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By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer South Carolina beat UConn to remain No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll for the 33rd consecutive week. Indiana moved up to No. 2 for its highest ranking in school history. LSU stayed third and has a showdown with the Gamecocks on Sunday in a matchup

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The English Premier League vs. Manchester City: a legal fixture for the ages. Soccer’s richest and most watched league challenged its defending champion on Monday with more than 100 charges of alleged financial wrongdoing and failures to cooperate with an investigation that took more than four

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer Williams driver Alex Albon intends to show the more steely side to his personalty in Formula One. The affable Albon is one of the most popular drivers but thinks that also comes with some misperception. He says people “see me as a happy-go-lucky person” but “I’m much stronger

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer MERIBEL, France (AP) — Practically the only person not asking Mikaela Shiffrin if this was the Beijing Olympics all over again was herself. That’s because the American skier learned so much from that disappointing performance a year ago when she didn’t finish three of her five individual races and

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Purdue’s unquestioned grip on No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll is gone after a weekend loss. That didn’t stop the Boilermakers from remaining at the top anyway. The Boilermakers earned 38 of 62 first-place votes in the poll released Monday to remain at No. 1

LONDON (AP) — Former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua will launch his comeback with a fight against American boxer Jermaine Franklin in London on April 1. Joshua hasn’t fought since August when he lost for a second straight time to Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia. Joshua wrote “A New Dawn” in a tweet which contained a

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze one of the country’s highest honors. It comes nearly a year after a doping case involving one of her skaters overshadowed the Winter Olympics. A presidential decree lists Tutberidze among three people awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky “for ensuring the

LONDON (AP) — A Brazilian tennis player who won a bronze medal at the 2018 Youth Olympics has been banned for 12 months in a doping case. The International Tennis Integrity Agency says it has accepted that Gilbert Klier Junior had not deliberately doped and that the banned substance SARM S-22 had entered his body

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer When LeBron James passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the NBA’s career scoring record, it ended Abdul-Jabbar’s 39-year reign as the all-time points champion. It shined a light on how much work James had to do over 20 seasons to catch Abdul-Jabbar. And it shows how much work somebody in the

By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The hottest ticket in town for advertisers is officially sold out. Fox said Monday that in-game ads for Super Bowl LVII have all been sold. The big game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles takes place on Sunday. The Super Bowl is

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer American coach Jesse Marsch has been fired by Leeds after nearly a year in charge of the English Premier League team. Leeds hasn’t won any of its last seven games in the league and has dropped into 17th place in the 20-team division. The team is only out of

By TERRY TANG Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Private jet-setters are the reason every Super Bowl comes with super-size air traffic. Officials expect more than 1,000 additional planes to descend on metropolitan Phoenix’s eight airports and beyond this week for the matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles as well as the

MERIBEL, France (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin missed what looked like a certain gold medal Monday on the opening day of the world championships, skiing out of the women’s combined race with the finish in sight. Shiffrin straddled the third-to-last gate in her slalom run while appearing to be close to beating first-run leader

PRAGUE (AP) — Jaromír Jágr celebrated his 51st birthday about a week early by scoring his 1,099th goal to overtake Wayne Gretzky at the top of the chart. Jágr scored for the Kladno Knights on Sunday in 5-4 loss at Trinec in the Czech league. The winger will turn 51 on Feb. 15. Jágr was

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — John Moeti, the former South Africa midfielder who was part of the squad that won the 1996 African Cup of Nations, died at his home on Monday. He was 55. The South African Football Association announced Moeti’s death but didn’t give a cause.

By ANDREW DAMPF and ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press MERIBEL, France (AP) — Leaning on her ski poles and shaking her head, Federica Brignone thought she had squandered her chance for a gold medal in the women’s combined. The Italian had just finished her slalom run on the opening day of the world championships, but a

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German women’s soccer clubs have posted record revenue and losses. A new report on the 2021-22 season reflects heavier investment in the game even before the national team’s run to the final of the European Championship brought a dramatic increase in spectator numbers. The 12 clubs in the top-division Frauen-Bundesliga averaged

MERIBEL, France (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin failed to finish the slalom portion of the women’s combined event Monday on the opening day of the world championships. Shiffrin straddled the third last gate while appearing to be close to beating first-run leader Federica Brignone. The American was trailing Brignone by 0.96 seconds after the

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Manchester City was accused by the Premier League on Monday of providing misleading information about its finances over a nine-year period when the club was attempting to establish itself as a force in English and European soccer following its takeover by Abu Dhabi’s ruling family. The explosive development came