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By KOJI UEDA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani is back home after a long Major League Baseball season in which his Los Angeles Angels missed the playoffs again. In an interview at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport he says it was “a good season for me personally.” However, he says he had a

MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Hockey Federation says a years-old doping case against Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin has been dropped by the International Ice Hockey Federation. The RHF says “the IIHF informed Nichushkin that all charges against the player have been dropped.” This followed “the results of additional analyses” at a drug-testing laboratory in

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Portugal forward Diogo Jota will miss the World Cup because of the injury he sustained against Manchester City at the weekend. Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp confirmed the severity of Jota’s injury on Tuesday. Jota was taken off on a stretcher in stoppage time of Liverpool’s 1-0 win on Sunday and has

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An Iranian competitive climber left South Korea on Tuesday after competing at an event in which she climbed without her nation’s mandatory headscarf covering, authorities said. Farsi-language media outside of Iran warned she may have been forced to leave early by Iranian

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time since joining the Big East in 2013, Creighton is the preseason choice to win the conference. The ninth-ranked Bluejays received eight first-place votes from the league’s coaches. Creighton returns three double-digit scorers from last season’s team that finished 23-12 and advanced

MIAMI (AP) — NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service will carry all 64 World Cup matches in the United States with Spanish-language commentary. The the first 12 will be for free from Nov. 20-23. The 52 games from Nov. 24 through the final on Dec. 18 will be on the Peacock Premium tier. That service charges a

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Edinson Cavani is back scoring again and that’s good news for Uruguay ahead of potentially his last World Cup. The 35-year-old striker moved to Valencia in search of playing time ahead of the tournament in Qatar but failed to score in his first three games with

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Nikola Jokic is chasing history. LeBron James is moving up a lot of all-time stat lists. Gregg Popovich is going to see his list of all-time coaching foes grow by a few more names, while he coaches a really young team in San Antonio. The Eastern Conference held its

By ALANIS THAMES AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — It has been nearly 50 years since the Miami Dolphins defeated Washington in the Super Bowl to complete their perfect 17-0 season. Even though they weren’t chasing perfection at the time, they ended up accomplishing something that no team since has repeated. As hard as it

By HERNÁN MUÑOZ and TALES AZZONI Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Neymar has arrived in court to testify in a fraud and corruption trial over his transfer from Brazilian club Santos to Barcelona nearly a decade ago. Neymar and his father were among those accused of concealing the real amount of the transfer from