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AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Jan. 14, 2021 03:57 PM EST
Jan. 16 1962 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors finished with 42 points and 24 rebounds, winning NBA honors even though his...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Jan. 11, 2021 10:00 AM EST
Jan. 12 1951 — Ezzard Charles knocks out Lee Oma in the 10th round at Madison Square Garden in New York to retain the heavyweight title. ...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Jan. 07, 2021 09:32 AM EST
Jan. 9 1942 — Joe Louis knocks out Buddy Baer with four seconds left in the first round at Madison Square Garden in New York to retain the...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Dec. 31, 2020 05:02 PM EST
Jan. 6 1951 — The Indianapolis Olympians beat the Rochester Royals 75-73 in six overtimes, the longest game in NBA history. ...

FILE - Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller walks along the sideline during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Tennessee in Nashville, in this Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, file photo. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

Breakthroughs come on, off field in 2020 for women's sports

By Eric Olson Dec. 31, 2020 04:08 PM EST

LSU assistant coaches Ensminger, Johnson retiring

Dec. 22, 2020 09:55 PM EST
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger and defensive line coach Bill Johnson are retiring from their regular coaching duties but...

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 1984, file photo, San Diego Padres Steve Garvey, center, is carried triumphantly off the field by his teammates after hitting a game-winning home run in the ninth inning to beat the Chicago Cubs, in Game 4 of the National League Playoffs in San Diego. The biggest piece of San Diego's sports history is slowly being knocked down and ground to bits. Now the stadium is coming to an unceremonious end, leaving generations of fans feeling melancholy because, due to the coronavirus pandemic, they didn't get to say a proper goodbye to the place where they tailgated with gusto in the massive parking lot before cheering on the Chargers, Padres and Aztecs, or watched myriad other events and concerts. (AP Photo/File)

San Diegans left feeling sad as 'The Murph' comes down

By Bernie Wilson Dec. 22, 2020 05:24 PM EST

Kentucky taps NFL Rams assistant Coen to guide its offense

Dec. 15, 2020 03:45 PM EST
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky coach Mark Stoops has hired Los Angeles Rams assistant Liam Coen as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach to revive the...

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 1971, file photo, Baltimore wide receiver Ray Perkins is surrounded by Cleveland Browns defenders including Jim Houston (82) and John Garlington (50) after picking up 13-yards in the second half of the AFC Championship game in Cleveland. Perkins, who replaced Hall of Famer Bear Bryant as Alabama’s football coach and started the transition with the New York Giants that led to two Super Bowl titles, died Wednesday morning, Dec. 9, 2020, in Tuscaloosa. He was 79. The school announced his passing on Wednesday, and daughter Rachael Perkins posted news of his death on her Facebook page. (AP Photo/File)

Former Alabama, NY Giants coach Ray Perkins dies at 79

Dec. 09, 2020 02:40 PM EST

Ex-Wisconsin receiver surrenders, charged in double-homicide

Feb. 15, 2020 09:11 PM EST
CHICAGO (AP) — A former University of Wisconsin football player who is the brother of a standout in the 2011 Super Bowl surrendered to Chicago police on...

Arizona State names Edwards and Pierce co-coordinators

Feb. 04, 2020 09:18 PM EST
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State has named Marvin Lewis and Antonio Pierce as co-defensive coordinators. Head coach Herm Edwards made the...

XFL releases its debut schedule for 2020 season

By Simmi Buttar Oct. 22, 2019 08:35 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Zorn will return to the sideline to coach the XFL's Seattle team against Washington's when the new league kicks off on Saturday, Feb. 8. ...

The Latest: Millen recovers from heart transplant surgery

Jul. 19, 2019 12:31 PM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest from Big Ten football media days (all times local): 11:25 a.m. Matt Millen will be back in a broadcast booth...

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2007, file photo, New York Giants quarterback Jared Lorenzen (13) hands off to running back Ryan Grant (39) during the team's preseason NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore. Lorenzen, a husky left-handed quarterback who set multiple Kentucky passing and offensive records before backing up Eli Manning on the Giants’ Super Bowl-winning 2007 team, has died. He was 38. A release from the school said Lorenzen’s family announced his death on Wednesday, July 3. (AP Photo/Gail Burton, File)

Record-setting Kentucky quarterback Jared Lorenzen, 38, dies

Jul. 03, 2019 07:58 PM EDT

Wyoming Black 14 members receive award from university

By Bob Moen Feb. 08, 2019 08:23 PM EST
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Seven of 14 black players summarily dismissed from the Wyoming football team nearly 50 years ago returned to the university Friday to dispel...

In this Oct. 30, 2018 photo, Dejah Rondeau, quarterback on the Exeter, N.H., Seahawks youth football team, poses on a field in Exeter, N.H. Rondeau,, 11, a seventh-grade girl from New Hampshire who was bullied for playing quarterback on a youth football team, is going to the Super Bowl courtesy of the New England Patriots. (Ioanna Raptis/Portsmouth Herald via AP)

New Hampshire girl, a QB, gets 2 tickets to Super Bowl

Jan. 31, 2019 03:48 PM EST

Agent Yee, McCaffrey to lead Pacific Pro Football league

By Bernie Wilson Jan. 07, 2019 02:26 PM EST
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Don Yee, the agent for Tom Brady and other NFL stars, and three-time Super Bowl champion Ed McCaffrey will head Pacific Pro Football, a league that...