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By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Michael Andretti spent his weekend at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix attempting to drum up support for his bid to expand the Formula One grid for an American team. He went door-to-door in the F1 paddock asking teams to back his request to

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer VIENNA (AP) — A scaled-back first phase to the expanded Champions League has been approved by UEFA to quell a backlash around Europe. The reformatted group stage has been reduced from 10 rounds to eight and the backup places for teams based on historical performance have been removed.

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Manchester City has agreed to sign Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund. City is bringing in one of the world’s most exciting young players as a belated replacement for club great Sergio Aguero. The Premier League champions say the 21-year-old Haaland will join on July 1. It is subject to

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Joe Buck is back in golf at another major, this time the PGA Championship with ESPN. He’ll be sharing his space with the likes of Fred Couples and Charles Barkley, and Peyton and Eli Manning will be sure to drop in. Buck is leading what amounts to a “ManningCast”

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro defensive tackle Cameron Heyward has been selected as the 2022 Good Guy Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America. Heyward, the 18th Good Guy Award winner, is the second member of the Steelers franchise to get the award, joining Jerome Bettis, who won the inaugural honor in

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport last month, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office said it has closed the case and decided

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball dropped the one-game suspension of Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson for giving fans the middle finger during a game on April 20 as part of a settlement with the players’ association. He agreed to a fine as part of the settlement, which avoided an appeal before MLB

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio Spurs owner Peter J. Holt sent a message Tuesday to fans worried he may try to move the franchise: the team isn’t going anywhere. An announced desire to have the Spurs move a few games to Austin had raised some local worries that the owners may be considering moving

ZURICH (AP) — The FIFA video game will be disappearing after the maker failed to strike a new licensing deal with world soccer’s governing body. Instead, EA Sports FC will be introduced from 2023 after the company creates the final game in partnership with FIFA later this year. EA has been producing a FIFA game

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Boston Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said his team will again be without defensemen Charlie McAvoy and Hampus Lindholm for Tuesday’s Game 5 of its first-round playoff series against the Carolina Hurricanes. McAvoy was a late scratch for Sunday’s Game 4 win because of COVID-19 protocols. Lindholm hasn’t played since being leveled

By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Left tackle Jonah Williams was one of the bright spots on the Cincinnati Bengals’ dysfunctional offensive line as they fought their way to the Super Bowl. He was graded out by Pro Football Focus as the team’s best lineman. The 24-year-old Alabama product was rewarded by

PARIS (AP) — Veteran French players Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gilles Simon have been handed wild cards to play in the main draw at the French Open. A former Australian Open runner-up, Tsonga announced earlier this year that he will retire after the clay-court Grand Slam event. Simon said he is retiring at the end of

DORTMUND, Germany (AP) — Borussia Dortmund has signed Germany forward Karim Adeyemi from Austrian champion Salzburg. The Bundesliga club says the 20-year-old Adeyemi has signed a contract through June 2027 after completing a medical examination. Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc says “Adeyemi is a highly talented, young German international who through his strong finishing and

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — IndyCar veteran Sarah Fisher has been selected as the celebrity pace car driver for this month’s Indianapolis 500. Fisher has been the regular pace-car driver for series events at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for years. This time she won’t be taking the handoff from some high-profile non-racing veteran. Instead she’ll be in the

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer VIENNA (AP) — A scaled-back first phase to the expanded Champions League has been approved by UEFA to quell a backlash around Europe. The reformatted group stage has been reduced from 10 rounds to eight and the backup places for teams based on historical performance have been removed.

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer Call it a slime-time matchup: The NFL game on Christmas Day between the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Rams will be broadcast by Nickelodeon. The network, which previously televised two playoff games, and CBS will handle TV duties on Dec. 25 at 4:30 p.m. EST. The Super Bowl

ETNA-NICOLOSI, Sicily (AP) — German cyclist Lennard Kämna has won the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia on the slopes of Mount Etna. Juan Pedro López has moved into the overall lead as the Italian grand tour returned to home soil. Kämna had time to raise his arms over his head as he crossed the

VIENNA (AP) — The 2024 European Championship final will be at Berlin’s Olympiastadion and the opening match will be at Bayern Munich’s stadium. Matches will be played in Germany in three clusters of venues with groups only split between two of them. A northern cluster features Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. In the west there is