Browns RB Hunt out weeks with calf injury, Mayfield TBD
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns running back Kareem Hunt will likely miss more than a month with a significant calf injury…
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NBA hires Danielle Scott, league’s 6th female full-time ref
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Danielle Scott has become the sixth NBA female referee. The daughter of college basketball officials was…
Continue Reading New hoops league for prep standouts signs deal with Gatorade
ATLANTA (AP) — A startup basketball league with goals of giving high school players another option besides the college route has added Gatorade as…
Continue Reading FIFA, Qatar team up with WHO for World Cup health promotion
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — FIFA and Qatari organizers of next year’s World Cup have teamed up with the World Health…
Continue Reading Gonzaga is No. 1 in preseason AP Top 25; UCLA, Kansas next
By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Gonzaga is the preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll. The Bulldogs…
Continue Reading Cam Newton says he’s vaccinated and ready for NFL return
By The Associated Press Cam Newton says he has been vaccinated against contracting COVID-19 and is ready to return to the NFL. The quarterback who…
Continue Reading Van Dijk happy with comeback after injury, set for CL return
By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Virgil van Dijk has been spared Champions League duty so far this season as Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has…
Continue Reading Texas passes new limits on transgender high school athletes
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is poised to become the latest and most populous state to tighten restrictions on transgender athletes in public high…
Continue Reading UEFA hands English FA stadium ban following Euro 2020 final trouble
By Aleks Klosok, CNN European football’s governing body has ordered England to play its next two UEFA competition matches at Wembley Stadium…
Continue Reading Breeders’ Cup clears Baffert to compete with conditions
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Bob Baffert can enter horses in the Breeders’ Cup next month at Del Mar but the event’s all-time money-leading trainer…
Continue Reading AP WAS THERE: 1st Black player’s contract bought by NBA team
By The Associated Press Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper and Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton broke the color barrier in the NBA as the league’s first Black…
Continue Reading UEFA hits England with stadium closure for Euro 2020 chaos
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA has ordered England to play one men’s national team game in an empty stadium. It’s punishment for chaotic…
Continue Reading NBA struggles during 1950s, begins its rise later in decade
By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer The NBA, known today as a leader when it comes to culture and racial issues, was anything but during the 1950s…
Continue Reading Vunipolas among big names missing for England rugby tests
LONDON (AP) — England will enter the November rugby internationals without four of its biggest names after an improvement in club form failed to…
Continue Reading Timeline of NBA from its start as the BAA through 1950s
By The Associated Press Timeline of the National Basketball Association from its founding as the Basketball Association of America through the 1950s.…
Continue Reading De Bruyne out to make new, better memories in Champs League
By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Kevin De Bruyne really wants to play in a second Champions League final because he barely remembers his first. The…
Continue Reading Beijing 2022: Human rights activists unfurl ‘No Genocide Games’ banner at flame-lighting ceremony
By Elinda Labropoulou and Allegra Goodwin, CNN Three human rights activists unfurled a banner reading “No Genocide Games” and a Tibetan…
Continue Reading European court set to study soccer’s homegrown player quotas
By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — A second soccer legal case is heading to the European Court of Justice. A case involving…
Continue Reading Māori All Blacks player Sean Wainui, 25, dies after car crash
By Ben Church, CNN New Zealand Rugby is mourning the death of Māori All Blacks player Sean Wainui after the 25-year-old died in a car accident on…
Continue Reading Sri Lanka survives top order collapse to beat Namibia
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Former T20 World Cup champion Sri Lanka survives an early batting collapse to beat Namibia by seven wickets…
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