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The women’s professional tennis tour will bring its events back to China later this year, announcing on Thursday the end of a boycott instituted in late 2021 over concerns about the safety of former player Peng Shuai after she accused a high-ranking government official there of sexual assault. WTA Chairman...

BY JIM DERRY | Home Field Sports Each day, one of our experts will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. Here are...

“LeBron” by Jeff Benedict (Avid Reader Press) LeBron James has lived a very public life. Who can forget the 2002 Sports Illustrated cover anointing him “The Chosen One” when he was just 17? Now 38, he’s done thousands of interviews, spoken out on a variety of social justice issues, earned...

DURHAM, N.C. — Duke 7-footer Kyle Filipowski is returning to the Blue Devils for his sophomore season instead of testing the NBA draft waters. Filipowski announced his decision Tuesday in a social media post, saying: “I’m not done yet, see you next year.” Filipowski was named The Associated Press newcomer...

Will Zalatoris spent the Masters weekend having back surgery that will end his PGA Tour season having played just seven times since returning from a previous back injury. Zalatoris, who lost in a playoff at the PGA Championship and was one putt away from forcing a playoff in the U.S....

AUGUSTA, Ga. — By the time Jon Rahm walked up the 18th fairway Sunday, and made like his late idol Seve Ballesteros with a brilliant par save to finish off the Masters, the fact the Spaniard soon would be slipping into the green jacket long had been decided. The most...

NASCAR suspended Cup Series driver Cody Ware indefinitely Monday after he was arrested on charges of assault on a female and assault by strangulation. The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office in Statesville, N.C., indicated Ware’s bond was set at $3,000 after his arrest, according to NASCAR.com. Ware didn’t participate in weekend...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Timberwolves suspended center Rudy Gobert for their play-in game against the Los Angeles Lakers, after the 10-year veteran threw a punch at teammate Kyle Anderson in an argument in the huddle during a timeout. The Timberwolves announced Monday that Gobert would serve his one-game punishment when...

MIAMI — Getting to the play-in tournament probably wasn’t the goal of any team when training camps opened back in September. It does, however, beat the alternative. There are 12 teams with playoff spots right now, 10 teams whose seasons are over — and eight teams with a second chance....

If Tiger Woods can still make the shots but can’t walk, the PGA and the four major tournaments should let him use a cart. (Here’s betting LIV Golf would.) It would violate one of golf’s most sacred rules and give Woods an unfair advantage over the rest of the field....

NEW YORK — The WNBA is adding charter flights for the entire playoffs and back-to-back regular season games this year, the league announced Monday. The league will pay for all of the flights. “It’s significant dollars,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told The Associated Press. “Now that we have best of...

Christopher Bell held on through a restart eight laps from the end to hold off Tyler Reddick and win the dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday night. Bell was a whiz-kid dirt racing sensation growing up, and that experience helped the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to his fifth...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Phil Mickelson never will receive the sort of adulation that once shadowed his every step. Too many missteps along the way. But give Lefty credit. He sure LIVened things up Sunday afternoon at the Masters. Already the oldest major champion in golf history, the 52-year-old Mickelson made...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jordan Spieth made 21 birdies at this year’s Masters, including nine Sunday while trying to keep pace with partner Phil Mickelson. And it still wasn’t enough to win — or even beat the 52-year-old Mickelson. Spieth finished the Masters tied for fourth place at 7-under, five shots...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Brooks Koepka no doubt will hear the same murmured joke no matter where he goes in the coming days and weeks. If only the Masters was 54 holes. Like those tournaments on the Saudi-back LIV Golf circuit. If that was the case, Koepka would’ve been wearing a...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jon Rahm turned the longest day into his sweetest victory, starting Sunday with a four-shot deficit in the morning chill and finishing in fading sunlight as the fourth Spaniard to become a Masters champion. Rahm closed with a 3-under-par 69 to pull away from mistake-prone Brooks Koepka....

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert threw a punch at teammate Kyle Anderson during a timeout in the second quarter Sunday against New Orleans. The Timberwolves announced at halftime that Gobert would not play in the second half without giving a reason. The television camera on the Minnesota bench...

MADISON, Ala. — The Los Angeles Angels’ Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas allowed one hit in a doubleheader and only got a split. Three pitchers combined on a seven-inning, no-hitter for the Trash Pandas only to lose 7-5 to the Cincinnati Reds’ Chattanooga Lookouts in Saturday’s opener after wildness caused...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods withdrew from the Masters before the resumption of the third round because of an injury Sunday, ending his streak of completing all 72 holes of every tournament he has played at Augusta National as a professional. The tournament announced about 90 minutes before play began...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Fred Couples had played mediocre golf by his standards the past four years, and though the 1992 champion had come close to making the cut at the Masters on one occasion, he hadn’t played the weekend since 2018. Well, Couples got to play Saturday. Then keep playing...