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Layshia Clarendon can only imagine back to her college days at the University of California in Berkeley having the opportunity to match up with the best women’s players in the world, like Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi. Tara VanDerveer’s young Stanford team put on an impressive show hosting Clarendon, Bird and Taurasi on Saturday in […]

Trevor Lawrence accounted for four touchdowns, Travis Etienne ran for 212 yards and two TDs and No. 4 Clemson won its 24th consecutive game, rolling over FCS opponent Wofford 59-14 on Saturday. Etienne, the reigning Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, helped the Tigers (9-0) put the game away early with scoring runs of

Jake Fromm picked apart Florida’s defense for the second straight year and No. 8 Georgia beat the sixth-ranked Gators 24-17 in the “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” on Saturday. Fromm completed 20 of 30 passes for 279 yards and two touchdowns, including a 52-yarder to an uncovered Lawrence Cager in the fourth quarter. Fromm also

Valtteri Bottas grabbed a surprising pole position Saturday for the U.S. Grand Prix, where Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton will start back in fifth as he pursues a sixth career Formula One championship. Bottas set a track record at the Circuit of the Americas with a lap of 1 minute, 32.029 seconds to grab the front

Alena Kostornaia left no doubt there’s a new era in women’s figure skating by a convincing win over Olympic gold medalist Alina Zagitova at the Internationaux de France, while Nathan Chen won the men’s event on Saturday. In a battle between the two Russians, 16-year-old Kostornaia landed two triple axels as she skated clean on

Jamie Newman returned from injury to throw for three touchdowns and run for two more as No. 23 Wake Forest beat North Carolina State 44-10 on Saturday. Newman had missed one game and part of another with a shoulder injury, and his status was uncertain for the long-running instate series. But Newman and the Demon

The Latest on the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita (all times local): 11:30 a.m. Four horses have been scratched from Breeders’ Cup races Saturday after pre-race examinations by veterinarians. Suedois is out of the $2 million Mile after developing a minor infection in his hoof. Fleeting was scratched from the $2 million Filly & Mare

With Joe Flacco joining Drew Lock on injured reserve, the Broncos head into Sunday’s game against the Browns with two quarterbacks, Brandon Allen and Brett Rypien, who haven’t thrown a single pass in the NFL. Allen is a 27-year-old, fourth-year pro from Arkansas who becomes Denver’s sixth starting quarterback in the post-Peyton Manning era when

Novak Djokovic reached his sixth Paris Masters final beating Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 (5), 6-4, then learned old rival Rafael Nadal withdrew injured from his semifinal with an abdominal strain on Saturday. Nadal said he felt the injury flare up in the morning as he practiced before facing Canadian hard-hitter Denis Shapovalov. A scan revealed a

Discriminatory chants have prompted a Serie A soccer game between Roma and Napoli to be briefly suspended. Referee Gianluca Rocchi made the decision in the second half Saturday after Roma fans aimed anti-territorial chants — which are treated in the same manner as racist chants — at Napoli. The game resumed after a few minutes.