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By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer First Manchester United and now Tottenham. Second-tier Middlesbrough is toppling some of English soccer’s biggest clubs in its FA Cup run. A goal at the start of the second half of extra time earned Middlesbrough a 1-0 win over Tottenham in the fifth round of the competition. The team

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Major League Baseball’s financial fight cost regular-season games for the first time in 27 years when often acrimonious talks to end a management lockout collapsed and Commissioner Rob Manfred scrapped March 31 openers. With owners and players unable to agree on a contract to replace

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Some of the perks of winning on the PGA Tour for the first time are obvious. The money. The trip to the Masters. A more subtle perk is getting better tee times with other tour winners. Sepp Straka is the latest example. He was in

WOLFSBURG, Germany (AP) — United States defender John Brooks has said he will leave Wolfsburg at the end of the current German season. The 29-year-old Brooks has been with Wolfsburg since 2017. He has made 136 appearances across all competitions. He says he wants a new challenge. Brooks has played 45 times for the U.S.

NICE, France (AP) — Amine Gouiri has scored one goal and set up Kasper Dolberg for the other as top-flight Nice beat fourth-tier Versailles 2-0 to reach the French Cup final for the first time in 25 years. Nice won the last of its three French Cups in 1997 and meets the winner of Wednesday’s

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have finalized their staff under head coach Kevin O’Connell. They’ve hired six more assistants including former player Greg Manusky as the inside linebackers coach. Assistant wide receivers coach Tony Sorrentino, assistant defensive line coach A’Lique Terry, offensive quality control assistant Derron Montgomery, defensive quality control assistant Steve Donatell

BURNLEY, England (AP) — Burnley has missed a chance to climb out of the Premier League’s relegation zone by losing 2-0 at home to Leicester. James Maddison and Jamie Vardy came off the bench to score second-half goals for the visitors at Turf Moor. A point would have lifted Burnley out of the bottom three

CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Soccer Federation has reached an eight-year multimedia rights agreement with Turner Sports that will put broadcasts of both men’s and women’s national team games on TNT, TBS and HBO Max. The broadcast deal starts in 2023 and runs through 2030. The primary home for national team games will be HBO

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Players have rejected Major League Baseball’s “best and final offer” to end the sport’s lockout before the league’s deadline to avoid canceled games. MLB made its last offer about 90 minutes before a self-imposed 5 p.m. deadline Tuesday. The league has threatened to cancel opening

By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers’ season has taken another strange turn. All-Star point guard Darius Garland has been slowed for weeks by a nagging back injury that could affect him the rest of the way. Garland missed his third straight game and eighth overall on Monday night. Garland’s

LONDON (AP) — Round one to Tyson Fury? The WBC heavyweight champion’s all-British title defense against Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium might not be until April 23 but Fury believes he has got the upper hand already. Whyte didn’t turn up to the first press conference to publicize the fight on Tuesday. Fury’s U.K. promoter,

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — National scoring leader Caitlin Clark of Iowa is the Big Ten player of the year. Kim Barnes Arico of Michigan is coach of the year. Clark averages 27.5 points per game. She was the choice for the top honor in voting by league coaches and a panel of media members. The

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Major League Baseball made a “best and final” offer to locked out players about 90 minutes before its 5 p.m. deadline and threatened to start canceling regular season games if the sides don’t reach a deal. After making progress during 16 1/2 hours of bargaining

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta United midfielder Luiz Araújo will miss about four weeks after sustaining a hamstring injury while scoring the team’s first goal of the season. Araújo is one of the team’s three designated players, coming over from French club Lille last August. He has scored five goals in 15 appearances for Atlanta United.