ROME — Nicola Pietrangeli, the Italian tennis champion of the 1950s and 1960s whose records were only recently broken by Jannik Sinner — but remains the winningest Davis Cup player of all time — has died. He was 92. The Italian Tennis and Padel Federation announced Pietrangeli's passing ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky has fired the Southeastern Conference's longest-tenured coach, ending Mark Stoops' tenure in his 13th season with the Wildcats after back-to-back losing records. Athletic director Mitch Barnhart said in a statement Monday morning that he informed Stoops they ...
Lane Kiffin left his one-loss Ole Miss team to become the coach at LSU on Sunday, taking over a program that has won national titles under three of its previous four coaches while saying he would have stayed to coach the Rebels in the postseason had he been allowed to. The move comes two days ...
Texas Tech was No. 5 in last week's College Football Playoff rankings and on Sunday jumped two spots to No. 5 in The Associated Press Top 25 poll. The Red Raiders likely will be No. 4 when the new CFP rankings come out Tuesday night. That would position them to receive a bye for the first ...
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Charlie Smyth had never kicked in an NFL regular-season game. He only started playing American football two years ago. So Sunday was quite the day for the Northern Ireland native. Smyth had a successful debut in the New Orleans Saints' 21-17 loss at the Miami ...
Free-agent pitcher Dylan Cease and the Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a $210 million, seven-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday night. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal was pending a physical and ...