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Graeme McDowell is concerned with more than just the shutdown in golf By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer March 25, 2020, 5:23 PM 5 min read Graeme McDowell finds motivation in short supply as he tries to keep his golf game sharp without knowing when the next tournament will be played. In that respect, he’s […]

Since taking over as Florida State coach in December, Mike Norvell has spent seemingly endless hours laying the foundation of his program. Winter is time for coaches to deliver a consistent message, build the culture they want and get players to buy into a way of going about their business whether they are in the

ROME — It was the biggest soccer game in Atalanta’s history and a third of Bergamo’s population made the short trip to Milan’s famed San Siro Stadium. Nearly 2,500 fans of visiting Spanish club Valencia also traveled to that Champions League match. More than a month later, experts are pointing to the Feb. 19 game

IOC president Thomas Bach has invoked comments by President Donald Trump to defend himself from criticism a day after officially postponing the Tokyo Olympics By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer March 25, 2020, 2:29 PM 3 min read GENEVA — A day after officially postponing the Tokyo Olympics, IOC president Thomas Bach invoked comments by

Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns says his mother is hospitalized and in a medically-induced coma after contracting the new coronavirus March 25, 2020, 1:15 PM 2 min read MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns says his mother is hospitalized and in a medically-induced coma after contracting the new coronavirus. Towns talked about the condition

Long after other major sports leaders tore up their calendars, the International Olympic Committee is headed to the sidelines By JIM LITKE AP Sports Columnist March 24, 2020, 11:12 PM 5 min read Money talks, which is the short answer for why it took this long for the swells at the International Olympic Committee to

Trevor May has been preparing for this. Not precisely for a global pandemic that would bring sports — and so much else — to an unprecedented standstill. Even hours and hours of dystopian video games couldn’t help foresee that. But a break in the baseball schedule? That’s something the Minnesota Twins reliever — and pro

Premier League teams Brighton and Bournemouth have become the first clubs to sign up to a campaign to make 100,000 free soccer tickets available to medical workers on the front line during the coronavirus outbreak March 25, 2020, 10:49 AM 3 min read The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around

For the more than 20,000 foreign college athletes in the United States, the coronavirus pandemic has created problems greater than the inability to compete By PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer March 25, 2020, 6:10 AM 4 min read STORRS, Conn. — All but one of Anna Makurat’s teammates headed home after the NCAA canceled this

TOKYO — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed until 2021, now comes the multi-billion-dollar question: Who pays the bills for the delay, and how large will they be? The most likely answer is — primarily Japanese taxpayers. “Of course there will be costs,” organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said when the postponement was announced. “As for