U.S./World Sports category, Page 190
Now healthy, Burrell grad AJ Corrado off to strong start for Brown wrestling
AJ Corrado spent the first few months of his college career at Brown recovering from a torn labrum, so needless to say he was eager to get on the mat. In total, he spent six months rehabbing with trainers prior to getting back into the wrestling room, but that patience...
Miserable day on slopes for American stars Mikaela Shiffrin, Red Gerard
BEIJING — It was a miserable day on the mountains outside Beijing for American stars Mikaela Shiffrin and Red Gerard. Shiffrin’s opening race in the Beijing Olympics ended quickly with a rare mistake and a rare DNF — Did Not Finish. Favored to defend her gold medal in the giant...
Canada, ROC women mask up on Olympic ice amid covid concerns
BEIJING — It’s hard enough facing a deep and talented hockey powerhouse such as Canada in normal circumstances. Try doing it wearing a mask, Russian forward Alexandra Vafina joked. “Against Canada with the mask on? It was an experience,” she said following a 6-1 loss in a Group A preliminary...
USA Luge’s men’s program looks to the future after OlympicsVideo
BEIJING — USA Luge’s Chris Mazdzer had X-rays on his aching right foot a few days ago, and the results were as expected. It’s still broken. With that, it became official: The U.S. men’s luge team was never fully healthy at any point this season. There were no medals for...
Defending Olympic champ Mikaela Shiffrin out of giant slalomVideo
BEIJING — Defending Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin missed a gate early in the first run of the giant slalom at the Beijing Games on Monday and was disqualified from the event. Coming around a left-turn gate, she lost control, slid and fell on her side. The 26-year-old Shiffrin still could...
NASCAR scores win with successful exhibition race inside LA ColiseumVideo
LOS ANGELES — Joey Logano won the exhibition Busch Light Clash on a temporary quarter-mile track built inside Memorial Coliseum for a made-for-TV spectacular intended to hype NASCAR’s upcoming season. NASCAR moved the Clash to Los Angeles from Daytona International Speedway, its only home since its 1979 inception, as part...
Tom Hoge surges past Jordan Spieth at Pebble Beach for 1st PGA Tour winVideo
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Another cliff-hanger at Pebble Beach, this one memorable for Tom Hoge delivering all the right shots on the back nine to surge past Jordan Spieth and win the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for his first PGA Tour title. Hoge, one of seven players who had at...
Technical, tactical slalom skier Mikaela Shiffrin seeks 3rd Olympics gold medalVideo
BEIJING — Bode Miller remembers first seeing Mikaela Shiffrin ski, more than a decade ago. She was in her early teens, not yet old enough to compete at the sport’s top level. He already owned a handful of Olympic medals and a pair of World Cup overall titles. The Americans...
Strong winds postpone start of men’s downhill at OlympicsVideo
BEIJING — The men’s downhill at the Beijing Olympics was postponed a day because of wind that gusted at up to 40 mph at the top of the course when the race was supposed to start Sunday, delaying the opening event of the Alpine schedule. The downhill now shifts to...
Cavaliers agree to acquire guard Caris LeVert from PacersVideo
CLEVELAND — Pulling off a major move before the NBA trade deadline, the Cleveland Cavaliers have agreed in principle to acquire guard Caris LeVert from with Indiana. Pacers coach Rick Carlisle confirmed the proposed deal Sunday night shortly before the teams played. “Cleveland just picked up a heck of a...
Miami hiring Michigan’s Josh Gattis as offensive coordinator
Miami is hiring Michigan offensive coordinator Josh Gattis to run new coach Mario Cristobal’s offense with the Hurricanes. A person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Sunday that Gattis was leaving Michigan after three seasons to join Cristobal’s staff. The person spoke on condition of anonymity...
Pickett, Ridder help lead National to 20-10 Senior Bowl winVideo
MOBILE, Ala. — Cincinnati’s Desmond Ridder threw two touchdown passes, and the National team had eight sacks in a 20-10 victory over the American team in the Senior Bowl on Saturday. Ridder helped finish off a job started by Pitt’s Kenny Pickett, a Heisman Trophy finalist who was 6 of...
Therese Johaug wins 1st gold medal of Beijing Olympics in skiathlon
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Therese Johaug won the first gold medal of the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, finishing first in the women’s 15-kilometer cross-country skiathlon. The Norwegian fought wind and frigid temperatures to ski away from a chase group of four, winning in 44 minutes, 13.7 seconds. “I’ve trained thousands of...
Women’s hockey world still playing catch-up to Canada, U.S.
BEIJING — Immediately after one of Finland’s most lopsided losses in international women’s hockey history, general manager Tuula Puputti marveled with envy at the depth of talent Canada has assembled. She began by referencing Canada’s top line centered by captain Marie-Philip Poulin, who has drawn comparisons to Sidney Crosby for...
Seamus Power sets 36-hole record at Pebble to lead by 5Video
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Even for being located next to the ocean, the iconic finishing hole at Pebble Beach is short for par 5s by modern standards. That didn’t keep Seamus Power, who has plenty of pop, from taking an iron off the tee and playing it as a three-shot...
Duke’s Coach K making last trip to UNC in famed rivalry
The famed rivalry between No. 9 Duke and North Carolina is changing. One Hall of Fame coach is gone, with the Tar Heels’ Roy Williams retiring last spring and former UNC player and assistant Hubert Davis replacing him. On Saturday, outgoing Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski will make his final trip...
Column: Golf’s $800 million man says PGA Tour is greedyVideo
Phil Mickelson just ripped the PGA Tour for what he called “obnoxious greed.” Now that — pardon the expression — is rich. “I know I will be criticized,” Mickelson said earlier this week, soon after arriving in the golf-forsaken Saudi Arabian metropolis of King Abdullah Economic City — you cannot...
NASCAR bet more than $1 million to bring cars into ColiseumVideo
LOS ANGELES — NASCAR’s top stars have seen the Los Angeles Coliseum on television, and they know what it looks like as a football stadium. But as a racetrack? This they had to see right away, up close as soon as they arrived in Los Angeles. Much of the NASCAR...
Statehouses latest front in college athlete recruiting warsVideo
With millions of dollars pouring into endorsements for college athletes, the latest battleground in the recruiting wars is the statehouse: A handful of states are already considering changing barely dried rules to help their flagship schools land — or keep — top prospects. Over the past three years, at least...
China’s pandemic Olympics begin, with lockdown and boycotts
BEIJING — China, which used its first Olympics to amplify its international aspirations, invited the world back Friday — sort of — for the pandemic era’s second Games, this time as an emboldened and more powerful nation whose government’s authoritarian turn provoked some countries’ leaders into staying home. Chinese president...
Gorgeous day at Pebble and Tom Hoge has a scorecard to matchVideo
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Tom Hoge enjoys being at Pebble Beach even in a frigid wind and relentless rain. He loved it even more Thursday in brilliant sunshine, especially with nine birdies on his card. Hoge began his day along the Pacific Ocean with a 30-foot birdie putt on No....
Team event up 1st as Olympic figure skating beginsVideo
BEIJING — The team competition in Olympic figure skating always has been a three-team scramble for the podium. There’s the Russians, who won gold at the event’s 2014 debut in Sochi and silver in Pyeongchang. There’s the Canadians, who took silver before winning gold four years later. And there’s the...
Olympic spotlight back on China for a covid-tinged GamesVideo
BEIJING — Long before the global pandemic upended sports and the world in general, the 2022 Winter Olympics faced unsettling problems. It started with the fact that hardly anybody wanted to host them. Beijing ended up solving that problem, but only after four European cities thought about it and dropped...
Report: Mickelson accuses PGA Tour of ‘obnoxious greed’Video
KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY, Saudi Arabia — Phil Mickelson claims the “obnoxious greed” of the PGA Tour and its ownership of media rights are why players are tempted by the prospects of rival tours, such as one backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, Golf Digest reported. Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau...
Hall of Fame coach Bill Fitch dies, led Celtics to ’81 titleVideo
CLEVELAND — Bill Fitch, who guided the Boston Celtics to one of their championships during a Hall of Fame coaching career spanning three decades, has died. He was 89. A two-time NBA Coach of the Year, Fitch died Wednesday in Lake Conroe, Texas. Fitch’s daughter, Marcy Ann Coville, told Indiana...
