LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Veteran Olympic official John Coates stood down early Monday as head of sport’s highest court after being treated for cancer. “Mr Coates indicated that, after completing six months of chemotherapy treatment for cancer, his current health did not allow for international travel,” the Court of Arbitration...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Concerns have been raised about the welfare of Barcelona’s teenage sensation Lamine Yamal and the “alarming” demands on him at such a young age. The 18-year-old Spain international is already regarded as one of the best soccer players in the world and has broken a slew of records since bursting onto the s...

Walking out to bat with his arm in a sling in a courageous, last-ditch attempt to win a test match for England proved to be the final act of Chris Woakes’ international career. The 36-year-old Woakes announced his immediate retirement from international cricket on Monday, after 62 test matches and World Cup titles in the ODI and Tw...

Jose Mourinho looked to his right, then his left, and smiled at pictures of his younger self lifting three Premier League trophies as the Chelsea manager. The man who once referred to himself as a “Special One” returned to Stamford Bridge on Monday in his new position as the coach of Benfica and was confronted with images of the pa...

1904 — Doc White of the Chicago White Sox pitched his fifth shutout in eighteen days, a 4-0 win over the New York Yankees. 1915 — The Boston Red Sox clinched the American League pennant when St. Louis beat Detroit 8-2, giving Boston a 2 1/2-game margin. 1916 — New York’s Rube Benton pitched a 4-0 one-hitter over the Boston Braves t...

PARIS (AP) — Hosting the 2024 Paris Olympics generated only moderate revenues for France, with an almost negligible impact on growth, while total public expenditure exceeded six billion euros ($7 billion), the country’s court of auditors reported on Monday. Public spending linked to the Olympics organization included €3.02 billion...

ZURICH (AP) — South Africa was stripped of a win in 2026 World Cup qualifying by FIFA on Monday and lost top spot in its group for fielding an ineligible player. FIFA’s disciplinary ruling overturned a South Africa win against Lesotho in March, left Benin top with two rounds to go and gave Nigeria fresh hope of advancing to the fin...

Micah Parsons’ much-anticipated return to Dallas to face his former Cowboys teammates ended with a 40-40 tie and the rare walk-off game-tying field goal. The Cowboys’ Brandon Aubrey and Green Bay’s Brandon McManus traded short field goals in overtime Sunday night, and Parsons’ only sack played a role in keeping Dallas out of the en...

MADRID (AP) — Valencia vs. Oviedo in La Liga was postponed from Monday to Tuesday because of bad weather in the city of Valencia. A weather alert for heavy rain and risk of flooding was issued for the region, prompting the Spanish league’s decision to postpone. The match will take place on Tuesday if the weather conditions improve...

MIAMI (AP) — Norman Powell remembers what the perceptions were when he entered the NBA a decade ago. Can’t shoot, not a scorer, only a defender. He’s proven them all wrong — and the Miami Heat hope he continues doing so. Powell donned his new Heat uniform in an official capacity for the first time Monday, appearing at the team’s me...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber had one question as the National League home run champion addressed a jam-packed Phillies crowd that came to celebrate a division crown and get pumped for Red October. “Are the Birds winning?” Schwarber asked, as Phillies fans cheered. Was that a rhetorical question? Of course the Birds were winni...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball’s overall attendance increased for a third straight season for the first time since 2004-07, but the average dipped slightly because of fewer single-admission doubleheaders caused by weather postponements. MLB drew 71.41 million fans for 2,423 gates in the regular season that ended Sunday for a...

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Here’s a look at how things played out from a sports betting perspective: At the BetMGM online sportsbook, the Minnesota Vikings (-2.5 vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers) were the most bet team on Sunday in terms of number of bets and money. Pittsburgh beat Minnesota 24-21 in Dublin. The Baltimore Ravens (-2.5 at the Kansas City Chiefs) w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Missing the injured Jayden Daniels and Terry McLaurin is hardly ideal for the Washington Commanders’ offense, of course, yet the most glaring issue at the moment is their defense. Coach Dan Quinn and defensive coordinator Joe Whitt Jr. have work to do this week as the Commanders (2-2) prepare to face quarterback J...

ATLANTA (AP) — It took exactly one drive for the Atlanta Falcons to exceed their offensive production from Week 3. The Falcons bounced back from their anemic showing in a 30-0 loss to the Carolina Panthers, gaining a season-high 435 yards in a 34-27 victory over the Washington Commanders on Sunday. New kicker Parker Romo, who contr...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin isn’t much on aesthetics. The Pittsburgh Steelers coach knows his team hasn’t played particularly well over the first month of the season. The offense remains a work in progress behind Aaron Rodgers, who has played steadily if not spectacularly. The defense is banged up and uncharacteristically gettabl...

Pediatricians and advocates urged the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA) to remove a new requirement on sports physical evaluations that physicians identify a student’s birth sex and recommend whether they should play boys’ or girls’ sports, calling it “medically inappropriate.” Additionally, the letter noted that...

The Week 6 high school rankings from Dave Campbell’s Texas Football magazine and TexasFootball.com, distributed by The Associated Press: Rank School (Record) Week 5 Prv rank 1 Southlake Carroll (5-0) W: Keller Timber Creek, 55-13 1 2 Allen (5-0) W: McKinney, 62-0 2 3 Humble Summer Creek (4-0) W: Channelview, 73-0 3 4 Fort Bend Ridg...

NEW YORK (AP) — An MRI confirmed that New York Giants receiver Malik Nabers has a torn ACL in his right knee and is expected to miss the rest of the season, coach Brian Daboll said Monday. “He’s one of our better players — I think one of the better players at his position in the league,” Daboll said. “We’ll have a tremendous amount...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — John Rooney of the St. Louis Cardinals and Brian Anderson of the Milwaukee Brewers are newcomers to the ballot for the Hall of Fame’s 2026 Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting. Skip Caray, Rene Cardenas, Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Duane Kuiper and John Sterling return from last year’...

LONDON (AP) — Four-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou arrived at the Commercial Court in London on Monday for the start of a civil trial in McLaren’s breach-of-contract dispute with the Spanish driver. Palou in 2022 signed a contract to drive for McLaren’s IndyCar team, but that put Palou in breach with Chip Ganassi Racing, which hel...

LONDON (AP) — Lewis Hamilton says his bulldog Roscoe, a fixture in the Formula 1 paddock, has died following days of medical treatment and that putting him to sleep was “one of the most painful experiences” of the seven-time F1 champion’s life. Hamilton missed a tire testing day last week as he cared for Roscoe, who was at the time...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Images of Aleksander Barkov hoisting the Stanley Cup are scattered all over the Florida Panthers’ team facility. It’s the ultimate reminder of the last two championship seasons: the team captain being the first one to lift hockey’s chalice. Now, the Panthers face perhaps the ultimate challenge: Doing it...

The NCAA’s decision allowing Canadian Hockey League players to compete at the U.S. college level for the first time won’t alter how the NHL evaluates draft-eligible talent. Wherever players are competing, the scouts will be there, NHL Central Scouting chief Dan Marr said. What Marr envisions changing as a result of the NCAA’s rulin...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nikolaj Ehlers knows what awaits. The forward was a sought-after free agent who chose to sign with the Carolina Hurricanes, a team that has made seven straight postseason trips while becoming a perennial Eastern Conference contender for the Stanley Cup. And that brings a spotlight on his transition with a team...

NEW YORK (AP) — The average time of a nine-inning major league baseball game increased by 2 minutes this season to 2:38 in the third year of the pitch clock. MLB’s average fell from 3:04 in 2022 to 2:40 the following year when the clock was instituted and decreased to 2:36 in 2024, its lowest since 1984’s 2:35. The average game tim...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Tony Mansolino remains in limbo as manager of the Baltimore Orioles. Team president Mike Elias said Monday the Orioles would consider other options for their managerial position, but Mansolino — who was the interim manager for most of this season — would be a candidate. Both Mansolino and Elias took questions at a...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates are keeping Don Kelly as manager. The club announced Monday that it had extended Kelly’s contract after the team recovered from a miserable opening six weeks of the season thanks in part to Kelly’s guidance. Pittsburgh was 12-26 when it fired Derek Shelton on May 8 and promoted Kelly, who ha...

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Rockies went down swinging in the ninth inning to end their unceremonious season, striking out three straight times Sunday in a loss where they didn’t score a run. A fitting conclusion to a woeful, record-setting year. By many metrics, this will go down as one of the most dreadful slogs in baseball histor...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Xavier Worthy admitted that he was winded after hauling in a 37-yard pass during the Kansas City Chiefs’ emphatic 37-20 victory over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. It wasn’t a total surprise, considering the fleet-footed wide receiver had been sidelined with a shoulder injury ever since he ran into Travis K...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Devin Lloyd hasn’t enjoyed a month like this since his rookie season. The Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker, the 27th overall pick in the 2022 NFL draft who is in the final year of his contract, has three interceptions in four games and has been a defensive catalyst for the team’s best start since 2018. Lloy...

After they played as well as any team in the NFL through their first two games, the Green Bay Packers got a reality check the past two weeks. “Or we can be men and say, ‘This is where I’m coming from. This is where you are coming from. And how do we fix it?’ I think we have to be adults here. We have to be professionals. We have to...

The vibe around Virginia football has never been more upbeat than at this moment in coach Tony Elliott’s four seasons in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers are 4-1 for a second straight season and in a three-way tie for first in the Atlantic Coast Conference after Friday’s two-overtime win against what was a top-10 Florida State team....

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Giants owner John Mara announced Monday he was recently diagnosed with cancer. Mara said in a statement released by the team that he has been following a treatment plan recommended by doctors. He did not disclose what form of cancer he has and asked for privacy on the matter. “I’m feeling strong and optimis...

The Associated Press national player of the week in football for Week 5 of the season: Trinidad Chambliss, Mississippi The senior transfer from Division II Ferris State passed for 314 yards and a touchdown and ran 14 times for 71 yards in the Rebels’ 24-19 win over LSU. Since taking over for an injured Austin Simmons, Chambliss has...

Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek said Monday he felt sixth-year coach Sam Pittman had “lost the tea.m” and it was time for a change. The Razorbacks fired Pittman on Sunday, a day after a 56-13 home loss to Notre Dame. “I just felt like how we performed on Saturday gave me an indication that maybe Sam had lost the team a l...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guineans will hold a presidential election on Dec. 28, its first since the country’s leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya took power in a 2021 coup, according to a presidential decree read on state television. The announcement was made on Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court validated the results of a constitution...

GENEVA (AP) — The Champions League sends its top-ranked teams to new places this week and revisits the Barcelona-Paris Saint-Germain rivalry that is among the more storied in its modern era. José Mourinho also returns to Stamford Bridge, his home in two spells coaching Chelsea, for his first Champions League game coaching Benfica....

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The United States will grant $675,000 for crucial demining programs in Cambodia, the U.S. Embassy said Monday, after a freeze on foreign assistance raised doubts about the future support for mine clearance in the Southeast Asian nation. An estimated 4 million to 6 million land mines and other unexploded...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — By the age of 19 Kylian Mbappe had won the World Cup, become one of the most expensive soccer players ever and was labeled the heir-apparent to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Seven years later, and with Messi and Ronaldo long past their peak, Mbappe is still to be officially recognized as the best pl...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan reported two new polio cases in the southern province of Sindh, health officials said Monday, a blow to efforts aimed at eradicating the crippling disease among children. This brings the total to 29 cases across the country since January, despite several immunization drives. The virus was detected...

MIAMI (AP) — Bam Adebayo got to help present A’ja Wilson with her record-setting fourth WNBA MVP trophy a couple weeks ago. To say it was a summer highlight for the Miami center would be an understatement. Adebayo addressed the Sept. 19 event in Las Vegas publicly for the first time Monday, when the Heat gathered for their annual m...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Hendrick Motorsports got off to a slow start in NASCAR’s playoffs despite starting the three-round title pursuit with the regular-season champion and all four of its drivers in the title hunt. Something was off immediately as Chase Elliott’s 17th-place finish in the playoff opener at Darlington was the best...

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in China sentenced 11 people to death on Monday for their roles in a family-run crime syndicate accused of running illegal gambling and scam operations worth more than $1.4 billion and for the deaths of disobedient workers. The Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou We...

Cale Makar has difficulty recognizing the college hockey landscape in the wake of a seismic shift that has transformed the sport in the mere five years since he left UMass to join Colorado in the NHL. From the introduction of name, image and likeness money to the NCAA lifting its ban on Canadian Hockey League players in November, M...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Rory McIlroy still remembers his tears from losing so badly in the Ryder Cup. What stung even more were the words from that Sunday four years ago at Whistling Straits. The Americans won 19-9, the biggest Ryder Cup blowout ever over Europe. Yes, the gallery was one-sided because of travel restrictions from t...

BERLIN (AP) — A man whose gambling addiction landed him in prison has become a social media star in Germany with an unusual campaign against sports betting at soccer stadiums. Thomas Melchior shows up at soccer games wearing the jersey of the home team’s fiercest rival — a move sure to rile the home fans — while holding a sign that...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nick Sirianni and the Philadelphia Eagles sent a message to the NFL and the 31 other teams in Week 4. The reigning Super Bowl champions don’t need a tush push to win. And for those who consider it a boring play, now there’s a new twist. The fake makes it even more difficult for opponents to stop and more interest...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 12 forest guards have been killed after gunmen attacked a community in northcentral Nigeria, local police said Monday. No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the killings on Sunday in Oke-Ode, a community in the state of Kwara, police spokesperson Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi said in a statement...

Victor Wembanyama is back. Kyrie Irving and Jayson Tatum might be coming back. Tyrese Haliburton and Damian Lillard don’t plan to play again until next season. Injuries are already big NBA news this season, even before most camps even open. Wembanyama, San Antonio’s All-Star center, is back and raring to go after being cleared this...

So you’re booking your flight, and just when you’re about to check out, the airline asks if you’d like to pay a little something to offset your share of the flight’s pollution. Or, maybe you’re an environmentally minded person, and you’ve heard you can buy these things called carbon offsets. Are they worth it? Let’s explore. A roun...

DUBLIN (AP) — A formal complaint had not been filed as of Monday in connection to reports that Pittsburgh Steelers player Skylar Thompson was assaulted and robbed in Dublin while his team was preparing to play a game in the city, Irish police said. The national police, An Garda Síochána, said in a statement it did not have informat...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Buster Posey will search for a fresh managerial voice to guide the San Francisco Giants, someone with an “obsessive” work ethic and attention to detail. Manager Bob Melvin was fired Monday after the club missed the playoffs for a fourth straight season. Posey, San Francisco’s President of Baseball Operations, a...

LONDON (AP) — OpenAI said Monday it’s adding parental controls to ChatGPT that are designed to provide teen users of the popular platform with a safer and more “age-appropriate” experience. The company is taking action after AI chatbot safety for young users has hit the headlines. The technology’s dangers have been recently highlig...

BERLIN (AP) — A kangaroo — well, a wallaby to be precise — is on the loose in Berlin. City police say any passersby who spot it should keep their distance, but an eye on it too. Chief Inspector Martin Halweg told The Associated Press in an email on Monday that Berlin police are no longer tailing the meandering marsupial because it’...

SIDOARJO, Indonesia (AP) — A four-story prayer hall in an Islamic boarding school on Indonesia ’s main island of Java collapsed on dozens of pupils who were praying in it Monday, killing at least one male student, officials said. Numerous other children were hospitalized and some were feared trapped under the rubble. The collapse h...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Airplane maintenance workers at a North Carolina airport found the body of a suspected stowaway in the landing gear compartment of an American Airlines flight that had recently arrived from Europe, police said. The body was found Sunday morning while the plane was undergoing maintenance at Charlotte Douglas I...

One of the hottest markets in the artificial intelligence industry is selling chatbots that write computer code. Some call it “vibe-coding” because it encourages an AI coding assistant to do the grunt work as human software developers work through big ideas. Others dislike that term. But there’s no question that these tools are tra...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year. And each year, certain voices dominate. Here, The Associated Press takes the opposite approach and spotlights some thoughts from leaders wh...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s foreign minister walked a fine line at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, pushing back at President Donald Trump’s assertions of unfettered U.S. power while trying to avoid provoking her country’s biggest trade partner. Trump famously said at his inauguration that “during every single day of the...

ROME (AP) — The German nongovernmental organization Sea-Watch said on Monday that one migrant drowned and three others were rescued in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast after their dinghy capsized during a chase by the Libyan coast guard. On Sunday, a patrol boat from the Libyan coast guard intercepted a crowded dinghy carryin...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — An internet blackout hit Afghanistan on Monday, with local media reporting a potential nationwide cut of fiber-optic services as part of a Taliban crackdown on immorality. It’s the first time Afghanistan has experienced a shutdown of this kind since the former insurgents seized power in August 2021. Earlier this mo...

BEIJING (AP) — Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek defeated Camila Osorio for her 400th career win and advanced to the fourth round at the China Open on Monday. Swiatek, the first player to register 25 or more wins at WTA-1000 events for three consecutive seasons, showed no signs of slowing down as she dismantled her Colombian opponent...

A man charged with firing an assault rifle from a boat at patrons of a North Carolina waterfront bar, killing three people and wounding five others, was a decorated Marine combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient whose last assignment was with a Wounded Warrior battalion. Nigel Edge, 40, is scheduled to appear in a North Carolina...

Efforts to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage are spreading to more states ahead of next year’s elections. Lawmakers in three states have approved new congressional districts since President Donald Trump began pushing for mid-decade redistricting. The trend began in Texas, where the Republican-led Legislature passed...

NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Javice, the founder of a startup company that sought to dramatically improve how students apply for financial aid, was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison for cheating JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million by greatly exaggerating how many students it served. Javice, 33, was sentenced in Manhatta...

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — In the chaotic moments after a former Marine smashed his pickup truck into a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Michigan and began shooting, church members dragged others to safety while smoke filled the building, officials said Monday. Four people died and eight others were wou...

CAIRO (AP) — Ethiopia claimed Monday that its recently inaugurated dam has helped lessen floods that have hit Sudan, as speculation rose over whether it has actually caused the deluges. Sudan on Saturday issued a flood alert citing rising water levels along the Nile River’s two main tributaries, the Blue and White Nile. Sudanese au...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian government officials are set to meet with representatives of the country’s oil workers union on Monday, a union leader told The Associated Press, following a strike to protest the firing of oil workers at Africa’s biggest refiner. The walkout threatens to halt nationwide supply. The union called Satur...

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia has sent more than 500 soldiers to help battle a huge wildfire that has burned across 30% of the country’s best-known national park. The office of President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said Sunday that an unknown number of wildlife have been killed in the fire, which started last Monday and has spread ac...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — They had a lot to say about global affairs. But complicated things happening closer to home? Not so much. Like their counterparts from other continents, African leaders took to the United Nations podium over the past week to address the U.N. General Assembly on pressing global issues, including climate change,...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina fired the prime minister and the rest of his government Monday in response to days of deadly protests in the Indian Ocean island over the failure of the electricity and water supplies. Rajoelina said in a speech on national television that Prime Minister Christian...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the Bahamas closed most schools Monday as Tropical Storm Imelda dropped heavy rain in the northern Caribbean, including over Cuba where landslides killed at least one man. The storm was located about 55 miles (90 kilometers) north of Great Abaco Island of the Bahamas, which is still recov...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A senior North Korean diplomat reiterated at the U.N. Monday that his country won’t give up its nuclear weapons despite numerous international demands to do so, calling them crucial to keeping a “balance of power” with South Korea. “We will never walk away from this position,” he said. Under the spotlight of t...

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Britain’s Treasury chief warned Monday that “harsh global headwinds” from wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have worsened the U.K.'s economic outlook since the governing Labour Party won power last year. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves told Labour’s ann...