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FILE - Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham speaks during Pac-12 Conference men's NCAA college football media day Friday, July 29, 2022, in Los Angeles. No. 7 Utah visits Florida Field on Saturday, Sept. 3, for what will arguably be the Gators' biggest non-conference game in nearly a decade. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

No. 7 Utah opens much-anticipated season in sweltering Swamp

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Utah linebacker Mohamoud Diabate knows what awaits in Florida — sweltering heat, stifling humidity and deafening noise. He experienced everything the Swamp has to offer during his three seasons in Gainesville. Now, he’s back – this time on the visiting sideline — for arguably the biggest non-conference […]

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FILE - Georgia tight end Brock Bowers (19) plays against Charleston Southern during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021, in Athens, Ga. Alabama’s Nick Saban said last month that his players made more than $3 million in NIL deals over the last year and his SEC rival, Georgia's Kirby Smart, got even more specific. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

No. 3 Georgia opens vs. No. 11 Oregon, former DC Lanning

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Things to watch in Week 1 in the Southeastern Conference: GAME OF THE WEEK No. 11 Oregon visits No. 3 Georgia in one of two games in which an SEC team faces a ranked opponent. The juicy part of this matchup is on the sidelines where […]

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Cordova scores as Real Salt Lake defeat Minnesota United

Cordova scores as Real Salt Lake defeat Minnesota United

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Sergio Cordova, Jefferson Savarino and Anderson Julio each scored as Real Salt Lake earned a 3-0 win over Minnesota United on Wednesday night. Cordova opened the scoring in the seventh minute and Savarino made it 2-0 in the 23rd. Julio scored in the 79th. Zac MacMath […]

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FILE - Texas' Christian Jones (70) blocks against Louisiana-Lafayette during the second half of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Thanks to a bold new era of name, image and likeness deals across college sports, plenty of star players are cruising around campus in a fancy ride. But for every NIL millionaire there are thousands more athletes like Jones that might have made hundreds or thousands of dollars but who have hardly struck it rich. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

NIL deals put just a few bucks in most athletes’ pockets

Texas offensive lineman Christian Jones remembers walking up to Bijan Robinson not long ago and asking for a lift, figuring it was least the All-American running back could do for one of the big guys doing all the blocking. “He said there’s a height limit,” Jones said with a smile. Turns out […]

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Moscow Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91

Moscow Mikhail Gorbachev, who steered Soviet breakup, dead at 91

MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. The Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement that […]

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FILE - Oregon linebacker Noah Sewell (1) waits to enter the field before an NCAA college football game in Eugene, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021. Sewell was named to the Associated Press preseason All-America team, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022.(AP Photo/Andy Nelson, File)

Oregon’s Sewell, Utah’s Barton carry on family legacies

Oregon linebacker Noah Sewell is certainly aware of the expectations that come with the family name. Noah is the youngest of the four Sewell brothers. Penei also went to Oregon and now plays for the Detroit Lions. Nephi went to Utah and spent the preseason with the New Orleans Saints […]

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FILE - Florida head coach Billy Napier speaks during an NCAA college football news conference at the Southeastern Conference Media Days, on July 20, 2022, in Atlanta. Napier’s recruiting prowess has been on display the last two months. The team's 2023 class is now ranked in the top 10 by Rivals and 247 Sports. The bump coincides with Florida opening an $85 million facility that should help get the program back on level footing with the Southeastern Conference heavyweights. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Napier has Florida prepared, confident for daunting opener

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP)– Billy Napier says his wife was “burning me up” over the weekend with questions about Florida’s most daunting season opener in school history. Napier, thankfully, had all the answers. His players probably would have, too. The first-year Florida coach has mapped out every aspect of the team’s […]

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Residents in the North Canton Circle neighborhood of Jackson, Miss., on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, were advised to evacuate from impending floodwaters. Some moved out all of their possessions in U-Haul trucks or cars. (AP Photo/Michael Goldberg)

Flooding exacerbates water crisis in Mississippi capital

JACKSON, Miss. — In Jackson, Miss., the state capital, emergency officials are going to distribute bottled water to residents, a local university is using temporary restrooms for students and people who do have water are boiling it to wash dishes as a longstanding water crisis exacerbated by recent flooding is […]

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Authorities ID teen girl killed in Arizona school van crash

SANDERS, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a teenage girl who died when a school van was hit from behind by a semi-truck in eastern Arizona and then pushed into another vehicle. Arizona Department of Public Safety officials on Monday said 17-year-old Kiarra Gordon of Wide Ruins […]

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Court Narrows Hold on COVID Vaccine Mandate for Contractors

More than 1 million construction workers across the U.S. won’t have to comply with a federal COVID-19 vaccination requirement, but an appeals court cleared the way for President Joe Biden’s administration to potentially enforce the mandate on some federal contractors. Biden’s Office of Management and Budget said Monday that federal […]

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