By KEN MAGUIRE AP Sports Writer Coco Gauff will lead the U.S. tennis team at the Paris Olympics three years after missing the Tokyo Games because she tested positive for COVID-19. The 20-year-old Gauff, ranked No. 2, will be joined by No. 5 Jessica Pegula, Danielle Collins and Emma Navarro in women’s singles, along with Taylor Fritz, […]
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Celtics have short to-do list as they look to become 1st repeat NBA champion since 2018
By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — It took more than a decade, savvy front office and draft moves, and some free agency luck for the Celtics to ultimately build the roster that brought an end to their 16-year championship drought. But with NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown already locked up long-term and […]
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Celtics back home with chance to close out Mavericks and clinch record 18th NBA championship
By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics’ catastrophic performance in Game 4 of the NBA Finals gave them a chance to clinch another championship on Monday night under the 17 banners already hanging in the TD Garden rafters. And, coach Joe Mazzulla reminded them, that they would still have two […]
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Micronesian Games open in Majuro
MAJURO, 17 JUNE 2024 (MARIANAS VARIETY)—— The Micronesian Games kicked off in Majuro Saturday night with a gala celebration that featured sports delegations from the 10 islands in the sub-region parading in uniform with flags and banners along a newly opened track field, a rarely performed traditional stick dance of the Marshall Islands, a Marshall […]
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Japanese slugger Rintaro Sasaki blazing his own baseball path in US via Stanford, MLB Draft League
AP-BBC–Stanford-Japanese Slugger, 1st Ld-Writethru By JANIE McCAULEY AP Baseball Writer Eds: UPDATES: Updates with Sasaki’s home run, debut stats, fresh photo links.; Updates Media. STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — When balls start landing on the Stanford football team’s practice grass way beyond the wall in right-center field, everybody knows Japanese slugger Rintaro Sasaki must be taking […]
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Palau Wrestling Team Preparesfor Micronesian Games
In preparation for the upcoming Micronesian Games in the Marshall Islands, our wrestling team has been training very hard. With only a few athletes taking part in the games, our team has been practicing twice a day in preparation for the competition. In doing so, we were able to have Ms. Kaede Matsuyama, female wrestler, […]