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DALLAS (AP) — Kario Oquendo hit four 3-pointers and scored 20 points on 7-of-8 shooting Tuesday night to lead seven SMU players scoring in double figures and help the Mustangs beat Alabama State 101-72. Chuck Harris, Matt Cross and Samet Yigitoglu scored 12 points apiece for SMU (7-2). B.J. Edwards and Yohan Traore each added

AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Eric Dickerson certainly understood the irony of being back at his alma mater to be part of a panel discussion about NIL money for college athletes. That was Tuesday at SMU, the only school to ever get the so-called NCAA death penalty for a pay-for-play scandal during the Mustangs’

AP National Writer Miami’s playoff hopes took an all-but-final nosedive while Alabama’s got a boost Tuesday night in the last rankings before the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket is set next weekend. The Hurricanes (10-2) moved down six spots to No. 12 — the first team out of the projected bracket after suffering their second

The Texas Tribune After spending decades as a Texas prison inmate, Arnulfo Ayala flinched last month when a captain at the newly reopened Bartlett Unit extended an arm to shake the confessed killer’s hand. The professional gesture felt unfamiliar to Ayala, who’s grown accustomed to waking up to the sound of corrections officers yelling at

The Texas Tribune LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The goal of expanding broadband availability in Texas has been a long time coming. Depending on the day, the finish line either looks closer than ever or so very far away. Late last month, Texas won final approval to use billions of federal money to help connect every

AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — For a second time, a Delaware judge has nullified a pay package that Tesla had awarded its CEO, Elon Musk, that once was valued at $56 billion. On Monday, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick turned aside a request from Musk’s lawyers to reverse a ruling she announced in January

Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — An elaborate parody appears to be behind an effort to resurrect Enron, the Houston-based energy company that exemplified the worst in American corporate fraud and greed after it went bankrupt in 2001. If its return is comedic, some former employees who lost everything in Enron’s collapse aren’t laughing. “It’s a

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Carli Lloyd, Chris Armas, Nick Rimando and Mary Harvey were elected Tuesday to the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame along with former Major League Soccer executive Mark Abbott, and will be inducted on May 3. Lloyd, who scored a hat trick that boosted the U.S. over Japan in the 2015

The Texas Tribune Twenty five years ago, the Texas Legislature passed a sweeping set of reforms to resuscitate the state’s collapsing rural health care system. Now, health care providers, advocates and local leaders are proposing similarly aggressive action to pull the rural maternity care system back from the brink. The Rural Texas Maternal Health Rescue

AP Baseball Writer Kyle Higashioka already had some memorable moments at the home of the Texas Rangers. He caught a no-hitter there and hit a home run on the same day that Aaron Judge set the American League season record with No. 62. Now Globe Life Park will be Higashioka’s home stadium after he signed

AP Sports Writer Texas A&M signed the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class three years ago believing it had built a potential national title contender. Plenty of players from that heralded 2022 class could indeed be participating in the first 12-team College Football Playoff this month. They just won’t be doing it for the Aggies, who no

CalMatters If you’ve hunted for apartments recently and felt like all the rents were equally high, you’re not crazy: Many landlords now use a single company’s software — which uses an algorithm based on proprietary lease information — to help set rent prices. Federal prosecutors say the practice amounts to “an unlawful information-sharing scheme” and

AP Sports Writer CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — When Clemson coach Dabo Swinney left the stadium Saturday after losing to rival South Carolina, he thought his team’s chances at reaching the College Football Playoff had ended. A couple of hours later, everything had changed, with the 18th-ranked Tigers qualifying for the Atlantic Coast Conference title game

The Associated Press national player of the week in women’s basketball for Week 4 of the season: Reigan Richardson, Duke The senior guard scored a career-high 35 points in a win over then-No. 8 Oklahoma to win the Ball Dawgs Classic title. It was the school record for points against a ranked opponent. She also

AP Sports Writer Illinois assistant coach Dana Dimel, who was an All-American offensive tackle for Kansas State and later became the head coach at Wyoming, Houston and UTEP, died Tuesday. He was 62. Dimel’s wife, Julie, and children Winston and Josey announced his death in a statement. No cause was given. “Today is a difficult

AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Not Like Us,” it’s like them — Kendrick Lamar and SZA will hit the road together in 2025. On Tuesday morning, Lamar and SZA announced the Grand National Tour, which will hit 19 stadiums across North America next spring and summer. The news arrives less than two weeks

AP Business Writer AT&T anticipates earnings growth over the next three years thanks to the momentum of 5G and fiber services. The company also announced Tuesday that it expects its improved financial performance to support more than $40 billion of anticipated shareholder returns through dividends and stock buybacks over the same time. This includes an

AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s Azeez Al-Shaair was suspended by the NFL without pay for three games Tuesday for repeated violations of player safety rules following his violent hit to the head of Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence, which led to a concussion. Al-Shaair’s punishment was announced by NFL vice president of football operations Jon

NEW YORK (AP) — Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair suspended for three games following late hit on Jaguars QB Trevor Lawrence.

AP Basketball Writer It wasn’t long after Duke had pushed through Friday’s win against Seattle that coach Jon Scheyer lamented a missing piece of the Blue Devils’ recent schedule. “We need practice time,” Scheyer said. It’s a plight facing a lot of ranked teams that criss-crossed the country to play in top-tier tournaments and made-for-TV

AP Basketball Writer Dawn Staley has challenged South Carolina with an extremely tough early season schedule. The No. 3 Gamecocks have already faced four opponents who have made appearances in the AP Top 25 and have two more this week with No. 8 Duke and No. 9 TCU on the schedule. Coach Staley saw her

Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Evgeni Dadonov and Jamie Benn each scored to help the Dallas Stars beat the Utah Hockey Club 2-1 on Monday night for their third straight win. Casey DeSmith stopped 34 shots for Dallas, which has won eight of its last 11 games. Nick Schmaltz scored and Karel Vejmelka

MONROE, La. (AP) — Lance Ware had 17 points, Jaxon Ellingsworth scored 16 and UT Arlington beat UL Monroe 84-70 on Monday night. Ware also contributed nine rebounds and three steals for the Mavericks (4-5). Ellingsworth made 7 of 9 shots with two 3-pointers and added nine rebounds. Jaden Wells hit three 3-pointers and scored

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Free agent catcher Kyle Higashioka and the Texas Rangers agreed Monday night on a $13.5 million, two-year contract that includes a mutual option for the 2027 season. Higashioka set career highs with 17 homers and 45 RBIs while playing 84 games this year in his only season with the San Diego

AP Sports Writer BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Zach Kittley ran one of the nation’s best offenses at Texas Tech. Florida Atlantic has given him a bigger challenge. Kittley — the Texas Tech offensive coordinator for the last three seasons — is the new head coach at FAU, with the deal getting announced on Monday

AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has reaffirmed her ruling that Tesla must revoke Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick on Monday denied a request by attorneys for Musk and Tesla’s corporate directors to vacate her ruling earlier this year requiring the company to rescind the unprecedented

DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has reaffirmed her ruling that Tesla must revoke Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package.

AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas defensive tackle Alfred Collins surveyed the wreckage left by the No. 2 Longhorns’ total domination of Texas A&M. Then he summed up the message he believes it sent to the rest of college football about the Texas defense. “We’re the best in the nation,” Collins said. It’s

AP Sports Writer High school football recruits get a chance to finalize their college decisions a couple of weeks sooner than usual this year. Some coaches wouldn’t mind see the recruiting calendar moved up a few months earlier than that. Football’s early signing period begins Wednesday and runs through Friday, enabling seniors to get things