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By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Brock Purdy doesn’t mind competing for a starting job after going 7-1 and bringing the San Francisco 49ers within one game of the Super Bowl. Purdy and the 49ers fell way short in the NFC championship game after he injured his elbow. He eventually returned

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — UT Arlington has fired second-year head men’s basketball coach Greg Young with six games left in the regular season. Royce Johnson, who is in his fifth year on the staff, was named interim head coach for the 9-16 Mavericks. They are in their first season playing in the Western Athletic Conference.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Touted freshman Dariq Whitehead is set to return for Duke’s game at No. 8 Virginia after missing four games with an injury. The school announced Whitehead would be available about five hours before tipoff. The 6-foot-7, 220-pound wing had suffered a sprain in his lower left leg in a loss at

By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston and LSU’s Angel Reese will be centerstage when the top-ranked Gamecocks take on the third-ranked Tigers in a matchup of the country’s last two undefeated Division I programs. Boston and Reese have been the Southeastern Conference’s two most dynamic and reliable

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer PHOENIX (AP) — Nick Sirianni often credits Frank Reich for his development as a head coach. The mentor also learned from the student. Before leading the Philadelphia Eagles to the Super Bowl in just his second season as a head coach, Sirianni spent three years as the offensive

By DAVE SKRETTA and DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writers PHOENIX (AP) — The Phillies went to the World Series and the Eagles are playing in the Super Bowl, while the 76ers feature stars such as Joel Embiid and James Harden and are near the top of their division. Pretty good year for Philadelphia. And not

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Reliever Jason Adam beat Tampa Bay in the first of four arbitration cases involving the Rays and will get $1.775 million instead of the team’s offer of $1.55 million. Adam was 2-3 with a career-low 1.56 ERA and a career-best eight saves in 67 relief appearances last season. He struck

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Chiefs have two coaches on their staff that have been head coaches in defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and quarterbacks coach Matt Nagy. And they have one that has been interviewed, and passed over, more times than anyone cares to count in offensive coordinator Eric

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden won’t let even a White House gala get between her and the Philadelphia Eagles. After a late night entertaining governors with President Joe Biden at a black-tie dinner on Saturday, the first lady was heading for the Super Bowl in Arizona on Sunday with hopes

By ANDREW DAMPF and ERIC WILLEMSEN Associated Press MERIBEL, France (AP) — Swiss skier Jasmine Flury has won gold in the women’s downhill at the world championships on a rough day for the pre-race favorites. Flury edged Austrian skier Nina Ortlieb by 0.04 seconds for her first career medal at major championships. Flury has won

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The all-star cast of players in the trenches should decide the Super Bowl champion. Sure, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts will make their share of plays. But Sunday’s game will come down to which team controls the line of scrimmage. The Philadelphia Eagles (16-3) reached

LONDON (AP) — João Félix’s second match for Chelsea went better than his first. The Portugal forward scored his first goal for the club in a 1-1 draw at West Ham in the Premier League on his return from a three-game suspension following a sending-off on his debut a month ago. Felix guided home a

MERIBEL, France (AP) — Swiss skier Jasmine Flury has won gold in the women’s downhill at the world championships on a rough day for the pre-race favorites. Flury edged Austrian skier Nina Ortlieb by 0.04 seconds for her first career medal at major championships. Flury has won one World Cup race in her career but

SINGAPORE (AP) — Wang Jeung-hun and Alejandro del Rey both shot 6-under 66 to sit atop the leaderboard after three rounds of the Singapore Classic. Englishman Richard Mansell was one shot behind after carding a 65. Four others were another shot off the pace: Tom McKibbin, Nathan Kimsey, Sami Valimaki, and Marcel Schneider. Wang had