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NCAA may consider single site for part of future tourneys
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA used the single-site concept for its marquee championship out of necessity. Now it could become part of the tournament’s future. A day after crowning a national champion for the first time since 2019, NCAA senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt told reporters the successful men’s...
Guards stayed at Baylor, paving way for Scott Drew’s dream NCAA championshipVideo
Becoming national champion was a far-fetched dream when Scott Drew first uttered that possibility during his introduction as Baylor’s coach after taking over a decimated and scandal-plagued program nearly 18 years ago. Yet a title felt oh-so-reachable for All-American guard Jared Butler and his backcourt mates MaCio Teague and Davion...
Masters notes: Phil Mickelson is a Masters champion and Anna Pavlova expertVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Phil Mickelson has a confession to make: He often is full of nonsense. Except, as it turns out, when it comes to pavlova. Augusta National has a rule banning cellphones on the course, and it also applies to the Champions dinner. So when Adam Scott got to...
‘Your 2021 Washington Nationals!’ finally playing, sort ofVideo
WASHINGTON — As the Washington Nationals and their opponents, the Atlanta Braves, lined up for pregame introductions Tuesday, they stood near “OPENING WEEK” stencils in white paint beside the green-as-can-be grass along the baselines. Who could have known it would take nearly a full week into the 2021 regular season...
Hubert Davis begins process of putting own touches on North Carolina programVideo
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Hubert Davis understands the challenge ahead of him in taking over at North Carolina. He is a first-time college head coach. He is following a Hall of Famer in Roy Williams. And Davis is now leading a program that has six NCAA championships and ranks among...
Arkansas lawmakers enact transgender youth treatment ban
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor’s objections. The Republican-controlled House and Senate voted to override GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto of the measure, which prohibits doctors from providing...
Official: EU agency to confirm AstraZeneca blood clot linkVideo
ROME — A top official at the European Medicines Agency says there’s a causal link between AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine and rare blood clots, but that it’s unclear what the connection is and that the benefits of taking the shot still outweigh the risks of getting covid-19. Marco Cavaleri, head of...
‘Chernobyl’ and ‘Harry Potter’ actor Paul Ritter dies at 54Video
LONDON — Versatile British actor Paul Ritter, whose roles ranged from a hapless suburban patriarch in sitcom “Friday Night Dinner” to a Soviet engineer who helps cause a nuclear disaster in “Chernobyl,” has died, his agent said Tuesday. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumor. A...
McConnell: It’s ‘stupid’ for corporations to speak out on politicsVideo
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday “it’s quite stupid” for corporations to speak out politically, intensifying his warnings for big business to stand down as Congress delves into voting rights, President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package and other defining issues. Speaking in Kentucky, the GOP leader said he...
Lee Westwood, at 47, still seeking his Masters victory moment
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Lee Westwood made his Masters debut in 1997 and went out for a Saturday night shopping excursion when he realized he would play the final round the following day with Jack Nicklaus. He bought a photo — the iconic image of Nicklaus raising his putter as he...
California plans to lift most pandemic restrictions June 15
SAN FRANCISCO — California plans to lift most coronavirus restrictions on businesses and workplaces June 15, with officials saying enough people should be vaccinated by then to allow for life to almost get back to a pre-pandemic normal. The mask mandate in the nation’s most populated state will remain in...
3-year-old boy, 7 adults wounded in latest Chicago shootings
CHICAGO — A 3-year-old boy was shot in the head Tuesday morning while riding in a car on Chicago’s famed Lake Shore Drive just hours after seven people were shot and wounded in a fight a few miles away, in what is shaping up to be one of the most...
Lawmakers call YouTube Kids a ‘wasteland of vapid’ content
A House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids, saying the Google-owned video service feeds children inappropriate material in “a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content” so it can serve them ads. The inquiry comes despite Google agreeing to pay $170 million in 2019 to settle allegations that YouTube collected personal data on...
MLB officially moves All-Star Game to Denver’s Coors Field
DENVER — The All-Star Game will be played at hitter-friendly Coors Field. Major League Baseball officially announced the new venue Tuesday after pulling the Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to extensive changes to Georgia’s voting laws. Coors Field last hosted the All-Star Game in 1998. The game will be...
Sabres sitting Taylor Hall in anticipation he’ll be traded
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres are taking the precautionary step of scratching forward Taylor Hall for their Tuesday game at New Jersey in anticipation the NHL’s 2018 MVP will be traded in the coming days. Team spokesman Chris Dierken announced that Hall will not be in the lineup in...
Stocks slip on Wall Street as market eases back from records
A wobbly day of trading on Wall Street left stocks slightly lower Tuesday, pulling the market back from the all-time highs it reached a day earlier. The S&P 500 snapped a three-day winning streak, slipping 0.1% after wavering between small gains and losses much of the afternoon. Stocks within the...
6 people dead in Texas murder-suicide plot
DALLAS — Authorities have identified six people found dead in a suburban Dallas home in what police said was an apparent murder-suicide plot. The Allen Police Department said investigators believe brothers Tanvir Towhid, 21, and Farhan Towhid, 19, made a pact to kill their parents, sister and grandmother before killing...
Viral thoughts: Why covid-19 conspiracy theories persist
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. No boosters, no tetanus shots. His parents taught him inoculations were dangerous, and when the coronavirus arrived, they called it a hoax. The vaccine, they said, was the real threat. So when the 29-year-old Tennessee man got...
Barry Alvarez, AD who reshaped Wisconsin sports, to retire
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez is retiring after a three-decade run in which he transformed the university’s football team and later guided the Badgers to their greatest all-around sports success in school history. The 74-year-old Alvarez said Tuesday he would retire on June 30. “It has been...
Study: Moderna vaccine lasts at least 6 months
BOSTON — New research suggests the protection the Moderna vaccine gives against covid-19 lasts for at least six months. The report Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine echoes what Pfizer said last week about its vaccine, which works in a similar way. Both reports were based on follow-up...
Petty officer shoots 2 sailors; is stopped, killed on Maryland baseVideo
FREDERICK, Md. — A Navy medic shot and critically wounded two U.S. sailors at a military facility Tuesday, then fled to a nearby Army base where he was shot and killed, police and Navy officials said. Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, a petty officer third class assigned to Fort Detrick, began shooting...
Those involved in naked photo shoot in Dubai to be deported
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Those involved in a naked photo shoot on a high-rise balcony in Dubai will be deported, authorities said Tuesday, after the footage went viral and prompted a crackdown in the Gulf Arab sheikhdom. Dubai authorities detained at least 11 Ukrainian women who posed naked in...
Analysis: Baylor’s strengths shine in title-game blowout
You could have turned off the national championship after about three minutes and had a good idea how the game went. On Baylor’s first possession, Mark Vital missed a shot, got his own rebound, missed again, got his own rebound again — and eventually Davion Mitchell made a jumper. The...
At the Masters, past champions are welcomed back to field
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Fred Couples was playing a practice round at Augusta National this week, with the other members of his foursome all sharing a few things in common. None of them were even half his age. They all bombed their tee shots past his. And they listened to every...
Deputy stabbed to death at Georgia jail; another deputy hurt
MACON, Ga. — A sheriff’s deputy has been stabbed to death and another law officer injured early Tuesday at a Georgia jail, authorities said. Deputy Christopher Knight, 30, was stabbed in the neck and died shortly before dawn Tuesday after being taken to a hospital, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones...
