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The NBA Finals are set: It’ll be Thunder vs. Pacers, starting Thursday night

The seeds for the 2025 NBA Finals began getting planted unknowingly in 2017, back when Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was about to enroll at Kentucky and Tyrese Haliburton was getting ready for his senior year of high school in Wisconsin.

JUNE 1, 2025

College athletes are getting paid and fans are starting to see a growing share of the bill

At Tennessee, they are adding a ‘talent fee’ to the price of sports tickets. At Arkansas, they will charge 3% more at the concessions stands. At Michigan and Michigan State, athletic directors sent letters alerting boosters that winning is going to start costing more. And, in a first, Clemson is going to start adding an […]

NOV. 4, 2024

AP preseason basketball polls to be released Nov. 1 and 2

The preseason AP Top 25 polls for men’s and women’s college basketball, the longest-running polls of their kind, will be released the first week of November.

OCT. 18, 2017

Ferguson demands high fees to turn over city files

WASHINGTON (AP) – Officials in Ferguson, Missouri, are charging nearly 10 times the cost of some of their own employees’ salaries before they will agree to turn over files under public records laws about the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The move discourages journalists and civil rights groups from investigating the shooting and its […]

SEPT. 29, 2014

Setting the standards for journalists’ safety

The Associated Press has joined 25 other news organizations and journalism groups in endorsing an unprecedented set of safety standards designed to protect freelance reporters on dangerous assignments.

AP preseason basketball polls to be released beginning Oct. 21

The preseason AP Top 25 polls for men’s and women’s college basketball, the longest-running polls of their kind, will be released the weeks of Oct. 21 and 28.

OCT. 8, 2019

AP preseason basketball polls to be released beginning Oct. 22

The preseason AP Top 25 polls for men’s and women’s college basketball, the longest-running polls of their kind, will be released the weeks of Oct. 22 and 29.

OCT. 16, 2018

A record election night for AP

Independent, nonpartisan, fact-based journalism from The Associated Press reached record audiences on and after Nov. 5.  

AP and Red Bull Media House collaborate to provide premium sports, music and lifestyle content

The Associated Press and Red Bull Media House announced today a collaboration that will allow AP clients to access a curated mix of sports, dance, music and lifestyle video and images from Red Bull Media House.

JULY 18, 2017

Entertainment photographer Eric Charbonneau signs with Invision

Eric Charbonneau, a renowned entertainment photographer with over 25 years of experience, today signed with Invision, the multimedia entertainment agency jointly owned by The Associated Press and some of the world's leading entertainment photographers.

FEB. 27, 2013

AP to publish first all-time college football ranking

The Associated Press will rank the nation’s all-time top college football programs for the first time, as tabulated from its more than 1,100 weekly polls of top college football teams over the past 80 years.

JULY 26, 2016

Israeli military still silent over journalist shooting

JERUSALEM (AP) — One month after the shooting of an Associated Press cameraman in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military still has not commented on the incident or provided any updates about the status of an investigation. Rashed Rashid was covering a protest near Gaza’s northern border with Israel on Nov. 19 when he was […]

DEC. 21, 2018