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Tiger Woods undergoes surgery on left knee for minor cartilage damageVideo
A season that began with Tiger Woods celebrating a fifth Masters title ended with a fifth surgery on his left knee. This one wasn’t serious. Woods said Tuesday on Twitter he had arthroscopic surgery last week to repair what he described as minor cartilage damage. In a statement Woods released...
NWHL going outdoors for December game in Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y.— The National Women’s Hockey League is taking its game outdoors with the Buffalo Beauts scheduled to host the Metropolitan Riveters on Dec. 28 in what’s being called the “Buffalo Believes Classic.” The game will be played at RiverWorks, a year-round bar/entertainment complex located on the banks of the...
Column: No majors, but major finish by Rory McIlroy
ATLANTA — Rory McIlroy never felt richer than when he knocked in a 6-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the FedEx Cup. Only it had nothing to do with the money. It was never about $15 million. Even before he teed off in the Tour Championship —...
Serena Williams cruises past Maria Sharapova in U.S. Open
NEW YORK — Playing her first match at the U.S. Open since last year’s loss in a chaotic, controversial final, Serena Williams played nearly perfect tennis and beat Maria Sharapova, 6-1, 6-1, in a contest devoid of drama Monday night. Williams stretched her winning streak to 19 matches against Sharapova...
Police: Miami fan injures Florida band director after game
ORLANDO, Fla. — Police say a University of Miami fan shoved the director of the University of Florida’s marching band to the ground after the season opening football game between the two schools in Orlando. Orlando police spokeswoman Wanda Miglio tells news outlets that a Miami fan began pushing her...
Rory McIlroy has 15 million reasons to smile after winning Tour ChampionshipVideo
The crowd rushing to circle the 18th green. The steady chants. It all sounded familiar to Rory McIlroy at East Lake, with one big difference. On Sunday, it was all for him. A year after he was an overlooked bystander as Tiger Woods celebrated the missing piece of his comeback...
Louisiana wins 1st Little League title, beating Curacao 8-0Video
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Louisiana claimed its first Little League World Series title as Marshall Louque hit a pair of doubles and drove in three runs, while pitcher Egan Prather threw a two-hit shutout Sunday to lead a team from River Ridge past Curacao 8-0. Egan shut down a powerful Curacao...
Big names expected to prevail at U.S. Open
NEW YORK — At first glance, this U.S. Open might appear as unpredictable as any. From recent injuries to players such as Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka and Simona Halep, to a bit of pre-tournament shakiness from Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, to Rafael Nadal’s issues on hard courts, to the...
Knapp set for second round of U.S. Senior Amateur
Oakmont native Sean Knapp is set to tee off at 2:05 p.m. Sunday in the second round of stroke play at the U.S. Senior Amateur at Old Chatham Golf Club in Durham, N.C. The Hannastown Golf Club member shot a 76 (4 over) in Saturday’s first round and landed in...
No. 8 Florida opens season by edging rival Hurricanes
ORLANDO, Fla. — Feleipe Franks made up for three turnovers by accounting for three touchdowns, doing just enough to help No. 8 Florida beat Miami, 24-20, on Saturday night in the opening game of the college football season. Franks threw for 254 yards and two scores and ran for another...
UPDATE: Six injured in lightning strike that halts PGA Tour Championship
ATLANTA — Six people were injured Saturday when lightning struck a 60-foot pine at the Tour Championship where they were taking cover from rain, Atlanta police said. The third round of the season-ending PGA Tour event had been suspended for about 30 minutes because of storms in the area, and...
Djokovic not worried about blisters as he prepares to defend U.S. Open title
NEW YORK — During a break in practice two days before opening his U.S. Open title defense, Novak Djokovic pulled off his blue shoe and white sock so a trainer could look at his right foot. Did it again a little while later. And then, toward the end of Saturday’s...
Reynolds: US basketball seems vulnerable for World Cup
The U.S. men’s basketball team had never lost to Australia. It had gone nearly 13 years without losing a game with an NBA-stocked roster. It was in the midst of the longest winning streak in team history. Until Saturday. The Americans went Down Under, and went down. Australia beat the...
Althea Gibson honored with statue at site of U.S. Open
NEW YORK — Althea Gibson basked in a ticker-tape parade in New York a decade before Arthur Ashe won the 1968 U.S. Open. Gibson won 11 majors in three years from 1956-58, including the French Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open singles titles. She integrated two sports — tennis and golf...
High school football helps wildfire-ravaged Paradise gain sense of normalcy
PARADISE, Calif. — It’s hard to recognize Paradise. It is heaps of melted metal. It is scorched pine trees. It is a place where things used to be, before a fire destroyed nearly 19,000 structures and killed 86 people last November. But, on Friday night, Paradise looked like home again....
Lightning strike at Tour Championship causes fan injuries
ATLANTA — Five people were injured Saturday when lightning struck a 60-foot pine at the Tour Championship, showering the area with debris, Atlanta police said. The third round of the season-ending PGA Tour event had been suspended for about 30 minutes because of storms in the area, and fans were...
Brooks Koepka leads at East Lake as stars get some separation
ATLANTA — Brooks Koepka took a one-shot lead with a two-putt birdie on the final hole Friday at the Tour Championship. Koepka, the No. 3 seed in the FedEx Cup who started the tournament at 7-under-par, had a 3-under 67 and reached 13-under in the new format where the score...
Defending champion Osaka feeling refreshed ahead of U.S. Open
NEW YORK — Everything felt better for Naomi Osaka once she returned to the U.S. Open. The knee injury that forced her to retire during her last match no longer throbs. The disappointment with her tennis that led her last month to say she wasn’t having fun playing has been...
No. 8 Florida, Miami embrace spotlight as they start season
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida and Miami have the college football stage to themselves for 3½ hours Saturday, a new chapter in their once-heated and storied rivalry. The eighth-ranked Gators and the rebuilding Hurricanes will usher in the 2019 season inside a packed stadium in Orlando, surrounded by sideline celebrities and...
Upper St. Clair’s Josh Matheny captures 200 breaststroke gold at world championships
Josh Matheny is a world champion. The Upper St. Clair junior placed first in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke Friday at the FINA World Junior (18 and under) Swimming Championships at the Danube Arena in Budapest Hungary. Matheny, 16, swam to a time of 2 minutes, 9.40 seconds and took the...
Mississippi State names Penn State transfer Tommy Stevens as starting QB
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State named Penn State graduate transfer Tommy Stevens its starting quarterback. Stevens had been competing with junior Keytaon Thompson for the right to start the Aug. 31 season opener against Louisiana-Lafayette at New Orleans. Mississippi State coach Joe Moorhead has plenty of familiarity with Stevens from...
All Elite Wrestling, competitor to WWE, to bring live taping to Pittsburgh
On Oct. 2, All Elite Wrestling will debut its weekly live pro wrestling show on TNT. This has been the buzz of the wrestling world since the group that formed less than a year ago has come out the gates with tremendous momentum. It will serve as weekly competition to...
Justin Thomas loses cushion, shares lead in Tour Championship
ATLANTA — Xander Schauffele was six shots behind before he ever hit a shot Thursday in the new scoring format for the Tour Championship. His goal was to keep his head down, play good golf and see where he stood to par at the end of two days. The TV...
XFL reveals names, logos for 8 teams ahead of league’s 2020 relaunch
The XFL has names for its eight teams, now it needs players. The league, which begins play in February, revealed team logos and names Wednesday. The teams are the Los Angeles Wildcats, New York Guardians, DC Defenders, Dallas Renegades, Houston Roughnecks, St. Louis BattleHawks, Seattle Dragons and Tampa Bay Vipers....
New format greets players at Tour Championship for the 1st time
ATLANTA — Justin Thomas has a two-shot lead, and the Tour Championship hasn’t even started. If that seems difficult to fathom, consider someone could win this week without having the lowest 72-hole score. And remember, such a radical change was to make the FedEx Cup finale easier to follow. The...
