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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. − Adrian Beltre, just 21 at the time, was working out in the back fields early one morning at the Los Angeles Dodgers’ spring training complex at Vero Beach, Fla., when his agent,…

Two players who fans would expect to be competing in the WNBA 3-point contest won’t be participating. Indiana Fever rookie guard Caitlin Clark and New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu, the defending champion in the…

Caitlin Clark scored 24 and set a WNBA single-game record with 19 assists, but the Indiana Fever dropped its final game before the Olympic break, falling 101-93 to the Dallas Wings.  In a chaotic, back-and-forth…

Cobb is pivoting to the role of college football studio analyst, working for the SEC Network, the network said. He will appear on select editions of ‘SEC Now’ throughout the fall and also join co-host Alyssa Lang on ‘Out of…

Between babysitting, working as a caregiver for adults with dementia and Alzheimer’s and bussing tables at an Iowa City restaurant, Olympian Brittany Brown still found time for her main job: elite track runner. She just wasn’t getting…

Cavan Sullivan has become the youngest player in MLS history, and the youngest to debut in any major professional U.S. sports league. Sullivan — who signed with the Philadelphia Union on May 9 — came…

Pat Williams, Orlando Magic co-founder and recipient of the Basketball Hall of Fame’s lifetime achievement award, died on Wednesday. He was 84. Williams died of complications from viral pneumonia, the Magic said in a release.…

Mike Tyson has resumed training and is expected to return to the boxing gym at the end of the month, his agent told USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday. The former heavyweight champion had been recuperating…

Texas entered the nation’s fiercest, richest, deepest and most boastful conference like a steer in a china shop. “We’re not just coming to compete. We’re coming to win,” Texas school president Jay Hartzell said on…

LONDON − More than two-thirds of Russian athletes and over a third of Belarusians expected to compete at the Paris Olympics have violated the International Olympic Committee’s neutrality rules by supporting Vladimir Putin’s invasion of…