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Pistorius case returns as prosecutors seek longer sentence

SOMERSET WEST, South Africa (AP) The Oscar Pistorius case was back in court Friday, with prosecutors seeking a longer prison sentence for the double-amputee athlete after he was found guilty of murder for shooting his girlfriend.

Next year in Jerusalem: Giro riders face political hurdles

JERUSALEM (AP) When the world’s cycling elite converge on Israel next year for the storied Giro d’Italia race, they will grapple with the rugged hills of Jerusalem, speed by the shimmering Mediterranean Sea and huff their way through the moonscape of the southern Negev Desert.

College: Student's 'White Chicks' costume was offensive

NORTON, Mass. (AP) Officials at a Massachusetts college are investigating after students said a female soccer player attended an on-campus Halloween party with darkened skin to portray a character from the movie ”White Chicks.”

Ferrari raises forecasts after record third-quarter earnings

MILAN (AP) Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari NV has revised its earnings guidance upward after reporting a record third-quarter profit of 141 million euros ($164 million), up 24 percent over last year.

8 arrests at Georgia demo over player's gay rights armband

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) Eight people have been arrested in Georgia after a far-right group gathered to demand a soccer player be kicked off the national team because he supported gay rights.

Austrian ski jumper Schlierenzauer out with knee injury

INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) Austrian ski jumper Gregor Schlierenzauer is out indefinitely and will miss the start of the World Cup season after damaging his right knee in training.

4x Olympic champ Mo Farah splits from coach Alberto Salazar

Quadruple Olympic champion Mo Farah has split from coach Alberto Salazar.

Saudi women to be allowed into sports stadiums next year

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Saudi Arabia will allow women into sports stadiums as of next year, the kingdom’s latest step toward easing rules on gender segregation – but they will be seated in the so-called family section, an area separate from the male-only crowd.

AP POLL ALERT: Georgia rises to No. 2 behind Alabama, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Notre Dame next; TCU drops to No. 10

NEW YORK (AP) AP POLL ALERT: Georgia rises to No. 2 behind Alabama, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Notre Dame next; TCU drops to No. 10.

Catalan secession threatens Spain's golden age for sports

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) Catalonia’s audacious attempt to secede from the rest of Spain represents a threat to one of the world’s sporting powers.

Hikers, runners, climbers scramble toward ever-faster feats

LOS ANGELES (AP) Tim Freriks remembers being a kid and gazing up from the bottom of the Grand Canyon at the intimidating, steep walls looming thousands of feet overhead. He dreaded the long hike back to civilization and never imagined he would one day run up the trail snaking along those cliffs.

Las Vegas marathon moves start line away from shooting scene

LAS VEGAS (AP) The upcoming Las Vegas Rock `n’ Roll Marathon has moved its start line and race festival grounds, and organizers say runners will have several chances to commemorate the Oct. 1 shooting.

Tiger Woods pleads guilty to reckless driving, agrees to enter diversion program to avoid DUI charge

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) Tiger Woods pleads guilty to reckless driving, agrees to enter diversion program to avoid DUI charge.

EU top court says bridge card game is no sport

BRUSSELS (AP) The European Union’s top court now has a ruling on something that vexes sports fans and card players alike: is a game like bridge a sport? It says it’s not.

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US poker star Phil Ivey loses UK case; won't get millions

LONDON (AP) A British Supreme Court ruling says American poker star Phil Ivey used illegitimate means to amass 7.7 million pounds in winnings.

Doping scandal roils another sport: Dogsledding

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Cycling. Baseball. Track. Horse racing. Now dogsledding has become the latest professional sport to be engulfed in a doping scandal, this one involving the huskies that dash across the frozen landscape in Alaska’s grueling, 1,000-mile Iditarod.

Passage of Anne Frank's diary to be read at all soccer matches in Italy this week in reaction to anti-Semitism

ROME (AP) Passage of Anne Frank’s diary to be read at all soccer matches in Italy this week in reaction to anti-Semitism.

EU Parliament head denounces Lazio fans for anti-Semitism

BRUSSELS (AP) The head of the European Parliament has strongly denounced Italian football hooligans who used Anne Frank’s image to offend the fans of an opposing team, saying that anti-Semitism has no place in Europe today.

Iditarod officials identify 4-time champ Dallas Seavey as musher whose dogs tested positive for banned drug

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Iditarod officials identify 4-time champ Dallas Seavey as musher whose dogs tested positive for banned drug.

Russia says track and field return possible soon

MOSCOW (AP) The Russian track and field federation says it could be reinstated soon after nearly two years of international suspension.

Decker scored twice, US women beat Canada 5-2

QUEBEC CITY (AP) Brianna Decker scored twice to help the U.S. women’s hockey team open its pre-Olympic exhibition schedule with a 5-2 victory over Canada on Sunday.

Faniel wins Venice Marathon after leaders take wrong turn

VENICE, Italy (AP) Italian Eyob Faniel won the Venice Marathon on Sunday after a bizarre incident in which the leading six runners took a wrong turn.

Helen DeVos, who backed health, education causes, dies at 90

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) Helen J. DeVos, a philanthropist from western Michigan known for her support of children’s health, Christian education and the arts, has died at age 90.

US women's hockey team gets Wilma Rudolph Courage Award

NEW YORK (AP) The U.S. women’s hockey team received the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award on Wednesday night at the Salute to Women in Sports hosted by the Women’s Sports Foundation.

Spanish Olympic high jump champion Ruth Beitia retires

MADRID (AP) Olympic high jump champion Ruth Beitia says she is retiring after enduring a series of injuries this year.

Air Force Academy probes alleged cheating, misconduct

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Cheating by more than a dozen freshman cadets on a test and alleged misconduct by members of the lacrosse team are under separate investigations at the Air Force Academy.

Lawmaker: Mascot wrong to rally for kneeling cheerleaders

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) A Georgia lawmaker says Scrappy the Owl, the mascot at the university where five cheerleaders have been kneeling during the national anthem, had no business leading students in a march through campus to support the cheerleaders.

Georgia cheerleaders to protest anthem in stadium tunnel

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) A group of Georgia cheerleaders say they’ll take a knee in the stadium tunnel when the national anthem is played at Saturday’s homecoming game since their university moved them off the field after an earlier demonstration.

Supercross is back!

Juliana Daniell gets you up to speed with everything you need to know for this weekend’s Monster Energy Cup.