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Tennessee tailback LaMarcus Coker, the team's leading rusher last season, has been suspended indefinitely.

Bud Selig decided to get together with George Mitchell this week rather than watch Barry Bonds. The baseball commissioner and some of his top aides are scheduled to meet with the chief steroids investigator later this week, a person with knowledge of the session told the Associated Press.

A candidate for Ball State's basketball coaching job withdrew his name Tuesday as the school investigated former coach Ronny Thompson's claims that he worked in a hostile racial environment.

Under fire from their Democratic rivals in Chicago, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama defended their stands on terrorism and corporate influence. The candidates agreed the nation should invest more money in infrastructure and less on the war in Iraq.

An elite team of Navy divers joined the search for victims of last week's Minneapolis bridge collapse. Crews pulled a car out of the Mississippi River, but police said there were no bodies inside the vehicle. At least eight people remain missing.

With rescuers still at least three days away from reaching six trapped coal miners, the mine's owner and the government split sharply over whether an earthquake caused the cave-in and whether the men were engaged in an often-dangerous form of mining.

The Federal Reserve left a key interest rate unchanged as worries about inflation trumped concerns about turbulent financial markets.

A federal appeals court ruled that terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs, even if they likely will be dead before the medicine is approved.

CBS.SportsLine.com's Brian De Los Santos and Charlie McCarthy provide analysis on three weekly racing topics.

Phil Mickelson heads to the 89th PGA Championship with a less than 100 percent wrist and coming off a poor streak of results and says the best is ahead of him.

Country stars Vince Gill, Mel Tillis and Ralph Emery are the newest members of the Country Hall of Fame.

Robby Gordon avoided a lengthy suspension Tuesday when NASCAR fined him $35,000 and placed him on probation through the end of the year for his misconduct during the Busch Series race in Montreal.

Fresh off a second-place finish in his American stock car debut, former American open-wheel race car driver Patrick Carpentier will replace Scott Riggs in the No. 10 Dodge this weekend at Watkins Glen.

Beyonce and Justin Timberlake each received seven nominations for the 2007 MTV Video Music awards.

Actor Charlie Sheen claims ex-wife Denise Richards has requested that he father a third child for the former couple.

Padraig Harrington was a popular winner of the British Open last month, and not just because he's a nice guy. Before that victory, Harrington learned how to lose a number of times, and did it in a dignified way, says Steve Elling.

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ranked ABC highest in its representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people on network television. Fox received the lowest grade.

The U.S. military tells CBSNews.com that 26 American service members have been killed in action in Iraq in the past week alone, including three soldiers who were killed by a single roadside bomb attack reported today.

It looks like Kanye West will not accept the challenge to debate fellow rapper 50 Cent on the merits of their albums, both of which are set to be released on Sept. 11.

On- and off-screen co-stars Jennifer Lopez and Mark Anthony will open their 14-date tour in Atlantic City on Sept. 29.