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PGA Tour releases 2025 FedEx Cup season schedule
The PGA Tour released the 2025 FedEx Cup regular season and playoffs schedule on Wednesday.,The 36-event regular season begins with the first of eight signature events, The Sentry in Hawaii from Jan. 2-5.,The regular season concludes with the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., from July 31-Au...
Madden 25's Most Underrated Players: Hating on Puka Nacua, No Respect for Kyle Hamilton
Madden 25 has officially released, and these are the most underrated players in the game, including Puka Nacua and Kyle Hamilton....
Georgia, Ohio State lead preseason AP Top 25 poll
Georgia ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press preseason Top 25 college football poll released Monday.,Coach Kirby Smart's Bulldogs received 46 of the 62 first-place votes, with 15 going to No. 2 Ohio State and one to No. 3 Oregon. Texas and Alabama round out the top five.,Due to realignment and the b...
Ty Majeski wins second consecutive race in regular-season finale
RICHMOND, Va. -- Ty Majeski took the lead on a restart with eight laps remaining in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series regular season finale Clean Harbors 250 at Richmond (Va.) Raceway to hoist his second consecutive race trophy.,Majeski's No. 98 ThorSport Racing Ford led Christian Eckes' No. 19 Chev...
L.A. mayor: Public transportation only way to go to 2028 Games
Residents of car-dependent Los Angeles -- and visitors -- will be asked to go without their wheels when the city hosts the 2028 Summer Olympics.,Karen Bass, the city's mayor, told reporters in Paris on Saturday that a plan is in place to improve public transit and to ask businesses to shift to a rem...
U.S. men disqualifed in 4x100 relay
PARIS -- Canada won the men's Olympic 4x100m relay on Friday after the favored foursome from the United States messed up a changeover and were disqualified.,Andre de Grasse ran a superb last leg to bring the Tokyo silver medalists home in 37.50 seconds for their second gold in the event following th...
US men DQ'd in 4x100 relay
PARIS -- Canada won the men's Olympic 4x100m relay on Friday after the favored foursome from the United States messed up a changeover and were disqualified.,Andre de Grasse ran a superb last leg to bring the Tokyo silver medalists home in 37.50 seconds for their second gold in the event following th...
Sha'Carri Richardson, US sprints to gold in 4x100 relay
PARIS -- The United States won the gold medal in the Olympic women's 4x100 meters relay on Friday, their 12th title in the event ,after Great Britain botched their final exchange.,The U.S. team of Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Paris Olympic 200-meter champion Gabby Thomas and Sha'Carri Richards...
Lydia Ko, Morgane Metraux share lead entering final round in Paris
Switzerland's Morgane Metraux rolled in a 15-foot eagle putt on the 18th on Friday to maintain a share of the lead entering the final round of the women's Olympic golf tournament at Le Golf National south of Paris.,Metraux and Lydia Ko of New Zealand are tied at 9 under through three rounds but a su...
Kathryn Plummer, US spike Brazil, will play Italy for gold
PARIS -- The United States beat Brazil in a thrilling five-setter at the Paris Games on Thursday to move into a second straight Olympic women's volleyball final in what was a rematch of the gold medal contest from Tokyo three years ago.,Although the U.S. brushed Brazil aside 3-0 in Tokyo, the South ...
American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone sets WR, claims gold in 400 hurdles
PARIS -- American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone obliterated her own 400 meters hurdles world record with a time of 50.37 seconds to retain her Olympic title on Thursday.,Anna Cockrell of the United States took silver and Dutchwoman Femke Bol claimed bronze.,McLaughlin-Levrone lowered her previous mark o...
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo beats Noah Lyles, US trio in 200M
PARIS -- Letsile Tebogo became the first African to win the Olympic 200-meter title on Thursday when he powered clear of American duo Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles in 19.46 seconds to claim Botswana's first gold medal.,Lyles, the gold medalist in the 100 meters, embraced Tebogo and shuffled toward t...
Victor Wembanyama, France oust Germany; home game for gold Sunday
PARIS -- Victor Wembanyama could get his wish of a gold medal home game against LeBron James and Team USA.,Bolstered by an electric home crowd, Wembanyama and his turbo-charged French men's basketball team won a 73-69 thriller over Germany on Thursday to send the host through to the Paris Olympics g...
Kathryn Plummer, US spike Brazil to book return to volleyball final Sunday
PARIS -- The United States beat Brazil in a thrilling five-setter at the Paris Games on Thursday to move into a second straight Olympic women's volleyball final in what was a rematch of the gold medal contest from Tokyo three years ago.,Although the U.S. brushed Brazil aside 3-0 in Tokyo, the South ...
Morgane Metraux moves into Olympics lead; Nelly Korda's quadruple sinks strong round
GUYANCOURT, France -- Switzerland's Morgane Metraux led the Olympic women's golf contest after Thursday's second round, propelled by a sensational front-nine holes, while French overnight leader Celine Boutier was among those to suffer on a testing course.,The 27-year-old Swiss had two eagles and fo...
Sweden's Victor Johansson claims toxic Seine causing illness, withdraws from 10km
PARIS -- Swedish marathon swimmer Victor Johansson has pulled out of the Olympic men's 10km event scheduled for Friday citing concerns about the water quality of the Seine river, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported.,Johansson told the paper triathletes had fallen sick after swimming in the urb...
China's Xie Siyi returns from long layoff, defends 3M diving gold
PARIS -- China's Xie Siyi successfully defended his gold medal in three-meter springboard diving at the Paris Olympics on Thursday despite a two-year break from the sport since he claimed top honors in Tokyo.,Teammate Wang Zongyuan took silver while Mexico's Osmar Olvera got the bronze medal.,Xie, 2...
Noah Lyles qualifies second, behind Letsile Tebogo, in 200-meter dash
PARIS -- Botswana's Letsile Tebogo set the fastest time in the men's Olympic 200 meters semifinals on Wednesday, proving his intent to upset American Noah Lyles' quest for a sprint double.,Tebogo, last year's world championship bronze medalist, overtook the American 100-meter champion on the bend an...
U.S. men wary of third meeting with Serbia, Nikola Jokic
No introductions are needed when the United States and Serbia meet in the semifinals of the men's basketball tournament on Thursday at the Paris Olympics., ,Serbia features plenty of NBA talent -- Denver Nuggets star center and three-time league MVP Nikola Jokic, Atlanta Hawks guard Bogdan Bogdanovi...
American Quincy Hall storms from behind to claim 400-meter gold
Saint-Denis, FRANCE -- Quincy Hall produced an incredible late surge to overtake Great Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith and take a first Olympic 400-meter gold for the United States since 2008 in another scintillating race on Wednesday.,Hudson-Smith seemed on course to win his country's first gold ove...