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Cowboys open training camp more concerned with playoff success than contractual uncertainty

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Owner Jerry Jones knows the situation the Dallas Cowboys find themselves in as training camp started on Thursday. Quarterback Dak Prescott is going into the last year of his contract. Wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is holding out, seeking a new contract. Linebacker Micah Parsons is also in line for a new […]

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Clemson’s Dabo Swinney isn’t big on transfer-portal recruiting. That’s at odds with his ACC peers

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Dabo Swinney has built a proven winner at Clemson, from two national championships and eight Atlantic Coast Conference titles to stringing together 13 straight seasons with at least nine wins. He looks at that as validation for an approach that has mostly resisted diving into the recent growth of college free

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Hulk Hogan visits Detroit Lions camp, says coach Dan Campbell missed his calling as a wrestler

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Hulk Hogan, visiting Detroit Lions practice, said coach Dan Campbell would have been good in the squared circle. The pro wrestling great even came up with a nickname for Campbell: “Dirty Dan.” “He probably missed his calling,” Hogan said Thursday during a visit to the Motor City to promote his

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Jill Biden meets with US Olympic athletes in Paris — and even helps with a relay drill

PARIS (AP) — U.S. first lady Jill Biden visited some American athletes at an Olympic training center in Paris on Thursday, wishing rugby and track and field competitors good luck and even taking part in a stationary relay drill with runners. Biden arrived in Paris a day before the Summer Games’ opening ceremony on the

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Olympic tennis schedule has Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz in action Saturday

PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz all are on the Paris Olympics ‘ tennis schedule Saturday, the first day of action at Roland Garros. Serbia’s Djokovic will compete in singles only, Nadal in doubles only and Alcaraz in both. Nadal and Alcaraz are teammates in doubles for Spain and will face

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Migrants and homeless people are cleared out of Paris during the Olympics

PARIS (AP) — Carrying backpacks and small children, hundreds of people sleeping on the streets of Paris climbed aboard buses surrounded by armed police Thursday, the latest group of migrants and homeless people to be driven out of the city ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. The group of largely African migrants

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Coco Gauff is excited to meet LeBron James but promises not to pester him at the 2024 Olympics

PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff plans to avoid pestering LeBron James when they share flag-bearing duties for the United States during Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony along the Seine River. Yes, the reigning U.S. Open champion said Thursday, she will heed her tennis teammates’ request that she ask the NBA’s career leading scorer for some commemorative

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Flyers sign All-Star Travis Konecny to an 8-year extension worth $70 million

The Philadelphia Flyers signed All-Star Travis Konecny to an eight-year extension worth $70 million, committing to him being a long-term part of their core as they seek to shift from rebuilding mode to contending. The deal announced Thursday keeps Konecny under contract through 2033. He will count $8.75 million against the salary cap starting when

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British Open runner-up Billy Horschel withdraws on first day of 3M Open with illness

BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Billy Horschel, who tied for second at last week’s British Open after holding the 54-hole lead, withdrew from the 3M Open on Thursday morning due to illness. “I wasn’t feeling great late last night and took some medicine,” he told the tour’s communications staff about an hour before his tee time.

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