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By The Associated Press The West Coast swing on the PGA Tour wraps up with a bang. The Genesis Invitational at Riviera features each of the top 10 players in the world. That includes the U.S. debut this year of Rory McIlroy. Tiger Woods is the tournament host but is not playing. It was two

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Jürgen Klopp and the other 15 managers still in this season’s Champions League have one less thing to think about when preparing their teams for matches in the knockout stage. This is the first season in 57 years that the away-goals rule, which is a way of deciding two-legged

By SALLY HO Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. figure skaters are advancing to the free skate but struggled to break through in the short program on Tuesday night at the Beijing Olympics. The first night of the marquee women’s contest has become overshadowed by the latest Russian doping scandal. Only Alysa Liu made

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Teen sensation Kamila Valieva put aside the emotional exhaustion from being at the center of a doping scandal and took the lead in the women’s figure skating competition after the short program at the Beijing Olympics. Valieva was skating despite a positive drug test. She started

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, the heavily favored 15-year-old dynamo at the center of the latest Olympic doping scandal, overcame an early mistake to lead after the women’s short program at the Beijing Games on Tuesday night. She scored 82.16 points to take first place. Her

MÖNCHENGLADBACH, Germany (AP) — Borussia Mönchengladbach has promoted the head of its youth academy, Roland Virkus, to become the Bundesliga club’s new sporting director. Gladbach says the 55-year-old Virkus will fill the position made available by Max Eberl’s abrupt departure. Eberl quit on Jan. 28 after 13 years as sporting director due to burnout from

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Joergen Graabak of Norway won Olympic gold in Nordic combined. He rallied from a deficit of 2 minutes, 7 seconds to cross the finish line first in a 10K cross-country race after placing 12th in ski jumping. Graabak became the first two-time Nordic combined Olympic

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — Members of the United States men’s hockey team are in tune on and off the ice at the Beijing Olympics. The U.S. goes into its quarterfinal matchup against Slovakia as the top seed and the only team to win all its games in regulation. The good

By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer BEIJING (AP) — Joey Mantia is finally taking home his first medal in his third Olympics. The 36-year-old American joined with Casey Dawson and Emery Lehman to earn the bronze in team pursuit. It was the second speedskating medal for the United States in Beijing. Erin Jackson won gold

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) — Joergen Graabak of Norway won Olympic gold in Nordic combined. He rallied from a deficit of 2 minutes, 7 seconds to cross the finish line first in a 10K cross-country race after placing 12th in ski jumping. Graabak became the first two-time Nordic combined Olympic

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Wrter BEIJING (AP) — Russian teenager Kamila Valieva was on the ice for a final run-through of her short program hours before one of the most-anticipated events of the Beijing Olympics. Valieva looked confident and calm in a glittering purple dress. She fell hard on a triple axel during the

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer BEIJING (AP) — The top-seeded United States will face Slovakia in the quarterfinals of the men’s hockey tournament at the Beijing Olympics. Slovakia beat Germany 4-0 to knock the defending silver medalists out of the tournament. The U.S. goes into the knockout round as the only team to win