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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Tennis star Coco Gauff says basketball star Jimmy Butler assured her that his Miami Heat would make it to the NBA Finals before they were guaranteed of so much as participating in the playoffs. Gauff recounted what she called her “Jimmy Butler story” after winning her

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR suspended Chase Elliott for one race on Tuesday, less than one day after the five-time most popular driver and former Cup champion deliberately wrecked Denny Hamlin in the Coca-Cola 600. Hendrick Motorsports said in a statement it will not appeal the suspension and Corey

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Celtics’ rollercoaster season ended a round short of a return to the NBA Finals.  Now they enter an offseason of uncertainty as the front office decides whether to keep together their two best players. Jayson Tatum says he’d like to see Jaylen Brown signed long

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer The NCAA baseball tournament opens Friday with play in 16 double-elimination regionals. Regional winners advance to best-of-three super regionals next week and the final eight go to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, beginning June 16. Wake Forest is the No. 1 national seed. Oral Roberts has the

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer The Las Vegas Aces celebrated last season’s championship over the weekend and are looking once again like the team to beat n the league. The Aces unveiled the championship banner on Saturday before dismantling a short-handed Los Angeles team. An easy win over Minnesota the next day has Las

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer ROCKY RIVER, Ohio (AP) — Standing a few feet from a golf green, Deshaun Watson made a pitch for DeAndre Hopkins to join him in Cleveland. The Browns quarterback said that he has spoken to Hopkins, his close friend and former Houston teammate, and encouraged the three-time All-Pro wide

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Longtime Coastal Carolina baseball coach Gary Gilmore said he’ll retire after the 2024 season and expects to hand the program off to 20-year assistant Kevin Schnall. Gilmore led the Chanticleers to the 2016 College World Series title. He’s been treated for pancreatic cancer since 2020 but says the disease is manageable

MUNICH (AP) — Former chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is returning to Bayern Munich as a member of the club’s supervisory board. Bayern says the 67-year-old Rummenigge is returning to ensure its continued success. Rummenigge is a former player and long-time employee of the club before he made way for incoming CEO Oliver Kahn in December

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top wrestlers have held off for now from throwing their medals into the country’s sacred Ganges River as part of an ongoing protest against sexual harassment. A community leader intervened Tuesday and persuaded them against doing so. The wrestlers have been demanding the resignation and arrest of the president of

CHICAGO Anthony Hudson has quit as interim head coach of the U.S. men’s soccer team just two weeks before he was to lead the Americans in the CONCACAF Nations League semifinals. He was replaced by B.J. Callaghan, another holdover from Gregg Berhalter’s staff. Hudson’s departure was announced just six days after the U.S. Soccer Federation

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A remarkable perfect record in European soccer must fall Wednesday when Sevilla faces José Mourinho’s Roma in the Europa League final. Sevilla has played six and won six finals of the Europa League and its predecessor the UEFA Cup. Mourinho has a 5-0 career mark in major European club competition finals

By The Associated Press The PGA Tour goes to the Memorial for the start of a busy stretch. The Memorial is an elevated event and has seven of the top 10 in the world. After the Canadian Open next week, it’s the U.S. Open in Los Angeles and the elevated Travelers Championship in Connecticut. The

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Gone, but never forgotten, the ABA is enjoying a curtain call this season — all thanks to the Denver Nuggets. Nearly 50 years after the breakup of the old, renegade league, with its red-white-and-blue basketballs and the 3-point arc that has redefined the modern game, the

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS (AP) — Second-seeded Daniil Medvedev has lost in the first round of the French Open in five sets to an opponent who is ranked just 172nd and was playing only his second match in the main draw of any Grand Slam tournament. Thiago Seybolt Wild is a 23-year-old

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says a panel of historians set up to review the 1972 attack on the Munich Olympics is starting its three-year mission to examine what happened before, during and after the events of five decades ago. In April, Germany’s Interior Ministry named the eight-member international commission of experts, most based

ROME (AP) — Juventus will be fined 718,000 euros but will agree not to make any appeals as part of a plea bargain with the Italian soccer federation after the club and seven former team directors were charged with alleged fraud for the way they handled player salary cuts during the coronavirus pandemic. The only