SCARPERIA E SAN PIERO, Italy (AP) — Nearly five years after his time in Formula 1 ended in a fiery crash, Romain Grosjean is getting back behind the wheel of an F1 car. Grosjean will be reunited with former colleagues and crew from the Haas team as he tests a 2023 car on Friday at the Mugello circuit in Italy. Grosjean will wear a...

Hamlin is in the playoffs and racing for his elusive first Cup Series championship, while Gibbs, grandson of team owner Joe Gibbs, is not eligible to race for the title. After the two had on-track contact, Hamlin asked on his team radio if the organization was too scared to give the 22-year-old team orders. Hamlin said Saturday, a...

SCARPERIA E SAN PIERO, Italy (AP) — Lewis Hamilton missed a chance to test Formula 1’s 2026 tires for Ferrari on Friday as he stayed with his bulldog Roscoe, who was in a coma following a pneumonia infection. Hamilton said Roscoe was resuscitated after his heart stopped while under sedation for pneumonia treatment. “We don’t know w...

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Kraken forward Kaapo Kakko broke his hand in a preseason game and will be out for approximately six weeks, the team announced Saturday. Kakko, 24, was injured Wednesday against Edmonton. Oilers defenseman prospect Beau Akey slashed Kakko, who promptly left the game and did not return. Kakko will most likely m...

The Anaheim Ducks signed Mason McTavish to a six-year contract worth $42 million on Saturday, ending their key center’s holdout after less than two weeks. The 22-year-old McTavish was a restricted free agent, and he didn’t report to camp with the rest of the Ducks on Sept. 18 after negotiations dragged on his new deal. General mana...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Blues re-signed defenseman Cam Fowler to a three-year extension worth $18.3 million. General manager Doug Armstrong announced the deal Saturday night. Fowler is now under contract through 2028-29 at an annual salary cap hit of $6.1 million. Fowler has been a strong fit since the Blues acquired him fro...

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Joel Embiid and Paul George talked in vague generalities about when they can return for the 76ers from injuries that cost the All-Stars chunks of last season — and possibly the start of this one. The one thing that is certain, Philadelphia will be in serious trouble once more without them. Embiid did not provide...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Returning to Pittsburgh for one final farewell just felt right for Marc-Andre Fleury. Fleury stopped all eight shots he faced during the third period of his final game with the Pittsburgh Penguins, a 4-1 preseason win against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday night. “It was a little surreal, a little crazy, bu...

The phenomenon known as Media Day — when NBA teams pull on their uniforms, pose for photos and field questions from reporters on the eve of their first training camp practices of the season — happens on Monday for 25 of the league’s 30 teams. (Brooklyn, New York, New Orleans, Phoenix and Philadelphia all had Media Day last week and...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis Grizzlies center Zach Edey could miss the first two months of the season while recovering from ankle surgery, the team said Friday. Edey had surgery in early June to address laxity in his left ankle. He has been cleared to begin ramping up basketball activities and is expected to return to play in 6-9...

Portland Trail Blazers guard Scoot Henderson tore his left hamstring this week and will miss basketball activities for four to eight weeks. The team said Friday that Henderson was injured during an offseason workout. The Trail Blazers are set to open training camp next week for the upcoming season. Even if he’s able to return in fo...

TOKYO (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the quarterfinals of the Japan Open with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Zizou Bergs on Saturday and then paid tribute to his physiotherapist following an ankle injury scare. The top-ranked Alcaraz landed awkwardly on his left ankle during his opening match on Thursday and was unsure how he would fee...

BEIJING (AP) — French Open winner Coco Gauff was forced to go the distance against Leylah Fernandez before closing out a tight three-setter 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 on Sunday to advance to the third round at the China Open. The defending champion and a firm crowd favorite in Beijing overcame a second-set stumble and then struggled to serve ou...

The WNBA suspended Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve for one game for her behavior and comments during and following the Lynx’s 84-76 loss to the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night. “Her conduct and comments included aggressively pursuing and verbally abusing a game official on the court, failure to leave the court in a timely manner upon...

PHOENIX (AP) — A furious Cheryl Reeve lost her cool and maybe her best player in the span of a few seconds during the Minnesota Lynx’s 84-76 loss to the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night in Game 3 of the WNBA playoff semifinals. The top-seeded Lynx are in a 2-1 hole in the best-of-five series with Game 4 looming Sunday in Phoenix. Th...

PHOENIX (AP) — Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier will miss Game 4 of the WNBA semifinal series against Phoenix on Sunday, two days after injuring her left ankle late in Game 3. The Lynx trail the best-of-five series 2-1. If they can win on Sunday, Game 5 would be Tuesday night in Minnesota. Collier injured her ankle late in the...

WNBA officiating has been under ongoing scrutiny this season from coaching and player complaints. The brewing frustrations have exploded in the playoffs with nearly every coach taking time in their postgame news conferences to make a point about the physicality of play. Minnesota’s Cheryl Reeve took it a step further in a two-minut...

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Michael Wacha pitched six scoreless innings to earn his 10th win of the season, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Athletics 4-2 on Saturday night. Wacha (10-13) gave up two hits and three walks while striking out five for his first victory in more than three weeks. It’s the fourth consecutive year a...

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta manager Brian Snitker is unsure about his future with the Braves. The 69-year-old Snitker, whose contract expires after this year, has been subjected to questions about whether he will retire following the season, his ninth as Atlanta’s manager and 49th with the organization. The Braves are out of playoff con...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Trea Turner returned to the lineup for the first time in three weeks when he strained his right hamstring and was set to clinch his second career NL batting crown. Turner was activated off the injured list ahead of Sunday’s regular-season finale against Minnesota for the NL East c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chicago White Sox outfielder Michael A. Taylor announced his retirement before Sunday’s season finale against the Washington Nationals. The 12-year veteran, who won a Gold Glove in 2021, spent his first seven seasons with Washington and said playing on the Nationals’ 2019 World Series championship team was his fav...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Carolina Panthers receiver David Moore was carted off the field after suffering an elbow injury on the first play of the game against the New England Patriots on Sunday. Moore took a handoff and rushed 12 yards before he was pushed out of bounds and tackled on the Panthers sideline by Marcus Jones. Moore st...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Chase McLaughlin’s 65-yard field goal for Tampa Bay as time expired to end the first half of the Eagles-Buccaneers game on Sunday was the longest in NFL history in an outdoor stadium. Justin Tucker’s NFL-record 66-yarder for Baltimore against Detroit in 2021 was inside a dome. Brandon Aubrey made a 65-yarder for...

DENVER (AP) — Both the Cincinnati Bengals and Denver Broncos are trying to tap into a key offensive power source when they square off Monday night in the Mile High City. Wide receiver Tee Higgins is off to a slow start after signing a four-year, $115 million contract extension with the Bengals (2-1) last spring with just seven catc...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New York Giants star wide receiver Malik Nabers was carted from the field with an injured right knee in the second quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday. Jaxson Dart, making his first NFL start, launched a deep pass down the right sideline — a free play after the Chargers’ Troy Dye jumped o...

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Four weeks ago, then-No. 8 Alabama fell to an unranked Florida State team in Week 1 and critics didn’t hold back. Coach Kalen DeBoer, in his second year leading the Crimson Tide, was viewed as questionable to make it through the season. Four weeks later, Alabama delivered a 24-21 victory at Georgia, shattering th...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Cody Hagen scored on a 32-yard run early in the fourth quarter and Bear Bachmeier threw two touchdown passes, helping No. 25 BYU rally from an early deficit to beat Colorado 24-21 on Saturday night. Cougars linebacker Isaiah Glasker sealed the win by intercepting Kaidon Salter’s pass with 50 seconds remaining....

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Akheem Mesidor once was on the brink of quitting football while growing up in Canada, largely because he wasn’t getting any attention. The Miami defensive end whose 25.5 career sacks are second-most among active FBS players is hearing plenty of accolades these days, and he isn’t listening to any of them. H...

Oregon and Mississippi would earn top-four seeds and receive first-round byes in the College Football Playoff if the bracket were based on The Associated Press Top 25 released Sunday. Ohio State would remain No. 1 and be followed by No. 2 Oregon, No. 3 Miami and No. 4 Mississippi. Ole Miss and Indiana are on the mock bracket for th...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas fired Sam Pittman on Sunday, parting ways with the popular and folksy coach who couldn’t get the Razorbacks into the upper echelon of the Southeastern Conference with a middling overall record of 32-34. Offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino, a former head coach at Arkansas before he left in scandal,...

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Gabriel scored a 96th-minute winner as Arsenal came back to secure a dramatic 2-1 win against Newcastle in the Premier League on Sunday and close the gap on leader Liverpool. The defender rose to head in a stoppage-time corner that moved Mikel Arteta’s team up to second in the standings and two points beh...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — One playoff berth remains up for grabs heading into the final day of Major League Baseball’s regular season. Cincinnati will earn the National League’s third and final wild card if the Reds beat the Milwaukee Brewers or the New York Mets lose at Miami on Sunday. A New York victory and Cincinnati loss would send the...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Micah Parsons says he has never needed “fuel” going into a football game. The star pass rusher insists that’s the case with his Green Bay Packers visiting Dallas on Sunday night, exactly a month after the Cowboys unloaded Parsons in a blockbuster trade that ended a long and acrimonious stalemate over a contr...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Jaxson Dart ran for a 15-yard touchdown to cap an impressive 90-yard drive on the opening possession of his first game as the New York Giants’ starting quarterback Sunday. Dart, the 25th overall pick out of Ole Miss in April, got the start against the undefeated Los Angeles Chargers in place of the benc...

It was a weekend with a whole lot of extra in it for AP Top 25 teams and changes are in store for Sunday’s college football rankings. Six ranked teams lost over the weekend and four of them were in the top 10, with two of those going down in double overtime: No. 3 Penn State lost 30-24 at home to No. 6 Oregon and No. 8 Florida Stat...

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — One of the more original outfits spotted among the red, white and blue at the Ryder Cup this week has been a replica of the hockey sweater goaltender Jim Craig wore while playing for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team. The U.S. golf team will need one Sunday to avoid its first Ryder Cup loss at home since 2012. Cap...

DUBLIN (AP) — Even though he’s relatively new to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Aaron Rodgers fully understands the Rooney family’s connections to the Emerald Isle. They didn’t want to disappoint Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings in Ireland’s first regular-season NFL game. Kenneth Gainwell did his part by running for 99 yards and two...

DUBLIN (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers confirmed that backup quarterback Skylar Thompson was involved in a incident this weekend after a report that the player had been robbed. The Irish Independent newspaper reported Sunday that Thompson was assaulted and robbed either Friday night or early Saturday in Dublin. Irish public service...

Oregon moved up to No. 2 in The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, Mississippi earned its highest ranking since 2015, Alabama jumped back into the top 10 and Virginia was in the Top 25 for the first time in six years in the wake of a volatile weekend in which four top-10 teams lost. Ohio State won at Washington and r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump hosted Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, for talks Thursday at the White House in the latest sign of warming relations between the United States and the South Asian nuclear power. Sharif was among the top officials from eight Arab or Muslim countries who met with Trump on the sideli...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Top-ranked and seven-time champion Australia will be trying to prevent India from winning a Women’s Cricket World Cup at home — yet again — when play begins in the tournament next week. India hosts Sri Lanka at Guwahati, India, on Tuesday to start the 31-match tournament which culminates with the final on Nov. 2. M...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India retired its last fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets Friday, ending more than six decades of service with an aircraft once celebrated for its combat prowess but later derided as a “flying coffin” due to frequent crashes. The phaseout underscores the urgency for the Indian air force to expand and modernize...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of a House committee that pushed for the law demanding TikTok be spun off from its Chinese owners has requested an urgent briefing from the White House, one day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order supporting a proposed deal that would put the popular social video platform under U.S....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pathum Nissanka’s scintillating century was in vain after Sri Lanka tied with India then lost a super over in tame fashion in the Asia Cup on Friday. India had already qualified for the final and Sri Lanka was eliminated, but the way the last Super Four match panned out, “It felt like a final,” In...

BEIJING (AP) — Defending champion Coco Gauff is loving her interaction with fans at the China Open but wouldn’t mind a new nickname — something ferocious if possible. French Open champion Gauff started her title defense in Beijing with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Kamilla Rakhimova on Friday and will next face Leylah Fernandez in the WTA 10...

BEIJING (AP) — A 5.6-magnitude earthquake scattered roof tiles and knocked over houses Saturday in northwest China’s Gansu province, state media said. Eleven people were taken to area hospitals with injuries, state broadcaster CCTV said. Five of the six people brought to one hospital were admitted for further treatment, the officia...

BEIJING (AP) — Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek defeated Yuan Yue 6-0, 6-3 on Saturday to advance to the third round at the China Open and create some WTA Tour history. The WTA said Swiatek, with Saturday’s win, became the first player to register 25 or more wins at WTA-1000 events for three consecutive seasons. Top-seeded Swiatek, w...

BEIJING (AP) — Lorenzo Musetti has become the latest tennis star to apologize to Chinese fans. “I am truly sorry. I respect you deeply, I feel at home here, and I value the warmth and kindness I have always received from you,” the 23-year-old Italian said in a message he posted Saturday on social media. Musetti was annoyed by cough...

MIAMI (AP) — Crews spent Saturday preparing for a weather system that was forecast to become Tropical Storm Imelda late Saturday or early Sunday before approaching the coast of South Carolina as a hurricane early next week. Meanwhile Hurricane Humberto strengthened into a strong Category 5 storm in the Atlantic and threatened the V...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ended his struggling reelection campaign Sunday, an acknowledgment that he was no longer a credible contender after a year of scandal and political turmoil. In a video released on social media, Adams spoke proudly of his tenure as mayor. But he said his now-dismissed federal corruption...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Armed federal agents patrolled Chicago’s downtown streets on Sunday, a new escalation of an immigration enforcement crackdown there that followed President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will send troops to Portland in the latest examples of creeping federal law enforcement presence in U.S. cities. Meanwh...

SOUTHPORT, N.C. (AP) — A mass shooting that shattered the evening tranquility of a picturesque, seaside town in North Carolina was a “highly premeditated” attack that left three people dead and five injured, police said Sunday. The suspect who allegedly carried out the attack on a waterfront bar was in custody. Nigel Edge, 40, of O...

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A gunman opened fire inside a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel in Michigan during a Sunday service and set the building ablaze, killing at least two people and injuring eight others before police shot him, authorities said. Hundreds of people were inside the church in Grand Blanc...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Behind the scenes at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, key countries and regional organizations have been coordinating efforts to try to end the horrific war in Sudan, which has created the most devastating humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world. Alan Boswell, the Internat...

An Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70% of the country’s plant life and an area along Angola’s Atlantic coast featuring savannahs, forests and estuaries are among 26 new UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves. The United Nations cultural agency says the re...

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — The people of Seychelles voted Saturday in an election to choose a new leader and parliament, with President Wavel Ramkalawan seeking a second term in Africa’s smallest country. Ramkalawan’s chief political rival, Patrick Herminie of the United Seychelles Party, is a veteran lawmaker and parliamentary sp...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — The oil-rich central African nation of Gabon on Saturday voted in the country’s first legislative and local elections since a 2023 military coup ended a 50-year-old political dynasty. More than 900,000 Gabonese are eligible to elect parliament members and local councilors to replace officials appointed by t...

VICTORIA, Seychelles (AP) — With no outright winner in Seychelles’ presidential election, the country will hold a rerun vote between the two main contenders, the electoral authority said Sunday. Opposition figure Patrick Herminie received 48.8% of the vote, while the incumbent, Wavel Ramkalawan, garnered 46.4%, according to officia...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Suriname’s government has pledged to permanently protect 90% of its tropical forests, a move conservationists say is among the most ambitious commitments to climate and biodiversity ever made by an Amazonian nation. The announcement came during Climate Week in New York City. Foreign Minister Melvin W.J. Bouv...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — After a decade of caring for camels, lions, lynxes and lemurs, Joel Frías joined the team handling the Chapultepec Zoo’s star attraction: the giant pandas. It was 2000, and Mexico City’s zoo, nestled in its massive forested urban oasis, had been the first outside China to successfully breed giant pandas. Xin Xin,...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Imelda formed Sunday and is expected to become a hurricane on a forecast track that could take it away from the U.S. East Coast early this week. The storm was causing disruption in the Bahamas and Cuba on Sunday, and a tropical storm watch was posted in parts of Florida. Meanwhile, Hurricane Humberto wea...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions between the United States and Colombia have escalated with the State Department announcing it was revoking a visa for Gustavo Petro, president of the Latin American country, after he participated in a New York protest where he called on American soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump’s orders. The dep...

SUMENEP, Indonesia (AP) — Three health care workers rode motorbikes into the Indonesian city of Sumenep, carrying doses of measles vaccine and a list of children who needed them. With blue medical boxes in hand, they went from house to house administering the life-saving shots. The health workers on wheels are part of the regional...

NEW YORK (AP) — China’s second-in-command sounded his nation’s oft-repeated alarm against aggressive and unilateral action in global politics, addressing world leaders Friday in a speech brimming with references that echoed long-standing concerns about the United States and the Trump administration in particular — and cast Beijing...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state’s health minister said Sunday, as medics treated at least 124 injured in hospitals. Ma Subramanian told The Associated Press that 36 victims were dead b...