Associated Press stories, Page 2020
This date in sports history: Oct. 10Video
1920 — The Chicago Cardinals play to a 0-0 tie with the Chicago Tigers in their first American Professional Football Association game. The game is held at Cubs Park, later renamed Wrigley Field. 1936 — Ohio State trumpet player John Brungart dots the ‘i’ in “Script Ohio” for the first...
Mike Brosseau homer off Chapman lifts Rays over Yankees, into ALCS
SAN DIEGO — Mike Brosseau homered off Aroldis Chapman with one out in the eighth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees, 2-1, on Friday night to reach the AL Championship Series for the first time in 12 seasons. The first career postseason homer for the...
Cantlay in familiar place, atop leaderboard in Las Vegas; DeChambeau chasingVideo
LAS VEGAS — Patrick Cantlay has played the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open so well he wasn’t the least bit concerned when he was stuck in neutral Friday. Four straight birdies later, he was right up at the top again. Cantlay ran off four straight birdies at the midway point...
Trump restarting campaign with White House, Florida events
WASHINGTON — Looking to shove his campaign back on track, President Donald Trump and his team laid out an aggressive return to political activities, including a big White House event on Saturday and a rally in Florida on Monday, a week after his hospitalization for a virus that has killed...
Hurricane Delta makes landfall in southwestern Louisiana
LAKE CHARLES, La. — Hurricane Delta crashed onshore Friday in southwestern Louisiana as a Category 2 storm, compounding misery along a path of destruction left by Hurricane Laura only six weeks earlier. The center of the hurricane made landfall about 6 p.m. near the town of Creole with top winds...
Paris Hilton protest calls for closure of Utah school
PROVO, Utah — Paris Hilton has been speaking out about abuse she said she suffered at a boarding school in Utah, and on Friday she took her push nearly to the school’s front doors. Hilton organized a protest in a park near Provo Canyon School, along with several hundreds of...
Lightning suffer losses on 1st day of NHL free agency
It didn’t take long for the bubble to begin bursting on the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stanley Cup party. The effects of a flat salary cap took its toll on the Lightning less than two weeks after winning their second Stanley Cup. Tampa Bay bid farewell to defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk, who...
Henrik Lundqvist signs with Capitals as goalie carousel spins in NHL free agencyVideo
Nets around the NHL will look very different next season after a flurry of musical goaltenders in free agency. Henrik Lundqvist is joining a team he tormented in the playoffs for years, Braden Holtby is leaving the franchise he led to the Stanley Cup, Jacob Markstrom got big bucks to...
Browns star Myles Garrett off to dominant startVideo
CLEVELAND — Myles Garrett shrugged off his latest award with the same ease he shows when blasting past a helpless right tackle on his path to the quarterback. Being chosen AFC Defensive Player of the Week didn’t excite Garrett. “It is something they should have done already by now,” the...
Latest economic model spurs interest in new NASCAR teamsVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Justin Marks tried three times to buy the NASCAR equivalent of a franchise license that guarantees a car a spot in each week’s race. Twice he was outbid, he said, and a third deal fell apart. Without that charter, Marks had almost no chance to get his...
Court allows NY virus restrictions ahead of Jewish holidays
ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge refused Friday to block New York’s plan to temporarily limit the size of religious gatherings in covid-19 hot spots. U.S. District Judge Judge Kiyo Matsumoto issued the ruling after an emergency hearing in a lawsuit brought by rabbis and synagogues, arguing the restrictions were...
Wisconsin police defend arrests of slain Black teen’s family
MILWAUKEE — Police on Friday defended the arrests of family members of a Black teen killed by a suburban Milwaukee officer, saying they were driving recklessly during a protest and refused officers’ demands to leave their vehicles. Alvin Cole’s mother, Tracy Cole, and his sisters, Taleavia and Tristiana Cole, were...
Wichita State basketball coach Gregg Marshall investigated for alleged player mistreatmentVideo
WICHITA, Kan. — Wichita State is conducting an internal investigation into allegations men’s basketball coach Gregg Marshall mistreated players, the school and Marshall confirmed. Stadium, a multiplatform sports network, said the inquiry began after the university learned it was conducting an investigation in which it interviewed 36 players and former...
No. 1 Djokovic escapes in 5 sets, will face No. 2 Nadal in final of French OpenVideo
PARIS — Novak Djokovic seemed well on his way to yet another ho-hum victory, yet another French Open final, yet another matchup against rival Rafael Nadal. And then, suddenly, what had been a gallop became a grind. Slightly more than two hours into his semifinal against Stefanos Tsitsipas on Friday,...
Respected Dusty Baker leads reviled Houston Astros into ALCSVideo
LOS ANGELES — If there’s a universally recognized good guy among the generally reviled Houston Astros, it’s Dusty Baker. At 71, he’s the first manager to lead five franchises to the postseason, but still is chasing his first World Series title at the helm. The Astros have advanced to their...
Judge rejects Trump campaign suit over Philly voter offices
HARRISBURG — A judge on Friday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s campaign to force Philadelphia to allow campaign representatives to monitor people registering to vote or filling out mail-in ballots in election offices in a city repeatedly attacked by Trump as untrustworthy. Judge Gary Glazer wrote in his...
Official says vaccine expected in January, countering Trump
A Trump administration official leading the response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.S. can expect delivery of a vaccine starting in January 2021, despite statements from the president that inoculations could begin this month. And a growing, bipartisan chorus of lawmakers, experts and public health officials says the country...
Trump: Justice Dept. had ‘plenty of time’ for Durham probe
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday piled more criticism on the status of the Justice Department’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe, after reports that Attorney General William Barr has said not to expect conclusions before Election Day. Trump and Barr are increasingly at odds over the...
Ohio county says nearly 50,000 voters received wrong ballots
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly 50,000 voters received incorrect absentee ballots in the county that is home to Ohio’s capital, elections officials said Friday as they promised corrected ballots would be mailed within 72 hours. With about 240,000 ballots mailed, that meant one in five voters received a wrong ballot. The...
UN: New daily record as covid-19 cases hit more than 350,000
GENEVA — The World Health Organization has announced a new daily record high in coronavirus cases confirmed worldwide, with more than 350,000 infections reported to the U.N. health agency on Friday. The new daily high of 350,766 cases surpasses a record set earlier this week by nearly 12,000. That tally...
White House ups offer in virus aid before talks with Pelosi
WASHINGTON — The White House is boosting its offer in up-and-down COVID-19 aid talks Friday in hopes of an agreement before Election Day, even as President Donald Trump’s most powerful GOP ally in the Senate said Congress is unlikely to deliver relief by then. Trump on Friday took to Twitter...
Jets covid-19 tests come back negative; Titans had no positive tests Friday
All New York Jets players and coaches tested negative for covid-19, and Sunday’s game against Arizona will be played on time. The Jets posted a statement on social media Friday night, hours after their training facility was closed because of a presumptive positive coronavirus test for one player. “This evening,...
Whitey Ford, 91, pitcher who epitomized mighty Yankees, dies
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. — Whitey Ford, the street-smart New Yorker who had the best winning percentage of any pitcher in the 20th century and helped the Yankees become baseball’s perennial champions in the 1950s and ’60s, has died. He was 91. A family member told The Associated Press on Friday...
Pelosi unveils 25th Amendment bid, questions Trump’s fitness
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled legislation Friday that would allow Congress to intervene under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove the president, insisting it’s not about President Donald Trump but inspired by the need for greater congressional oversight of his White House. Pelosi has been raising...
Jack White to replace Morgan Wallen as ‘SNL’ musical guest
NEW YORK — Jack White will be the last-minute replacement musical guest on “Saturday Night Live” after country singer Morgan Wallen was dropped for breaking covid-19 protocols. Wallen was removed as musical guest on Thursday after TikTok videos showed him partying last weekend without a mask on among a large...
