By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Carlos Correa and Max Kepler had RBI singles in the 10th inning, while Minnesota leadoff hitter Donovan Solano matched a career high with four hits and had a standout defensive play a day after he was too sick to play as the AL Central-leading Twins
Continue Reading FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Bernard Kamungo scored in the 62nd minute to rally FC Dallas to a 2-2 draw with Atlanta United on Saturday night. Dallas (9-10-7) jumped on top in the 4th minute when Paul Arriola took a pass from Jesús Ferreira and scored for the first time this season. Atlanta United (11-8-9) evened
Continue Reading By ADAM SPOLANE Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Aaron Judge homered for the second consecutive game and the New York Yankees got a big effort from their bullpen Saturday night in a 5-4 victory over the Houston Astros. Michael Brantley hit his first home run since June 2022 for the Astros, who fell a game
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — By all accounts, Bobby Petrino’s debut as Texas A&M’s offensive coordinator Saturday night was a huge success. Conner Weigman threw for 236 yards and a career-high five touchdowns and No. 23 Texas A&M rolled to a 52-10 victory over New Mexico. Coach Jimbo Fisher
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Sacramento Kings signed 15-year veteran JaVale McGee on Saturday. The 7-foot center most recently played for the Dallas Mavericks, averaging 4.4 points and 2.5 rebounds in 42 games last season. He started seven times and shot 64% and played 8.5 minutes per game. McGee, selected 18th by the Washington Wizards
Continue Reading FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Alexander Ring scored in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time, offsetting the first two career goals by New England’s Tomás Chancalay as Austin FC and the Revolution played to a 2-2 draw on Saturday night. New England (13-5-8) saw a six-match win streak at home end, but the club extended
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer DENTON, Texas (AP) — California coach Justin Wilcox says he and his players spent “about seven seconds” talking about the school’s impending move to the Atlantic Coast Conference a day before the season opener. There’s still a season to be played in the Pac-12, and it started nicely for
Continue Reading By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Believe the hype. Deion Sanders’ debut as Colorado coach was billed as a big deal, but there was plenty of skepticism about just how good the Buffaloes could be after an unprecedented roster makeover in Boulder. “We told you we were coming. You thought we were joking.
Continue Reading By JIM VERTUN0 AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas beating Rice looked quite different that anyone might have expected. Still, the No. 11 Longhorns will take a win that turned from a grinder into a rout. Quinn Ewers passed for three touchdowns and ran for another as Texas overcame a sluggish start with
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — After nine months of hype, Deion Sanders had Colorado ready for prime time in his much-anticipated debut as Buffaloes coach. Shedeur Sanders, the coach’s son, threw for a school-record 510 yards with four touchdowns — the game-winner a 46-yard catch-and-run by true freshman Dylan
Continue Reading DALLAS (AP) — Preston Stone threw three touchdown passes and SMU defeated Louisiana Tech 38-14 on Saturday. Stone, a redshirt sophomore with one previous start and two touchdown passes in his SMU career, was 23 of 37 for 248 yards and wasn’t intercepted. LJ Johnson Jr. rushed for 128 yards on 14 carries with one
Continue Reading By PAUL J. WEBER and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Billionaires, burner phones, alleged bribes: The impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is going to test the will of Republicans senators to oust not only one of their own, but a firebrand who has helped drive the state’s hard turn
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Jasson Domínguez sparked the New York Yankees with his very first swing in the majors. Domínguez became the youngest Yankees player to homer in his first career at-bat and Aaron Judge reached 250 home runs faster than any other major leaguer as New York slugged its
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Baseball Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Jordan Luplow and Christian Vázquez snapped extended slumps with home runs in the go-ahead seventh inning after Texas starter Max Scherzer left the game as the AL Central-leading Minnesota Twins beat the slumping Rangers 5-1 on Friday night. “No one could really get anything going.
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — New York Yankees star Aaron Judge became the fastest player in major league history to reach 250 home runs with a solo shot off Justin Verlander in the fifth inning Friday night against the Houston Astros. Judge reached the milestone in his 810th career game, besting
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Houston second baseman Jose Altuve left Friday night against the New York Yankees after one inning because of a bruised left leg. Batting leadoff, Altuve grounded out and then walked gingerly to the dugout. He stopped to chat with manager Dusty Baker for a minute before
Continue Reading INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Satau Sabally took over with 28 of her career-high 40 points in the second half and the Dallas Wings clinched a playoff berth with a 110-100 win over the Indiana Fever on Friday night. Sabally, who missed the last two games with an ankle injury, shot 13 for 19, including a career-high
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — SMU athletic director Rick Hart shot a small batch of red and blue confetti from a fake champagne bottle before machines showered the stage with plenty more. The scene celebrating the university’s acceptance into the Atlantic Coast Conference on Friday was quite the contrast to the
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone vividly remembers the poise and confidence a 16-year-old Jasson Domínguez displayed when he watched him take batting practice at the team’s academy in the Dominican Republic in 2019. “Right then he got your attention,” Boone said. “It was like, it’s
Continue Reading By CHRISTINE FERNANDO Associated Press A Texas man has pleaded guilty to threatening Georgia officials following the 2020 election, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday. Chad Stark, 55, of Leander, Texas, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of communicating interstate threats after he was accused of posting threatening messages on Craigslist about killing government officials
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER and JOE REEDY Associated Press Writers A company representing nearly 15 million cable subscribers and The Walt Disney Co. blamed each other Friday for a dispute that has cut off Disney-owned stations to viewers on the eve of a big sports weekend for U.S. Open tennis and college football fans. The dispute
Continue Reading By MARK ANDERSON AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — The arrival of Aaron Rodgers and the HBO show “Hard Knocks” made the New York Jets the talk of the NFL preseason, and they are a hot topic among bettors as well. At BetMGM, which is available in 25 states and Washington D.C., the Jets
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs know winning consecutive Super Bowls is a tough task. They’ll have plenty of familiar foes and some new ones standing in their way of a repeat. The NFL’s road to Las Vegas starts next Thursday night when the Chiefs host the
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer When Micah Parsons entered the NFL two years ago, the biggest question was where he was best suited to play. After spending a spectacular rookie season shifting between off-ball linebacker and defensive end, Parsons has found a home as an elite edge rusher. Parsons has established himself as
Continue Reading By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An energy infrastructure project bigger than the Hoover Dam is how Hunter Armistead describes the $10 billion venture his company will be overseeing during the next three years. As the chief executive of one of the world’s largest wind and solar development companies, Armistead said
Continue Reading By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press On Friday, Texas became the most populous state with a ban in effect against gender-affirming care for minors. The law was allowed to kick in after a court ruling on Thursday, part of a flurry of action across the country on policies aimed at transgender people and their rights. A
Continue Reading By KEN MILLER Associated Press A federal judge has struck down a Texas law requiring age verification and health warnings to view pornographic websites and blocked the state attorney general’s office from enforcing it. In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Ezra agreed with claims that House Bill 1181, which was signed into law
Continue Reading By AARON BEARD and RALPH D. RUSSO AP Sports Writers The Atlantic Coast Conference voted Friday to add Stanford, California and SMU next year, providing a landing spot for two more schools from the disintegrating Pac-12 and creating a fourth super conference in major college sports. The move provides the ACC a windfall of revenue
Continue Reading CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Atlantic Coast Conference inviting Stanford, California and SMU to join the league in 2024-25, sources tell AP.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said Friday that a partnership between the Russian and Chinese leaders worried him, adding, “We have never seen a threat this large scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.” An alliance between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and
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