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FILE – Mo’ne Davis watches her hit during a Women’s Pro Baseball League exhibition game, Thursday, March 19, 2026, in Fort Myers, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

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A new league marks another major moment in a scattered history for women’s pro baseball

The nation’s first women’s professional baseball league in nearly 30 years is about to embark on its inaugural season in what marks a major milestone in the scattered history of the sport in the United States. The Women’s Pro Baseball League is also part of a timeline that goes back to the very beginning of the sport. […]

JULY 29, 2026

Spain’s Ferran Torres celebrates with the trophy after winning the World Cup final soccer match between Spain and Argentina in East Rutherford, N.J., near New York, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

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AP’s World Cup team delivers unmatched all-formats coverage of the world’s biggest sporting event

Delivering definitive coverage of the world’s biggest sporting event takes months of planning, seamless coordination and flawless execution. Throughout the FIFA World Cup, AP’s World Cup team met that challenge with unmatched reporting across text, photo and video, culminating in comprehensive coverage of the tournament’s dramatic final. Judges praised the team’s substantial offerings across formats, […]

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FILE – Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James throws chalk in the air before an NBA basketball game against the Golden State Warriors in San Francisco, April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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LeBron James picks his final NBA challenge, and Philadelphia was his ultimate answer

Those NBA schedule-makers who have been stuck in limbo can go ahead and hit overdrive now. LeBron James might have made their work pretty simple. Opening night, go ahead and expect Philadelphia at New York. Christmas Day, go ahead and expect Philadelphia on the schedule. National television games, go ahead and give Philadelphia a ton of those, […]

JULY 24, 2026

FILE – WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert speaks prior to Game 1 of a WNBA basketball final playoff series between the Las Vegas Aces and the Phoenix Mercury, Oct. 3, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

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WNBA enjoys ‘hypergrowth’ under Commissioner Cathy Engelbert amid strained relationship with players

The WNBA has grown at an exponential rate during Cathy Engelbert’s tenure as commissioner, a stewardship that at times has been tumultuous during her nearly seven years at the helm. Engelbert, the second-longest tenured WNBA president or commissioner, helped negotiate a transformative collective bargaining agreement this past spring that gives the WNBA its first core of million-dollar […]

JULY 21, 2026

Charles Leclerc, of Monaco, steers his Ferrari followed by McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain during the Formula One Mexico Grand Prix auto race at the Hermanos Rodriguez racetrack in Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

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FILE – In this Saturday, April 4, 2015 file photo, recently rescued Burmese fishermen smile on their boat upon arrival in Tual, Indonesia. The Burmese men were among hundreds of migrant workers revealed in an Associated Press investigation to have been lured or tricked into leaving their countries and were brought to Indonesia to be forced to catch seafood. The number of enslaved fisherman found on a remote Indonesian island has now reached nearly 550, after a fact-finding team returned on Thursday, April 9, to make sure no one had been left behind in the dramatic rescue nearly a week ago of 330 migrants from Benjina.(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

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