Arsenal paid a club-record fee of 63.75 million euros ($80 million) to sign Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday, completing the overhaul of the team's attack that was triggered by Alexis Sanchez's departure to Manchester United.
In potentially the most significant move in the Premier League on the final ...
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LONDON (AP) - The Latest on European soccer transfers on deadline day (all times local):
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has joined Arsenal from Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund.
Dortmund says the teams have agreed on a transfer fee of 63.75 million euros ($80 million) - a record for the Premier ...
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MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) - Authorities in one Tennessee county say an online predator is sending sexually explicit and threatening messages to young girls.
Coffee County District Attorney General Craig Northcott tells news outlets that middle school students have received the messages on social media platforms over the past month. The ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Borussia Dortmund is dominating the end of the transfer window in Germany with Spanish defender Marc Bartra leaving, promising winger Sergio Gomez joining and striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang expected to go.
Aubameyang was expected to complete his move to Arsenal on Wednesday for a reported 64.5 million euros ...
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GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) - The man fired from his radio DJ job for groping superstar Taylor Swift has been hired by a Mississippi radio station.
The Washington Post quotes Delta Radio CEO David Fuss as telling news outlets he believes David Mueller's side of the story and hired him because ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Suddenly, the Big Three is down to one. With star guard Chris Paul in Houston and face-of-the-franchise Blake Griffin traded to the Detroit Pistons, only DeAndre Jordan is left from the power trio that propelled the Los Angeles Clippers to relevance.
Jordan becomes a free agent ...
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Historical Society will host one of the biggest centennial commemorations of World War I, featuring items such as President Woodrow Wilson's hat and cane, magician Harry Houdini's handcuffs and a recreated movie house showing popular films from the time.
"WW1 America," the largest traveling ...
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Lorde has scribbled her thanks to fans back home for embracing her Grammy-nominated album.
Her handwritten thank-you note was published as an ad in The New Zealand Herald on Wednesday. The note has doodles honoring fellow Kiwi musicians as well as sightings of other attendees ...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - An iron collar that kept slaves in bondage. A branding iron that marked human beings as someone's property. A photograph of black babies captioned as "alligator bait." A fine china plate with gold lettering that says, "KKK 'God Give Us Men.'"
They're among the artifacts of slavery ...
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The fallout continues from disgraced doctor Larry Nassar's molestation of young athletes within USA Gymnastics, including the resignation of the governing body's entire board of directors. Several sports have been impacted by sexual misconduct and abuse cases involving authority figures and children in the past decade. Among them:
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Monty McCutchen's father raised an interesting point not long ago, and it resonated right away with the former NBA referee who decided to hang up his whistle earlier this season.
"He told me that no decision is real if it is easy," McCutchen said.
McCutchen's move off the floor and ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Recording Academy President Neil Portnow says his comments following the 60th annual Grammy Awards were taken out of context after he was criticized for saying women in the music industry need to "step up."
In a statement Tuesday to The Associated Press, Portnow says he regrettably ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Matthew A. Cherry, a filmmaker and former NFL player, is working on a picture book.
Cherry and illustrator Vashti Harrison will collaborate on "Hair Love," Dial Books for Young Readers told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "Hair Love" will tell of an African-American father and his ...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Henrik Stenson has won in Asia. Just three weeks ago he contributed two points as Europe won the EurAsia Cup.
But he's never won an individual honor in Asia, a fact he's out to rectify at the Maybank Championship starting on Thursday.
The Swede has ...
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CLEVELAND (AP) - The family of a Cleveland retiree whose shooting death was recorded and shared on Facebook is suing the social media company for failing to notify authorities about threats posted by the shooter.
The wrongful death lawsuit filed over the April slaying of Robert Godwin Sr. calls Facebook ...
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MADRID (AP) - Valencia doesn't have fond memories of the last time it faced Barcelona in the Copa del Rey.
The teams met two years ago in the semifinals, with Valencia losing 7-0 in the first leg at Camp Nou Stadium. It couldn't manage more than a 1-1 draw against ...
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STOCKHOLM (AP) - Britain's Prince William and Duchess of Cambridge have taken a shot at bandy hockey to kick off a visit to Sweden and Norway.
William and Kate, who is pregnant with their third child, began their four-day tour Tuesday with a visit to an outdoor ice-skating venue in ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian speedskater refused her place at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Tuesday after several of her teammates weren't invited.
Olga Graf, a two-time bronze medalist from the 2014 Sochi Games, had targeted a medal in the team pursuit race next month.
"All my hopes to compete for ...
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Just call it a sister thing. Whenever another hockey team has sisters on the rosters, Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando take notice.
Well, the U.S. Olympians are twins themselves. Combine that with how few sisters play hockey or reach national teams playing internationally, it's easy enough to notice whenever sisters ...
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WOLVEGA, Netherlands (AP) - No! Absolutely no way! No one should be counting on a repeat performance. Not even the most optimistic Dutchman does.
Yes, count on the Dutch to dominate the oval at the Pyeongchang Olympics, but don't expect them to suffocate opposition like they did in Sochi four ...
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CLEVELAND (AP) - A smiling reminder of lazy summer days. An ugly depiction of racism.
Beloved by some, reviled by others.
Chief Wahoo - the grinning, wide-eyed, feather-wearing logo that has divided baseball fans and even families in Cleveland - is being tossed from the game.
Major League Baseball announced ...
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"The Monk of Mokha" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Dave Eggers
As legend has it, coffee was born in Yemen, when a Sufi brewed the beverage to fuel his late-night devotions. Roughly 700 years later, a Yemeni-American set out to revive the country's languished and forgotten role in the world's coffee ...
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LONDON (AP) - West Ham defender Arthur Masuaku has been banned for six games for spitting at an opponent during an FA Cup match.
The Football Association says Masuaku will be out until March 10 after the incident that took place during West Ham's 2-0 loss at Wigan on Saturday.
...LONDON (AP) - West Ham sold Diafra Sakho and Brighton brought in Leonardo Ulloa on loan as Premier League teams reshaped their attacks with three days left in the January transfer window.
Sakho returned to the French league with Rennes, 3 1/2 years after leaving Metz to join West Ham. ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra received Grammy honors for one of its recordings.
Conductor Manfred Honeck and the symphony orchestra on Sunday won the award for Best Orchestral Performance for their recording of "Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio."
Engineer Mark Donahue also received a Grammy for ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Borussia Dortmund defender Marc Bartra has testified at the trial of a man accused of bombing the soccer team's bus last year, saying that he was afraid of dying in the attack.
The blasts April 11 shattered a window of the bus and hit Bartra with shrapnel, ...
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BONN, Germany (AP) - International Paralympic Committee says Russia has been barred from the Pyeongchang Paralympics.
NEW YORK (AP) - A record win, another triple-double and a milestone point highlighted the week in women's basketball.
Division II Ashland won its 57th consecutive game on Saturday to tie the longest winning streak regardless of gender at that level. The No. 1 team in Division II matched the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Bruno Mars is the big winner from Sunday's Grammy Awards, sweeping through the ceremony with wins in every category he was nominated in.
Mars took home six Grammys Sunday night, including the biggest honors - record and album of the year. Mars' late-show wins came after ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Once he'd become the first man to win 20 Grand Slam singles titles, the questions to Roger Federer shifted to another major milestone.
The record for most major singles titles is 24, set by Margaret Court across the amateur and professional eras. Serena Williams set the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The 60th Grammy Awards primetime broadcast featured no awards handed out for rock or R&B, but comedy - and Dave Chappelle - got the spotlight on music's biggest night.
Chappelle won best comedy album for his first comedy album in more than 12 years: the double ...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Musicians in South Africa are performing in a tribute for Hugh Masekela, the jazz musician and anti-apartheid activist who died after a decade-long fight with cancer.
The joyful memorial was being staged Sunday at the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg.
Masekela died on Tuesday at ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Haotong Li held off Rory McIlroy to win the Omega Dubai Desert Classic Sunday by a single stroke, denying the Northern Irishman's bid to win his first title in 17 months.
Haotong finished on a tournament record 23-under-par 265 after a final-round three under ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - The IOC says it is "extremely worried" about the governance of Olympic boxing body AIBA, whose new interim president has been linked to organized crime by United States federal authorities.
The International Olympic Committee's executive board will "decide on further measures" at a meeting next weekend ...
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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - Stuttgart is looking for a new coach after parting company with Hannes Wolf.
The Bundesliga side says the decision was made following discussions with Wolf that lasted well into the night after Stuttgart's 2-0 loss at home to Schalke on Saturday.
It was Stuttgart's seventh loss ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Mate Pavic picked up two Grand Slam titles within 24 hours after winning the Australian Open mixed doubles on Sunday.
The afternoon after winning the men's doubles, Pavic combined with Gabriela Dabrowski to beat Rohan Bopanna Timea Babos 2-6, 6-4, 11-9 under a closed roof at ...
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Ask snowboarder Chloe Kim what she thinks the "Chloe Kim Story" really is this year and she hesitates just a moment, before deciding on "The California girl that went to the Olympics."
It's perfect, easy, and oh-so-fitting for the 17-year-old from Torrance, California, who loves ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Jay-Z said though he boycotted the Grammys almost two decades ago, he's better served helping the Recording Academy grow instead of abandoning it.
At Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala on Saturday - where Jay-Z earned the Grammy Salute to Industry Icons Award - he said he ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - Kyle Allman scored a career-high 40 points, Austen Awosika made two free throws with 11.4 seconds left and Cal State Fullerton rallied to defeat Hawaii 69-66 on Saturday night.
Allman scored six straight points to tie the game with 2:21 remaining and Jackson Rowe followed with a ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The Latest on Sunday from the Australian Open (all times local):
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Croatia's Mate Pavic now has two Grand Slam titles within 24 hours after winning the Australian Open mixed doubles.
Pavic and Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski combined to beat Rohan Bopanna of India and Timea ...
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The 2018 Sundance Film Festival had a lot of cultural forces working in its favor with #MeToo and a batch of the previous year's films celebrating Oscar nominations. But as the annual indie film showcase inches to a close, Sunday, with few big deals and even fewer potential breakouts, it ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazil coach Tite has pledged not to take the national team to the capital Brasilia to pose with politicians this year due to widespread accusations of corruption against several of them.
"I won't go at all. Neither before the World Cup nor afterward. Neither winning ...
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ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (AP) - Carter Davison made history at Lonesome Pine Raceway in 2017. Now fans have a chance to follow the young Elizabethton driver's record-setting season.
Davison, 13, wrapped the Mod 4 division title back in August to become the youngest champion ever in the 45-year history of the ...
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President Trump's insistence that he's anything but racist contradicts several years spent feuding with influential black Americans, according to late night host Bill Maher — a reputation he deemed worthy of being written on his gravestone.
"If Donald Trump keeps insisting that he's the 'least racist person anyone has ever ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A glance at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO SUNDAY
Roger Federer is aiming for his 20th Grand Slam singles title when he meets No. 6-seeded Marin Cilic in the Australian Open final.
Federer beat Cilic in the Wimbledon final last year and has an 8-1 career ...
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - The past, present and future forces shaping the Great Lakes will be explored in a new exhibition at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
The Great Lakes Cycle debuts Saturday at the western Michigan museum. It's the work of New York-based artist Alexis Rockman.
The ...
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CHANGZHOU, China (AP) - Andrey Sidorov scored in the last minute of extra time as Uzbekistan beat Vietnam 2-1 to win the final of the AFC U23 Championship on Saturday.
In snowy conditions in Changzhou that made the game almost unplayable, Sidorov came off the bench after 118 minutes to ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Caroline Wozniacki wins her 1st major title with victory over Halep in Australian Open final.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - American Sebastian Korda, son of 1998 Australian Open men's champion Petr Korda, won the boys singles title on Saturday, beating Tseng Chun Hsin of Taiwan 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the final on Rod Laver Arena.
Liang En Shuo became the first player from Taiwan to win ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Rory McIlroy shot 5-under for the seven holes he played Saturday to take a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Dubai Desert Classic.
The four-time major champion was three-under par for his round after 11 holes when play was suspended Friday after ...
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MADRID (AP) - Barcelona will face Valencia in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey.
The defending champions will host the first leg at home on Wednesday, with the second match at Mestalla Stadium in Valencia on Feb. 7.
Sevilla will play Leganes in the other semifinal on the same ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — A former personal assistant for Harvey Weinstein says she was forced to clean up messes from his sexual encounters and take dictation from him while he was naked, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday.
Sandeep Rehal said she suffers from "severe emotional distress" because of ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - For both Caroline Wozniacki and Simona Halep, the Australian Open women's final on Saturday is a chance to put the demons of past Grand Slam near-misses behind them.
One will finally walk away a champion. The other will have to shake off another loss in a ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Roger Federer has moved to within one win of his 20th Grand Slam singles title after securing his spot in the Australian Open decider when Hyeon Chung retired from their semifinal on Friday night.
Defending champion Federer was leading 6-1, 5-2 when Chung retired because of ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Missy Elliott knew she was being honored by Essence - but not who was giving her the accolade. So there was plenty of emotion when close friend Janet Jackson not only handed her her trophy but praised her talent.
Jackson was one of many stars who ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Six-time Olympic gold medalist Viktor Ahn wants to know why he has been barred from next month's Pyeongchang Games.
Ahn is a short-track speedskater who was born in South Korea but switched allegiance to Russia ahead of the 2014 Sochi Games. Russian officials said the International Olympic ...
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A look at the upcoming week around the Southeastern Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND: Most of the SEC will be competing in the Big 12/SEC Challenge and a good performance on Saturday could be a boost in March if some of the league's teams are on the NCAA Tournament bubble. ...
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Vince McMahon is resuscitating the XFL.
OK, let's get the bad jokes out of the way: Are some teams going to be wearing masks and representing parts unknown? Will the hook-and-ladder play involve smashing someone with a real ladder?
The XFL was a "colossal failure" the first time McMahon tried ...
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POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) - Sam Dowd has what coaches call pop, a burst that allows him to jump a little higher, move a little quicker than the players around him.
He wouldn't have become a 5-foot-7, 167-pound, Division I basketball player without it.
In life, Dowd has a buoyancy to ...
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Democratic state lawmakers want to eliminate New Mexico's annual $50 million cap on film incentive spending but the future of the proposal is unclear.
A bill eliminating the cap is moving through the New Mexico House and comes after state officials reported the film and ...
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HEERENVEEN, Netherlands (AP) - Bump into a skating teammate on the ice, and besides some black and blue bruises, chances are it ends up being a bunch of laughs, too.
Not for Brittany Bowe.
One such clash turned her world class career upside down at the height of her powers ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - New evidence is being used to vet Russian athletes ahead of next month's Pyeongchang Games, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday.
The IOC said a database from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory shows evidence of attempts to "hide and modify" biological data pointing to steroid use. The Olympic ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Southern rock icons Lynyrd Skynyrd will kick off their final tour May 4 in West Palm Beach, Florida, more than 40 years after the band's debut album was released.
The Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Famers announced Thursday that the farewell tour will also feature Kid ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A glance at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO FRIDAY
Even at 36, Roger Federer has tennis homework to do.
He admits knowing precious little about the bespectacled young South Korean Hyeon Chung who faces him across the net on Friday night.
The defending champion is respectful ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A new survey of pop charts over the past six years finds that men overwhelmingly dominate the ranks of artists and songwriters and that 2017 represented a six-year low for female artists.
University of Southern California researchers released a study on Thursday that shows women comprised ...
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MONACO (AP) - High jump world champion Mariya Lasitskene is among 18 Russians that have been cleared to compete internationally in time for the world indoor track championships.
The IAAF renewed permission for the 18 Russians, all of whom competed last year as neutral athletes because Russia has been suspended ...
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NEW YORK CITY (AP) - Erykah Badu has come under scrutiny for an interview where she made comments on Bill Cosby and Adolf Hitler.
The R&B songstress said in the wide-ranging interview with Vulture that, "I see good in everybody. I saw something good in Hitler." Badu called him a ...
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MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Gunner Burnam was an old soul in a young body. He liked nothing better than kicking around with his Grandpa Mike - fishing, swapping stories, chopping firewood and hunting duck and deer.
He had more power tools than most men, and he could operate a backhoe ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Hyeon Chung wasn't on Twitter before he began his historic run at the Australian Open, becoming the first Korean player, male or female, to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam.
Now, thanks to a breakout performance at Melbourne Park that has included a win over ...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Former NBA player Lorenzen Wright's ex-wife is scheduled to make her first court appearance since she was extradited from California on a first-degree murder charge in his death.
Sherra Wright is set to be arraigned Thursday in criminal court in Memphis, where her ex-husband grew up ...
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ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - The surgeon told Christy Wise she would never fly a plane again.
It was a brazen pronouncement that seemed all wrong to the captain, an HC130 Air Force rescue pilot whose day job involved, among other things, missions to Afghanistan and saving people from hurricanes.
Only ...
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Al Michaels has a similar level of anticipation heading into his 10th Super Bowl broadcast as he had the first time he worked the biggest stage on television 30 years ago.
Michaels is set to join Pat Summerall as the only play-by-play announcers to call at least 10 Super Bowls ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Comcast's NBC is airing both the Super Bowl and the Olympics in February, a double-whammy sports extravaganza that the company expects to yield $1.4 billion in ad sales, helping it justify the hefty price it's paying for both events.
NBC is banking heavily on these sports ...
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BERLIN (AP) - It's that time of the year to fulfill those ambitious New Year's resolutions again: More vegetables, less alcohol, sign up for the gym.
But not for Torben Bertram. Fed up with colleagues who kept pressuring him to join workout sessions during his lunch break, the 39-year-old Berliner ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean activists tore photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, a day after the North warned such actions could derail reconciliation efforts around next month's Winter Olympics in the South.
It seems unlikely North Korea would follow through on its threat, ...
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PARIS (AP) - Model Naomi Campbell has led fashion industry insiders in criticizing prominent Paris-based designer Ulyana Sergeenko, who casually used a racist slur in a note to a friend during Paris couture week.
Russian Sergeenko handwrote a note addressed to "my n---s in Paris" alongside a smiley, to blogger ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - The Kremlin has dismissed talk of an Olympic boycott after some of Russia's top athletes were barred from competing at the Pyeongchang Games.
Several of the country's top medal hopes, including six-time short-track speedskating gold medalist Viktor Ahn, were barred from next month's games amid the country's ...
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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A federal prosecutor says a former Breaux Bridge police officer has pleaded guilty to receiving sexually explicit images.
U.S. Attorney Alexander Van Hook says in a Tuesday news release that 29-year-old Craig David Jr. pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick Hanna to one count of ...
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Retired PGA tour golfer Notah Begay III is raising money to help fix a vandalized playground at an Albuquerque elementary.
Begay this week asked his Twitter followers to donate money to help repair Osuna Elementary's playground after police said suspected vandals torched it earlier this month.
...A look at things to watch this week in the Pac-12 Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEK: Colorado at No. 11 Arizona, Thursday. This one could get testy. The Buffaloes pulled off an upset in the team's last meeting, knocking off Arizona 80-77 in Boulder on Jan. 6. That would already ...
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NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - A proposal to turn a former shoe store into a performing arts center for Nashua has received unanimous approval from the city Budget Review Committee.
The Tuesday hearing for the $15.5 million project featured a presentation and favorable testimony from city business owners. The Nashua Telegraph ...
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - One of Zimbabwe's most famous musicians who fled at the height of political repression says he is returning home after a change in government.
Thomas Mapfumo has not set foot in Zimbabwe since 2004, when he settled in Oregon. Jailed by the country's former white rulers ...
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List of nominees for the 90th annual Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Best Picture: "Call Me by Your Name," ''Darkest Hour," ''Dunkirk," ''Get Out," ''Lady Bird," ''Phantom Thread," ''The Post," ''The Shape of Water,""Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri."
Actor: Timothee Chalamet, "Call Me ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Australian Open quarterfinalist Tennys Sandgren said in an interview on Tuesday that he deleted several years of tweets to "move forward" and create a "version of a cleaner start" after he was questioned about his connections with right-wing activists on social media.
Sandgren's social media activity ...
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on the announcement of nominees for the 90th annual Oscar nominations announced Tuesday by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from Beverly Hills, California (all times local):
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The Oscar nominees for best original score in a motion picture have ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - You've probably heard how all three original stars dropped out of the Metropolitan Opera's new "Tosca" and how the conductor had to be replaced twice. But did you know about the flap over the angel's wings?
A replica of the bronze statue of Archangel Michael that ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Top-ranked Rafael Nadal out of Australian Open after retiring with injury in quarterfinal .
MADRID (AP) - It turns out Barcelona had the solution to its problems right at home.
After starting the season surrounded by doubts following failed attempts to bring in a top player to replace Neymar, Barcelona showed it can do just fine regardless.
Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez proved they ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean Olympic organizers say it's too late to include a North Korean taekwondo performance in the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Games, but it might still occur at the Olympic Stadium on Feb. 9.
The creative director of the opening and closing ceremonies ...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Legendary South African jazz musician Hugh Masekela has died at the age of 78 after a decade-long fight with cancer, according to a statement from his family on Tuesday.
Often called the "Father of South African jazz," Masekela died in Johannesburg after what his family said was ...
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A sentencing hearing for a former sports doctor who sexually assaulted young gymnasts may be nearing the end.
Larry Nassar is due back in a Lansing, Michigan, courtroom Tuesday. More than 120 girls and women, including former Olympic gold medalists, have confronted him or had statements ...
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A state-linked newspaper in the United Arab Emirates says the Louvre Abu Dhabi has replaced a map at the museum that didn't show Qatar amid a diplomatic crisis pitting Doha against four Arab nations - including the UAE.
The report Monday by The National, ...
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LONDON (AP) - "The Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson is transforming grainy black-and-white footage of World War I into 3-D color for a new film.
Jackson's movie is among dozens of artworks commissioned by British cultural bodies to commemorate a century since the final year of the 1914-18 ...
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BOSTON (AP) - A Boston College hockey player is out indefinitely after he was assaulted at a Boston restaurant.
The university's athletic department said in a statement Sunday that graduate student Kevin Lohan was the victim of an "unprovoked assault" that occurred Friday.
Police are investigating. The school did not ...
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) - Alexander Borodyuk has left his post as coach of Kazakhstan's national soccer team after failing to win a game in World Cup qualifying.
Kazakhstan finished last in its group under Borodyuk, who oversaw six losses and one draw during his 11 months in charge. In that ...
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BERLIN (AP) - Berlin's city museums authority says it has returned 11 works that were part of prominent art owner Margarete Oppenheim's collection and were auctioned off under Nazi rule in 1936.
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said Monday the works were found in two museums' collections. Of the 11 ...
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DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - A Detroit-area performance of poetry and music by two women of color serves to mark Black History Month and kick off the Arab American National Museum's concert series.
The Dearborn museum's Global Fridays series starts its latest season Feb. 9 with "Women Writers Resist!" It features ...
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Robin van Persie is returning to struggling Dutch league champion Feyenoord, 14 years after leaving the Rotterdam club for a successful career overseas.
The 34-year-old Van Persie arrived on a free transfer from Turkish club Fenerbahce, signing an 18-month contract with the club where he played ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Madison Keys says she's playing carefree tennis again and doesn't feel any pressure at her first Grand Slam tournament since her emotional loss to Sloane Stephens in the U.S. Open final five months ago.
Perhaps even more importantly, her coach, Lindsay Davenport, says the 22-year-old American ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The Latest on North Korea's participation in the Pyeongchang Olympics (all times local):
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The North Korean figure skating pair that will compete in the Winter Olympics is in Taiwan this week for a competition.
Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik were seen ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Not all the best moments from the Screen Actors Guild Awards appeared on television.
After "This Is Us" won for the best television drama ensemble, Sterling K. Brown was seen crying as cast members congratulated one another offstage.
Brown was a two-time winner on Sunday night, ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - It was a rough week for Tennessee.
The sixth-ranked Lady Vols were in the midst of a difficult stretch where they played four consecutive ranked teams. Tennessee had a 23-point lead in the first half against No. 5 Notre Dame on Thursday before completely falling apart ...
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BOSTON (AP) - Boston Red Sox president Sam Kennedy says the team is planning what he calls a "dramatic" expansion of safety netting at Fenway Park.
Kennedy announced Saturday that the netting will be extended past the dugouts on both the left field and right field lines. He says officials ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A quick glance at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO MONDAY
Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep and Angelique Kerber continue their quests for potential semifinal matchups when fourth-round matches conclude in their halves of the draw at Melbourne Park. Defending champion Federer plays former ...
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LANCASTER, Ohio (AP) - The works of a dozen artists from Ohio's Appalachia region are being featured in a new exhibition.
Artists of the Winding Road: A-Z runs through April 15 at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio . A curators' talk is on Sunday.
The show features innovative works ...
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Tommy Fleetwood successfully defended his Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship title on Sunday after a sensational back nine to clinch the win.
The 27-year-old Englishman, who celebrated his birthday on Friday, started the final round two shots behind overnight leaders Ross Fisher and Thomas ...
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HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - Hamburger SV has sacked Markus Gisdol as coach following the side's 2-0 defeat at home to last-place Cologne in the Bundesliga.
Hamburg says its board of directors and sporting director Jens Todt came to the decision to let Gisdol go, along with assistant coaches Frank Froehling ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Kyle Edmund is helping British tennis fans forget that Andy Murray was an injury no-show at the Australian Open.
Edmund advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time - his best Grand Slam singles result - with a 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-2, 6-3 win Sunday over ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - If Sebastian Korda wasn't already nervous enough playing at the Australian Open, one of his first impressions of Rod Laver Arena was seeing the giant sign in the Walk of Champions bearing the name of his father, Petr Korda, and the year he won the title ...
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The Prevacus story starts in Tallahassee, specifically at Florida High and Florida State University.
Where the story ends is uncertain because nobody has all the answers concerning the long-term effects of concussions.
However, the potentially groundbreaking drug could help change that.
Prevacus is being developed by ...
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) - Jalen Canty had 20 points, on 8-of-12 shooting, and 11 rebounds and Gabe Vincent finished with 21 points to help UC Santa Barbara beat UC Irvine 70-58 on Saturday night.
Max Heidigger scored 14 points and Leland King II added six with 14 rebounds for ...
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LONDON (AP) - Former Kinks bassist Jim Rodford has died after a fall. He was 76.
The Zombies, the group Rodford had played with since 1999, confirmed the death of the British musician on their Facebook page Saturday.
Zombies co-founder Rod Argent says his cousin and longtime bandmate was a ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NCAA's Division II will allow colleges and universities in Mexico to apply for membership.
The proposal passed 253-45 with seven abstentions and will take effect immediately. It applies only to Division II.
Simon Fraser University in Canada became a full-time Division II member in 2012-13 and ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite the frigid temperatures on Jan. 14, more people than ever showed up for a shot at becoming one of the Washington Nationals' Racing Presidents.
Those in the running went head-to-head in a 40-yard dash, two races from center field to first base and a freestyle dance ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - On the Taft Junior High basketball squad, Paul Winestock starred at guard, shooting from the outside, scoring on drives.
At power forward, Kevin Copeland worked near the paint, boxing out, snatching rebounds.
Basketball joined them as friends with a joint appreciation of sports, nice clothes and pretty ...
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PARIS (AP) - Paul Bocuse, the master chef who defined French cuisine for nearly half a century and put it on tables around the world, a man who raised the profile of top chefs from invisible kitchen artists to international celebrities, has died at 91, France's interior minister announced Saturday.
...BRISTOL, Va. (AP) - For those who watched him play football at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, the fact that Hakeem Abdul-Saboor is now an Olympian isn't really a surprise.
The guy was skilled at everything he did.
"He was the best athlete on campus at Wise and ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - IOC says Korean teams will march together at Pyeongchang Olympics opening ceremony; 22 North Korean athletes to compete.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, considered the main architect of a decade of bloody wars in the Balkans, is not the first person who comes to mind when thinking about subjects for a possible musical.
And it may not even be a full musical, but a ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) - Olympic and government officials from North Korea and South Korea have begun a meeting at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters in Switzerland to confirm how they will unite for the Pyeongchang Winter Games next month.
Sports ministers from both countries have joined the session to ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Screen Actors Guild Awards' tendency to predict eventual Oscar winners won't be the only thing commanding attention when the 24th annual ceremony airs Sunday. The show is also focusing its spotlight on women, with nearly all female presenters, all women opening the show and a ...
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It's been almost two years since Syracuse lost to powerful Connecticut in the women's national championship game, and coach Quentin Hillsman is trying to recapture some of the magic that produced a program-record 30 victories in that breakthrough season.
Fielding one of the more inexperienced teams in the nation this ...
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - The park and museum at the base of Birmingham's giant Vulcan statue is merging with the Birmingham History Center.
Al.com reports that museum officials plan to exhibit an expansive collection of artifacts from Alabama's biggest city.
The merger was announced Thursday at Vulcan Park & Museum.
...MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich signed Germany midfielder Leon Goretzka on Friday on a free transfer from Bundesliga rival Schalke effective from next season.
Bayern said the 22-year-old Goretzka signed a four-year deal from July 1 through June 2022.
Schalke, which Goretzka joined in 2013 from hometown club Bochum, said ...
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MUNICH (AP) - Germany midfielder Leon Goretzka has signed a pre-contract with Bayern Munich and will complete his move from Schalke in July.
The German clubs announced the transfer on Friday.
Schalke said Goretzka informed the club this week that he wanted to join Bayern.
Goretzka's contract at Bayern begins ...
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Students in five Illinois counties will get some help paying for their trip to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.
The museum says in a news release that grants that will go toward transportation costs and admission fees come from the John Ulrich ...
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SINGAPORE (AP) - Chapchai Nirat birdied his first four holes and then his last two in a 7-under 64 Friday to grab the clubhouse lead in the second round of the weather-interrupted Singapore Open.
The Thai golfer also birdied the 14th hole in a flawless round to jump to the ...
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BERLIN (AP) - A new poll suggests the Swiss are willing to continue paying fees for public broadcasting before a referendum being closely watched across Europe.
The survey published Friday by Tamedia group found 59 percent of respondents would reject a proposal to abolish the current system of financing public ...
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A look at the upcoming week around the Southeastern Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND: Florida at No. 18 Kentucky: Although Kentucky is the only Top 25 team in this matchup, Florida is the program currently atop the SEC standings. The Gators will try to maintain their SEC lead Saturday by ...
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The bobsledders may push harder. The speedskaters may go faster. The ski jumpers certainly will soar higher.
Yet no one will work longer hours at the Pyeongchang Olympics than American curlers Matt and Becca Hamilton.
By qualifying for both the new mixed doubles discipline and the traditional, single-gender curling event, ...
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SAN BARTOLOME DE PINARES, Spain (AP) - Horses burst through the soaring flames of night-time bonfires in a dramatic annual festival in this small Spanish town.
Riders urge their mounts toward the wood fires, lit in the cobbled street, and say the smoke that envelops them purifies and protects the ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - KJ Feagin scored 23 with three assists, three steals and a blocked shot to propel Santa Clara to a 65-62 victory over San Francisco on Thursday night.
Henry Caruso finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds for his third double-double of the season for the Broncos ...
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LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A Philadelphia Eagles fanatic says someone stole his prized Eagles sign from his front lawn.
Andy Reid tells WPVI-TV the sign, made up of the letters E-A-G-L-E-S, was professionally made by his sister, who owned a sign company. Reid says it was taken from his Levittown ...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Three performers at last year's Route 91 Harvest Festival where a gunman opened fire on fans will perform a tribute at this year's Grammy Awards to honor victims killed at live music events this year.
Eric Church, Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne, who all performed at ...
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BORDEAUX, France (AP) - Bordeaux has fired coach Jocelyn Gourvennec following a run of poor results.
Gourvennec was hailed by fans when the club finished sixth last season, but they were calling for his resignation in recent weeks.
The club, which is 13th in the French league, says Gourvennec will ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - When athletes from the rival Koreas paraded together behind a single flag for the first time at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, it was a highly emotional event that came on a wave of hope for reconciliation following their leaders' first-ever summit ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Some weary players sat shirtless on changeovers, ice-filled towels draped around their necks. Others retreated to any bit of shade they could find on court and sought treatment for blistered feet and heat stress.
Temperatures soared to 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) as the start of ...
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Danica Patrick is going back to green.
GoDaddy Green, to be exact - a fitting color for her farewell tour.
The company will sponsor Patrick in the upcoming "Danica Double" that will close out her racing career, The Associated Press has learned. Patrick has no ride yet for next month's ...
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A look at the upcoming weekend around the Big 12:
GAME OF THE WEEKEND: No. 24 TCU at Kansas State. That the Horned Frogs were still ranked on Monday despite starting 1-4 in league play was a testament to the respect the rest of the country has for the Big ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Recently unearthed examples of Colonial American pottery will be unveiled to the public at the New York Ceramics and Glass Fair this week.
The 18th century pottery was found buried in a shaft in Philadelphia's Old City - discovered during excavation on the grounds of the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Former "Today" show anchor Ann Curry says she's not surprised by the allegations that got former colleague Matt Lauer fired and that there was an atmosphere of verbal sexual harassment at the NBC show when she worked there.
Curry lost her job after less than two ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on a growing number of actors who are distancing themselves from Woody Allen in a Hollywood newly sensitive to allegations of sexual misconduct (all times local):
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Woody Allen's adoptive daughter says she hopes people will believe her when she talks about her ...
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Dustin Johnson's recent victory in Hawaii doesn't mean much when it comes to this week's tournament.
The top-ranked American will play at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship for the second straight year. But this time he is coming off a victory at the ...
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Augustana University athletic director Slade Larscheid is stepping down to pursue other opportunities and spend more time with family.
The 34-year-old Larscheid has been on the job at the Sioux Falls school for about four years. His last day on the job will be Jan. ...
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MIAMI (AP) - A jury is set to deliberate an auto fraud case against a pilot who once flew loads of drugs for Colombian cartels during Miami's "cocaine cowboys" era.
Jurors are scheduled to begin deliberations Wednesday morning for 72-year-old Mickey Munday, who has become well known through his open ...
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Liverpool defender Jon Flanagan must do 40 hours of unpaid work and attend 15 rehabilitation activity days as part of a 12-month community order for assaulting his girlfriend.
The 25-year-old Flanagan pleaded guilty to assault for kicking his girlfriend on a night out in Liverpool last ...
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ROME (AP) - Benevento captain Fabio Lucioni has been banned one year for doping.
Italy's national anti-doping organization made the decision Tuesday after the steroid clostebol was found in a sample taken after Benevento's 1-0 loss to Torino in September.
Benevento team physician Walter Giorgione was banned for four years ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The winter has been cruel to the injury-riddled Columbus Blue Jackets.
Three of the team's top forwards and a defenseman went down in December, followed by another key forward this month. Coach John Tortorella has moved players around and patched together lines with help from the ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A growing number of actors are distancing themselves from Woody Allen and his next film, heightening questions about the future of the prolific 82-year-old filmmaker in a Hollywood newly sensitive to allegations of sexual misconduct.
Timothee Chalamet on Tuesday said he will donate his salary for ...
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A look at things to watch this week in the Pac-12 Conference:
GAME OF THE WEEK: No. 14 Arizona at Stanford, Saturday. The Wildcats (14-4, 4-1 Pac-12) bounced back from a road loss to Colorado by beating both Oregon schools last week. The Wildcats were picked to win the Pac-12, ...
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was asked in London last week about fining misbehaving players, and even he acknowledged the penalties aren't much of a deterrent.
"More symbolic than anything," Silver said.
It might be time for the league to change that.
At least based on what's happened in the NBA ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - Nanny-to-the-stars Connie Simpson wants to share some everyday advice.
The caretaker known as Nanny Connie has a book coming out in April, Gallery Books told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "The Nanny Connie" draws on Simpson's upbringing in Mobile, Alabama, and her time with clients such ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's going crazy for the Olympics. The 1972 Olympics.
Even as the Russian team faces up to being barred from next month's Winter Games for doping offenses, audiences are flocking to see a movie about Soviet glory on the Olympic basketball court 46 years ago.
"Going Vertical" ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A quick look at the Australian Open:
LOOKAHEAD TO WEDNESDAY
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal is back on Rod Laver Arena to play his second-round match against Argentina's Leonardo Mayer after barely working up a sweat in his opener - a 6-1, 6-1, 6-1 win over Victor Estrella ...
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BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanon's censorship authorities are recommending a ban on Steven Spielberg's newspaper drama "The Post" ahead of its planned opening this week in movie theaters in Beirut.
The recommendation still needs to be signed by Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk to enter into effect but that is considered a ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - A year ago Petra Kvitova was recovering from a knife attack at her home in the Czech Republic, unsure if she'd ever play tennis again.
Any wonder that on her return to the Australian Open - a tournament she missed last year because of the December ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Novak Djokovic confirmed after his first-round win that men's players held a private meeting on the eve of the Australian Open to discuss issues related to the ATP Tour, but denied that any talk of boycotting Grand Slams over prize money was ever raised.
Djokovic, who ...
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - With the opening Monday of three academic halls attached to Notre Dame Stadium, the university's massive $400 million Campus Crossroads project is complete, integrating the iconic football venue with everyday student life.
While portions of Duncan, O'Neill and Corbett Hall opened last fall to accommodate ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The hot tempers that flared up during the Los Angeles Clippers' victory over the Houston Rockets have carried over after the game.
Several security guards were present outside the Rockets' locker room Monday night following a 113-102 loss to the Clippers that got heated on the ...
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SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) - Western New Mexico University has a new athletic director.
The school announced Monday that it has hired Scott Noble to run the Mustangs athletic program. His job at the school's Silver City campus begins Feb. 2.
For the last several years, Noble has been the ...
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Gonzaga and Saint Mary's have dominated the West Coast Conference, combining to win 17 straight regular-season championships and 17 of 19 conference tournament titles.
The Zags broke through after sweeping both titles last season, making an unprecedented run to the Final Four.
The Gaels were the preseason favorite this year ...
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio community where the National Aviation Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony was held for decades before moving to Texas last year is seeking the return of the event.
The Dayton Daily News reports Dayton is one of five contenders for this year's ceremony. The hall ...
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STOKE, England (AP) - Stoke has hired Paul Lambert to try to keep the team in the Premier League.
The Scottish coach has been out of work since leaving second-tier club Wolverhampton Wanderers in May.
Stoke, which is three points off the bottom of the Premier League standings, had also ...
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DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Institute of Arts is displaying four works by painter, illustrator, muralist and arts educator Aaron Douglas that are on loan.
Douglas was a significant figure of the Harlem Renaissance and the paintings are on view at one of the museum's African-American art galleries. They include ...
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PARIS (AP) - France center Mathieu Bastareaud has apologized after using an anti-gay slur during a Champions Cup match.
The tournament organizers have opened an investigation into Sunday's incident and Bastareaud could face a lengthy ban after the Toulon captain appeared to direct the insulting slur at Italy forward Sebastian ...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North and South Korea have agreed in principle to field a joint women's ice hockey team during next month's Olympics in South Korea, and have relayed their position to the International Olympic Committee.
A South Korean Sports Ministry spokesman confirmed Monday that the two sides ...
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LONDON (AP) - The leader of the anti-EU U.K. Independence Party says he has broken up with his girlfriend after she made racist remarks about Prince Harry's fiancee, Meghan Markle.
Henry Bolton said Monday that "the romantic side" of his relationship with 25-year-old Jo Marney was over.
But the 54-year-old ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Marriage equality proponents draped themselves in rainbow flags at Margaret Court Arena on the first day of the Australian Open to protest tennis great Margaret Court's controversial views on gay marriage and the broader lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Several, however, stopped short of saying ...
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NEW YORK (AP) - A panel of WNBA coaches and general managers put together mock selections for the first round of the league's draft that will take place this spring. They were only allowed to choose seniors in their final season of eligibility and foreign players for the draft and ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - Patton Kizzire never lost his cool even in the midst of a wild week on Oahu he won't soon forget.
He woke up Saturday morning to a push alert about a ballistic missile strike on Hawaii that turned out to be a false alarm.
Kizzire received a ...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Vikings, after watching their late-third-quarter 17-point lead vanish at the hands of the indefatigable Drew Brees, went back in front of the New Orleans Saints on a field goal with 1:29 left.
Trailing by two with that much time? That was no trouble for Brees, ...
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Chris Paisley beat the challenge of home favorite Branden Grace to win the South African Open by three shots on Sunday and claim a first European Tour title.
Ahead by one overnight, Paisley increased the gap at the top with a final-round 6-under-par 66 at Glendower Golf ...
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LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) - Leipzig ruled out a winter transfer for Naby Keita on Sunday, saying the Guinea midfielder will stay with the side to the end of the season.
The Bundesliga side said in a tweet that Keita will stay a Leipzig player until June 30 and "we wish ...
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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. (AP) - The VA Medical Center in White River Junction is holding an art competition for veterans.
The entries can be fine art, such as painting, drawing and photography; applied art including ceramics, carving needlework and leatherwork; and craft kits such as wood building and models.
...BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) - Alexis Sanchez has been left out of Arsenal's squad for the Premier League match against Bournemouth on Sunday, amid interest in the forward from Manchester City and Manchester United.
The Chile international's contract at Arsenal expires at the end of the season, and manager Arsene Wenger ...
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LONDON (AP) - The U.K. Independence Party has suspended the girlfriend of the party's leader after she reportedly made racist remarks about Prince Harry's fiancee Meghan Markle.
In a statement, Jo Marney apologized for the "shocking language" she used in a series of text messages to a friend, but said ...
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SYDNEY (AP) - Defending champion Sydney FC saw its lead in Australian football's A-League reduced to five points Sunday when it played out a 0-0 draw with Adelaide in the tournament's 15th round.
Second-placed Newcastle beat Brisbane 1-0 on Friday to cut into Sydney's lead, which had stood at eight ...
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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. (AP) - A Florida festival says it has baked the world's largest key lime pie aiming to shatter a record.
A key lime company created on Saturday a pie using a custom pan that measures more than 12 feet in diameter. The recipe asks for 480 cups ...
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HONOLULU (AP) - Gibson Johnson tossed in 18 points on 8-of-9 shooting and Brocke Stepteau added 12 points and five assists to help Hawaii slip past UC Santa Barbara 77-76 on Saturday night.
Sheriff Drammeh added 11 points and six rebounds for the Rainbow Warriors (12-5, 3-1 Big West Conference), ...
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SOCHI, Russia (AP) - Would you drink a sample from the Sochi doping lab?
The building at the center of a Russia doping scandal which rocked the 2014 Winter Olympics now hosts a restaurant celebrating its notoriety amid a tourism boom.
Former lab director Grigory Rodchenkov has testified to doping ...
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Marcus Mariota threw for a touchdown to give the Tennessee Titans an early lead, and had another TD pass that was the final score of the game.
In between, he spent a lot of time trying to limp away from the New England Patriots rush.
One ...
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WARREN, N.J. (AP) - Drug and alcohol addiction cost Chris Herren his dream job of playing basketball as a hometown hero for the Boston Celtics and nearly destroyed his family.
The son of an alcoholic, Herren had been drinking and drugging since the days when he was a 1994 McDonald's ...
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MOSCOW (AP) - Russian soccer champion Spartak Moscow has been accused of racism after tweeting a message which appeared to refer to its own black players as "chocolates."
A video posted on the club's Twitter account showed Brazilian players Luis Adriano, Pedro Rocha and Fernando exercising during a training camp ...
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - The 5th annual North American Conference on Video Game Music is taking place this weekend at the University of Michigan.
The conference runs Saturday and Sunday at the Ann Arbor school. It brings together professionals and scholars in fields including musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, media ...
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LONDON (AP) - Actor Liam Neeson says the Hollywood sexual harassment scandal has sparked "a bit of a witch hunt."
Asked about the issue on the Irish broadcaster RTE, Neeson said: "There's some people, famous people, being suddenly accused of touching some girl's knee or something and suddenly they're being ...
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