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CEO for NIL enforcement: We just enforce the rules that you make

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — While frustration mounts across college sports and talk of breakaway conferences hits the hallways at conference’s spring meetings, the leader of the agency formed to police name, image and likeness payments has a simple reminder: These are the rules you ...

Guardiola leaving Manchester City

MANCHESTER, England — Pep Guardiola is leaving Manchester City at the end of the season. It will bring to a close a trophy-laden, 10-year spell in which he established City as a forces in Europe while changing the face of English soccer. Guardiola has one year left on his City contract but ...

Sinner to open vs. wild card

PARIS — Jannik Sinner won’t have the crowd on his side when he starts his quest for a career Grand Slam at the French Open. Sinner was on Thursday drawn a French opponent in the first round — Clement Tabur, ranked a career-high 165th. Tabur received the wild card vacated by former ...

A final dance for retiring Stan Wawrinka, Gael Monfils

PARIS — Their legs don’t move as fast on the red clay. They recover more slowly. But the French public still loves them just as much. Stan Wawrinka and Gael Monfils have been involved in some of the most memorable matches in recent Roland Garros history. The two veterans are back at the ...

Kyle Busch short of breath before death

CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR driver Kyle Busch experienced shortness of breath, felt he was overheating and was coughing up blood the day before his death, according to a 911 call obtained Friday by The Associated Press. Busch died Thursday at age 41. No cause of death has been given, though his ...

O’Ward looking to overtake Palou in Indy

INDIANAPOLIS — Pato O’Ward smiles as he walks through Gasoline Alley, seeing the Arrow McLaren No. 5 shirts. Sure, he’s popular, but O’Ward wants something more — to be called an Indianapolis 500 champion. After three near misses in his past four races on the Brickyard’s iconic ...