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NASCAR successfully waved the checkered flag on its opening event of the year just before the heavy rains began to drench Los Angeles. That NASCAR crammed the two-day Clash at the Coliseum into a compelling one-day show capped a frenzied week in global motorsports. So many crazy things happened in a one-week span that Lewis Hamilton’s shocking decision to leave …

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Host country Ivory Coast is writing Hollywood scripts at the Africa Cup of Nations. The team has been implausibly avoiding elimination again and again in the tournament and now, somehow, the Elephants have made it to the semifinals. The players held their heads after the latest incredible escape as if they couldn’t believe it, either. …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Hunter Sallis scored 24 points, Kevin Miller added 21 and Cameron Hildreth had a double-double to help hot-shooting Wake Forest beat Syracuse 99-70 Saturday …

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Hannah Hidalgo scored 22 points, Maddy Westbeld had her eighth double-double of the season and No. 14 Notre Dame rolled past Pittsburgh 78-53 …

La Liga Premier se puso al rojo vivo. Arsenal capitalizó dos errores en el segundo tiempo del arquero de Liverpool Alisson Becker para llevarse el domingo una victoria 3-1 ante los líderes de la liga inglesa. Los Gunners escalaron a la segunda posición, dos puntos detrás de Liverpool, después de 23 de los 38 partidos en la que se perfila …

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. PROVO, Utah (AP) — Lauren Fields scored 22 points, Ja’Naiya Quinerly added 19 and No. 23 West Virginia defeated BYU 76-69 on Saturday. The Mountaineers scored the first …

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Georgia Amoore hit a big 3-pointer in overtime and finished with 21 points and 11 assists and No. 17 Virginia Tech rallied last …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Marcus Tsohonis had 18 points in Long Beach State’s 85-76 win over UC San Diego on Saturday night. Tsohonis added five rebounds and …

In reply to the NCAA claiming college sports would be thrown into “disarray” if rules banning name, image and likeness compensation being used as an recruiting inducements were lifted by court order, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a Sunday filing the association is defending “a world that doesn’t exist.” The attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia are seeking …

LEIPZIG, Alemania (AP) — Loïs Openda y Benjamin Šeško anotaron los goles con los que Leipzig puso fin a una racha de tres derrotas al vencer el domingo 2-0 a Union Berlín el domingo en la Bundesliga. El pobre desempeño del Leipzig, especialmente la derrota por 5-2 ante Stuttgart la semana pasada, encendió las conjeturas sobre la continuidad de Marco …