Bellino, Carlson, Hoye and Tichenor are named Division Series umpire crew chiefs

NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Bellino, Mark Carlson, James Hoye and Todd Tichenor will be umpire crew chiefs for the AL Division Series starting Saturday. Crew chiefs will all work third base in the series openers and will be behind the plate for a Game 4 of the best-of-five series, Major...

Big Ten revises way it aligns officials on onside kicks after controversial offside call on Gophers

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — The Big Ten has received approval from the NCAA to change the way it officiates onside kicks after Minnesota was penalized for offside when it recovered an onside kick late in its game at Michigan. Effective immediately, the line judge and head line judge will...

Official says landslide kills 15 people at an illegal gold mine on Indonesia's Sumatra island

China's Football Association bans 43 people for life after corruption investigation

DALIAN, China (AP) — China’s Football Association has banned 43 people for life over allegations of match-fixing and other forms of corruption in the latest effort to weed out graft in the country’s notoriously underperforming team sport. The official Xinhua News Agency on...

A wrong replay at the US Open leads a chair umpire to get a call wrong on a video review

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Tennis Association acknowledged Sunday that the wrong call was made on an illegal shot during a third-round U.S. Open match between Anna Kalinskaya and Beatriz Haddad Maia a night earlier because the chair umpire was not shown the relevant replay by the video review...

Olympic spat: Officials at ancient birthplace of games upset at venue to choose new IOC president

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Officials in Ancient Olympia are protesting the decision to hold the next International Olympic Committee session in a neighboring region of southern Greece, rather than at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. The IOC session in March next year will be held in...

Officials seek to speed up the evacuation of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine as Russian forces advance “at a fast pace”

Jordan Chiles medal inquiry: USA Gymnastics says arbitration panel won't reconsider decision

USA Gymnastics officials say an arbitration panel won't reconsider a decision asking gymnast Jordan Chiles to return the bronze medal she was awarded in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics. USA Gymnastics says it will continue efforts to let Chiles keep the medal. ...

U.S. Olympic officials say they will appeal a ruling that gymnast Jordan Chiles must return the medal she won in Paris.

Things to know as CrossFit Games resume in Texas a day after a competitor died during a swim event

DALLAS (AP) — The CrossFit Games resumed Friday, a day after competitor Lazar Dukic died after going underwater and not resurfacing during a swimming event in a Texas lake. In a post on the social platform X, CrossFit Games officials said that they and the entire CrossFit...