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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer This year’s NFL draft has the chance to be unlike any other in recent years with a possible long wait before any of the players who throw, catch or run with the ball coming off the board. There has never been a draft that didn’t have a quarterback,

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer A retired New York State Supreme Court Justice has recommended a two-year suspension for trainer Bob Baffert for repeated medication violations after a New York Racing Association hearing. Hearing officer O. Peter Sherwood revealed his recommendation in a 50-page report released Wednesday. Baffert’s camp and NYRA have two weeks

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Dalila Eshe, who helped lead the Princeton women’s basketball team to the NCAA Tournament as an assistant coach, has been named head coach at Yale. The former Florida star takes over the program from Allison Guth, who left after six seasons to become coach at Loyola Chicago. Eshe spent three

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Chicago Bulls won’t have guards Zach LaVine and Alex Caruso available when they try to keep their season alive in Game 5 of a first-round playoff series with the Milwaukee Bucks. LaVine is in the NBA’s health and safety protocols while Caruso is in concussion protocols. Both of them had started

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid is holding on to the positives after coming close to being routed by Manchester City but staying alive in the Champions League semifinals. Madrid lost 4-3 in the first leg in England on Tuesday but it was one of those defeats that allowed for

HOBART, Australia (AP) — A 59-year-old driver has been killed in a crash at the Targa Tasmania rally in Australia, a year after three competitors died in the annual race. The man from Brisbane and his wife were in a 1989 Porsche 944 S2 when it crashed over an embankment on a closed section of

By SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — London’s Metropolitan Police force says five officers will face a gross misconduct hearing over the stop and search of two Black athletes. Professional sprinters Bianca Williams and Ricardo Dos Santos were stopped in west London on July 4, 2020 while traveling with their 3-month-old baby in a

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian soccer season has officially been called off because of the Russian invasion. The league says after a video conference with clubs that the standings as of Feb. 24 will be declared final “because the championship cannot be played to completion.” That was the date the invasion began and the

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — It was about a year ago. Victor Oladipo was sitting alone in a dark room. The realization that he needed a second surgery on his right leg was settling in. Frustration, fear, sadness and anger just came pouring out of him. He broke down. That moment

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer Former University of Wyoming star linebacker Chad Muma was 13 years old when he was diagnosed as diabetic. The first thing he did was search “NFL players with diabetes.” The seventh-grader from Lone Tree, Colorado, was both relieved and delighted when the name of a Denver Broncos player

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Quinn Hughes had a goal and two assists to set a franchise record for points by a Vancouver defenseman, and the Canucks beat the Seattle Kraken 5-2 but were eliminated from playoff contention. Dallas ensured Vancouver would miss the playoffs for a second year in a row with a 3-2

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — The Brisbane 2032 organizing committee has held its first board meeting more than 10 years before the Australian east coast city is due to host the Olympics. International Olympic Committee vice president John Coates met with organizing committee president Andrew Liveris and with the political leaders and former athletes who’ve already