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NEW YORK (AP) — Houston’s Yordan Alvarez and Arizona’s Gabriel Moreno won their first batting titles Sunday, while Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski became just the fourth pitcher since 1950 to lead the majors in ERA, strikeouts and opponents’ batting average. Alvarez's .316 averag...
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Harassed all day by Minnesota's menacing pass rush, Baker Mayfield fled the pocket again — this time scrambling and weaving more 20 yards backward before launching a desperation heave that was intercepted. Even worse for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the quarterbac...
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MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — President Donald Trump returned to the Presidents Cup as honorary chairman for the second time, getting a loud cheer and keeping his remarks brief. “These people want to see golf,” he said Sunday. And just like his last visit to the Presidents Cup in 2017, he...
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SEATTLE (AP) — Dan Wilson will not return as the Seattle Mariners' manager next season, he and the team said Sunday. Wilson made the announcement shortly after the Mariners finished off a 7-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels, the ending to a disappointing 76-86 season that began w...
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lamar Jackson used his big right arm and a little bit of quick thinking to lead the Baltimore Ravens to one of their shortest and most memorable drives in franchise history. Jackson completed a 27-yard pass to Zay Flowers and alertly called a timeout with 1 ...
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TORONTO (AP) — Max Scherzer said he felt “unlimited” in Sunday’s season-ending start against the Cincinnati Reds. Pitching on three days of rest, the 42-year-old Scherzer struck out seven over seven-plus innings to earn the 225th victory of his career as the Blue Jays won 5-1. “T...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) - Vice President JD Vance will be visiting the Rio Grande Valley this week. He is expected to attend a Midterm Rally at the Harlingen Convention Center on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Doors to the event open at 10 a.m. with the program beginning at noon. ...
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MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — The deficit was larger than anything the Americans had ever experienced at home in the Presidents Cup. The celebration Sunday afternoon? That was all too familiar, even the part where President Donald Trump stuck around for the trophy presentation. The U.S. p...
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Oregon announced Sunday that quarterback Dante Moore sustained a concussion in a late hit by linebacker Desman Stephens during the second quarter of the Ducks' victory over Southern California on Saturday. Stephens, who was ejected from the game for targeting, was suspended for o...
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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Washington linebacker Leo Chenal was carted off the field in the second quarter of the Commanders' 33-31 victory over Seattle on Sunday with a neck injury. Chenal went down with 6:38 remaining in the half on a run by Seattle's Emanuel Wilson. The cart was bro...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber belly-flopped more than he actually slid headfirst into second base and popped up with his uniform smudged in dirt. He punched his right fist in the air and shouted something in exhilaration toward a fired-up Phillies dugout. Schwarber delivered...
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kyle Larson has always found it easier to be the hunter than the hunted. He won't have much choice in the matter now. The defending NASCAR Cup Series champion capped a dominant performance at Kansas Speedway on Sunday by passing Chase Briscoe with seven l...
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Germany slumped to its first defeat under Jürgen Klopp with Dimitris Kourbelis giving Greece a shock 1-0 away win in the Nations League on Sunday. The Greek substitute scored with a deflected shot in the 74th minute, somewhat spoiling the mood in Augsburg where Klopp was making h...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers have been around each other a long time. So much so that when the Pittsburgh Steelers coach told Rodgers and the rest of the offense it was time to “cut it loose” before Sunday's early-season litmus test against Cincinnati, it did...
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DEBRECEN, Hungary (AP) — There were no handshakes between Ireland and Israel players before their contentious Nations League match on Sunday, with the Irish team wearing black armbands for its 3-0 victory. The game faced bitter opposition in Ireland over Israel’s actions in Gaza ...
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Liam Coen spent all week telling his players that what mattered most was how they responded. It would have been tough to imagine anything better than this. Trevor Lawrence threw three touchdown passes, including one on which Pa...
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence expects praise and ire in the fantasy football world for passing up an easy rushing touchdown against New England on Sunday. Lawrence gave himself up at the 1-yard line with more than eight minutes to play...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Santa Rosa Independent School District partnered with American Cross first responders and the district police department to host an emergency preparedness event, "Ready, Set, Respond," on Saturday to educate and provide resources to help stu...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Hidalgo County Commissioners adopted a budget of more than $400 million for the 2027 fiscal year, including a lower tax rate than the previous fiscal year. On Sept. 22, during a regular meeting, the Commissioners Court adopted the general fund b...
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S ummer is in the rearview, but global conflict is front and center. The flashpoints — from war in Iran and Ukraine to mounting trade battles — continue to test the limits of President Donald Trump’s go to economic and military strategy of coercion. Tehran and Beijing exemplify t...
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LONDON (AP) — Alexander Zverev added another highlight moment to his breakout season by clinching the decisive points that brought the Laver Cup back to Team Europe on Sunday. Zverev — who captured his first two Grand Slam titles this year by winning the French Open and U.S. Open...
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LeBron James will presumably wear his Philadelphia uniform in public view for the first time. Giannis Antetokounmpo will talk about his new home in Miami, Kawhi Leonard will talk about his home again in Toronto and Stephen Curry will talk about how Golden State will remain home. ...
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SHENZHEN, China (AP) — In July they played each other in the Wimbledon final. Now, Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova have teamed together to win the Billie Jean King Cup for Czechia. The sixth-ranked Noskova and the eighth-ranked Muchova each won their singles matches Sunday as ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will get prime time exposure in Major League Baseball's Wild Card Series. All three potential games in the AL first-round matchup that begins Tuesday will start at about 8 p.m. EDT and be televised by NBC, MLB said Sunday. A...
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NEW YORK (AP) — A'ja Wilson is in a class by herself, winning the AP's WNBA Player of the Year award for an unprecedented third straight year. Wilson received 15 of the 17 first-place votes from a national media panel Sunday. She topped Olivia Miles of Minnesota as well as Caitli...
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's luck ran out. And, Iowa rubbed it in. Hank Brown connected with Reece Vander Zee on a 16-yard touchdown pass to give the 17th-ranked Hawkeyes a 20-19 win over the 18th-ranked Wolverines on Saturday. Iowa had 2 seconds on the clock for the final ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — By the time Dante Moore was placed in an ambulance and driven up the Coliseum tunnel, the star Oregon quarterback's teammates and coaches were all profoundly shaken by his injury, angry about how it happened — and incensed by Southern California linebacker Desm...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Six games back of the AL Central-leading Chicago White Sox in mid-August, the Cleveland Guardians threw everything they had at chasing down their division foes. Lucky them, the AL Central crown comes with a little break before their postseason begins. “We’...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres have earned a wild-card rematch with the Chicago Cubs, and this time it will be at home in packed and raucous Petco Park. Manny Machado and the Padres beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 10-7 on Saturday to wrap up the No. 4 seed in the National Le...
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Sam Leavitt hit Jackson Harris twice for touchdowns — once for 57 yards on a Lane Kiffin fourth-and-short special — and No. 10 LSU defeated 23rd-ranked Texas A&M 35-6 on Saturday night. Kiffin started sprinting down the sideline while Leavitt's fourth-down...
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The final day of Major League Baseball's regular season is here, and two playoff spots are still up for grabs. The Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks are fighting for the National League's final wild card, while the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers are in a race for t...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Through all the final-week hardships for the Phillies — a four-game losing streak, a catcher in an 0-for-34 funk, a punchless offense, a desperate gamble on Aaron Nola on short notice — they are taking solace through their collapse in one certainty about the f...
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Florida proved the oddsmakers right, and then some, on Saturday and established itself as a real threat in the Southeastern Conference in Jon Sumrall's first season. The 21st-ranked Gators built a two-touchdown lead against No. 4 Mississippi and responded each time the Rebels got...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Aaron Nola was hit hard on two days' rest and the Phillies bullpen unraveled in a 12-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night, forcing Philadelphia to try and salvage a final-week collapse and play for an NL wild-card berth on the last day of the season....
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Once again, the Cleveland Guardians are division champs. Patrick Bailey and Brayan Rocchio each hit two of Cleveland's five home runs as the Guardians beat the Kansas City Royals 11-5 on Saturday night to clinch their third straight AL Central title. Cleve...
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Darian Mensah was almost perfect, again. And No. 6 Miami got through September with a perfect record, again. Mensah passed for 338 yards and three touchdowns, plus ran for another score as Miami capped an unbeaten September by topping Central Michigan 5...
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — New Florida coach Jon Sumrall called his program a sleeping giant when he took over 10 months ago and has said repeatedly since that it's time to “wake the beast." Well, the Gators are officially growling. Jadan Baugh ran for 142 yards and three touchdown...
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Colton Joseph hit Jacob Harris on a 72-yard touchdown pass with 1:13 to play and Wisconsin scored twice in the last four minutes to beat No. 13 Penn State 24-20 on Saturday. Penn State quarterback Rocco Becht, who was 12-for-29 passing for 129 yards and ...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Danny Jansen homered and drove in two runs as the Texas Rangers pushed the AL West race to the final day of the regular season with a rain-delayed 6-2 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday. Jake Burger also went deep for the Rangers (80-81), who moved a ...
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MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — The International team showed it knows how to finish matches. It rallied from deficits in every match, morning and afternoon, on Saturday at Medinah to build a three-point lead going into the final day at the Presidents Cup. Now the question is whether they c...
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — In the same stadium where Michigan was given an extra second in a controversial win over Western Michigan, the Iowa Hawkeyes took full advantage of having one more snap with two ticks on the clock. Hank Brown threw a game-ending, 16-yard touchdown pass to ...
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ROGERS, Ark. (AP) — Lauren Coughlin became the first player in LPGA history to open a round with nine straight birdies, running the table through nine holes at the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship on Saturday. Coughlin made only one birdie the rest of the way, closing with six st...
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DETROIT (AP) — Justin Verlander had just retired the leadoff batter in the sixth inning of his major league finale when Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch walked from the dugout toward home plate. The pitcher's 7-year-old daughter suddenly sprinted to the mound. “That completely b...
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The top-ranked Texas Longhorns knew just how to celebrate their latest win over Tennessee after their first visit to Neyland Stadium. Break out the victory cigars. “It's just kind of a little bit of a tradition here at Tennessee, so we had cigars or somebo...
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Texas linebacker Justin Cryer hasn't seen anything like what Longhorns edge rusher Colin Simmons did Saturday. Simmons had the first sack in the first quarter for top-ranked Texas against No. 14 Tennessee. He had another in the second quarter. Simmons then...
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech linebacker Austin Romaine returned two interceptions for touchdowns on consecutive passes thrown by different Sam Houston quarterbacks after some pregame encouragement from coach Joey McGuire. Romaine, the senior transfer from Kansas State, became...
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World Cup winner Spain extended its unbeaten run to 39 games by rallying to a 3-2 win against England in the Nations League on Saturday. Substitute Mikel Oyarzabal came back to haunt England with his 74th-minute winner at Wembley. Oyarzabal also scored the winning goal when Spain...
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LONDON (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz squirmed his way out of trouble, saving two match points before producing a drop shot that ended a 6-3, 4-6, 13-11 revenge win over Taylor Fritz to even the Laver Cup at 5-5 on Saturday. Fritz’s only career victory over Alcaraz came during Team World’...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A McAllen attorney is demanding the footage of a La Grulla crash involving U.S. Border Patrol that hospitalized a family of five be released to the public. The attorney said a young mother who was hospitalized with injuries to her abdomen and ut...
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Pressure to boycott upcoming Nations League games against Israel over that country’s actions in Gaza took its toll on the Ireland team Saturday when players talked for hours, voted on their participation, and one departed the squad. Ireland is due to play Israel in Debrecen, Hung...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak issued a direct message to supporters Saturday as the club faces the potential of losing its landmark case with the Premier League over alleged financial breaches. City has reportedly been found guilty of all...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office added a new medical tool, automated external defibrillators (AEDs), to patrol vehicles that will help deputies provide immediate care to people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. According to the department, ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Workers were still trimming the turf at Maracana Stadium on Saturday, less than 30 hours before the NFL's first game in Rio de Janeiro between the Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Ravens. Some were using scissors to level the high grass, an effort that shoul...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers are set to make their WNBA postseason debuts while Caitlin Clark returns to the playoffs after missing last season because of injury. The WNBA postseason begins Sunday with four first-round matchups. Clark's Fever face A'ja Wilson an...
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BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — George Russell took a Formula 1 win in the blink of an eye. Now he says it's “crunch time” for the title fight. In one of the closest finishes in years, Russell held off Max Verstappen by just .196 of a second to win the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Saturday, ...
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M ariah Alvarez was 2 years old when she died from injuries to her head and other parts of her body in February 2007. Had she lived, she would be old enough to have graduated from high school, married and begun her own family. Instead, doubts remain over how she died and whether ...
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SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Elina Svitolina slammed her racket on the court to celebrate earning Ukraine a spot in the Billie Jean King Cup final for the first time Saturday. The seventh-ranked Svitolina had plenty of emotions running through her mind after she beat Jasmine Paolini 6-...
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BADEN-BADEN, Germany (AP) — Munich will bid to bring the Olympics back to Germany for the first time in more than 60 years after seeing off a rival bid from Cologne to become the focus of the country's push to host a Summer Games. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announce...
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T wo years after the shocking death of Selena Quintanilla Perez, her story was further amplified by the popular 1997 biography film “ Selena .” Jennifer Lopez starred as the iconic Tejano star, with a supporting cast that included Edward James Olmos as Selena’s father Abraham and...
