NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime NFL executive Ernie Accorsi, who built the New York Giants core that won the Super Bowl twice after his retirement has died. He was 84. The Giants and Accorsi’s family announced Sunday that he died Saturday. A cause of death and where Accorsi was when he died were not pro...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — No Pep Guardiola. No problem. Not yet anyway for Manchester City after moving clear at the top of the Premier League on Sunday with a 5-3 win over Sunderland. New coach Enzo Maresca extended his perfect winning start to the season to five games and goes...
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VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — J.J. Spaun responded to his disappointment of being left off the U.S. Presidents Cup team by winning the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday, making four birdies on the last five holes for a 5-under 67 and a two-shot victory in his debut at the European ...
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MADRID (AP) — Atletico Madrid won the first capital derby of the season in the Spanish league with a 2-1 win against 10-man Real Madrid, while Manchester City prevailed in an eight-goal thriller against Sunderland to move clear at the top of the Premier League. Alejandro Grimaldo...
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The final round of the second Women's Champions Cup, an intercontinental competition for club teams, will be played at Inter Miami's Nu Stadium in late January, FIFA announced Sunday. No U.S. women's club is set to play. Mexico's Club America will represent CONCACAF after defeati...
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado State issued an apology to BYU on Saturday night for derogatory chants aimed at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints coming from the stands. The school said that “mocking anyone’s faith has no place at CSU.” BYU is the flagship schoo...
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HALLE, Germany (AP) — Alexander Zverev sent Germany through to the Davis Cup Final 8, outclassing Dino Prizmic on Sunday to secure a 3-1 victory over Croatia. Zverev took just 77 minutes to ease to a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Prizmic, who was ranked more than 100 places below the U.S...
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NAGOYA, Japan (AP) — Led by 13-year-old Yu Zidi, China dominated the first day of swimming at the Asian Games with Yu and defending Olympic champion Pan Zhanle taking gold. Yu easily won the 200-meter butterfly on Sunday at the Olympic pool in Tokyo, and Pan took the 100 free, wh...
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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Lane Kiffin's new team at LSU couldn't deny Trinidad Chambliss — the quarterback Kiffin helped transform into a star after recruiting him from a Division II program to Mississippi last year. Chambliss passed for 363 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a tieb...
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Jordynn Dudley scored two goals, including the eventual winner in stoppage time, leading Gotham to a 2-1 road victory over the North Carolina Courage on Saturday night. In the day's other National Women's Soccer League matches, the Portland Thorns beat the Orlando Pride 4-1 and t...
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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Only one year ago, Mississippi fans hailed Lane Kiffin as the coach who helped them beat border-state rival LSU. On Saturday, as the No. 8 Rebels prepared to host No. 7 LSU, Ole Miss fans were eager to mock and heckle Kiffin in myriad ways — and did so amid a...
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — Joey Logano won the Cup Series race Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway, while the driver he passed for the win stole the show with old-school NASCAR feuding and fisticuffs. Carson Hocevar, a brash 23-year-old who has earned the ire of veteranswith his aggres...
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Arch Manning threw two early touchdown passes to Cam Coleman on a night he mostly struggled, and No. 1 Texas beat UTSA 30-6 in the Longhorns' last game before starting their Southeastern Conference schedule. Texas (3-0) vaulted to No. 1 after its thrilling 24...
