater on his ranch in Wyoming. The Park County Planning and Zoning Commission made the decision Tuesday after the rapper changed his plans for the structure near Cody. West told county officials he now wants to include residential space.

A young Palestinian man who was shot in the back by Israeli forces in an incident caught on video last year says the footage shows just a small part of what was a horrifying day for him. Speaking to The Associated Press after the video emerged last week, Karam Qawasmi said he was run over by a military jeep, then...

Chance the Rapper chats about hosting “SNL” for the second time while pulling double duty as musical guest, what Kanye West was like at his wedding and how he got everyone from Randy Newman to Nicki Minaj to guest on his album “The Big Day.”

The University of Kansas apologized for its risque Late Night at the Phog event in which rapper Snoop Dogg performed, stripper poles were wheeled onto the Allen Fieldhouse floor and fake money was shot over the heads of prospective recruits. Athletic director Jeff Long said Friday night “we expected a clean version of the show.” The Jayhawks instead got an...

A Bolingbrook man is accused of selling counterfeit sports jerseys, championship rings, and other sportswear through an online store.

A pair of handmade Nike track shoes from the 1972 Olympic trials has sold for $50,000. Dave Russell, of Sacramento, sold the rare kicks last month to the Graduate Eugene hotel, a Nike-themed property in Eugene, Oregon.

A limited-edition pop-up sneaker sale in Lower Manhattan Thursday that erupted in chaos prompted police to shut down the event.

So far, all but one of the 100 pairs of sneakers in Sotheby’s “Ultimate Sneaker Collection” auction has been sold.

Beyoncé has announced a new collaboration: a creative partnership with Adidas.

Sportswear maker Adidas says it will give the same bonus to any of its sponsored players on the Women’s World Cup-winning soccer team as their male counterparts. Adidas says on Twitter that it believes “in inspiring and enabling the next generation of female athletes, creators and leaders through breaking barriers.” On Friday — International Women’s Day — American players filed...

An Adidas executive and two other insiders from the high-stakes world of college basketball recruiting were convicted Wednesday in a corruption case that prosecutors said exposed the underbelly of the sport....
A federal jury in Manhattan found former Adidas executive James Gatto, business manager Christian Dawkins and amateur league director Merl Code guilty of fraud charges....
The trial centered on whether the...

A prominent Iowa youth basketball coach faces potentially decades in prison after admitting to a yearslong pattern of sexually exploiting and abusing at least 400 boys, including former players, their friends and other young athletes. Greg Stephen, 42, posed as girls on social media to trick the boys into making live videos masturbating. He secretly recorded them showering during trips...

Big time college basketball was portrayed at the opening of a criminal trial Tuesday as a world where major schools and their heralded coaches count on athletic gear giants to funnel cash to struggling families of top-tier high school athletes to guide them to their doorstep. Assistant U.S. Attorney Eli Mark repeatedly said the schools are victims and urged a...

Under Armour said Thursday its restructuring program will now cost more than it previously expected: It plans to cut about 400 jobs, or about 3 percent of its global workforce, by March. Under Armour shares jumped more than 5 percent on the news.

A group of former female employees at Nike Inc. are suing the company over allegations that it “intentionally and willfully discriminated against [women] with respect to pay, promotions, and conditions of employment,” according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Portland. The complaint, which seeks class-action status, is led by former employees Kelly Cahill and Sara...

Real Madrid says Cristiano Ronaldo, the reigning top soccer player in the world, is leaving the Spanish team to join Italian club Juventus.