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Shaun White is starting a season-long halfpipe league that will offer more than $1.5 million in prizes in hopes of pulling together what has long been a spread-out, confusing action-sports calendar. The 37-year-old, three-time Olympic gold medalist, who re-tired in 2022 after the Beijing Games, is calling the new enterprise The Snow League. The first [...]
Lionel Messi could miss as many as six games with Inter Miami if Argentina wins its way to the Copa America final. With 12 goals and a league-leading 13 assists, Messi has helped push Miami to the top of Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference. Questions loom about whether Miami can weather his absence during the [...]
BEREA (AP) — The chase hasn’t ended for Myles Garrett, only intensified. While the Cleveland Browns’ superstar defensive end feels humbled by the accolades, awards and adulation that keeps funneling his way, he doesn’t find any satisfaction on that road. “Never,” Garrett said. “It’ll never be enough.” As he approaches his eighth season in Cleveland [...]
Hockey was not in the cards for the Gershkovich family living in the Phoenix area until they were approached about a program that provided free gear and an eight-week program to try things out. "That's kind of what roped us in," said Phil Gershkovich, whose sons Eli and Josh each got into it and Josh [...]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The College World Series is scheduled to start today and only two conferences are represented on the game's biggest stage for the first time since the event expanded to eight teams in 1950. The Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference have each sent four teams, the SEC for the fourth time [...]
For generations of sprinters in the women's 100 meters, 10.49 seconds is the world record they've been chasing since 1988. For Al Joyner, it's a time he sees everywhere he looks. Like the other day when he was contemplating putting a pair of his late wife Florence Griffith Joyner's spikes up for auction and happened [...]
LONDON — Now that Major League Baseball has been to London three times, players have a few suggestions for future visits. The New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5 on Sunday to split their two-game weekend series at London Stadium. Both teams arrived Thursday morning and had two off days to get acclimated. They [...]
PARIS — Amélie Mauresmo removed her black blazer and prepared to get into the swing of things on the grounds of the French Open. Tennis, anyone? Nope, not on this day. Instead of a racket, Mauresmo — a two-time major champion and former No. 1-ranked tennis player — was holding a paddle and giving pickleball [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A class-action lawsuit filed by "Sunday Ticket" subscribers claiming the NFL broke antitrust laws began last week in federal court with the league's attorney telling jurors that fans have a choice when it comes to watching games and the "Sunday Ticket" package is a premium product. "The case is about choice. [...]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Panthers and the city of Charlotte have proposed a partnership deal that would include an $800 million renovation to Bank of America Stadium and keep the NFL team here for 20 years. The renovation would include a fixed $650 million investment from the city and another $150 million from [...]