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Jordan Hensley, Jermaine Johnson lead Duquesne past D-II West Virginia WesleyanVideo
Jordan Hensley threw two of his three touchdowns to receiver Jermaine Johnson, and Duquesne beat Division II-member West Virginia Wesleyan, 35-0, on Saturday. JaMario Clements ran it in from the 1 for the first score with 3 minutes, 49 seconds left before the end of the first quarter. Hensley and...
Jeeno Thitikul goes on a late birdie run to catch Lydia Ko in LPGAVideo
MAINEVILLE, Ohio — Jeeno Thitikul had a rocky closing stretch but did enough to expand her lead over Hall of Famer Lydia Ko, finishing with a birdie for a 4-under-par 68 on Saturday and a two-shot advantage in the Kroger Queen City Championship. Thitikul holed a 20-footer from the fringe...
Manassero leads BMW PGA Championship, 11 years after winning as a 20-year-old prodigyVideo
VIRGINIA WATER, England — Eleven years after winning the title as a 20-year-old prodigy, Matteo Manassero moved into position to capture the prestigious BMW PGA Championship again Saturday. Manassero shot 9-under-par 63 to take a three-stroke lead after the third round. Victory would cap a career revival for Manassero, who,...
Danny Lee beats Bryson DeChambeau to deny Crushers 2nd straight LIV Golf team titleVideo
CARROLLTON, Texas — Danny Lee took control of a back-and-forth match against U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau by holing a hard-breaking birdie putt on the 16th to lead his Iron Heads past DeChambeau’s defending champion Crushers in the LIV Golf Team Championship on Saturday. Iron Heads joined Legion XIII, Ripper...
Raiders pass rush specialist Malcolm Koonce out for the season, AP sources sayVideo
HENDERSON, Nev. — Las Vegas Raiders pass rusher Malcolm Koonce, who injured a knee shortly before the season opener, will miss the rest of the season, two people close to the situation told the Associated Press on Saturday. The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the...
All-Pro tight end George Kittle ruled out of 49ers’ game against RamsVideo
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — All-Pro tight end George Kittle will miss the San Francisco 49ers’ game Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams with a hamstring injury. Kittle initially was listed as doubtful for the game but was downgraded to out Saturday before the team left for Los Angeles. Kittle reported...
Texans running back Joe Mixon won’t play vs. Vikings because of ankle injuryVideo
HOUSTON — The Houston Texans will be without running back Joe Mixon on Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings because of an ankle injury. The team made the announcement Saturday, saying he would not travel with the team to Minnesota. Mixon was injured early in the third quarter of Houston’s win...
Big plays abound as Eastern Michigan shuts out St. Francis (Pa.) 36-0Video
YPSILANTI, Mich. — David Carter Jr. scored on a 99-yard fumble return, Zyell Griffin caught an 89-yard touchdown pass and Eastern Michigan rolled past St. Francis (Pa.), 36-0, on Saturday. Carter grabbed a loose ball out of a goal-line pileup and raced 99 yards for a touchdown to give the...
Garrett Greene throws 2 late TD passes as West Virginia edges KansasVideo
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Garrett Greene threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Rodney Gallagher with 26 seconds left to lift West Virginia to a 32-28 victory over Kansas in their Big 12 opener Saturday. The Mountaineers (2-2) overcame an 11-point deficit and withstood a lightning delay of about two hours with...
U.S. is more hands-off than usual in the Middle East, as it fears making things worse
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is taking a more hands-off approach than usual during a week of dramatic escalation between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, with top U.S. officials holding back from full-on crisis diplomacy for fear of making matters worse. The public restraint follows explosions of the militant...
What to know about Mark Robinson, the embattled Republican nominee for North Carolina governor
Republican Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor in North Carolina has been rocked by a CNN report that he posted racist and explicit messages on a pornography web site message board more than a decade ago. Some in his party fear the allegations could threaten Donald Trump’s standing in a state...
Israeli strike on school kills at least 22 people, Gaza Health Ministry says
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli strike on a school in northern Gaza on Saturday killed at least 22 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas’ command center in what used to be a school. Another 30 were wounded in...
Zelenskyy hopes for quick U.S. action as more arms depots are hit in Russia
KYIV, Ukraine — A massive Ukrainian drone attack set multiple Russian arms depots ablaze, including one deep inside the country, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for quick action from the United States to send more weapons ahead of his visit to the White House with a multi-point “victory plan.”...
‘The West Wing’ cast visits the White House for a 25th anniversary party
WASHINGTON — With President Joe Biden away from the White House, it was left Friday to another man with Oval Office experience to stand at the front of the Rose Garden and give a rousing call to service. Martin Sheen and others from the cast of “The West Wing,” the...
Analysis: Injuries already piling up, forcing teams to turn to the next man up
The next man up sees plenty of action in the NFL. Injuries already are accruing across the league, knocking out several star players and forcing teams to turn to backups and reserves. Everyone has to be ready because “one play away” is more reality than a cliche in football. The...
Journeyman ties 36-hole record at Wentworth to lead by 2; McIlroy 4 shots backVideo
VIRGINIA WATER, England — Three weeks ago, Matthew Baldwin was laughing at himself for mishitting a drive so badly that the ball went between his legs and advanced just a yard in front of the tee markers. On Friday, the No. 363-ranked journeyman from England was the second-round leader by...
Vincent’s ace and Kozuma’s clutch putts lead Iron Heads to victory over Koepka’s Smash in LIV finaleVideo
CARROLLTON, Texas — Scott Vincent made a hole-in-one that sparked a rally for the lowly Iron Heads, and Jinichiro Kozuma finished it off with two clutch putts to eliminate the Smash team of Brooks Koepka and advance to the semifinals of the LIV Golf Team Championship on Friday. HyFlyers defeated...
Vikings clear Jefferson to play but rule out Addison, Pace and Turner against TexansVideo
EAGAN, Minn. — Justin Jefferson maintained confidence he would play this week despite the bruised quadriceps that forced him out of the previous game. The Minnesota Vikings agreed with their star wide receiver. After practicing Friday without restriction, Jefferson was cleared to play Sunday against Houston. “He has done a...
‘She should be alive’ — Harris spotlights woman’s death to blast abortion bans
ATLANTA — Kamala Harris blasted Donald Trump as a threat to women’s freedoms and their very lives, warning in a speech in the battleground state of Georgia on Friday that Republicans would continue to choke off access to abortion if he returns to the White House. The Democratic vice president’s...
A trio of NASCAR stars in danger of playoff elimination at Bristol cutoff race
The first elimination race of NASCAR’s playoffs has a three-time Daytona 500 winner and a pair of former Cup Series champions in danger of being bumped from title contention Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway. The trio also happen to be among NASCAR’s biggest stars in a 16-driver playoff field...
North Carolina’s governor vetoes private school vouchers and immigration enforcement orders
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed legislation Friday that allocates several hundred million dollars to an expanded private school voucher program and orders sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigrant agents looking for people in the country illegally who have been brought into county jails. Cooper’s veto was...
Appeals court revives challenge to Biden’s Medicare drug price reduction program
NEW ORLEANS — A constitutional challenge to the Biden administration program enabling Medicare to negotiate lower prices for widely used prescription drugs was revived by a federal appeals court in New Orleans in a 2-1 decision Friday. Congress created the program as part of the Inflation Reduction Act passed in...
Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani becomes 1st member of 50-50 club in styleVideo
LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani keeps showing a flair for the dramatic during his historic first season with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Japanese superstar became the only player in major-league history with 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases, doing so with a slew of firsts. Ohtani had the...
Joel Embiid signs 3-year, $193M contract extension with 76ersVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Already an NBA MVP and an Olympic gold medalist, All-Star center Joel Embiid now has until the end of the decade to try to win his first NBA championship with the Philadelphia 76ers. With another maximum contract secured, Embiid wants to chase that title in Philly — and...
Georgia State Election Board approves rule requiring hand count of ballots
ATLANTA — Georgia’s State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand. The board voted 3-2 to approve the rule, going against the advice of the state attorney general’s office, the secretary of state’s office...
