By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer No. 4 Purdue will be looking to change its fortunes against Michigan when the teams meet Saturday in West Lafayette, Indiana. The Wolverines have beaten Purdue five straight times. Purdue needs a win to keep pace with Illinois in the Big Ten race. Iowa is looking for a turnaround
Continue ReadingBy DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer A look at the upcoming weekend around the Big 12 Conference: GAME OF THE WEEKEND Reigning national champion Baylor and perennial contender Kansas, both again stocked for NCAA Tournament runs, as the afternoon light spills through the old clerestory windows of Allen Fieldhouse? Yes, please. Yet the last few
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Re-live updates from the first night of the figure skating team event, featuring Nathan Chen, at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Continue ReadingBy AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Ninth-ranked Duke’s trip to rival North Carolina headlines the Atlantic Coast Conference schedule for the week. Saturday marks the final trip to Chapel Hill for retiring Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski. It also marks the first rivalry game for UNC’s Hubert Davis as head coach. The week ahead includes
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U.S. pairs figure skaters Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier discuss their impressive short program performance in the Olympic team event.
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China’s pairs team of Sui Wenjing and Han Cong dominated the pairs short program in the Olympic team event with a world record score of 82.83 points.
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Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier earned a personal best score of 75.00 to place third in the pairs short program segment of the 2022 Olympic team event.
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ROC’s Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov place second in the pairs short program component of the Olympic team event with 82.64 points, a personal best.
Continue ReadingRocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de Estados Unidos (CDC, por sus siglas en inglés) investigan un brote de listeria relacionado con las ensaladas envasadas de Dole que resultó en dos muertes. El brote también enfermó a 17 personas y resultó en 13 hospitalizaciones en 13 estados.
Continue ReadingBy MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The new U.S. ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, has pledged to work “wholeheartedly” to deepen Washington’s alliance with Tokyo as he met with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. On Friday, the two discussed China’s increasingly assertive military actions and North Korea’s escalating missile tests, among other regional concerns,
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Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries, a three-time Olympic medalist, discussed how her tattoos tell her personal journey. After a difficult professional experience in Canada, Humphries now competes for Team USA.
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may soon start raising interest rates sharply. The Labor Department said employers added 467,000 jobs last month, triple economists’ expectations. The
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Stock indexes ended mixed and Treasury yields jumped Friday as Wall Street’s expectations rise that the Federal Reserve may soon start raising interest rates sharply. The Labor Department said employers added 467,000 jobs last month, triple economists’ expectations. The
Continue ReadingRIVERSIDE, Calif. — Callum McRae posted 19 points and three assists as UC Riverside narrowly defeated Hawaii 64-59. Kamaka Hepa led the Rainbow Warriors with 12 points and seven rebounds.
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Jamie Anderson competes for the purpose of tapping into a power she’s not always aware she has, using present consciousness and focus to combat worry and ride the wave. “We are capable of more than we know,” she says.
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In a letter sent Thursday to Internal Revenue Services Commissioner Charles Rettig, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Missouri Senator Roy Blunt demanded the IRS immediately discontinue any programs that collect, store, and use any type of biometric data to identify American taxpayers.
Continue ReadingBy TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Polish luge athlete Mateusz Sochowicz went back to the Peking University hospital this week for the second time this season. The first trip was so doctors could tend to his badly injured legs. The second trip was to thank them for saving his Olympic hopes. Sochowicz
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Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde paced the field on the second day of men’s downhill training, strengthening his case as the gold medal favorite.
Continue ReadingBy KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The leaders of Russia and China have declared their joint opposition to any expansion of NATO and affirmed that the island of Taiwan is a part of China. Friday’s joint communique followed a meeting between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping hours before the Winter Olympics
Continue ReadingBy CANDICE CHOI Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The ice rinks hosting the figure skating and speedskating competitions at the Beijing Olympics will also be putting a major environmental problem on the world stage – the greenhouse gases often used in refrigerators, air conditioners and other cooling systems. Four newly built rinks at the Games
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