Kim Coon

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyer startled a packed courtroom during opening statements at his federal death penalty trial by bluntly admitting that he committed the 2013 attack with his brother, raising some thorny questions, mainly: Why have a trial at all?

LAHTI, Finland (AP) — Norway continued to dominate the cross-country skiing World Cup on Saturday as Eirik Brandsdal and world champion Marit Bjoergen won freestyle sprint races.

KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) — Hannes Reichelt claimed his second straight World Cup downhill victory on Saturday, cutting the gap on discipline leader Kjetil Jansrud to just 20 points going into the final race of the season.

KONTIOLAHTI, Finland (AP) — Johannes Thingnes Boe secured his first biathlon world championship title Saturday by winning the 10-kilometer sprint race, with older brother Tarjei Boe taking bronze.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — Italy's Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli defeated the Kazakh duo of Andrei Golubev and Alexander Nedovesov in doubles on Saturday to give their team a 2-1 lead in their Davis Cup first-round meeting.

LAHTI, Finland (AP) — German duo Fabian Riessle and Johannes Rydzek won a Nordic combined World Cup team sprint event Saturday ahead of France's world champion Jason Lamy Chappuis and Sebastien Lacroix.

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LONDON (AP) — Manchester United defender Jonny Evans and Newcastle striker Papiss Cisse have been given long bans for spitting at each other during a Premier League match.