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Today in Sports: Ty Cobb gets his 3,000th career hit

By The Associated Press Aug. 18, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Aug. 19 1909 — The first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twelve-thousand spectators watch Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer win a five...

Sportlight-Week Ahead, Aug. 19-25

By The Associated Press Aug. 18, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Aug. 19 1909 — The first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twelve-thousand spectators watch Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer win a five...

Sportlight: Week Ahead, July 15-21, Take Two

By The Associated Press Jul. 14, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
July 19 1877 — Spencer Gore beats William Marshall in 48 minutes (6-1, 6-2, 6-4) in the first men’s singles tennis championship at the All England Club...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Jul. 07, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
July 8 1889 — John L. Sullivan defeats Jake Kilrain in the 75th round in Richburg, Miss., for the U.S. heavyweight championship. It’s the last bare...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Aug. 18, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Aug. 19 1909 — The first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twelve-thousand spectators watch Austrian engineer Louis...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Aug. 12, 2021 12:09 PM EDT
Aug. 17 1933 — Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees plays his 1,308th straight game to break Everett Scott’s record of 1,307. ...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Jul. 08, 2021 12:04 PM EDT
July 9 1922 — Johnny Weissmuller is the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle under 1 minute as he breaks Duke Kahanamoku’s world record...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Jun. 10, 2021 11:43 AM EDT
June 15 1901 — Willie Anderson edges Alex Smith by one stroke in a playoff to take the U.S. Open. 1938 — Johnny Vander...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Aug. 18, 2020 10:20 AM EDT
Aug. 19 1909 — The first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twelve-thousand spectators watch Austrian engineer Louis...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Aug. 13, 2020 11:32 AM EDT
Aug. 16 1920 — Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head with a pitch by New York’s Carl Mays. Chapman suffers a fractured skull...

Weekend Sports In Brief

By The Associated Press Aug. 05, 2019 03:56 AM EDT
FOOTBALL FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady has never known what it's like to play out the final season of a contract in his 20-year NFL career, and...

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NASCAR Cup Series
As of: Jun 5
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1 1 Ryan Blaney
2 1 William Byron
3 1 Kevin Harvick
4 1 Martin Truex Jr
5 4 Ross Chastain
6 - Christopher Bell
7 3 Kyle Busch
8 1 Denny Hamlin
9 2 Kyle Larson
10 1 Brad Keselowski
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