U.S./World Sports category, Page 278
Nicholas Gioacchini, Sebastian Soto score 2 goals each as U.S. routs Panama 6-2Video
Nicholas Gioacchini and Sebastian Soto both scored their first two international goals, Gio Reyna got his first and a young United States team routed Panama 6-2 on Monday night in an exhibition at Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Gioacchini and Reyna made their first appearances Thursday in a 0-0 draw at Wales,...
NCAA in talks with Indianapolis to host all of March Madness
The NCAA announced Monday it plans to hold the entire 2021 men’s college basketball tournament in one geographic location to mitigate the risks of covid-19 and is in talks with Indianapolis to be the host city. The Final Four is already set to be held in Indianapolis next April and...
This date in sports history: Nov. 16Video
1929 — USC and Notre Dame play before 112,912 at Soldier Field in Chicago, with the Fighting Irish prevailing 13-12. It is the third time in the 1920s the two schools attract more than 112,000 fans. 1957 — Notre Dame ends Oklahoma’s NCAA record 47-game winning streak with a 7-0...
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim tests positive for covid-19
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and the Orange have paused all team activities. The 75-year-old Boeheim said in a statement posted on Twitter and the university website Sunday that he was informed after the team’s most recent testing and is...
Planning travel for college basketball becomes more complicated during pandemicVideo
Planning travel for college basketball teams can be complicated. Flights and hotels have to be booked, buses rented, meals planned. Schedules have to be worked around practices and games. Planning amid the covid-19 pandemic makes it exponentially more difficult. Coaches and administrators have to consider ventilation systems, vendor testing protocols,...
Dustin Johnson rolls to first Masters title with record scoreVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — In this one-of-a-kind Masters that had no fans and no roars, Dustin Johnson made sure it had no drama. And when he polished off his five-shot victory Sunday with lowest score in tournament history, he had no words. Only tears. Looking smart in the Masters green jacket...
Tiger Woods hits 3 balls into water at Masters, cards a septuple-bogey 10
AUGUSTA, Ga. — This was an imperfect 10 for Tiger Woods. The defending Masters champion recorded a septuple-bogey 10 on the 12th hole of the final round — the highest score on any hole in his career. Woods plunked three balls into Rae’s Creek on Sunday in front of the...
World No. 1 Dustin Johnson builds 4-shot edge heading into Sunday at MastersVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Dustin Johnson began his assault on Augusta National with a 5-iron for a tap-in eagle, and he never relented until he matched the 54-hole record at the Masters and built a four-shot lead to put himself in prime position for another major. Johnson has been in this...
No. 4 Virginia opens season ahead of Duke as ACC favoriteVideo
Tony Bennett was pleased how his Virginia team played in the weeks before the coronavirus pandemic abruptly shut down last season. That’s the foundation he is relying on for the fourth-ranked Cavaliers, the preseason ACC favorite for the first time in nearly four decades in a race featuring No. 9...
Ageless wonder Bernhard Langer oldest to make Masters cut
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Bernhard Langer spent more than seven hours walking 26 holes across a soggy Augusta National that made it feel even longer. His 63-year-old knees were aching. He was happy to be done. Except that he’s not done. Langer, a two-time Masters champion and ageless wonder, gets to...
Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas among leaders at Masters; Tiger stuck in neutralVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The buzz was back Friday at Augusta National, loud as ever. It wasn’t from any of the patrons, because they’re not allowed in this most usual Masters in November. It came from the constant humming of motors of the sub-air system beneath the soft turf in an...
This date in sports history: Nov. 13Video
1949 — Chicago’s Bob Nussbaumer intercepts four passes as the Cardinals set an NFL record for points in a regular-season game with a 65-20 victory over the New York Bulldogs. 1954 — Britain beats France, 16-12, to win the first Rugby League World Cup. 1964 — St. Louis Hawks forward...
‘Buzz’ remains for Masters leader Paul Casey despite limited spectatorsVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — No spectators, no roars. Paul Casey still had no problem finding enough energy from the sheer mystique of the Masters on Thursday in an opening round delayed seven months by a pandemic and then nearly three hours by thunderstorms. It carried him to a 7-under-par 65, matching...
Ivy League cancels winter sports because of covid-19
The Ivy League became the first Division I conference this year to cancel all winter sports, including men’s and women’s basketball. The decision Thursday came 13 days before the scheduled start of the college basketball season. The league had decided this past summer, when it canceled fall sports, not to...
Tiger Woods off to rare fast start at MastersVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods usually takes a day or two to get going at Augusta National. Not this time. Defying his lackluster form not to mention a history of slow starts at these hallowed grounds, Woods shot a bogey-free 4-under-par 68 on Thursday in the opening round of the...
Baylor, Kansas to be tested by West Virginia, Texas schools in loaded Big 12Video
Kansas was the heavy favorite to land the overall No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament when word began to filter through conference tournaments that covid-19 was going to shut down the remainder of the season. Now, the Jayhawks might not even be the favorites to finish first in the...
This date in sports history: Nov. 12Video
1892 — William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first pro football player by getting $500 to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. Heffelfinger doesn’t disappoint his bosses as he returns a fumble for a touchdown to give Allegheny a 4-0 victory. 1920 — Judge Kenesaw Mountain...
November Masters gives golf season grand sendoffVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Any optimism the next Masters will be restored to its full glory of spring blooms and the endless chorus of cheers was dampened only by the reality of the calendar and the recent spikes in coronavirus cases. It has been eight months since Augusta National said it...
For fall Masters, change comes to a tradition like no otherVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga — The pimiento cheese sandwiches are still here, and so is the Hogan Bridge over Rae’s Creek. So much else has changed at Augusta National this week, when the first fall Masters will be held without many of the traditions that make it a tradition unlike any other....
Luke Garza, Jared Butler headline AP preseason All-America team
The coronavirus pandemic initially clouded Luka Garza’s decision whether to stay at Iowa or leave for the NBA. The uncertainty of the 2020-21 college basketball season and NBA draft made a tough choice even tougher. Once Garza decided to stay in Iowa City, he was all in. No doubts going...
This date in sports history: Nov. 11Video
1911 — Carlisle Indian School of Carlisle, Pa., led by Jim Thorpe, beats nationally ranked Harvard 18-15 before 25,000 in Cambridge, Mass. Thorpe scores all the points for Carlisle, a touchdown, extra point and four field goals. 1939 — Texas Tech and Centenary (La.) play to a 0-0 tie in...
Tiger Woods hopes to rekindle magic at most unusual MastersVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods has gotten to spend some extra time with his green jacket. Maybe that’s just what he needs to rekindle a spark in his magnificent game, to prove again he is not washed up. Nineteen months removed from that magical Sunday at Augusta National — and...
Bryson DeChambeau brings his bulk, behemoth drives to MastersVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The cart picking up golf balls on the practice range at Augusta National can only go so far. Club members were swapping tales Tuesday about the staff who reached the end of the range and had to sort through azalea bushes more than 350 yards away to...
Iowa team to beat in deep, talented Big TenVideo
The Big Ten office hasn’t released a conference schedule, nonconference games are in a state of flux and other uncertainties loom over the college basketball season because of the covid-19 pandemic. None of that can tamp down Illinois coach Brad Underwood’s enthusiasm. “This Big Ten basketball season,” he said, “will...
No. 1 Alabama-LSU, No. 5 Texas A&M-Tennessee postponed
No. 1 Alabama at LSU, and No. 5 Texas A&M at Tennessee will not be played Saturday because of covid-19 issues, raising the number of SEC games postponed this week to three. The SEC said Tuesday the Aggies and Volunteers will be rescheduled for Dec. 12, but the Crimson Tide’s...
