Sports

NEW YORK — Julian Champagnie had 31 points as St. John’s routed Butler 91-57. Jayden Taylor led the Bulldogs on Friday with 19 points and six…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has hired Jody Wright to coach tight ends. Wright received a two-year contract approved by the board of…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Manu Ginobili, a four-time NBA champion who spent his entire career with the San Antonio Spurs, headlines this year’s group of…

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The NBA All-Star Game’s hosts aren’t just welcoming guests or showing off their renovated home…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Canadian defender Doneil Henry agreed to a contract with Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles FC. The 28-year-old has made 42…

TORONTO (AP) — Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment said Friday it will discontinue the proof of vaccination requirement for fans entering its…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA officials have called for a review of how name, image and likeness compensation policies are impacting recruiting,…

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Three-time champion Bernhard Langer shot his age Friday to take the first-round lead in the Chubb Classic. Langer, the…

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia coach Kirby Smart has hired former Rutgers assistant Fran Brown to coach the Bulldogs’ defensive backs. Brown was…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carolina Panthers assistant general manager Dan Morgan is among a handful of candidates who have interviewed with the Pittsburgh…

LILLE, France (AP) — Lille has been held 0-0 at relegation candidate Metz in the French league, showing little to worry Chelsea before they meet in…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Michael Andretti has filed an application with the FIA to field a Formula One team…

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The Miami Dolphins announced the hiring of three former players as part of new coach Mike McDaniel’s first coaching…

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joaquin Niemann returned from his best day of golf at Riviera and had another round just like…

By BEN NUCKOLS AP Sports Writer The NFL has hired former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White to investigate an allegation that…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Balearic Islands have canceled amateur soccer games this weekend to protest against violence toward referees. The regional…

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Major League Soccer has engaged an outside law firm to review the Portland Timbers’…

TURIN, Italy (AP) — Torino captain Andrea Belotti scored to give his team a 1-1 draw at Juventus in a hard-fought Turin derby in Serie A. The Italy…

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Patrik Schick’s 20th Bundesliga goal of the season wasn’t enough to stop Bayer Leverkusen…

CHICAGO (AP) — The defending WNBA champion Chicago Sky have signed former All-Star and finals MVP Emma Meesseman. The 6-foot-4 forward from Belgium…

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Auburn coach Bryan Harsin has promoted wide receivers coach Eric Kiesau to offensive coordinator. Harsin announced the…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The NASCAR season opens with the Daytona 500 on Sunday, where more than 120,000…

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer The Associated Press lists 10 college softball players to watch this season. Reigning USA Softball Collegiate Player…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Division I college basketball committees say there won’t be a combined men’s and women’s Final Four in the near…

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The inaugural Legacy Bowl in New Orleans is giving top football players from historically Black…

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer The Oklahoma softball program is the gold standard after winning four of the past eight national championships under…

SEATTLE (AP) — Sue Bird officially re-signed with the Seattle Storm, her only WNBA team, in what is expected to be her final season. Bird, the WNBA…

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball has canceled the first week of spring training games through March 4 in the…

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Finland has never won an Olympic gold medal in hockey. To break that drought, the Finns will have…

MIAMI (AP) — Mexico will play its March 24 World Cup qualifier against the United States at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca, where the Americans…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — The defending champion Russians are back in the final looking for a second consecutive Olympic…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Tom Clements is back for a second stint as Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach in a move that could reunite him with…

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…

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.…

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…

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Bruce Pearl and the Auburn men’s basketball team have an embarrassment of front-court…

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…

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…

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…

LONDON (AP) — Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has received a 10-year ban for being part of what’s been described as an “organized…

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…

By SALLY HO Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — U.S. pairs skater Timothy LeDuc became the country’s first openly nonbinary Winter Olympian when…

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…

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…

BEIJING (AP) — The doping case of 15-year-old Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has dominated the conversation at the Winter Olympics in…

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.…

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Australian tennis player Alex de Minaur has denied wrongdoing after being linked to a…

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…

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…

By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — Another Olympic women’s hockey tournament is over and very little appears to have changed. Canada…

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff is “optimistic” that new steps put in place to improve Formula One…

By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer BEIJING (AP) — Reigning world champion Kai Verbij backed off on the final crossover straight in…

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Eileen Gu turned the Beijing Olympics into her own personal playground. In the city. In the…

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — Arseni Gritsyuk scored the shootout winner to put the Russians into the men’s hockey final by…

By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As he leaves Beijing with two Olympic medals, South Korean short-track speed skater…

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Lewis Hamilton took nearly two months to emotionally recover from the controversial Formula One finale that cost…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Freestyle skier’s fill their world with “double corks” and “Japan grabs”…

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Thomas Krol won the 1,000 meters to give the Netherlands its third straight Olympic speedskating…

Por JAMES ELLINGWORTH Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — La campeona olímpica de patinaje artístico en Beijing dice que se siente vacía; la…

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Sixteen years after he won the Olympic curling gold medal, Brad Gushue is going back to Canada with…

By PAT GRAHAM and EDDIE PELLS AP Sports Writers ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Cassie Sharpe shared the podium with her Canadian teammate Rachael…

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Notre Dame’s trip to Wake Forest headlines the weekend’s slate of games in the Atlantic Coast…

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Rutgers is the hottest team in the Big Ten with four straight wins — all over opponents ranked in the Top 25. The…

By GARY B. GRAVES AP Sports Writer No. 16 Tennessee visits No. 23 Arkansas in a matchup of two of the SEC’s hottest teams. The host Razorbacks…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer A look at the upcoming weekend around the Big 12 Conference: GAME OF THE WEEKEND There are just three weeks left…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Jeff Gordon has fit in just fine in his new job at Hendrick Motorsports. He is the new…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Johannes Thingnes Boe dominated from the start and held his composure through four…

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Ryan Regez led a 1-2 finish by Switzerland in the Olympic skicross final at Genting Snow…

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The quadruple jumps that sent Russian world champ Anna Shcherbakova to the gold medal and teammate…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Grant Sherfield finished with 25 points and 10 assists and Nevada walloped San Jose State 90-60. Sherfield sank 10 of 13…

By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chevez Goodwin scored 16 of his 24 points in the first half and No. 17 Southern California…

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — The judges who let Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva continue to compete at the Beijing…

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Johnny Juzang scored 19 points, Jaylen Clark had a career-high 18 points and 11 rebounds, and No.…

By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — J.T. Miller scored with 2:21 remaining in overtime after Vancouver allowed a tying goal in…

CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Trinity Rodman made her debut for the U.S. women’s national team in a scoreless draw with the Czech Republic on…

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Branden Carlson and Both Gach scored 13 points apiece and Gabe Madsen buried a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:42 remaining to…

By DOUG PADILLA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marcus Morris Sr. scored 27 points and Luke Kennard added 25 as the Los Angeles Clippers sped…

By The Associated Press There are 40 drivers competing in the 64th running of the Daytona 500 on Sunday. The race kicks off the NASCAR season with…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Anthony Davis has a right right mid-foot sprain and the Los Angeles Lakers said Thursday he would be re-evaluated in four weeks.…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Dominick Pickett had a season-high 21 points and Wil Tattersall scored 20 as UC Riverside defeated Cal State Bakersfield…