The answer is that when you give up control to the camera to make adjustments to your settings there is a trade off when it gets dark out and you're shooting under the lights. The camera wants to have enough light to make the image and the result is that the shutter speed suffers to the point that action shots become blurry.
So what do you do to fix this?
When the stadium lights come on, and in poorly lit gym's (which is most of them) you have to go manual. That can be scary for a lot of people but if you want crisp action shots you will have to figure it out. You will need to set you shutter speed at at least 400/sec (that is still low in my opinion) and set your F stop to around 4 or 5.6. I set my ISO to 6400 as soon as the sun starts to set or in any gym.
By doing this you have control over how fast your shutter works and you have a better chance of capturing the image without blur. I would not suggest using a flash at all ever.
If you find that your shots are now clear but a bit dark, try setting your F stop to 3.5 or 2.8 to allow more light in. Your depth of field will narrow and may cause some focus issues but at least your shots will be brighter.
Go out some evening with your camera and try to shoot photos of traffic under the street lights and play with the settings.
KT
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