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Valkyries are confident fans will watch Game 6

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Shaunice Christmas-Miller and her wife, Kendall, have the flexibility in their jobs to work from home Thursday and watch Game 6 of the WNBA Finals despite the early tipoff on the West Coast. That doesn't mean either is happy with the Golden State-Atlanta game starting ...

Ravens have plenty of problems even with Lamar return

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — If the Baltimore Ravens play like they did in the second half against Cincinnati, not even Lamar Jackson can save them. Already facing a reputation for folding late in games, the Ravens were a caricature of themselves Sunday, outscored 35-0 in the final two ...

Small colleges starting football programs for enrollment boost

A bagpiper in a kilt led hundreds of Azusa Pacific University students and the school president into the Cougars' stadium before kickoff against Whittier College earlier this season, a sun-splashed celebration of what once were two of the biggest brands in California small-college football. Azusa Pacific had dropped the sport in 2020 after 55 years and Whittier in 2022 after 115 years, mainly for financial reasons. The two are back on the field, not in a full reembrace of the sport's tradition and what it can do to enhance campus culture, but for another reason: Administrators saw an ...

Duke aims to stay on top in ACC men’s race

Duke won an Atlantic Coast Conference title with a national player of the year in 2024, then did it again last year. The second-ranked Blue Devils might lack the same type of headlining talent for Jon Scheyer's fifth season, but they're expected to stay in their perch all the same. Duke is the preseason favorite to win the ACC crown for the fourth time under Scheyer, the 39-year-old former Blue Devils star and successfor for Hall of Fame mentor Mike Krzyzewski. That run has included producing a pair of Associated Press national players of the year in eventual No. 1 overall NBA draft ...

Irritating Facts: With the Mideast, it’s annoying to be confronted by them

No one has been more famously obstinate about disregarding the truth when it interfered with a preferred narrative than the otherwise obscure Republican congressman from Indiana, Earl Landgrebe, who made it plain in 1974 that he didn't care a whit about President Richard Nixon's guilt. "Don't ...

France should export a warning, not its tax ideas

French economist Gabriel Zucman has come to California bearing a familiar French solution to a fiscal problem: another tax. Once based at the University of California, Berkeley, Zucman is back and campaigning for Proposition 40, which would impose an allegedly one-time 5% tax on the net ...