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FILE - Commissioner Roger Goodell gestures during the NFL Honors ceremony as part of Super Bowl 55 in Tampa, Fla., in this Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, file photo. The NFL is increasing the regular season to 17 games, as expected, and reducing the preseason to three games. Team owners on Tuesday, March 30, 2021, approved the 17th game, marking the first time in 43 years the regular season has been increased.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
NFL owners approve 17-game regular season, 3 preseason games
By Barry Wilner
Mar. 30, 2021 05:15 PM EDT
FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2002, file photo, Jimmy Shea of the United States pushes off during the men's skeleton final at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics on his way to winning a gold medal in Park City, Utah. Shea has been charged with sexual abuse of a child in Utah. He made his first court appearance Monday, March 29, 2021, on one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and two counts of sexual battery. The alleged abuse occurred in 2020, court documents show. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Olympic gold medalist charged with child sex abuse in Utah
Mar. 30, 2021 03:38 PM EDT
A view of the bobsled track in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Bobsledding tradition in Cortina goes back nearly a century and locals are hoping that the Eugenio Monti track can be reopened for the 2026 Olympics in the Italian resort. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
2026 Olympics plan for Cortina bobsled track, outdoor oval
By Andrew Dampf
Mar. 30, 2021 03:33 PM EDT
FILE - In this Oct. 16, 1968, file photo, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos extend gloved hands skyward in racial protest during the playing of national anthem after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee will allow raised fists and kneeling during the national anthem at upcoming Olympic trials. The USOPC released a nine-page document to offer guidance about the sort of “racial and social demonstrations” that will and won't be allowed by the hundreds of athletes who will compete for spots on the U.S. team in various sports. (AP Photo/File)
Raised fists, kneeling during anthem OK at US Olympic trials
By Eddie Pells
Mar. 30, 2021 12:03 PM EDT
FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain, celebrates after winning gold in the women's 400 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar. It is announced Tuesday March 30, 2021, that World champion sprinter Salwa Eid Naser has a two-day appeal hearing next month at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, that could lead to a ban from the Tokyo Olympics for breaking anti-doping rules. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, FILE)
World champion Naser gets court date for doping rules case
Mar. 30, 2021 08:20 AM EDT
FILE - In this March 17, 2021, file photo, people walk past the Olympic rings in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics open in under four months, and the torch relay has begun to crisscross Japan with 10,000 runners. Organizers say they are mitigating the risks, but many medial expert aren't convinced.(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Some medical experts unconvinced about holding Tokyo Games
By Yuri Kageyama And Stephen Wade
Mar. 30, 2021 03:17 AM EDT
United States' players react at the bench during a Concacaf Men's Olympic qualifying championship semi-final soccer match against Honduras in Guadalajara, Mexico, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Olympic failures show structural issues for US Soccer, MLS
By Ronald Blum
Mar. 29, 2021 06:23 PM EDT
FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2020, file photo, shows tickets for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics displayed in Tokyo. Many fans living outside Japan who bought Tokyo Olympic tickets from middlemen - so-called Authorized Ticket Resellers - will not get full refunds. The question of refunds came into play a week ago when local organizers and the Japanese government decided to bar fans from abroad because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Overseas Tokyo ticket holders may get only partial refunds
By Stephen Wade
Mar. 29, 2021 04:32 AM EDT
United States' players react at the bench during a Concacaf Men's Olympic qualifying championship semi-final soccer match against Honduras in Guadalajara, Mexico, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
US men lose to Honduras, miss 3rd straight Olympic soccer
By The Associated Press
Mar. 28, 2021 11:05 PM EDT
Mexico's Johan Vasquez (5) and United States' Sebastian Soto fight for the ball during a Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying championship soccer match in Guadalajara, Mexico, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
US plays Honduras for berth in men's Olympic soccer in Japan
By The Associated Press
Mar. 27, 2021 06:23 PM EDT
Yuma Kagiyama of Japan performs during the Men Free Skating Program at the Figure Skating World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Chen wins 3rd straight worlds, beating Olympic champ Hanyu
Mar. 27, 2021 04:55 PM EDT
Manchester United's Lauren James, right, shoots during the Women's Super League match against West Ham at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, Saturday, March 27, 2021. The Manchester United women’s team has made its Old Trafford debut in a league game against West Ham. The team normally plays its Women’s Super League home matches at Leigh Sports Village but switched to Old Trafford during the international break in the men’s game. (Zac Goodwin/PA via AP)
Manchester Utd women's team wins 2-0 in Old Trafford debut
Mar. 27, 2021 02:02 PM EDT
Oregon State guard Aleah Goodman, left, passes around South Carolina forward Aliyah Boston, right, during the second half of a college basketball game in the second round of the women's NCAA tournament at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Sweet 16 coaches Staley and Fortner share Olympic bond
By Jim Vertuno
Mar. 27, 2021 10:53 AM EDT
French Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu leaves the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet meeting, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. France’s sports minister Maracineanu, says French society is at a “turning point” for women’s rights within the male-dominated sports world amid a wave of protests from female journalists denouncing discrimination. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Calls for change for women's rights in French sports
By Sylvie Corbet
Mar. 27, 2021 06:13 AM EDT
FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2021, file photo, then Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee President Yoshiro Mori announces his resignation at a meeting with council and executive board members at the committee headquarters in Tokyo. Mori, who resigned last month as the president over comments criticized as sexist, has made another remark getting slammed as disrespectful to women. Mori, speaking late Friday, March 26, 2021, at a party for a politician at a Tokyo hotel, referred to the politician’s aide as “way too old to be called a woman.” (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Ex-Tokyo Olympics chief again criticized for sexist comment
By Yuri Kageyama
Mar. 26, 2021 11:24 PM EDT
Russian skater Anna Shcherbakova performs during the Ladies Free Skating at the Figure Skating World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday, March 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Russia sweeps women's medals, wins rhythm dance at worlds
Mar. 26, 2021 06:17 PM EDT
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during the virtual summit of the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the U.S., a group known as “the Quad", at his official residence in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, March 12, 2021. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool via AP)
Japanese PM Suga expects to invite Biden to Tokyo Olympics
Stephen Wade And Mari Yamaguchi
Mar. 26, 2021 08:40 AM EDT
US to play Honduras for berth in men's Olympic soccer
By The Associated Press
Mar. 26, 2021 12:23 AM EDT
The United States will play Honduras for a berth in the Olympic men's soccer tournament in a doubleheader opener Sunday night at Guadalajara, and host Mexico...
FILE - In this April 29, 2006, file photo Paul Cayard, skipper of the Pirates of the Caribbean Volvo Ocean Race boat steers his boat as they team readies for the start of the Baltimore in Port race on the Chesapeake Bay. Cayard has raced in the America's Cup, the Olympics and was the first American skipper to win one of sailing's toughest challenges, the Whitbread Round the World Race. Now he faces another arduous task, guiding the underperforming U.S. Olympic sailing team as its new executive director. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner, File)
Cayard takes helm of underperforming US Olympic sailing team
By Bernie Wilson
Mar. 25, 2021 06:03 PM EDT
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier of the USA perform during the Pairs Free Skating at the Figure Skating World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Faceoff between Hanyu and Chen easily goes to Olympic champ
Mar. 25, 2021 05:19 PM EDT