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Boxing great Manny Pacquiao announces retirement
MANILA, Philippines — Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao is officially hanging up his gloves. The eight-division world champion and Philippines senator on Wednesday announced his retirement from the ring. “As I hang up my boxing gloves, I would like to thank the whole world, especially the Filipino people for supporting Manny...
Michael Cunningham: There’s an opening for improved Georgia Tech in wild ACC
The ACC is a mess. That’s nothing new for the Coastal Division, where Georgia Tech plays. The difference is that Clemson’s long-time lock on the Atlantic is slipping. The Tigers might figure things out eventually. They are vulnerable now. There’s real hope for the ACC’s other teams to break through....
No. 7 Cincinnati gets back to work for No. 9 Notre Dame
CINCINNATI — Luke Fickell understands that idle weeks can come in handy during a grueling college football season. He’s just not sure that the week off enjoyed by his Cincinnati players came at the best time. The No. 7 Bearcats were off last week after improving to 3-0 by coming...
Doug Ferguson: Uncertain future for Europe’s Ryder Cup teamVideo
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Ian Poulter is never short on emotion in the Ryder Cup, usually with his eyes as big as golf balls. This was different. He crouched with his head bowed for the longest time on the side of the 16th green at Whistling Straits after winning a match...
Struggles and surprises so far among Big 12 quarterbacksVideo
There have been boos in Oklahoma and frustration in Iowa. And down in Texas, a gigantic new scoreboard is lighting up like an old pinball machine. Much of the quarterback play in the Big 12 so far this season is not what anyone expected. The league’s best are struggling, while...
Several Big Ten coaches searching for answers at quarterbackVideo
Illinois coach Bret Bielema needed one word to answer whether he considered changing quarterbacks last weekend. No. The most oft-repeated question in football has made a resounding resurgence around the Big Ten after another weekend filled with less than stellar quarterback play. “We will internally name a starting quarterback Tuesday...
What to watch in the NBA, as training camps are set to open
The first practices of the season in the NBA are here, with teams set to hit the floor on Tuesday to formally begin getting ready for the 2021-22 campaign. A six-pack of things to watch as things get started: THE CHAMPS Milwaukee is running it back. The Bucks used eight...
Analysis: U.S. has to win in Europe to turn tide in Ryder Cup
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Europe had players who weren’t even born the last time it was beaten this badly in the Ryder Cup by what was clearly a superior American team on Midwestern soil. This wasn’t Sunday at Whistling Straits. This was five years ago at Hazeltine, where the 17-11 outcome...
Illinois man wins marathon after 2 leaders take wrong route
MOLINE, Ill. — An Illinois man unexpectedly won the Quad Cities Marathon this weekend when the two Kenyan runners who had far outpaced him were disqualified after being diverted off the course by a race volunteer bicyclist. Tyler Pence crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 15 minutes, 6 seconds...
Resounding U.S. Ryder Cup win could be start of something big
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The kids are more than all right. After America’s youngest Ryder Cup team handed Europe its biggest beating ever, they’re more than a little cocky, too. Two decades-and-counting worth of frustration poured out alongside plastic cups filled with champagne after the 19-9 final score was posted Sunday...
Denny Hamlin winning early, often in Cup Series playoff race
LAS VEGAS — Denny Hamlin will reach the third round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs next month having faced the make-or-break pressure of the postseason only twice. Ending the first race of each postseason round in victory lane can do wonders for the blood pressure of a driver and...
Denny Hamlin emerges as serious contender for NASCAR championship after Vegas winVideo
LAS VEGAS — Denny Hamlin earned his first career victory at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sunday night, holding off Chase Elliott and kicking off the second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs with his second win in September. Hamlin got his first victory of the season in the...
Lewis Hamilton wins 100th F1 race to take lead over Max VerstappenVideo
SOCHI, Russia — To win his 100th Formula One race, Lewis Hamilton drew on much of his vast experience from the first 99. Hamilton used his overtaking skills, strategic thinking and driving skills in the rain to fight back from seventh place on the first lap to a landmark victory...
Americans win Ryder Cup in a rout, send Europe a messageVideo
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — Steve Stricker hoisted the Ryder Cup, gold and glorious, for all to see. Then, he quickly huddled his young American team together to make sure all 12 players had their hands on it. Nine of them had never touched the 17-inch trophy in a moment of celebration....
Clemson falls to No. 25 in AP poll; Penn State moves up to No. 4
Clemson tumbled to No. 25 in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, snapping its streak of 97 straight weeks in the top 10. The Tigers (2-2) lost for the second time this season Saturday — falling in double overtime to North Carolina State — and dropped 16 spots...
Police: Utah football player killed in house party shooting
SALT LAKE CITY — A University of Utah football player has died in in a shooting at a house party early Sunday, Salt Lake City police said. The shooting that killed Aaron Lowe occurred just after midnight, only hours after the Utes beat Washington State 24-13, and less than a...
This date in sports history: Sept. 26Video
1942 — Jockey Club stewards revoke Eddie Arcaro’s license for one year after his display of “rough riding” aboard odds-on favorite Occupation in the Cowdin Stakes on Sept. 19, in which he attempted to injure a fellow rider during the race. 1961 — New York Yankee Roger Maris ties Babe...
N.C. State holds on in double OT, stuns No. 9 ClemsonVideo
RALEIGH, N.C. — N.C. State forced D.J. Uiagalelei into a fourth-down incompletion in the second overtime to beat ninth-ranked Clemson, 27-21, on Saturday, an outcome that shakes up the ACC race and deals a huge blow to the Tigers’ College Football Playoff hopes. Uiagalelei slightly overthrew Justyn Ross near the...
Americans take largest lead against Europe in Ryder CupVideo
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The pressure and drama so typical of the Ryder Cup finally arrived Saturday, with one big difference. The suspense was whether Europe could try to make a game of it. The Americans held their own over the final hour as Dustin Johnson completed a perfect week of...
Larson returns to Las Vegas looking for another victoryVideo
Overlooked in the post-race spat between Kevin Harvick and Chase Elliott was yet another trip to victory lane for Kyle Larson, NASCAR’s championship favorite. As Larson celebrated his Cup Series-high sixth points win of the season, Hendrick Motorsports teammate Elliott jawed with Harvick following their on-track dustup at Bristol Motor...
This date in sports history: Sept. 25Video
1866 — Jerome Park, named for its founder, Leonard Jerome, opens in the Bronx in New York. Jerome, seeking to emulate the British racing system, also establishes the American Jockey Club, precursor to the present Jockey Club, formed in 1894. 1920 — Molly Bjurstedt Mallory wins her fifth title in...
Column: How to win a Ryder Cup? Have the best players
SHEYBOYGAN, Wis. — Ever since the Europeans started winning Ryder Cups in bunches, various brain trusts from the American side have tried to figure out ways to turn the tables. They’ve made pods, studied pairings like they were complicated algorithms and added so many assistant captains that you half expected...
Americans take a 6-2 lead after 1st day of Ryder Cup
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The Americans were looking for a fresh start in the Ryder Cup with their youngest team ever, and it worked out even better Friday than they imagined at windswept Whistling Straits. Dustin Johnson and Xander Schauffele won two matches each, and all six U.S. rookies contributed at...
Americans prepare for the ‘big one’ at home Ryder CupVideo
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The Americans are running out of excuses in the Ryder Cup. They bring another loaded team to Whistling Straits, 11 of them among the top 16 players in the world. Not only is it a home game, the travel restrictions because of covid-19 make this crowd even...
This day in sports history: Sept. 23Video
1926 — Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey with a 10-round decision to retain the world heavyweight title. 1952 — Rocky Marciano knocks out Jersey Joe Walcott in the 13th round to retain the world heavyweight title. 1979 — St. Louis’ Lou Brock steals his 938th base to break the record...
