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AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Oct. 14, 2020 12:56 PM EDT
Oct. 18 1924 — Harold “Red” Grange accounts for six touchdowns in Illinois’ 39-14 win over Michigan. Grange returns the opening kickoff 95...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Sep. 26, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Sept. 27 1894 — Aqueduct Race Track opens its doors. The building is torn down in 1955 and the new Aqueduct reopens on Sept. 14, 1959. ...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Sep. 24, 2020 12:55 PM EDT
Sept. 27 1894 — Aqueduct Race Track opens its doors. The building is torn down in 1955 and the new Aqueduct reopens on Sept. 14, 1959. ...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Sep. 24, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Sept. 25 1866 — Jerome Park, named for its founder Leonard W. Jerome, opens in the Bronx in New York. Jerome, seeking to emulate the...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Sep. 20, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Sept. 21 1940 — For the first time in the history of photo finishes a triple dead heat for first place is recorded, at Willow’s Park,...

Oakland Athletics outfielders Mark Canha (20) and Ramon Laureano, second from right, wear masks as they greet teammates after they defeated the Seattle Mariners in the second baseball game of a doubleheader, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, in Seattle. Both games were played in air smoky from wildfires in Oregon, Washington, and California. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
The Latest: Virus scraps Florida Atlantic-Georgia Southern

By The Associated Press Sep. 18, 2020 02:38 PM EDT

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Aug. 27, 2020 10:54 AM EDT
Aug. 30 1887 — Seven U.S. men’s national tennis championships and Richard Sears captures his seventh title. Sears beats Henry Slocum, 6-1,...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Aug. 25, 2020 10:20 AM EDT
Aug. 26 1912 — Maurice McLoughlin beats Wallace F. Johnson, 3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 to win the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association men’s singles...

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Aug. 13, 2020 11:38 AM EDT
Aug. 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...

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...

FILE - In this March 12, 2020, file photo, Mid-American Conference commissioner Jon Steinbrecher speaks to the media in Cleveland. The Mid-American Conference on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020, became the first league competing at college football’s highest level to cancel its fall season because of COVID-19 concerns. With the MAC’s 12 schools facing a significant financial burden by trying to maintain costly coronavirus protocols, the conference’s university presidents made the decision to explore a spring season. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
The Latest: Asian football cancels Oct., Nov. qualifiers

By The Associated Press Aug. 11, 2020 10:07 PM EDT

Kevin Harvick celebrates after winning the NASCAR Cup Series auto race Sunday, May 17, 2020, in Darlington, S.C. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
NASCAR and jousting exceptions to SC's large crowd ban

By Jeffrey Collins Aug. 07, 2020 04:34 PM EDT

The Latest: Auburn's Wooten redshirts amid COVID-19 fears.

By The Associated Press Aug. 06, 2020 01:09 PM EDT
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Auburn senior linebacker Chandler...

A security guard peers out from behind NHL-branded fencing at the entrance where players arrive at Toronto's Royal York hotel, which is acting as the "bubble" ahead of the return of the league's season following disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sunday, July 26, 2020. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
The Latest: 49ers wide receiver James on COVID-19 list

By The Associated Press Jul. 27, 2020 10:38 AM EDT

Kyle Busch, left, and Clint Bowyer, right, talk on pit road prior to a NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, July 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Ray Carlin)
Bowyer heads to Kansas Speedway without his typical crowd

By Dave Skretta Jul. 22, 2020 02:33 PM EDT

A ball carrier wears a face mask prior to the friendly soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Le Havre, in Le Havre, western France, Sunday, July 12, 2020. For the first time since the coronavirus shut down sports and chased away spectators, Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and other soccer stars are going to play again in front of fans. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
The Latest: Dodgers CF Pollock considered skipping season

By The Associated Press Jul. 17, 2020 12:49 PM EDT

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Jul. 16, 2020 12:45 PM EDT
July 22 1921 — Jim Barnes wins the U.S. Men’s Open golf championship by edging Walter Hagen, Leo Diegel, Jock Hutchinson and Fred McLeod. ...

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Jul. 09, 2020 12:38 PM EDT
July 11 1914 — Babe Ruth makes his major league pitching debut for the Boston Red Sox against Cleveland, getting the 4-3 victory over the...

FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2019, file photo, Jimmie Johnson (48) drives through the area of the course called "The Bus Stop" during a practice run for the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Watkins Glen International, in Watkins Glen, N.Y. Three months after its opening day was canceled by the coronavirus pandemic, Watkins Glen International is hosting car clubs again as NASCAR weekend looms in mid-August. “Everybody is excited about getting back in the saddle. I know we are," track president Michael Printup said. (AP Photo/John Munson, File)
The Latest: D-Backs' Guerra returns after negative test

By The Associated Press Jul. 08, 2020 03:32 PM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017, file photo, former NBA player and players union deputy Roger Mason, left, listens as entertainer Ice Cube, right, announces the launch of the BIG3, a new 3-on-3 professional basketball league, in New York. Hundreds of sports-related businesses got in line for the government-funded Payroll Protection Plan designed to cushion the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. None of the four North American major sports leagues — the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball — applied, but both Major League Soccer and the National Women's Soccer League were represented. Rapper Ice Cube's 3-on-3 basketball league says it returned almost half of the $1.6 million it received, but givebacks were rare. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Sports jumps on PPP bandwagon, but big leagues take a pass

By The Associated Press Jul. 06, 2020 10:07 PM EDT