Multiple flights in a single day. Nearly 60,000 miles. More than 100 hours aloft. FIFA President Gianni Infantino got some serious air time over the course of the 2026 World Cup, the tournament's most far-flung edition ever. He crisscrossed North America for matches, meetings and other appearance...
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ATLANTA (AP) — The World Cup final between Spain and defending champion Argentina marks the end of the biggest tournament in the competition’s history. At the final whistle in New Jersey on Sunday, a record 104 games will have been played across almost six weeks and three countries. The supersize...
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) — Kimi Antonelli will need to defend his lead from pole position at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday as he aims to end his wait for a Formula 1 win and extend his standings lead. The 19-year-old Italian produced a stunning final lap in qualifying to beat Max Versta...
Multiple flights in a single day. Nearly 60,000 miles. More than 100 hours aloft. FIFA President Gianni Infantino got some serious air time over the course of the 2026 World Cup, the tournament's most far-flung edition ever. He crisscrossed North America for matches, meetings and other appearance...
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Athletics pitcher J.T. Ginn lost his bid for a no-hitter Saturday night against the Washington Nationals when Keibert Ruiz lined a clean single to center field with one out in the seventh inning. After the base hit, Ginn was removed from the game by manager Mark Kot...
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — England and France delivered a thriller in a World Cup match that was supposed to be an afterthought. A day before Lionel Messi and Argentina were set to try and defend their title in a highly anticipated final, Bukayo Saka scored three goals to lead England past Kylian...
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Kylian Mbappé made history at the World Cup on Saturday. He would have preferred a different outcome. The France star moved past Argentina's Lionel Messi for the career World Cup scoring record with 22 goals, scoring twice in a 6-4 loss to England in Saturday's third-pl...
BOSTON (AP) — Wilyer Abreu hit two home runs – the second a go-ahead, two-run shot in the seventh inning that gave him four homers in two games — and the Boston Red Sox rallied for a 7-6 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday to extend their winning streak to 12 games. Abreu [...]
Toronto Tempo coach Sandy Brondello was suspended for one game by the WNBA for an inappropriate comment she used during a game against the Atlanta Dream on Friday. She'll miss Monday's game against the Las Vegas Aces. “The WNBA expects all coaches and team personnel to uphold the highest standard...
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge will need another scan before a major ramp-up of activity while his fractured rib heals, and the New York Yankees moved their captain to the 60-day injured list Saturday. Sidelined since May 31, Judge had a scan during the All-Star break that was reviewed by Dr. Gregor...
NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) — Ryan Blaney is hoping to turn a hot streak into history. The 2023 Cup Series champion is hitting his stride with eight straight top 10 finishes, including a win last week at Atlanta. That gives him plenty of momentum heading into Sunday night's much-hyped historic re...
CHICAGO (AP) — The ball from current Cubs first baseman Michael Busch’s first inning solo homer in a 6-2 win over Minnesota on Saturday was recovered in Wrigley Field’s right-field bleachers by former Chicago first baseman Anthony Rizzo. Rizzo didn’t catch Busch’s 12th homer on the fly, but reach...
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Sam Burns gets his best chance at winning a major he never planned to play. Two weeks after his daughter was born, one week after Burns changed his mind and decided to fly from Louisiana to play in the British Open, he followed his record-tying 62 with a 5-under 65 on [...]
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Ryan Fox added his name Saturday to the growing list of players who share the major championship scoring record when he became the third player this week with a record-tying 62 in the British Open at Royal Birkdale. Fox started early with barely a trace of wind, and he t...
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Forever the showman, Bryson DeChambeau high-fived a line of spectators, accepted a request for a selfie with a kid and then stopped to fist-bump a fan after leaving the driving range for his third round at the British Open. Shouts of “We love you Bryson” and “Go Bryson” ...
LONDON (AP) — Josh Kerr, the British runner who helped stoke a revival in middle-distance drama on the track, added a new chapter Saturday by running the mile in 3 minutes, 42.66 seconds to break the 27-year-old world record for the distance. At a Diamond League meet in London, Kerr broke Morocca...
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Tommy Fleetwood has been dreaming about winning a British Open since he was a wee lad in Southport who could only sneak onto Royal Birkdale late in the evening. He's not about to stop dreaming now. Even with a pair of bogeys on the final four holes, Fleetwood did enough ...
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Rory McIlroy saved one of his best shots at the British Open on Saturday for Bryson DeChambeau. The world No. 2 didn’t hold back when asked for his thoughts on DeChambeau’s conduct late Friday, when the American was involved in a lengthy, heated post-round exchange with ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Lionel Messi rarely loses. Spain never loses. That's been how things have worked in recent years, anyway. Soccer's best player and soccer's dominant team are set to collide Sunday in a World Cup final worthy of the sport's grandest stage. Messi and Argentina will face...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A man was arrested in connection with a series of burglaries in the downtown Brownsville area Brownsville police say Oscar Leonardo Urbina, 35, was charged with burglary of a habitation, a second-degree felony, and seven counts of burglary of a building, a state...
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) — It took two of Kimi Antonelli's rivals working together to put the Formula 1 standings leader to the test. It still wasn't enough. The 19-year-old Italian beat a display of Red Bull formation flying to take pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix in qualifying o...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — On this week’s edition of ValleyCentral Weekend Report, Weekend Anchor Brian Svendsen breaks down all the biggest stories from the week. Starting with the biggest stories of the week, in case you missed them. In a massive announcement this week, Seronic Techn...
At least 120 giant border buoys weighing about one ton each on Friday were floating uncontrolled down the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas, toward the South Texas border town of Laredo due to flooding in the region.
MADRID (AP) — Former Spain defender Joan Capdevila has asked U.S. President Donald Trump for help getting into the United States to watch Spain face Argentina in Sunday's World Cup final, after being denied authorization to travel a decade after playing in an exhibition game in Iran. In 2010, Cap...
PHOENIX (AP) — Major League Baseball's new Automated Ball/Strike system was implemented to help players challenge pitches that they feel were not called correctly. There's one big caveat — it only works if it's used. The Arizona Diamondbacks and three-time All-Star Ketel Marte learned that the ha...
NEW YORK (AP) — Gerrit Cole had just walked Mookie Betts leading off the seventh inning with the Yankees leading by one run when Aaron Boone walked slowly to the mound. After an eight-second conversation, the New York manager left in his ace. Seven pitches later, Max Muncy drove a hanging slider ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark seemed “bouncy” to Indiana coach Stephanie White before the Fever faced the Seattle Storm on Friday night. The sharpshooting star not too far removed from a back injury bounced right into the record books — her own, her team’s and the WNBA’s. Clark had the first ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Shohei Ohtani had a lubricant injected into his left knee, but the Dodgers two-way star did not have fluid drained, Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said Friday. Ohtani was 0 for 4 with a pair of warning-track flyouts as the leadoff batter and designated hitter in Friday's 2-1 win...
PHARR, Texas (ValleyCentral) — What was supposed to be a relaxing weekend trip to South Padre Island turned into a terrifying near-death experience for a McAllen police officer after a steel bed frame flew through his windshield while traveling on the expressway. John Montemayor said he was drivi...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The weekend is finally here, and good news: the forecast shows dry skies with no rain in sight. Also, the weather won’t be getting in the way of any plans. However, if you were hoping the Saharan dust had wrapped up its visit, not quite yet. While a break is on ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Max Muncy hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning on Gerrit Cole's 103rd and final pitch, lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers over the New York Yankees 2-1 on Friday night in their first game in the Bronx since winning the 2024 World Series. Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 4 with [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The lineup of sports legends simultaneously on the stage at Fanatics Fest on Friday night was almost absurd. There was Tom Brady, the greatest Super Bowl champion of all time. There was Novak Djokovic, the winner of more men's Grand Slam tennis tournaments than anyone else. There ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball is restricting iPad usage in dugouts to prevent the tablets from running artificial intelligence to help make strategy decisions, and former reliever Adam Ottavino said the New York Mets' use of technology helped prompt the move. The tablets have access to vi...
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Bryson DeChambeau was given a two-shot penalty after his second round at the British Open on Friday that dropped the American star out of the final group and raised initial doubts about whether he would show up on the weekend at Royal Birkdale. In a dramatic late-evening...
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — The British Open came to life Friday when Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns took their place in history by tying the major championship record with 62s, and Bryson DeChambeau was penalized two shots after his round for inadvertently improving the path of his swing. In the mids...
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Scottie Scheffler put on a tee-to-green clinic in his second round at the British Open, one he says bodes well for his chances of keeping hold of the shiny claret jug. All that's left for the world No. 1 is to find his range on the greens. Scheffler missed seven birdie [...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Almost two decades ago, photographer Joan Monfort didn't think much of his photo shoot of a teenage Lionel Messi bathing a cute baby boy in a plastic bathtub. Not until the remarkable twist of fate became clear years later, when that infant blossomed into Lamine Yamal. Now...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A man was taken into custody for allegedly sending intimate photos through a deceased person's social media accounts, according to the Donna Police Department. On June 15, Jose Lara Jr. was charged with harassment, two counts of online impersonation, computer se...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested a man with multiple warrants out of Combes. German Tanguma was arrested on Thursday while attempting to enter the U.S. at the Hidalgo International Port of Entry. The Combes Police Department said Tanguma was...
CLEVELAND (AP) — The game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Guardians scheduled for Friday night has been postponed due to air quality concerns because of wildfire smoke from Canada and northern Minnesota. Heavy, pungent wildfire smoke darkened skies in the U.S. from the Great Lake...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Federal charges against former Hidalgo County District Clerk Omar Guerrero have been dropped by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Texas. According to a criminal complaint, the order of dismissal for flight to avoid prosecution, a federal fel...
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