By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Adam Wainwright was in line for his seventh opening day start. The veteran St. Louis Cardinals right-hander instead will begin what’s slated to be his final season on the injured list with a groin injury. Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol says the 41-year-old Wainwright could miss several weeks. The pitcher
Continue Reading By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer At least one National Hockey League team with a Russian player on its roster has decided against wearing special warmup jerseys to commemorate Pride Night because of a Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBTQ rights. The Chicago Blackhawks will not wear Pride-themed warmup jerseys
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By Matias Grez, CNN LaLiga has filed a complaint to a Barcelona court after Real Madrid star Vinícius Jr. was racially abused during El Clásico at the Camp Nou on Sunday. Vinícius has been the victim of racist abuse on numerous occasions this season, including during matches at Atlético Madrid, Real Valladolid, Real Mallorca and
Continue Reading WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Former Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster has come out of retirement to sign for Wrexham. The Welsh soccer team is owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. The 39-year-old Foster last played for Watford before stepping away from the game last year. He signed a deal until the end
Continue Reading By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — As spring sports get underway at East Palestine High School in Ohio, organizers are trying to create normalcy for student-athletes while cleanup from the February train derailment and toxic chemical burn continues just over a mile away. Environmental officials say testing shows the air
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Continue Reading By Thomas Schlachter, CNN The Golden State Warriors made it two wins in a row with a 127-125 road victory over the Dallas Mavericks, though the game wasn’t without a bit of controversy. With the Warriors leading 88-87 towards the end of the third quarter, the ball went out of bounds and a timeout was
Continue Reading By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer Ali Krieger has decided to retire at the end of this season after a professional soccer career that has stretched some 16 years. She’s known as a savvy and strong player who won two World Cups with the United States in 2015 and 2019. First, though, she’s going
Continue Reading By Matias Grez, Ben Morse and Patrick Sung, CNN UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, has opened an investigation into alleged improper payments made by FC Barcelona to José María Enríquez Negreira, a former leading refereeing official in Spain. Earlier this month, the Catalan club was charged by the Barcelona provincial prosecutor’s office with “continued corruption
Continue Reading By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Anthony Joshua has been facing a new reality in recent months. He has been the poster boy of boxing’s heavyweight division for so long but suddenly the British fighter is on the outside looking in. His star has fallen in the wake of back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk that
Continue Reading By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Prime Minister Fumio Kishida might have had his most enjoyable day in office when Japan’s winning World Baseball Classic team paid a visit. He was beaming when a gold medal from the winning team was placed around his neck and also happy when he received a large
Continue Reading By Jill Martin, CNN The NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks are opting not to wear specialized Pride warmup jerseys on Sunday when the team holds its Pride night, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. According to the report, the team is not wearing the jerseys because of security concerns involving Russian players, citing unnamed sources close to the
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — Barcelona is facing a new legal threat from UEFA because of its payments of millions of dollars to a company linked to a Spanish refereeing official. It could include a Champions League ban. The European soccer body has asked for an investigation into the matter. The
Continue Reading SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Defending titleholder Shoma Uno of Japan has edged American teen Ilia Malinin to lead the men’s short program at the world figure skating championships in Saitama. Uno opened with a triple flip followed with a quadruple toeloop, double toeloop combination. He finished with a triple axel for a season-best 104.63 points.
Continue Reading By Matias Grez, CNN Three months may have passed since Argentina lifted the World Cup trophy in Qatar, but celebrations in the South American nation show no signs of abating. The Argentine national team is preparing to play two friendlies at home to Panama and Curaçao over the next six days, though the soccer itself
Continue Reading By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer GENEVA (AP) — The Gymnastics Ethics Foundation was created in 2019 to help protect athletes after the American sexual abuse scandal and it has now published its strategy to set new safeguarding standards with a view to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The “Gymnasts 2028” plan sets goals to
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Spanish league has filed another complaint to judicial authorities for racist insults against Real Madrid player Vinícius Júnior by spectators during the game at Barcelona last weekend. This is the eighth such complaint the league has filed regarding racist slurs directed at Vinícius just this
Continue Reading By Jill Martin and Thomas Schlachter, CNN US skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin hadn’t anticipated moving into the greatest-of-all-time conversation. Instead, the record-breaking skier thought that fellow American Lindsey Vonn would have been the athlete to challenge Ingemar Stenmark’s landmark of 86 World Cup wins. “Lindsey was the one who got the closest and that we
Continue Reading By Jill Martin and Thomas Schlachter, CNN US skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin hadn’t anticipated moving into the greatest-of-all-time conversation. Instead, the record-breaking skier thought that fellow American Lindsey Vonn would have been the athlete to challenge Ingemar Stenmark’s landmark of 86 World Cup wins. “Lindsey was the one who got the closest and that we
Continue Reading By Jacob Lev and George Ramsay, CNN Foster Moreau, an NFL free agent and former Las Vegas Raiders tight end, has announced he will step away from football having been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. The 25-year-old Moreau said the diagnosis came during a routine physical with the New Orleans Saints. “Through somewhat of a miraculous
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