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Georgia extends contract for AD Josh Brooks, plans 2 new football practice fields
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — On the heels of a second straight national football championship, Georgia has rewarded athletic director Josh Brooks a contract extension that ties him to the Bulldogs through at least 2029. The athletic association board, wrapping up its annual spring meeting...
Kenyan marathon star Eliud Kipchoge wins Spain's 2023 Asturias award for sports
MADRID (AP) — Kenyan marathon specialist Eliud Kipchoge has won the Princess of Asturias Award for sports for 2023, the Spanish foundation that organizes the prizes said Thursday. Kipchoge, 38, who took Olympic gold medals in the marathon in 2016 and 2020 and was world 5,000 meters...
Russia, Belarus have Paralympic membership suspension overturned, but athletes still barred
BONN, Germany (AP) — Russia and its ally Belarus have had their suspension from membership of the International Paralympic Committee overturned on appeal but their athletes remain barred from competing in IPC-run events. The IPC said Friday that its independent appeals tribunal had...
Hurdles have been no challenge for Jets rookie Zack Kuntz
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Zack Kuntz has had no trouble clearing hurdles along his journey to the NFL. Literally. The 6-foot-8 New York Jets tight end was only an inch or two shorter than he stands now when he was competing for the track team at Camp Hill High School...
US sprinter, Olympic medalist Tori Bowie dies at 32
Tori Bowie, the sprinter who won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has died. She was 32. Bowie's death was announced Wednesday by her management company and USA Track and Field. No cause of death was given. “USATF is deeply saddened by the...
Ralph Boston, Olympian and 1st to jump 27 feet, dies at 83
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. (AP) — Ralph Boston, the Olympic long jump champion who broke Jesse Owens' world record then later had his own mark eclipsed by Bob Beamon's record-shattering leap at the Mexico City Games, died Sunday. He was 83. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee...
Calvin Davis, Olympic medalist in 400 hurdles, dies at 51
Calvin Davis, the Olympic bronze medalist in the 400 hurdles at the 1996 Atlanta Games, has died. He was 51. The University of Arkansas, where he went to school, said Davis died Monday. USA Track and Field also confirmed the death. No cause was given. A 400-meter...
Officials banned for false report for Olympic qualification
MONACO (AP) — Two track and field officials in Albania have been banned from the sport for falsifying an athlete’s result to help him qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Wednesday. Long jumper Izmir Smajlaj was cleared of being part of the conspiracy...
Patch crowned 'beautiful bulldog' at Drake University event
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Patch, sporting a jean jacket as she strutted down the runway, was crowned the winner of Drake University's Beautiful Bulldog Contest. The 2-year-old English bulldog beat out 28 other contestants from six states Monday night to win the top prize. The bulldog...
1948 Olympic bronze medalist Herb Douglas dies at 101
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Herb Douglas, who turned a chance encounter with Jesse Owens as a teenager into fuel to win a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1948 Olympics, has died. He was 101. The University of Pittsburgh, where Douglas starred on the football and track teams before later...
