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Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stefon Diggs (14) celebrates after scoring on a pass from quarterback Josh Allen during the first half of an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
Bills draw inspiration from Kobe-led Olympic 'Redeem Team'
By John Wawrow
Oct. 10, 2022 03:16 PM EDT
Philadelphia Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson watches during baseball practice Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022, in St. Louis. The Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals are set to play Game 1 of a National League Wild Card baseball playoff series on Friday in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Thomson signs 2-year deal to remain as Phillies manager
By Paul Newberry
Oct. 10, 2022 01:36 PM EDT
British sprinter Chijindu Ujah gets 22-month doping ban
Oct. 10, 2022 07:22 AM EDT
LONDON (AP) — British sprinter Chijindu Ujah was banned for 22 months on Monday after testing positive for two prohibited substances during the Tokyo Olympics last...
Juraj Slafkovsky makes a turn around the net at the Montreal Canadiens NHL hockey training camp in Brossard, Quebec, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (Peter McCabe/The Canadian Press via AP)
Not rushing top prospects to NHL is becoming a popular path
By Stephen Whyno
Oct. 09, 2022 02:44 PM EDT
FILE - Cleveland Browns cornerback Joe Haden practices before an NFL football game against the New York Jets, on Oct. 30, 2016, in Cleveland. Haden has a formal NFL retirement date. The three-time Pro Bowl cornerback told The Associated Press he is planning to sign a one-day contract with Cleveland on Oct. 30 2022, so he can retire as a member of the team that drafted him in the first round in 2007. The Browns will honor the 33-year-old Haden a day later during their home game against Cincinnati on Monday Night Football. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane, File)
Haden enters Florida's Hall of Fame, plans NFL retirement
By Mark Long
Oct. 08, 2022 12:48 PM EDT
FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1936, file photo, America's Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump on, alongside silver medalist Luz Long, right, of Germany, and bronze medalist Naoto Tajima, of Japan, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Long's family has decided to auction his silver medal and other collectibles from his career, which was cut short when he was killed in World War II in 1943. (AP Photo/File)
Jesse Owens friend Luz Long's silver medal up for auction
By Eddie Pells
Oct. 06, 2022 04:46 PM EDT
Joel Embiid sits for an ice bath after practice on the first day of Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball training camp at the McAlister Field House on the campus of The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (Heather Khalifa/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
France hoping Embiid will join team for 2024 Paris Olympics
By Tim Reynolds
Oct. 06, 2022 03:40 PM EDT
‘Unreal and surreal’: Skiers slam Asian Winter Games host
By Eric Willemsen
Oct. 06, 2022 01:14 PM EDT
Leading World Cup skiers on Thursday questioned the decision to award a yet-to-be-built resort in Saudi Arabia the hosting rights of the 2029 Asian Winter Games,...
France ski world blasts Asian Winter Games in Saudi Arabia
Oct. 06, 2022 06:26 AM EDT
PARIS (AP) — The French ski federation, mayors from mountain resorts and ski instructors lashed out Thursday at the decision to award the 2029 Asian Winter Games to...
Paris 2024 Games' chief Tony Estanguet speaks during a media conference at the City Hall in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. The marathon will start from Paris City Hall and wind past famed landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower, before leaving the capital and beginning its upward wind to Versailles, the former town of kings with its spectacular palace, to the southwest. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Marathon course for Paris Olympics announced; lots of uphill
By John Leicester
Oct. 05, 2022 01:12 PM EDT
This photo provided by the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne shows Sophie Hernandez competing at a test event in Ankara, Turkey on June 28, 2022. As it stands now, modern pentathlon — a sport in the Olympics for more than 100 years — would be off the program in its current form after the 2024 Paris Games. “Changes are not something we like. But we can adapt to it," modern pentathlete Sophie Hernandez of Guatemala said. “We have to move forward. Because we don’t want to lose the Olympics.”(Augustas Didzgalvis/UIPM via AP)
Olympic pentathlon eyes 'Ninja Warrior' courses for survival
By Pat Graham
Oct. 05, 2022 01:42 AM EDT
Saudi Arabia to host Asian Winter Games in new ski resort
Oct. 04, 2022 05:38 AM EDT
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Saudi Arabia will host the Asian Winter Games in 2029 in mountains near the $500 billion futuristic city project Neom. The...
Kadokawa Corp. Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2022. Kadokawa was charged Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022 with bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member. (Kyodo News via AP)
Publishing executive charged in Tokyo Olympic bribes scandal
By Yuri Kageyama
Oct. 04, 2022 03:36 AM EDT
FILE - A woman passes by the Olympic rings at the City Hall in Paris, Monday, July 25, 2022. Paris Olympic organizers appointed prize-winning French theater director Thomas Jolly on Wednesday Sept. 21, 2022 to direct the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2024 Games and Paralympics. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)
French NOC boss starts lawsuit over 'psychological violence'
Oct. 03, 2022 11:22 AM EDT
Gold medalists the United States celebrate on the podium after defeating China in the final at the women's Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
US women's basketball dominates on international stage
By Doug Feinberg
Oct. 01, 2022 02:02 PM EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a ceremony to sign the treaties for four regions of Ukraine to join Russia, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. The signing of the treaties making the four regions part of Russia follows the completion of the Kremlin-orchestrated "referendums." (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
IOC's Bach eyes return to sports for anti-war Russians
By Graham Dunbar
Sep. 30, 2022 11:34 AM EDT
Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Italians voted in a national election that might yield the nation's first government led by the far right since the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
IOC president Bach meets with Meloni over 2026 concerns
Sep. 29, 2022 01:18 PM EDT
Today in Sports History: Expos to Move to Washington D.C.
By The Associated Press
Sep. 28, 2022 10:02 AM EDT
Sept. 29 1923 — Gene Sarazen beats Walter Hagen 1 up to capture the PGA championship. 1941 — Joe Louis knocks out Lou Nova in the sixth...
Australia's Lauren Jackson signs autographs following their win over Japan at the women's Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
Lauren Jackson, Aussie fans enjoying her World Cup finale
By Doug Feinberg
Sep. 28, 2022 08:46 AM EDT
FILE - Haruyuki Takahashi, executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games attends the Tokyo 2020 Executive Board Meeting in Tokyo on March 30, 2020. Criminal allegations against a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member widened Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022, as Japanese prosecutors “re-arrested” Takahashi in suspected payments from a publisher that became a sponsor for the Games. (Issei Kato/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Tokyo Olympics bribery arrests widens to third Japan sponsor
By Yuri Kageyama
Sep. 27, 2022 04:42 AM EDT