CAMDEN, N.J. — Joel Embiid and Paul George will each miss a fifth straight game with left knee injuries when the Philadelphia 76ers host Memphis on Saturday night.…
Read more Embiid out on Saturday but 76ers’ All-Star center moves closer to return from knee injuryFormer skateboarder and Olympic snowboarder Shaun White and actor Nina Dobrev are getting married. White’s publicist Jennifer Peros confirmed the engagement Wednesday. White popped the question last weekend…
Read more Shaun White and Nina Dobrev are engaged. He faked a dinner invite with Anna Wintour to proposeToday is Tuesday, Oct. 22, the 296th day of 2024. There are 70 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 22, 2012, cyclist Lance Armstrong…
Read more Today in History: October 22, Lance Armstrong stripped of Tour titlesPITTSBURGH — PITTSBURGH (AP) — Simone Biles simply wanted to mix it up when the gymnastics superstar invited some of the top American men to join her post-Olympic…
Read more Simone Biles’ post-Olympic tour is helping give men’s gymnastics a post-Olympic boostTOKYO — The International Olympic Committee’s three major Japanese sponsors — Toyota, Panasonic and Bridgestone — are terminating their contracts. This leaves the IOC without a Japanese sponsor…
Read more Japanese sponsors Toyota, Bridgestone and Panasonic end Olympic contractsSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As the first St. Lucian to win an Olympic medal, sprinter Julien Alfred already has poems, paintings and even a calypso song dedicated…
Read more St. Lucia’s first Olympic medalist returns home to cheers and calypsoLAUSANNE, Switzerland — American gymnast Jordan Chiles is asking Switzerland’s Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that stripped Chiles of a…
Read more US gymnast Chiles takes bid to have Olympic bronze restored to Swiss Supreme CourtGENEVA — Two former Olympic champions are in the race to be the next IOC president. So is a prince of a Middle East kingdom and the son…
Read more Sebastian Coe among 7 IOC members to enter race to succeed Thomas Bach as presidentWASHINGTON (AP) — The actor in the viral music video denouncing the 2024 Olympics looks a lot like French President Emmanuel Macron. The images of rats, trash and…
Read more Russian disinformation slams Paris and amplifies Khelif debate to undermine the OlympicsGENEVA — In a move by the IOC that apparently could block Sebastian Coe as an expected presidential candidate, the Olympic governing body has clarified its complex election…
Read more IOC move on election rules puts up legal hurdles to Coe running for top Olympic jobTOKYO — Olympic sponsor Panasonic is terminating its contract with the IOC at the end of the year, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Panasonic is one…
Read more Top Olympic sponsor Panasonic is ending its contract with the IOCTOKYO — Olympic sponsor Panasonic is terminating its contract with the IOC at the end of the year, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Panasonic is one…
Read more Top Olympic sponsor Panasonic is ending its contract with the IOCPARIS (AP) — The final act of the Paralympics in Paris will be a giant dance party. That’s a promise from Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the…
Read more The director of the Paralympic closing ceremony wants to turn the Stade de France into a dance floorPARIS — After an early workout session at Team USA’s high-performance center at the Paralympics, Noelle Lambert spots Jarryd Wallace by the side of the track. Loaded down…
Read more New to long jump, U.S. Paralympians Lambert and Wallace form unlikely partnershipNEW YORK — This is pretty much all anyone needs to know about defending champion Coco Gauff’s 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 loss to Emma Navarro in the U.S. Open’s…
Read more Defending champ Coco Gauff loses in US Open fourth roundNEW YORK — This is pretty much all anyone needs to know about defending champion Coco Gauff’s 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 loss to Emma Navarro in the U.S. Open’s…
Read more Coco Gauff loses at the U.S. Open to Emma Navarro, ending her title defense with 19 double-faultsMARSEILLE, France (AP) — Little model boats hang from the ceiling and maritime paintings adorn the walls of the basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde, which from…
Read more Models of boats donated for answered prayers hang in basilica in Marseille, Olympic sailing hostMARSEILLE, France (AP) — Her black headscarf flying up, a teen jumped into the sparkling Mediterranean from a concrete pier at a city marina, then scrambled back to…
Read more Marseille and the sea: A portrait of the millennia-old port city that is hosting Olympic sailingPARIS (AP) — French performer Barbara Butch carried the Paralympic torch Sunday evening in an act of defiance after being targeted by hate speech over her appearance in…
Read more French DJ and LGBTQ+ icon carries Paralympic torch to defy hate she endured over Olympics ceremonyAug. 20 1921 — Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Mary Browne, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 to win the U.S. women’s national tennis title at the Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia.…
Read more Today in Sports – Tiger Woods becomes first golfer since 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year
