DENTON, Texas (AP) — Austin Aune passed for 384 yards and five touchdowns — all in the first half — and North Texas romped to a 52-14 victory over Florida International on Saturday. Ayo Adeyi ran for a 2-yard touchdown and Aune sandwiched a 45-yard scoring strike to Jordan Smart and a 10-yarder to freshman
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LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom will have another reason to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, for the government has declared a special public holiday to mark the occasion. The holiday will be on Monday, May 8, capping a three-day weekend that will begin with the coronation. The coronation of Charles’ late mother,
Continue Reading BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — Cephus Johnson III threw for a touchdown and ran for two more, Maurice Massey had 10 receptions for 150 yards and two touchdowns and Southeastern Louisiana beat Lamar 47-31 Saturday. Massey, a 6-foot-3, 195-pound redshirt freshman who began his college career at Missouri in 2019, went into the game with 15
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Caroline Garcia spiked a banana on her bench while a first-set lead was slipping away, and Daria Kasatkina later whacked a couple of balls hard into the court with her racket after losing on serve. All that was before a tense third set filled
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Sofía Benavides (CNN) — Estados Unidos parece estar inundado por expresiones de antisemitismo, y no se trata solo de los personajes habituales como supremacistas blancos e incitadores al odio declarados. Ahora, el antisemitismo brota entre sus músicos y los atletas, así como de sus políticos, y parece que se está filtrando. Mientras que en los
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By Jessie Yeung and Kristie Lu Stout, CNN At a glitzy finance summit in Hong Kong this week, the city’s leader triumphantly told a room packed with top Wall Street executives that the Asian hub was back in business. “The worst is behind us,” he declared. Two days later, tens of thousands of rugby fans
Continue Reading EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Jamie Benn scored three goals for his seventh career hat trick and Jason Robertson had a goal and two assists as the Dallas Stars rolled to a 6-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. Joe Pavelski and Colin Miller also scored for the Stars, who have won three straight. Scott
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — No. 5 Clemson is back in the ACC championship game. The Tigers clinched the ACC Atlantic Division with No. 22 Syracuse’s 19-9 loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday. Clemson is 6-0 in ACC play and holds a two-game lead over the Orange, No. 20 Wake Forest and No. 21 North Carolina State
Continue Reading By GAVIN GOOD Associated Press CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Payton Thorne passed for 182 yards and two touchdowns as Michigan State ended a troubling week where eight players were suspended by defeating No. 14 Illinois 23-15 on Saturday. The Spartans’ players were suspended for a post-game fight against Michigan last week. Michigan State’s defense stopped
Continue Reading PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Russell Henley has turned the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba into a runaway. He started with a 25-foot birdie putt. He hasn’t made a bogey all week on El Camaleon. The result is a 65 and a six-shot lead for Henley. Will Gordon and Patton Kizzire face the
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By ERIC W. BOLIN Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Johnathan Bennett threw three touchdown passes in the first half and No. 23 Liberty used a late goal-line stop on a 2-point conversion try to beat Arkansas 21-19. Liberty stopped KJ Jefferson’s conversion attempt with 1:11 left to seal the win. Liberty raced to a
Continue Reading By BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rudy Gobert will miss the Minnesota Timberwolves’ game against Houston on Saturday after being placed in the league’s health and safety protocols. Gobert played Friday night against the Milwaukee Bucks with an illness, and the Timberwolves ruled him out Saturday afternoon for the game against Houston. Anthony
Continue Reading By BRIAN HALL Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rudy Gobert will miss the Minnesota Timberwolves’ game against Houston on Saturday after being placed in the league’s health and safety protocols. Gobert played Friday night against the Milwaukee Bucks with an illness, and the Timberwolves ruled him out Saturday afternoon for the game against Houston. Anthony
Continue Reading By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — In the biggest games, Stetson Bennett seems to rise to the occasion and above his often more heralded counterparts. Bennett threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score as No. 1 Georgia shut down Hendon Hooker and the Vols’ high-powered offense to win a
Continue Reading SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Lindsey Scott Jr. tied a school record with seven touchdowns in the first half and Incarnate Word routed Houston Christian 73-20 on Saturday. Scott’s now the program record holder with 51 touchdowns this season. He led Incarnate Word to 49 points in the second quarter to set another program record for
Continue Reading SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Lindsey Scott Jr. tied a school record with seven touchdowns in the first half and Incarnate Word routed Houston Christian 73-20 on Saturday. Scott’s now the program record holder with 51 touchdowns this season. He led Incarnate Word to 49 points in the second quarter to set another program record for
Continue Reading PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Edward Saydee ran for three long touchdowns, including a 75-yarder to start the second half, and Temple routed South Florida, 54-28 in a battle between American Athletic Association teams searching for their first conference win. The Owls, who led by two at intermission, 16-14, topped 50 points in a game for the
Continue Reading By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles FC beat the Philadelphia Union to claim its first MLS Cup championship. Gareth Bale tied it at 3-3 on a dramatic header in the eighth minute of extra-time stoppage time, and backup goalkeeper John McCarthy stopped two Philadelphia shots in a 3-0 penalty
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LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Kicker Connor Coles scored on a 6-yard run on a fake field-goal attempt to spark Utah State to a 27-10 victory over New Mexico on Saturday. With Utah State (4-5, 3-2 Mountain West Conference) trailing 10-7, Coles took a pitch from holder Josh Sterzer and ran into the end zone to
Continue Reading Aaron Carter, a singer who first found fame as a boy with pop songs like “I Want Candy,” has died at age 34, a source close to the family told CNN. Authorities gave no information about a possible cause of death. CNN’s Chloe Melas reports.
Continue Reading By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Craig “Sqwirl” Williams ran for a career-high 192 yards and two touchdowns, and Baylor defeated Oklahoma 38-35 on Saturday. Williams, a fifth-year junior, had rushed for 456 yards his entire injury-plagued career before exploding against the Sooners. His top performance this season had been 68
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By Kevin Dotson, CNN NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Saturday said Mitchell Miller, who was previously involved in a bullying scandal, is not currently eligible to play in the league, and added league officials were not consulted by the Boston Bruins before the team signed Miller. “He’s not coming into the NHL, he’s not eligible
Continue Reading By MATT DERRICK Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Will Levis threw three touchdown passes, including two to Dane Key, and the Wildcats took a 21-17 win over Missouri on Saturday. Key’s 22-yard reception with just over five minutes remaining gave the Wildcats the winning points after the Tigers had scored twice in the fourth
Continue Reading DAINGERFIELD, Texas (AP) — Officials say a second person has died in tornadoes that hit Texas and Oklahoma.
Continue Reading 25-yard CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Columbia blocked back-to-back field goal attempts and scored the go-ahead two-point conversion and the Lions beat Harvard 21-20. Harvard turned the ball over on downs at the Lions’ 32 and, after holding Columbia to a three-and-out, drove 55 yards to the Columbia 25 with 1:17 left before Jonah Lipel missed
Continue Reading VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Aidan Bouman’s two touchdown passes staked South Dakota to a 17-point lead to start the fourth quarter and the Coyotes held off a Missouri State rally to take a 20-13 Missouri Valley Conference victory. Bouman’s 44-yard touchdown pass to Wesley Eliodor put South Dakota up, 13-7 heading into intermission, and his
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Ousmane Dembélé and Frenkie de Jong scored to lead Barcelona to a 2-0 win over Almería in veteran defender Gerard Pique’s last game at Camp Nou. Robert Lewandowski missed an early penalty before Dembélé opened the scoring in the 48th minute and De Jong put the
Continue Reading CULLOWHEE, N.C. (AP) — Jalynn Williams rushed for two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score with 2:53 left to play, and Western Carolina rallied late to defeat Wofford 36-29. Ryan Ingram’s 2-yard touchdown run 57 seconds into the final quarter gave Wofford a 29-26 lead. Richard McCollum’s 19-yard field goal capped a nine-play, 60-yard drive and
Continue Reading By LARRY LEWIS The Associated Press TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tyjae Spears ran for 157 yards and a touchdown and Shaadie Clayton-Johnson gained 106 to lead No. 19 Tulane to a 27-13 win over Tulsa. Tulane had lost the past two meetings with Tulsa in overtime, but controlled this one with a dominant running game.
Continue Reading By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The long and unpredictable NASCAR season comes to an end Sunday with a championship race fitting for a year that saw unprecedented parity and never a clear title favorite. Sure, Chase Elliott led the standings for most of the season while winning a career-high
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