Month: March 2022

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — The four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and the sport’s governing bodies have jointly made a donation of $700,000 to aid humanitarian relief efforts via Global Giving’s Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund and to support the Ukraine Tennis Federation. The WTA, ATP and the International Tennis Federation joined the groups that run

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Negotiators for locked-out players and Major League Baseball bargained past midnight for the second time in a week, and Commissioner Rob Manfred’s Tuesday deadline to reach a deal preserving a 162-game season passed with no announcement. As the clock passed midnight, the lockout entered its

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Russian soccer federation has appealed to have its FIFA and UEFA bans frozen and other punishments overturned. Russian teams were expelled from competition on Feb. 28 “until further notice” following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. FIFA and UEFA did not specify their legal reasons. The Court of Arbitration for Sport

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Kentucky forward Oscar Tshiebwe is the unanimous pick as The Associated Press player of the year in the Southeastern Conference. No. 4 Auburn’s Bruce Pearl is coach of the year and his freshman forward Jabari Smith is newcomer of the year. The AP All-SEC team was released Tuesday. Like

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Kraken have signed forward Jared McCann to a five-year contract extension worth an average of $5 million per season, locking up one of their young core players for the future. McCann is Seattle’s leading scorer with 33 points despite missing eight games. He was

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Wake Forest guard Alondes Williams is The Associated Press men’s basketball player of the year for the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Demon Deacons’ Steve Forbes was named coach of the year after leading then to an unexpectedly strong season. Duke’s Paolo Banchero was also named as newcomer of the

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer The NFL’s salary cap for 2022 will be $208.2 million — a healthy increase from the previous, pandemic-impacted years. The cap is going up from $182.5 million, which was down by nearly $10 million from the 2020 season. Adding in benefits attached to the cap, teams will be

By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer The Dallas Cowboys are using the franchise tag on tight end Dalton Schultz. The move buys time for the sides to agree on a long-term deal for one of Dak Prescott’s most reliable targets. The one-year contract will be worth about $11 million. The sides will have until

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods introduced his son to the spotlight at the PNC Championship the last two years. Now it’s his daughter’s turn. Woods has chosen 14-year-old Sam to introduce him Wednesday night when he and three others are inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. She is the older

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER Associated Press ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A camper, tent, signs and other items that represented a former University of Michigan football player’s protest against the school’s handling of sex abuse allegations involving a campus doctor have been removed by the school. Jon Vaughn says Tuesday the small blue-and-white camper is gone.

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Mike Gesicki is getting a big raise from the Miami Dolphins. What remains unclear is if he’ll be getting a longer deal. The Dolphins announced they have placed the franchise tag for the coming season on Gesicki. The move ensures the tight end will

By The Associated Press The PGA Tour stages its premier tournament at The Players Championship and it features the richest purse in golf at $20 million. What it doesn’t have is all the best players from the top 50. Bryson DeChambeau has withdrawn again. Harris English is recovering from a hip injury. And Phil Mickelson

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s soccer federation will ban clubs of rowdy fans known as “barras” from attending away matches after a mass weekend brawl among soccer fans that left over two dozen people injured, three of them critically. The federation and top-division league owners announced that the Queretaro team that hosted  Saturday’s match will

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Kayla Harrison is headed back to the PFL. Harrison is a two-time $1 million prize champion in the Professional Fighters League lightweight championship. She signed a multi-year deal with the company she’s called home since 2018. The 31-year-old Harrison had been courted by MMA promotions Bellator and UFC, and

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas faced the typical disadvantages for a young girl in Spain with big dreams in a country that was crazy for soccer as long as it was played by men. But Alexia has reached the pinnacle of her sport after two decades