By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Eurico Rosa da Silva was in a dark place. On the track, the jockey in his early 30s was winning races and making money. At home, he was fighting suic…
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Jokic leads Denver Nuggets past LeBron’s Lakers 113-111, into their first NBA Finals
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nikola Jokic is a player unlike almost anything the NBA has ever seen, and now he’s taking his Denver Nuggets somewhere they’ve never be…
PGA Championship promises a strong course for the strongest field
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Four layers of clothes, beanies and hand warmers were everywhere on the eve of the PGA Championship, a reminder how this major will be different …
‘A day of joy’: Brittney Griner opens 1st WNBA season since detainment in Russia
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brittney Griner wasted no time making her presence felt in her first WNBA regular-season game since she was jailed in Russia. She fired a pass to Mor…
First Mission scratched from Preakness by vet 36 hours before Triple Crown race
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — Brad Cox-trained First Mission has been scratched from the Preakness on the advice of veterinarians, taking one of the top contenders out of the Trip…
The Wembanyama sweepstakes and draft lottery has a winner: It’s the Spurs
By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Victor Wembanyama is now set to begin his NBA career with the San Antonio Spurs, after they won the NBA draft lottery and the No. 1 overall pick on T…
Vida Blue, led Oakland to 3 World Series titles, dies at 73
By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer Vida Blue, a hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball’s biggest draws in the early 1970s and helped lead the brash A’s to three straight World Series titl…
Dog Show 101: What’s what at the Westminster Kennel Club
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — To the casual viewer, competing at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show might look pretty simple: Get a dog. Groom it. Pose it. Lead it around a ring…
Basketball legend Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, dies at 73
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah,…
A different March Madness: Online hate for the athletes
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer HOUSTON (AP) — It wasn’t so much that social media was criticizing his son. That happens sometimes — especially after a loss like THAT. But when a post came up sugges…