By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Spain's 1-0 victory over England on Sunday was the most-watched Women's World Cup final on American television that did not include the United States. La Roja's 1-0 victory had a combined English- and Spanish-language audience of ...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Sha'Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles each kicked off their quest for a second medal at the world championships Wednesday by easily winning their heats in the 200-meter preliminaries. Richardson finished in 22.16 seconds and Lyles in 20.05 in a pair of no-drama returns ...
By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Rest assured, Gabby Thomas is a big believer in the power of a good night's sleep. Because to dream big, the American sprinter must first dream well. Thomas wrote a paper on the subject of rest as part of her recently completed ...
By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer The NCAA football rule change that drew the most notice in the offseason might go mostly unnoticed by fans once the season is underway. Coaches' opinions vary on how much it will impact games. For the first time since 1967 the clock will continue to run ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer During the final season of the College Football Playoff's four-team format, the empires will strike back. Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma have made more CFP appearances than any other schools through the nine years of the postseason ...
By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer LSU coach Brian Kelly summed up the challenge confronting college football's top programs these days: Catching up with Georgia. The two-time defending national champion and preseason No. 1 Bulldogs are Alabama's successor as the annual "team to beat" overall ...
By MAX RALPH Associated Press Taiwan's players put the finishing touches on a 10-0 mercy rule win over Japan, then marched to the oversized Little League World Series bracket between Volunteer and Lamade stadiums. They stamped their name in the next round, then danced and cheered with ...
The Basketball World Cup — FIBA's biggest tournament — starts Friday, spread out across three countries for the first two rounds before all the biggest games get played in Manila to decide which nation will go home with gold medals and the Naismith Trophy on Sept. 10. Spain is the ...
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Graham Ashcraft racked up a career-high 10 strikeouts over seven innings, and the Cincinnati Reds spoiled Mike Trout's return to the Angels' lineup by scoring three unearned runs in the fifth inning of a 4-3 victory over Los Angeles ...
UNDATED (AP) — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh will serve a three-game suspension to start this season as part of self-imposed penalties for NCAA recruiting infractions. The school's move means Harbaugh will not be on the sideline for the second-ranked Wolverines home games against East Carolina, ...
UNDATED (AP) — The days of the Air Raid dominating the Big 12 might be over. In less than a decade, the league has gone from having more than half the conference running some version of the system to dominating opponents on the ground. Five of the 18 running backs taken in April's draft came ...
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — Bryce Harper told the Little League kids from suburban Philadelphia who had been eliminated from the World Series that they should use the experience in Williamsport as a stepping stone toward something great. Hours later, after Harper went 0-for-3 and the National ...
If the Big Ten's final season with a 14-team, two-division setup plays out the way it has since the conference expanded in 2014, an East team will win the championship and it will be Michigan or Ohio State. The preseason No. 2 Wolverines and No. 3 Buckeyes have flip-flopped as the team to beat ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Brandon Belt had his second multihomer game this season, Hyun Jin Ryu won consecutive starts for the first time since his latest Tommy John surgery and Toronto Blue Jays routed the Cincinnati Reds 10-3 Sunday to win the series between playoff contenders. Kevin Kiermaier and ...
MASON, Ohio (AP) — Novak Djokovic outlasted Carlos Alcaraz in a thrilling rematch of their Wimbledon final, winning 5-7 7-6 (7) 7-6 (4) on Sunday to win the Western & Southern Open. In a match that lasted 3 hours, 49 minutes, the longest best-of-three sets final in ATP Tour history ...
There could be some new rivalries between Christian schools brewing in the evolving Big 12 Conference. With BYU coming in this season, the Big 12 has three private Christian schools from different denominations. The Cougars, the 1984 national champions who played the past 12 seasons as an ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers spent all of the spring and most of the summer talking about building an offense capable of big plays, the kind they've been lacking for large swaths of the past few seasons. It's just two games, preseason games at that. Still, there are signs that ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dallas Keuchel carried a perfect game into the seventh inning before allowing a double to Pittsburgh's Bryan Reynolds, and Edouard Julien drove in a pair of runs for the Minnesota Twins in a 2-0 win against the Pirates on Sunday. Keuchel, the 35-year-old, soft-tossing ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Maxie Baughan, a College Football Hall of Famer from Georgia Tech and a nine-time Pro Bowler in the NFL, has died. He was 85. The Philadelphia Eagles said Baughan died Saturday of natural causes at his home in Ithaca, New York. Baughan, who spent six seasons with the Eagles, ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Davis Schneider hit a tiebreaking solo homer and Jordan Romano worked out of a jam in the ninth inning, sending the Toronto Blue Jays to a 4-3 victory over Elly De La Cruz and the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night. Chris Bassitt pitched six efficient innings as Toronto ...