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Former NBA player Ronald Glen Davis has avoided jail time after pleading no contest to a charge he attacked a man outside a Los Angeles-area nightclub last year December 12, 2019, 9:04 PM 1 min read LOS ANGELES — Former NBA player Ronald Glen Davis avoided jail time after pleading no contest to a charge […]

Baseball’s winter meetings lacking spectacular swaps will be remembered as the Scott Boras show By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer December 12, 2019, 8:32 PM 4 min read SAN DIEGO — A mostly dreary winter meetings lacking spectacular swaps will be remembered as the Scott Boras show. Baseball’s most prominent agent dominated each of the

Major League Baseball will start testing for opioids and cocaine By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer December 12, 2019, 8:53 PM 4 min read SAN DIEGO — Major League Baseball will start testing for opioids and cocaine, but only players who do not cooperate with their treatment plans will be subject to discipline. Marijuana will

BEREA, Ohio — If Odell Beckham is making plans to bolt the Browns, the flashy wide receiver hasn’t told his best friend. Jarvis Landry thinks he would know, and he doesn’t believe Beckham is going anywhere. Landry said Thursday that Beckham has given him no reason to feel he wants to be traded after just

San Jose Sharks general manager Doug Wilson hopes bringing in a new voice as coach will help provide a needed spark for his struggling team By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer December 12, 2019, 11:16 PM 5 min read SAN JOSE, Calif. — Flying back home from a winless road trip, general manager Doug Wilson

Tim Thomas says he couldn’t watch hockey for years after retiring as a result of concussions damaging his brain By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer December 12, 2019, 10:03 PM 2 min read WASHINGTON — Former NHL goaltender Tim Thomas said Thursday that his post-concussion syndrome symptoms were so severe that he couldn’t make basic

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott says an expanded College Football Playoff would alleviate the pressure it puts on conferences that get left out By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer December 12, 2019, 8:55 PM 4 min read NEW YORK — A Pac-12 team has made the College Football Playoff just twice in six seasons

New Jersey’s fast-growing sports betting market continued to set monthly records in November as more than a half-billion dollars’ worth of wagers were placed By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press December 12, 2019, 8:32 PM 3 min read ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — New Jersey’s fast-growing sports betting market continued to set monthly records in November as

A professional golfer was one of 124 people arrested in Florida in a prostitution and human-trafficking sting December 12, 2019, 6:38 PM 1 min read BARTOW, Fla. — A professional golfer was one of 124 people arrested in Florida in a prostitution and human-trafficking sting. Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey, 44, was arrested Sunday and charged

BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — To unwind, Italian downhill racer Dominik Paris sometimes screams into a microphone. Not so much screams as hauntingly growls out lyrics he wrote himself. Being the lead singer of a heavy metal band called Rise of Voltage is just a way for Paris to give his mind a break from thinking