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James Duff, bottom, serves during a tennis match between fellow San Quentin State Prison inmates and visiting players in San Quentin, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

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Inside the lines: AP chronicles San Quentin prison tennis program

SEPT. 16, 2022

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With FirstEnergy Stadium, home of the Cleveland Browns NFL football team, in the background, massage therapist Michelle Krause checks her phone during a break at the American Massage Therapist Association national convention at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 25, 2022. Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson is accused of sexual misconduct with a massage therapist and faces a fine and 11-game suspension. (AP Photo / Teresa Walker)

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Massage therapists tell AP: Deshaun Watson case renews stigma

SEPT. 1, 2022

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FILE - Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma gestures to his team as official Official Dee Kantner, left, works an NCAA women’s basketball game in Storrs, Conn., Jan. 9, 2018, as Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma directs his players. As the NCAA examines various disparities across men’s and women’s sports, pressure is rising to pay referees equally throughout the regular season — and three top conferences told the AP they plan to make changes. (AP Photo / Jessica Hill, File)

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AP Exclusive: Unequal pay for NCAA women’s basketball refs

AUG. 12, 2022

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FILE - Members of the University of Connecticut women’s rowing team take a stance against the university’s plan to drop the program after the season, in Storrs, Conn., April 19, 2021. UConn has since agreed to settle in a federal gender equity lawsuit filed against the school by 12 rowers. As part of the settlement, the school will continue to have a women's rowing team until at least 2026.(Brad Horrigan / Hartford Courant via AP, File)

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AP delivers sweeping multiformat coverage of Title IX at 50

JULY 1, 2022

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In this image from video, Cherelle Griner, wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, speaks to The Associated Press Monday, June 20, 2022. Brittney Griner tried to call her wife nearly a dozen times through the American embassy in Russia on the couple's fourth anniversary Saturday, but they never connected since the phone line at the embassy was not staffed, Cherelle Griner said Monday. (AP Photo)

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Wife of WNBA’s Griner tells AP: US embassy botched call

JULY 1, 2022

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A Liverpool fan and others show tickets at the gates of the Stade de France prior the Champions League final soccer match between Liverpool and Real Madrid, in Saint Denis near Paris, May 28, 2022. Police deployed tear gas on fans waiting in long lines to enter France’s flagship stadium for the final match, which was delayed by 37 minutes as security struggled to cope with the vast crowd and fans climbing fences. Officials blamed the overcrowding on people trying to access the stadium with fake tickets. (AP Photo / Christophe Ena)

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Police tear-gas fans at Champions League final; AP’s exclusive video shakes up French politics

JUNE 3, 2022

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In this image provided by Edwin Broersma, Marathoner Jacky Hunt-Broersma trains at San Tan Mountain Regional Park in San Tan Valley, Ariz., in an Aug. 28, 2021 photo provided by Edwin Broersma. Hunt-Broersma lost her left leg below the knee to a rare form of cancer, but she hasn't let that stop her and is trying to cover the classic 26.2-mile marathon distance at least 102 times in 102 days, which would set a new world record. The Boston Marathon on April 18 is expected to be No. 92 in her streak. (Edwin Broersma via AP)

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AP profiles amputee running 102 marathons — in 102 days

APRIL 22, 2022

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Basketball Hall of Fame players, from left, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Julius Erving and Bill Russell stand on the court together during the first half of the NBA All-Star Game in New York, Feb. 15, 2015. (AP Photo / Kathy Willens, File)

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NBA at 75: Ambitious AP series explores social impact and the league

APRIL 15, 2022

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South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley, right, greets fans as the team returns to the team’s hotel as national champions following the Women’s Final Four NCAA basketball tournament in Minneapolis, April 3, 2022. South Carolina defeated UConn earlier in the night to win the national title. (AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall)

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Only on AP: Behind-the-scenes with women’s NCAA champions

APRIL 8, 2022

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In Manama, Bahrain, March 17, 2022, Ahmed, 12 years old, holds a drawing he made, appealing to Formula One star Lewis Hamilton to advocate for his father, Mohammed Ramadhan, a former member of Bahrain’s security forces who is facing the death penalty. Ramadhan has said he was arrested for supporting Bahrain’s pro-democracy uprising, then allegedly framed in a murder case and beaten with iron bars in order to extract his confession., holds a drawing he made of F1 driver Lewis Hamilton's Formula One car in Manama, Bahrain, Thursday, March 17, 2022. Ahead of Sunday's season-opening F1 race in Bahrain, Ahmed proudly held up the drawing of Hamilton's famed No. 44 Mercedes car along with his own words of hope: "Sir Lewis, another F1 where my innocent father is on death row. Please help free him." (AP Photo)

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F1 races in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia; AP raises human rights

APRIL 1, 2022

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Figure skater Kamila Valieva of the Russian Olympic Committee trains at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 16, 2022. Fifteen-year-old Valieva, favorite for the women’s gold medal, became the focus of controversy after a positive test was revealed for a banned substance. (AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko)

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AP figure skating crew leads breaking news from Olympics

FEB. 25, 2022

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People gather outside a heavily damaged house in the Syrian village of Atmeh, in Idlib province, Syria, Feb. 3, 2022, the morning after a raid by the U.S. military that left 13 people dead, including Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, leader of the Islamic State group. U.S. officials said al-Qurayshi blew himself up along with members of his family during the raid. (AP Photo / Ghaith Alsayed)

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Persistence pays off with scoop: Harbaugh staying at Michigan

FEB. 11, 2022

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