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By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Braves have agreed to an $8 million contract extension with catcher Travis d’Arnaud that ensures his return in 2023. The deal also includes an $8 million club option with no buyout for 2024. D’Arnaud recently rejoined the first-place Braves after missing more than three

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions plan to lean on a backfield tandem of D’Andre Swift and Jamaal Williams this season. Newly acquired running back Craig Reynolds showed a flash of promise in the team’s preseason opener. Now the Lions will use the next few weeks to figure out who will round out

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Browns tight end David Njoku has changed his mind — again. After asking to be traded by Cleveland a year ago, Njoku now says he’s happy and comfortable with the Browns and has asked his agent to try and work out a contract extension with

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Drew Lock and Teddy Bridgewater know that whichever one wins Denver’s starting quarterback job will have what could be the NFL’s deepest wide receiving corps. Jerry Jeudy, Courtland Sutton, Tim Patrick and K.J. Hamler. All of them powered through uneven training camp performances from

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Maryland coach Mike Locksley launched the National Coalition for Minority Football Coaches a little more than a year ago. Its goal is to address a problem that has plagued college football for decades: A dearth of Black and other minority head coaches. Locksley says the group was

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mark Davis has already left his imprint on the Las Vegas Aces in his first year as the team’s owner. He’s connecting the team’s past to the present. He saw firsthand how much his father, Al Davis, cared for former Raiders players by starting the

By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California athletic director Mike Bohn had the chance to defend his embattled football coach, Clay Helton. But Bohn declined to offer his full support for Helton, only going as far as downplaying the idea that the upcoming season would be one that makes or breaks

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer Bill Goldberg returns for his second WWE match this year to fight Bobby Lashley at SummerSlam. WWE recently resumed live events and touring and SummerSlam touts the return of wrestler-turned-movie star John Cena. Cena returned from a long break to try to avenge his 2017 pay-per-view loss to Roman

BALCÓN DE ALICANTE, Spain (AP) — Michael Storer of Australia has won the punishing seventh stage of the Spanish Vuelta. Defending champion Primoz Roglic kept the overall lead after the race’s most serious test in the mountains so far on Friday. Storer was part of a large breakaway early in the stage that took riders

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — New York Jets defensive lineman Carl Lawson is lost for the season after rupturing an Achilles tendon during a joint practice Thursday with the Green Bay Packers. Now that the Jets have had some time to process the deflating news, it’s on coach

MIAMI (AP) — Ray Allen has taken a job as director of boys and girls basketball at Miami’s Gulliver Prep, and will also serve as the school’s boys varsity basketball coach. Gulliver announced the hiring of the Hall of Fame player, two-time NBA champion and 10-time All-Star on Friday. Allen has been involved with Gulliver

By JEFF WALLNER Associated Press CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bearcats quarterback Desmond Ridder returns for his senior season looking to take on more of a leadership role. His numbers speak for themselves. He has 6,905 career passing yards and 57 career touchdowns. Now coach Luke Fickell expects him to put the team on his back.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Pedri González will finally get a break after missing only one league game for Barcelona last season before going on to play for Spain at the European Championship and the Tokyo Olympics. Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman says that the midfielder will take a two-week rest after Saturday’s Spanish league game against

By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer Army won nine games last season and finished just outside the Top 25. That’s a good omen for coach Jeff Monken as he starts his eighth season along the banks of the Hudson River on the verge of becoming the second-winningest football coach in West Point history. Monken needs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist, one of the greatest goaltenders of his generation, has announced his retirement less than nine months after heart surgery. The 39-year-old Swede starred for years for the New York Rangers. He piled up 459 wins and 64 shutouts in 15 seasons. He is sixth in NHL history in wins and

By The Associated Press American Owen Otasowie has transferred to Club Brugge in Belgium after making his Premier League debut for Wolverhampton last season. The 20-year-old defender and midfielder born in New York made his senior team debut for Wolves against Turkey’s Beşiktaş in the Europa League on Dec. 12. He made his Premier League

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers wideout Davante Adams says the addition of veteran Randall Cobb has made it easier to provide leadership to the team’s younger receivers. But it’s also made it tougher for those receivers to crack the 53-man roster. Wide receiver has emerged as

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ordered the government to take money from the prison account of a former Michigan sports doctor who owes about $58,000 to victims of his child pornography crimes. Larry Nassar has received about $13,000 in deposits since 2018, including $2,000 in federal stimulus checks. But Nassar has paid

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer Navy’s offense sputtered last season, averaging 177.6 yards rushing, the team’s lowest output since 1994. The Midshipmen finished 52nd in the country in that category — after finishing in the top six in each of Ken Niumatalolo’s first dozen seasons as coach. It was no surprise, then, that Navy

By The Associated Press American defender Matt Miazga has been loaned to Alavés of Spain’s La Liga for the 2021-22 season by Chelsea. The player from Clifton, New Jersey, tranferred to Chelsea from Major League Soccer’s New York Red Bulls in January 2016 but played just twice for the Blues, against Aston Villa and Swansea