AP National Sports

By TOM CANAVAN AP Sports Wwriter PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — The season-opening football game between Temple and Rutgers scheduled for Thursday night has been postponed until Saturday after the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped historic rain over parts of the Northeast. Rutgers officials said Saturday’s kickoff would be at noon and that all tickets and

MADRID (AP) — The Syracuse women’s basketball coach who resigned after players accused him of bullying has been hired by a professional club in Spain. Madrid club Leganés announced the signing of Quentin Hillsman a month after he stepped down amid an external review of his program. He left Syracuse after 15 seasons when he

By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Shane Beamer hasn’t been able to think about much other than his head coaching debut at South Carolina. The Gamecocks will face Eastern Illinois on Saturday night to start the season. The Panthers of the Ohio Valley Conference opened their year with a 26-21 loss

By PETE IACOBELLI AP Sports Writer It doesn’t get much bigger than this for No. 1 Alabama and No. 5 Georgia who face difficult openers to start their seasons. The defending national champion Crimson Tide will play No. 14 Miami in Atlanta on Sept. 4. The Bulldogs will play six-time defending ACC champion Clemson in

By DÉBORA REY and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Few places in the world have soccer fans more passionate than those in Argentina. And few have been denied a live view of their teams for so long due to the pandemic. It’s been 20 months since the government banned spectators at

OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Australia beat China 3-0 but Japan has fallen to a shock 1-0 defeat against Oman in the opening Group B game of World Cup qualifying. Substitute Issam Al-Sabhi swept home from close range in the 88th minute in rainy Osaka to claim victory against the world’s 24th-ranked team, the highest in

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer NFL players can wear social justice messages on their helmets again this season and “It Takes All of Us” and “End Racism” will be stenciled in end zones for the second straight year as part of the league’s Inspire Change platform. The league will also bring back the

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Afghan athlete Zakia Khudadadi got her chance to compete in the Tokyo Paralympics. Khudadadi is one to two Afghans participating in the Paralympics. She lost her first-round match in taekwondo to Ziyodakhon Isakova of Uzbekistan 17-12. She also lost a losers’ bracket match against Viktoriia Marchuk

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Brazilian soccer official Marco Polo del Nero has had his life ban from soccer cut to 20 years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Del Nero was indicted by federal prosecutors in the United States in 2015 on bribery charges but has avoided being extradited from Brazil. He has been

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Lora Webster is five months pregnant and going for her fifth medal in sitting volleyball in her fifth Paralympics. This is the second Paralympics in which she’s been pregnant, and the third time during a competition. Webster and her American teammates face Brazil in the sitting

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Even a retractable roof at the U.S. Open was no match for the heavy rain and wind the remnants of Hurricane Ida carried to Flushing Meadows, knocking down tree limbs and causing flooding around the tournament grounds, while forcing a match to shift from one

By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California wide receiver Drake London had shifted his attention between football and basketball in previous years. But with his focus solely now on the gridiron coming off an impressive breakout sophomore season, even bigger things are expected in his third year catching passes from star

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer Texas is beginning a new era with new coach Steve Sarkisian, new starting quarterback Hudson Card and preseason AP All-America running back Bijan Robinson. The Longhorns play their first game under Sarkisian at home against No. 23 Louisiana-Lafayette. All 10 Big 12 teams open this weekend. Second-ranked and six-time

By The Associated Press Mets acting general manager Zack Scott is due in court two days after he was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated following a fundraiser at team owner Steve Cohen’s house. Scott was arrested on a DUI charge around 4:15 a.m. Tuesday in suburban White Plains, New York. Police found him

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VENICE (AP) — Italian director Paolo Sorrentino has profiled some powerful figures over the years, from real-life Italian premiers to fictional popes, as well as his adopted Rome in the Oscar-winner “The Great Beauty.” But in his newest release, Sorrentino turns the camera on his own personal tragedy. Sorrentino’s autobiographical

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Giants are suddenly in second place, and the defending World Series champion Dodgers are atop the National League ahead of a weekend visit to the Bay Area. Sure looks like September is going to be wild out West. Jace Peterson hit a

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Max Scherzer felt his hamstring tighten up during warmups. He still went out and dominated the Atlanta Braves for six innings. Justin Turner and AJ Pollock singled home the tying and go-ahead runs through the same infield hole in the eighth, and the Los Angeles

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stefanos Tsitsipas heard boos from the crowd for yet another long trip off court at the U.S. Open after dropping a set during his second-round victory over Adrian Mannarino. Unbothered by that reaction Wednesday night, or the criticism he received from Andy Murray after taking

By DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Austin Hedges popped an RBI single just out of reach of first baseman Carlos Santana for the tiebreaking run in the 11th inning and the Cleveland Indians beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3. Hedges’ bloop off Ervin Santana fell in shallow right field, allowing pinch-runner

By MARK GONZALES Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Rookie Gavin Sheets hit two home runs, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night. Sheets, who was promoted from Triple-A Charlotte before the game, hit a three-run homer off Max Kranick (1-3) with two out in the fourth