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By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Five players, including dynamic pass catchers Cooper Kupp and Davante Adams, are unanimous choices for The Associated Press 2021 NFL All-Pro Team. Joining the Rams’ Kupp and the Packers’ Adams in receiving votes Friday from all 50 members of a nationwide panel of media

By TALI ARBEL and KELVIN CHAN Associated Press A lot of people are angry at Novak Djokovic. And his sponsors may just wait it out. It’s unclear if the No. 1 seed can compete Monday in the Australian Open after Australian officials again revoked his visa over his lack of a COVID-19 vaccine. So far,

PRAGUE (AP) — Two-time Olympic champion Ester Ledecka will spearhead a record number of Czech athletes at the Winter Games in Beijing. Ledecka made history at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games by becoming the first person to win gold medals in both skiing and snowboarding. She will defend both of those titles next month and also

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Senegal’s struggle to get going at the African Cup of Nations continues as it was held 0-0 by Guinea in its second group game. The result does leave both teams in good shape to qualify from Group B. The battle of Liverpool stars Sadio Mané of Senegal and Naby Keita of

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — Martins Dukurs of Latvia has done it again. Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands has done it for the first time, and the first time in her country’s history. Dukurs and Bos cemented their status as gold-medal favorites at the Beijing Olympics by finishing off World Cup skeleton overall season championships

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The president of Spain’s soccer federation has defended the return of the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia as Real Madrid prepares to face Athletic Bilbao in Sunday’s final. Staging the mini-tournament in the kingdom has been heavily criticized by rights groups and Spanish media over

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The president of Spain’s soccer federation has defended the return of the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia as Real Madrid prepares to face Athletic Bilbao in Sunday’s final. Staging the mini-tournament in the kingdom has been heavily criticized by rights groups and Spanish media over

PARIS (AP) — Lionel Messi will miss another game for Paris Saint-Germain after acknowledging that his recovery from COVID-19 has been slower than expected. PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino says the Argentina forward won’t be available for Saturday’s game against Brest at Parc des Princes. The 34-year-old Messi missed PSG’s 1-1 draw at Lyon last Sunday

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer The NFL is continuing to crowdsource new ways to track head and helmet impacts during games from data scientists and for the second straight year the winner of its artificial intelligence competition comes from outside the United States. The NFL and Amazon Web Services awarded $100,000 in prizes for

By GRAHAM DUNBAR AP Sports Writer WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — The rivalry between Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and Marco Odermatt emerged again in a World Cup downhill. Kilde edged Odermatt by 0.19 seconds to win one day after his Swiss friend had won a super-G in another duel on the storied Lauberhorn hill. Beat Feuz was

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Novak Djokovic’s supporters in Serbia were dismayed after waking up to the news that the top-ranked tennis player again faces deportation from Australia after his visa was revoked for a second time. Australia’s immigration minister used his ministerial discretion to cancel the 34-year-old Serb’s visa on

ALTENMARKT-ZAUCHENSEE, Austria (AP) — Olympic downhill medal contender Breezy Johnson is skipping World Cup races this weekend in Austria to let a knee injury heal. Johnson has been runner-up in all three World Cup downhills this season won each time by Olympic champion Sofia Goggia. Johnson writes on Instagram she’s taken medical advice over a

BEIJING (AP) — China is tightening its anti-pandemic measures in Beijing and across the country as scattered outbreaks continue ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics in a little over two weeks. The actions appear to reflect nervousness about a possible surge in cases ahead of the Beijing Games. Beijing has ordered children at

By JOHN PYE and ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tennis star Novak Djokovic faces deportation again after the Australian government revoked his visa for a second time. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says he used his ministerial discretion to revoke the 34-year-old Serb’s visa on public interest grounds three days before the Australian