U.S./World Sports category, Page 147
Suns owner Sarver suspended 1 year, fined $10M after probe
NEW YORK — The NBA has suspended Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury owner Robert Sarver for one year, plus fined him $10 million, after an investigation found that he had engaged in what the league called “workplace misconduct and organizational deficiencies.” The findings of the league’s report, published Tuesday, came...
Notre Dame QB Tyler Buchner expected to miss season with injuryVideo
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame quarterback Tyler Buchner is expected to miss the rest of the regular season with an injury to his nonthrowing shoulder that will require surgery. Fighting Irish coach Marcus Freeman said Monday that Buchner has a severe AC joint sprain in his left shoulder. Buchner...
Carlos Alcaraz wins U.S. Open for 1st Slam title, top rankingVideo
NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz used his combination of moxie and maturity to beat Casper Ruud 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (1), 6-3 in the U.S. Open final on Sunday to earn his first Grand Slam title at age 19 and become the youngest man to be ranked No. 1. Alcaraz is...
Bubba Wallace holds off boss, title contenders to win at Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Bubba Wallace won his second career NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday and denied the playoff field an automatic spot in the next round for the second straight week when he held off championship contenders Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell to win at Kansas Speedway. Wallace, who...
Scott Frost fired as Nebraska coach following 1-2 start
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska fired Scott Frost on Sunday, the situation so dire in the once-proud football program that athletic director Trev Alberts made the move only three weeks before the coach’s contract buyout would have been cut in half. The Cornhuskers lost 45-42 to Georgia Southern as a three-touchdown...
Swin Cash, Bob Huggins, George Karl honored Basketball Hall of Fame enshrines its Class of 2022
Tim Hardaway took the stage and told a story of his early days in the NBA, when Golden State teammates Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin would often ask him the same question. “They would ask me, ‘Tim, how great do you want to be?’” Hardaway said. They have their answer....
Carlos Alcaraz faces Casper Ruud at U.S. Open for 1st Slam title, No. 1 ranking
NEW YORK — Sometimes, it can be hard to remember while watching Carlos Alcaraz compete at the U.S. Open that he is just 19. He’ll hit a behind-the-back shot from the baseline — stunning enough, in itself — then gather himself seconds later to sprint forward for a backhand passing...
Iga Swiatek beats Ons Jabeur for 1st US Open title, 3rd Slam
NEW YORK — Good as she’s been this year, Iga Swiatek came to the U.S. Open unsure of what to expect. She complained that women use different, slightly lighter, tennis balls than the men do at Flushing Meadows, where she’d never been past the fourth round. She was trying to...
Marshall upsets No. 8 ND 26-21; Freeman to 0-3 for IrishVideo
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Steven Gilmore returned an interception 37 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter, and Khalan Labron ran for 163 yards as Marshall shocked No. 8 Notre Dame, 26-21, on Saturday, making Marcus Freeman the first Fighting Irish coach to lose his first three games....
Young, No. 1 Alabama escape Texas on late FG 20-19Video
AUSTIN, Texas — First came the twisting, falling backward touchdown throw. Then came the duck and dodge slip away from a sack that turned into a 20-yard scamper. Two fourth-quarter plays by Bryce Young again carried top-ranked Alabama to a victory. The Crimson Tide escaped Texas with 20-19 win Saturday...
Scottie Scheffler overwhelming choice as PGA Tour player of the year
Scottie Scheffler went 58 tournaments over more than two years between getting a PGA Tour card and getting his first win at the Phoenix Open. That turned out to be just the beginning of a year that topped all others in golf. A month later, Scheffler went to No. 1...
WNBA to crown first-time champion: Aces or Sun
The WNBA will crown a first-time champion when Las Vegas and Connecticut meet in the Finals starting Sunday. Both franchises have come close, with Connecticut falling to Washington in the 2019 Finals and Las Vegas to Seattle a year later. It’s the Sun’s fourth trip to the Finals, also advancing...
Chase Elliott only looking forward in NASCAR’s playoff push
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Chase Elliott wasn’t around to see the fireworks at the end of last weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Darlington. Or, for that matter, the fire coming from Kevin Harvick’s car. Elliott’s playoff opener was over early after the regular-season champion lost control of his No....
Ons Jabeur beats shaky Caroline Garcia in U.S. Open semis
NEW YORK — Ons Jabeur reached a second consecutive Grand Slam title match without needing to produce her best tennis Thursday night, taking full advantage of a shaky showing by Caroline Garcia to win their U.S. Open semifinal 6-1, 6-3. The No. 5-seeded Jabeur, a 28-year-old from Tunisia, was the...
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney gets raise, extended through 2031
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Clemson coach Dabo Swinney has a reworked contract that will pay him $115 million over 10 seasons through 2031. Swinney’s enhanced contract follows megadeals given to Alabama’s Nick Saban, Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Ohio State’s Ryan Day earlier this season. Swinney’s average yearly salary of $11.5 million...
Frances Tiafoe 1st American man in U.S. Open semifinals since Andy Roddick in ’06Video
NEW YORK — About 20 minutes after Frances Tiafoe earned the first trip to the U.S. Open semifinals by an American man since 2006, he met up in an Arthur Ashe Stadium foyer with a host of friends, Washington Wizards All-Star guard Bradley Beal among them. Everyone traded hearty hugs...
Wins — and losses — can pile up with sped-up sports betting
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — With legal sports betting in its fifth year in much of the U.S., things are getting much more intense, with increasing ways to bet and more opportunities to rapidly win — and lose — money. When the defending Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams kick off...
More than 300 Pennsylvanians are on FBS college football teams. Here’s where they’re playing
Players from Pennsylvania are represented on Football Bowl Subdivision rosters from coast to coast. Eighty of the 131 teams in the FBS have at least one member from the Keystone State, with Penn State, Pittsburgh and Temple leading the way. Checks of every FBS team roster found 331 players with...
Caroline Garcia tops Coco Gauff in U.S. Open quarterfinalsVideo
NEW YORK — Caroline Garcia never really let Coco Gauff — or the crowd — get fully involved in their U.S. Open quarterfinal Tuesday night. From early on, Garcia played high-stakes tennis and put strokes where she wanted, sometimes right at Gauff’s feet, sometimes well out of reach. In contrast...
Column: Phil Mickelson wins part of the battle, loses the warVideo
Much like his style of golf, Phil Mickelson’s imagination is only as good as his ability to pull off the shot. Mickelson has a right to feel somewhat vindicated by the bold and rapid changes coming to the PGA Tour. The idea — his idea, he can argue — is...
Steph Curry aims to inspire with ‘I Have a Superpower’ book
NEW YORK — On nearly every basketball court around the world —from NBA arenas to elementary school gyms — you’ll see players of all sizes regularly attempting long 3-point shots. There’s one man largely credited with transforming basketball from a must-see above the rim game to box office-long range shooting:...
Frances Tiafoe ends Rafael Nadal’s 22-match Slam streak in 4th round of U.S. OpenVideo
NEW YORK — Frances Tiafoe ended Rafael Nadal’s 22-match winning streak at Grand Slam tournaments by beating the 22-time major champion 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the U.S. Open’s fourth round Monday. Tiafoe is a 24-year-old from Maryland who is seeded 22nd at Flushing Meadows and reached the second major...
NASCAR’s wild regular season rolls over into playoffsVideo
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Buckle up your five-point harness. Looks like NASCAR’s playoffs will be just as wild and unpredictable as its regular season. That came into sharp focus at Darlington Raceway, where Erik Jones became the first non-playoff racer to take the postseason opener in the Southern 500 on Sunday...
Erik Jones holds off ex-JGR teammate Denny Hamlin to win at Darlington
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Erik Jones took the lead when Kyle Busch’s engine blew up, then pulled away from Denny Hamlin after a final restart 20 laps from the end to win the opening NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Darlington Raceway on Sunday night. Hamlin, seeded sixth in the playoffs,...
Champions League is a group-stage sprint; marathon to final
GENEVA — In this unusual season for European soccer, the World Cup in Qatar has split the Champions League into a sprint and a marathon. The group stage kicks off Tuesday and squeezes six rounds of games into eight full weeks, with the last group matches on Nov. 2. The...
