Year: 2022

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Super Bowl advertisers this year want Americans to forget about pandemic woes and focus on the future: of electric vehicles, mind reading Alexas, robots and cryptocurrency. And also to harken back to the nostalgic past with nods to ’90s movies like “Austin Powers” and “The

By AARON MORRISON Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The Salchow jump, the Biellmann  and the Charlotte spiral. These standard ice-skating maneuvers are named after white people from the 20th century. In a century-old sport that had been largely European until just a few decades ago, some still wonder how more Black athletes can make a

By HANK KURZ Jr. AP Sports Writer The Atlantic Coast Conference has long heralded itself as the premier basketball conference in the country. This year, that hasn’t been the case. Besides No. 7 Duke, only one other ACC team has been ranked in the Top 25 this season. North Carolina was No. 18 in the

LONDON (AP) — Christian Eriksen says he has no anxiety about playing his first match on Monday since a cardiac arrest last June while playing for Denmark in the European Championship. He hasn’t played competitively since that incident when he collapsed and in his own words was “gone from this world for five minutes.” He

By BEN NUCKOLS AP Sports Writer The Wizards are on the fringe of playoff contention in the Eastern Conference and won’t have Bradley Beal for the rest of the season. That didn’t stop Washington general manager Tommy Sheppard from turning over a quarter of his roster at the trade deadline. Sheppard says the moves weren’t

By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Coastal Carolina’s Grayson McCall is considered a mid-round NFL draft prospect but the quarterback who passed on transferring to a Power Five school won’t throw a football for months as he rehabs an upper body injury. McCall had surgery last month and with his right

By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Recently hired Brian Daboll has filled out a majority of his staff with the Giants, adding the first woman to hold a coaching position in the team’s history along with a pair of coordinators new to New York. Laura Young will be the team’s

By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer Auburn is retaining coach Bryan Harsin after an investigation into his program. Auburn President Jay Gogue announced the decision a week after telling trustees that “we’re trying to separate fact from fiction.” Harsin’s debut season ended with five straight losses and a 6-7 record. That was followed by heavy