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Golf
Birdies galore at Hilton Head, and Spieth needed them badly
23:33 06/18
The RBC Heritage began two month later than usual with a little rain, a little sunshine and a lot of birdies, most of them from Jordan Spieth to turn a rough start into a furious...
MLB
Players at 70 games, MLB at 60, Manfred says deadline near
23:15 06/18
NEW YORK — Baseball players proposed a 70-game regular-season schedule Thursday, a plan immediately rejected by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred with the sides 10 games and about $275...
Alejandro Villanueva
Steelers’ Heyward: team will be united if it opts to protest
22:24 06/18
PITTSBURGH — Cam Heyward is well-versed in the sometimes messy optics associated with taking a stand against social injustice.
Michigan Wolverines men's basketball
The Latest: 1 Michigan St, 2 Michigan athletes test positive
20:15 06/18
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
Football
LA Story: Rams, Chargers to appear on ‘Hard Knocks’
17:19 06/18
LOS ANGELES — It will be lights, cameras, Los Angeles again for “Hard Knocks” but for the first time the show will feature two franchises.
NFL
NFL GMs, coaches striving for more balance in life and work
15:15 06/18
First in, last out.
Lamine Diack
Trial of Diacks exposes dark backdrop of track golden era
12:00 06/18
PARIS — As Usain Bolt set the world ablaze, making athletics the hottest ticket at the Olympic Games, the sport was also being eaten from within.
Tokyo
Call to cancel Tokyo Olympics enters race for Tokyo governor
09:28 06/18
TOKYO — The contentious issue of the billions being spent on the postponed Tokyo Olympics has entered the debate in the race for governor of Japan's capital.
MLB
MLB thinks Manfred has framework with Clark, union stays mum
04:58 06/18
NEW YORK — After days of angry exchanges over money between Major League Baseball and the players' association, Commissioner Rob Manfred started to doubt whether there would be a 2020 season...
Los Angeles
Probe: Kobe Bryant pilot may have become disoriented in fog
00:39 06/18
LOS ANGELES — The pilot of the helicopter that crashed in thick fog, killing Kobe Bryant and seven other passengers, reported the aircraft was ascending when it actually was heading for the...
General News
After 100-day wait, English soccer returns and takes a knee
22:31 06/17
MANCHESTER, England — Players kneeled in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and victims of the coronavirus were remembered as the Premier League made a somber return on Wednesday from...
College Sports
The Latest: AVP shifts beach volleyball season to tournament
21:55 06/17
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
MLB
Debate on racism renews calls for Redskins to change name
21:36 06/17
The recent national debate over racism has renewed calls for the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name, with Native American advocates believing the climate is right for action despite no...
Sports
World TeamTennis changes policies for COVID-positive players
21:17 06/17
World TeamTennis is changing two key policies related to players who test positive for COVID-19, including giving full salaries — instead of its original plan to only offer a prorated portion — to...
NFL
Subject of race a challenge for coach in isolated town
20:37 06/17
PAHOKEE, Fla. — A wide spot in the road running alongside Lake Okeechobee, Pahokee is a low-income, predominantly black town with two traffic lights and no chain restaurants, 40 miles and a...
Virus Outbreak
Prepping on a new court, Serena Williams will enter US Open
20:24 06/17
Here’s how all-in Serena Williams is on participating in the 2020 U.S. Open: She set up a practice area at her home with the new brand of hard courts being used at Flushing Meadows this...
Race and ethnicity
Discussions about race unsettle rarified equestrian world
19:38 06/17
Of all the athletes in all the sports who have been pressing for change in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, a pair of 17-year-old girls in the cash-soaked world of show jumping have...
Football
Lynn: Kaepernick fits Chargers style but no workouts planned
18:00 06/17
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Chargers coach Anthony Lynn said Wednesday that Colin Kaepernick is on the team’s workout list because he is the style of quarterback Los Angeles is looking for, but the...
Belmont Stakes
Tiz the Law draws No. 8 post as early 6-5 Belmont favorite
17:43 06/17
It wasn’t quite the post position trainer Barclay Tagg wanted for Tiz the Law. Still, it wasn’t far off for the colt who on Wednesday was made the early 6-5 favorite for the Belmont...
General News
2020 US Open: Fewer line judges, ball people, events in plan
17:20 06/17
Electronic line-calling will be used instead of line judges for U.S. Open matches at all courts except the two largest arenas and singles qualifying, mixed doubles, junior and wheelchair...
NHL
Puck woes: NHL’s bottom line facing short-term blow
16:57 06/17
With so much uncertainty, Larry Quinn can't predict just how severe the NHL's financial losses might be due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Basketball
As Florida virus test numbers rise, NBA prepares for Disney
15:29 06/17
The rate of positive coronavirus tests in the Orlando, Florida, area has been soaring in recent days. The NBA hopes that doesn’t matter.
General News
World’s fastest man suspended for missing doping tests
13:53 06/17
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The fastest man in the world has been sidelined for a string of missed doping tests.
Champions League
Champions League to be played at mini-tournament in Lisbon
13:48 06/17
NYON, Switzerland — The Champions League will finish with a 12-day mini-tournament in Lisbon, restarting in August after a five-month suspension caused by the coronavirus...
Basketball
VIRUS DIARY: Learning his way around a kitchen, finally
13:38 06/17
NEW YORK — This is not the plan I cooked up.
Sports - General
Sabres fire GM Botterill in series of cost-cutting moves
04:40 06/17
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula reversed course by firing general manager Jason Botterill on Tuesday as part of a drastic cost-cutting purge of front-office staff...
Soccer
Premier League back with doubleheader after 100-day shutdown
04:35 06/17
MANCHESTER, England — Exactly 100 days after the last game, the Premier League is back.
Football
Superdome renovation crew has 32 COVID-19 cases
02:16 06/17
NEW ORLEANS — Superdome officials say positive COVID-19 tests have come back for 32 workers contracted to perform stadium renovations.
College football
The Latest: 32 positive virus tests for Superdome workers
23:20 06/16
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world:
College football
Oklahoma St. coach Gundy apologizes for wearing OAN T-shirt
23:02 06/16
OKLAHOMA CITY — One day after Oklahoma State running back Chuba Hubbard lashed out at coach Mike Gundy on social media for wearing a T-shirt promoting a far-right news channel, Gundy...
Daytona 500
Earnhardt Jr. headlines NASCAR’s 2021 Hall of Fame class
22:18 06/16
All Dale Earnhardt Jr. needed was a chance to prove he could win in stock cars.
Wisconsin
Column: Cranberries and a ticking clock for Ryder Cup fate
21:16 06/16
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — The final weekend in September in Wisconsin was expected to be bustling with good times and gigantic crowds, upward of 45,000 people and some 1,300 vendors taking...
Albany
‘Watch it on TV’: Gov. Cuomo OKs no-fan US Open tennis in NY
20:21 06/16
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave the go-ahead Tuesday for the U.S. Open tennis tournament to be held in his state starting in late August — but without spectators — as part of the reopening from...
MLB
Former Cy Young winner Mike McCormick dies at age 81
18:51 06/16
CORNELIUS, N.C. — Longtime Giants pitcher Mike McCormick, who won the Cy Young Award in 1967, has died. He was 81.
New York
Tiz the Law is class of Belmont field, Triple Crown favorite
18:49 06/16
While there won’t be school buses of fans hoping to see a New York-bred horse make Belmont history, there is a busload of Triple Crown expectations heading into Saturday's...
MLB
Yankees president Levine calls for MLB talks to resume
17:10 06/16
NEW YORK — Yankees President Randy Levine called on the players' association to resume negotiations with Major League Baseball to start the pandemic-delayed season.
Chicago Bears
Coaches, players make best of NFL’s 1st virtual offseason
16:57 06/16
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Turns out there’s only so much that can be done virtually.
Georgia
Bailey, Freeney debut on college Hall of Fame ballot
15:03 06/16
Georgia cornerback Champ Bailey, Syracuse defensive end Dwight Freeney and Kansas State running back Darren Sproles will appear on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot for the first...
Basketball
From Iceland’s capital, 11-year-old plays in Warriors camp
14:29 06/16
OAKLAND, Calif. — Sporting his No. 30 Stephen Curry jersey, 11-year-old Bjarki Robertsson kept up the pace. He hopped on his right foot, then his left, joining in a drill as part of the...
Marcus Rashford
Rashford 1, Johnson 0: Soccer star wins U-turn on free meals
12:47 06/16
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an abrupt about-face Tuesday and agreed to keep funding meals for poor students over the summer holidays after young soccer star Marcus...
Sports - Europe
Talking points ahead of the Premier League restart
12:26 06/16
Some talking points ahead of the resumption of the Premier League following a three-month suspension caused by the coronavirus pandemic:
MLB
Commissioner Rob Manfred says baseball season in jeopardy
01:41 06/16
NEW YORK — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says there might be no major league games this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players' union on how to split up money in a...
NFL
49ers give Kyle Shanahan new deal through 2025
00:13 06/16
The San Francisco 49ers rewarded coach Kyle Shanahan with a new six-year contract Monday after he took the team to the Super Bowl in his third season at the helm.
PGA Championships
PGA Championship staying at Harding Park, but without fans
23:06 06/15
FORT WORTH, Texas — The silence that greeted the return of the PGA Tour at Colonial will be a familiar sound for the first major of the year.
Sports
Racial reckoning in boardrooms and dugouts as EPL resumes
23:02 06/15
When the time came to vote on restarting the Premier League, no black chief executives or chairmen from the English clubs were involved. There aren’t any across the 20 teams, nor in the leadership...
NFL
Ravens LB Judon blasts Goodell’s ‘black lives matter’ speech
22:53 06/15
BALTIMORE — Ravens linebacker Matthew Judon criticized the timing of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's assertion that the league believes “black lives matter," saying Monday that the message...
Women's basketball
Oregon, Arizona St athletes challenge NCAA in federal court
21:22 06/15
Attorneys filed a lawsuit against the NCAA in federal court Monday that seeks to prevent the association from limiting the amount of money athletes can make off their names, images and likenesses....
Football
Doyle out as Iowa strength coach; Barta standing by Ferentz
20:42 06/15
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa athletic director Gary Barta gave a vote of confidence to longtime football coach Kirk Ferentz on Monday after deciding to cut ties with a strength coach accused of...
Virus Outbreak
Plan to hold 2020 US Open without fans awaits government OK
20:42 06/15
Moving closer to holding the first Grand Slam tournament of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Tennis Association is awaiting the go-ahead from the New York state government to play the U.S. Open...