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By ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press The FIS race director of the men’s Alpine skiing World Cup has said Thursday’s slalom in Zagreb should not have been started and calls the decision-making process “not acceptable.” Race director Markus Waldner was not present at this race and replaced by FIS official Emmanuel Couder. The race in Croatia

ADELBODEN, Switzerland (AP) — World Cup overall leader Marco Odermatt led the first run of a giant slalom. He’s aiming to give Alpine ski powerhouse Switzerland its first win in 14 years in its classic home race. Odermatt was 0.31 seconds faster than Alexis Pinturault who is the defending overall World Cup champion. Filip Zubcic

KRANJSKA GORA, Slovenia (AP) — Swedish skier Sara Hector has edged French former world champion Tessa Worley to lead a women’s World Cup giant slalom after the opening run. Some of the other pre-race favorites struggled on the Podkoren course. Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin, Petra Vlhova and Lara Gut-Behrami all finished outside the top 10

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer Lawyers for Novak Djokovic have filed court documents in his challenge against deportation from Australia that showed the tennis star contracted COVID-19 in the middle of last month. The No. 1-ranked Djokovic was denied entry at the Melbourne airport late Wednesday after the Australian Border Force canceled his visa

SYDNEY (AP) — Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov have qualified Canada for its first ATP Cup final by beating Daniil Medvedev and Roman Safiullin 4-6, 7-5, 10-7 in doubles to complete a 2-1 win against Russia. Canada will play Spain in the final on Sunday. Medvedev and Safiullin had been 3-0 in doubles this week.

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian Broadcasting Corp. is reporting lawyers for Novak Djokovic have lodged court documents in his challenge against deportation from Australia that showed the tennis star contracted COVID-19 last month. The No. 1-ranked Djokovic was denied entry at the Melbourne airport late Wednesday after the

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer Novak Djokovic risks missing more than one Australian Open if he fails to have his visa cancellation overturned and gets deported for not having enough evidence to support a medical exemption to Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination rules when he arrived for the first tennis major of 2022. He could be

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — Brooks Koepka knows the running joke is he can’t bring the same focus he has at majors to other events. He’s OK with that. And it’s not from a lack of effort. Koepka says he’s tried to treat regular tournaments like majors but they just

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Darius Garland had 26 points and Rajon Rondo scored 11 off the bench in his Cavaliers debut, leading Cleveland to a 114-101 win over the Portland Trail Blazers. It was the Cavaliers’ 22nd win, matching their total for all of last season when they

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Lexie Hull had career-bests of 33 points and seven 3-pointers, and No. 2 Stanford held off a late Oregon rally on the way to a 80-68 win. Hull’s 3 with 4:05 to play put Stanford ahead 73-62 after Oregon had trimmed the Cardinal’s lead to

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin Durant reiterates that he won’t lobby teammate Kyrie Irving to get vaccinated against the coronavirus so he could be eligible to play in all the Brooklyn Nets’ games. In fact, he won’t even ask his close friend why he refuses to get the shot.

By MICHAEL KELLY The Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokic had 33 points and 10 rebounds and the Denver Nuggets beat the Sacramento Kings 121-111 on Friday night to end a two-game losing streak. Jokic reached 20 points for the seventh straight game as Denver got reinforcements back from health and safety protocols. Forwards

KATY, Texas — Pierce Spencer had a career-high 20 points as Nicholls State defeated Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 84-75. Trevian Tennyson led the Islanders with a season-high 23 points.

By MARK AMBROGI Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Adam Kunkel scored 25 points off the bench to lead No. 22 Xavier past Butler 87-72 on Friday night. Kunkel sank 8 of 12 shots, including 5 of 8 3-point shots for the 12-2 Musketeers. Paul Scruggs contributed 16 points, seven rebounds and six assists for Xavier.