Canada to play last home World Cup qualifier at Toronto
TORONTO (AP) — Canada will host Jamaica at Toronto’s BMO Field in its final home World Cup qualifier. Closing in on its first World Cup berth…
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Put me in, Coach! Gibbs gets top ride on grandfather’s team
By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ty Gibbs is stepping into arguably the top ride in NASCAR’s second-tier Xfinity Series.…
Continue ReadingClemson struggling to win games after NCAA Tournament bid
By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson had hoped its trip to the NCAA Tournament last year during the pandemic-impacted…
Continue ReadingKessler, Smith lead No. 2 Auburn’s deep lineup of big men
By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Bruce Pearl and the Auburn men’s basketball team have an embarrassment of front-court…
Continue ReadingAfter early CFP expansion fails, job only gets tougher
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The College Football Playoff is set to stick with a four-team format through the 2025 season. The…
Continue ReadingBritain’s relay team loses Olympic silver over Ujah doping
By ROB HARRIS AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) — Britain’s 4×100-meter relay team has been stripped of its silver medal from the Tokyo…
Continue ReadingHamilton wants social media companies to curb online abuse
By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer Lewis Hamilton has called on social media companies to do more to stop the spread of online abuse after…
Continue ReadingNigerian sprinter Okagbare banned for 10 years for doping
LONDON (AP) — Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has received a 10-year ban for being part of what’s been described as an “organized…
Continue ReadingBritain, Japan to play for Olympic women’s curling gold
By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Eve Muirhead scored four points in the second-to-last end of regulation and Britain beat defending…
Continue ReadingLeDuc skates as 1st openly nonbinary US Winter Olympian
By SALLY HO Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — U.S. pairs skater Timothy LeDuc became the country’s first openly nonbinary Winter Olympian when…
Continue ReadingGermany leads in women’s Olympic bobsled, USA in 3rd
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The Germans remain right at home on China’s Olympic sliding track. Winners of gold medals in…
Continue ReadingChina’s Sui, Han top pairs short program record at Olympics
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Sui Wenjing and Han Cong are in a most familiar place atop the pairs competition at the Olympics.…
Continue ReadingDenmark withdraws from Algarve Cup after COVID-19 outbreak
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Danish women’s national soccer team has pulled out of the Algarve Cup in Portugal because of an outbreak of COVID-19…
Continue ReadingRecent Russian doping controversies at the Olympics
BEIJING (AP) — The doping case of 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has dominated the conversation at the Winter Olympics in…
Continue ReadingDe Minaur denies link to Spain probe of fake vaccine passes
By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Australian tennis player Alex de Minaur has denied wrongdoing after being linked to a…
Continue ReadingF1 and COTA agree to new 5-year deal for U.S. Grand Prix
By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Formula One has announced a new five-year contract with the Circuit of the Americas to keep…
Continue ReadingAfter skating debacle, Bach takes rare shots at Russians
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — A worldwide wave of sympathy has flowed to Kamila Valieva for the ordeal she endured at the…
Continue ReadingSustaining women’s hockey growth still post-Olympics issue
By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — Another Olympic women’s hockey tournament is over and very little appears to have changed. Canada…
Continue ReadingWolff optimistic about F1’s steps to improve race management
By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff is “optimistic” that new steps put in place to improve Formula One…
Continue ReadingSpeedskating champ chooses sportsmanship over Olympic medal
By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Reigning world champion Kai Verbij backed off on the final crossover straight in…
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