ATLANTA (AP) — Jeff Van Note, a six-time Pro Bowl center who spent all 18 seasons of his NFL career with Atlanta and was inducted into the team's Ring of Honor in 2006, has died, the Falcons announced Friday. He was 80. The team did not announce a cause of death. “We mourn the loss [...]
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) - Tonight's Lyford High School football game location has been changed. The varsity football game between the Lyford Bulldogs and the Bishop Badgers has been relocated to Odem High School's Owl Stadium. The game will still start at 7 p.m. and fans...
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Because he grew up playing hockey with and against Johnny Gaudreau in their teenage years, Vincent Conanan talks about the late NHL star plenty. He gets chills when old text messages from Gaudreau show up when he's searching his phone. Conanan buys thoroughbred yearlings annually...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) - The combination of a slow moving, weak frontal boundary and lots of tropical moisture are combining to keep rain chances high for the Rio Grande Valley. Most of the Valley has received at least a little rain over the past 24 hours, with some are...
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WATFORD, England (AP) — Commanders quarterback Marcus Mariota will get his second straight start in place of the injured Jayden Daniels on Sunday when Washington faces the Indianapolis Colts at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Head coach Dan Quinn announced the decision Friday after pr...
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Manchester City has lodged a “comprehensive” appeal, the club confirmed Friday, following the publication of a report by an independent commission detailing large-scale financial rule-breaking by the Premier League giant in one of English soccer's biggest scandals. “The club’s fi...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Robot umpires overturned 54% of challenged calls in the first season of the Automated Ball-Strike System, and catchers were far more successful than batters. Learning when to challenge is key. The Cincinnati Reds had a net gain of 16.8 runs, according to Baseball ...
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The Professional Women’s Hockey League’s addition of four new teams is translating into more games, an expanded playoff format and the introduction of two six-team conferences entering its fourth season. The PWHL unveiled major adaptations on Friday in releasing its 180-game regu...
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ZURICH (AP) — German official Franz Reindl has been elected president of the International Ice Hockey Federation by just three votes after incumbent Luc Tardif chose not to run. Reindl beat Petr Bříza 60-57 in a runoff vote on the Spanish island of Tenerife between two former pla...
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NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees rookie Spencer Jones made some bizarre baseball history in Game 2 of the AL Wild Card Series, becoming the first player to strike out starting and ending a postseason inning in which he also scored. With the Yankees leading Boston 2-1 on Wednesday...
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Maybe the Cleveland Browns didn’t strike out when they made that blockbuster trade for Deshaun Watson. A deal that was a disaster for four years is suddenly producing some hits. After Browns owner Jimmy Haslam called the trade “a big swing and miss,” Watson beat out Shedeur Sande...
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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Braves manager Walt Weiss reported to Truist Park on Thursday determined to avoid asking ace starter Chris Sale if he'd be available for relief duty only two days after making a start in the National League Wild Card Series opener. “I didn’t want to put him...
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Deshaun Watson and the Cleveland Browns are developing a knack for coming up big in the fourth quarter. Watson led a go-ahead drive in the fourth quarter for the third straight week as he moved the Browns into position for Andre Szmyt's career-long 56-yard field ...
