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Ed Jones will return to IndyCar after a one-year absence for a second stint driving for Dale Coyne Racing.
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Josh Heupel is leaving UCF to become the next Tennessee coach, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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ROME (AP) — Andy Murray has entered a lower-tier challenger tournament in Italy next month after withdrawing from the Australian Open with the coronavirus.
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ROME (AP) — The IOC is adamant the Tokyo Olympics will be held this year despite the pandemic. So, too, are Japanese organizers.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Former Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa signed with Greek club PAOK Thessaloniki on Wednesday.
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LONDON (AP) — Two Russian tennis players were banned from the sport for life on Wednesday for match-fixing, including incidents when they played together as doubles partners.
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LONDON (AP) — Arsenal has signed Norway midfielder Martin Odegaard on loan from Real Madrid for the rest of the season, the latest step in the career of a player who is looking to fulfill the promise he showed after making his international debut as a 15-year-old.
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European football teams face losing up to $10 billion due to disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest forecast of the umbrella organization for clubs on the continent.
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Northern Iowa (4-10, 2-6) vs. Missouri State (9-2, 5-2)
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No. 1 Gonzaga (15-0, 6-0) vs. San Diego (2-6, 1-3)
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Fairleigh Dickinson (3-8, 2-3) vs. St. Francis (Pa.) (3-9, 2-6)
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Southern Illinois-Edwardsville (5-5, 3-1) vs. Southeast Missouri (4-10, 2-6)
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Morehead State (11-6, 8-2) vs. Jacksonville State (10-5, 6-3)
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Louisiana Tech (12-5, 5-3) vs. Southern Miss (7-8, 3-5)
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Tennessee State (3-10, 2-8) vs. Murray State (6-7, 3-5)
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MINNEAPOLIS — Focusing on making the state's public lands and outdoor activities more welcoming to non-traditional audiences, including people of color, the state Department of Natural Resources held its first-ever virtual roundtable, or stakeholders meeting, on Friday.
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CHICAGO — While the Tampa Bay Buccaneers may be the first team officially to play a Super Bowl in their home city, historians note Chicago also hosted Super Bowl XX when the Bears played the New England Patriots 35 years ago.
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SAN DIEGO — The path to gender-busting history for the Century Club, the San Diego group behind the Farmers Insurance Open, began … well … at a portable toilet.
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ATLANTA — The NBA was the first major domestic sports league to shut down operations because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. It safely and successfully concluded its season inside a so-called bubble at Walt Disney World last summer. The NBA did all this while being socially responsible. N…
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Kyle Shanahan in his first draft as the 49ers head coach in 2017 passed on Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes, instead opting for Stanford defensive lineman Solomon Thomas with the No. 3 pick. And after losing the Super Bowl less than three years later with Jimmy Garoppolo under center, Shan…
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All five hunters in last fall’s third annual Wisconsin elk hunt successfully harvested a bull, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, which will be holding another elk hunt in fall 2021.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It's not that Jamie Little doesn't like stick-and-ball sports, she said. It's just that motorsports are what she loves.
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ST. LOUIS — Dear fellow members of the Tom Brady Detractors Club,
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MINNEAPOLIS — From sharing rides on outings to taking fewer if any overnight trips to the field, birders have felt limited by the scourge of the coronavirus pandemic.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Horatio Alger Jr. was born in 1832 and died in 1899. In between, and in the years since, more than 20 million books bearing his authorship have been sold, most premised on the same plot: Virtuous boy is honest and hardworking, boy makes the most of a lucky break, boy enjoys gre…
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Brooklyn Nets (11-8, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Atlanta Hawks (9-8, sixth in the Eastern Conference)
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Dallas Mavericks (8-9, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (13-4, second in the Western Conference)
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Washington Wizards (3-10, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (5-10, 14th in the Western Conference)
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Portland Trail Blazers (9-7, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (7-9, 11th in the Western Conference)
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Pittsburgh Penguins (4-2-1, fourth in the East Division) vs. Boston Bruins (4-1-1, second in the East Division)
