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Saturday sports: AL East can't lose; Rachel Robinson is 100; Serena Williams is back

9:06am July 16, 2022

by Scott Simon

Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about Major League Baseball's most competitive division, Rachel Robinson's legacy, and Serena Williams' return to the tennis court.

Tiger Woods gestures to the crowd at the end of his second round of the British Open at St. Andrews, Scotland, on Friday.

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Tiger Woods gets an emotional sendoff at the British Open

4:36pm July 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

Golf's most recognizable star may have played his final round of a British Open at St. Andrews. Woods shot a 75 and missed the cut.

Jim Thorpe, the famed American athlete and U.S. Olympic great runs during a Junior Olympics event in Chicago on June 6, 1948. Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon.

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Jim Thorpe is reinstated as the sole winner of two events in the 1912 Olympics

2:29pm July 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

The legendary athlete is declared the sole winner of the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of amateurism rules.

WNBA star Brittney Griner speaks with her lawyers in the courtroom near Moscow on Friday.

Brittney Griner had a doctor's note for cannabis use, her lawyer tells Russian court

1:57pm July 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

A lawyer for the WNBA star at her drug possession trial in Russia gave the court a U.S. doctor's letter recommending she use medical cannabis to treat pain. Medical marijuana is not legal in Russia.

Brittney Griner's Russian teammates testified at her drug trial Thursday

4:42pm July 14, 2022

by Charles Maynes

Brittney Griner's defense argued her case and defended her character in a Russian court on Thursday, one week after the WNBA star pleaded guilty to drug charges.

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Brittney Griner is escorted to a hearing at the Khimki Court outside Moscow on Thursday for a third hearing in her trial on drug charges.

Members of Brittney Griner's Russian team defend her character, on and off the court

3:43pm July 14, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Griner appeared moved by the testimony of her friends, tearing up repeatedly during Thursday's proceedings. Her longtime team doctor added that Griner has never failed a drug test.

U.S. soccer legend Briana Scurry opens up about head injury that changed her life

11:26pm July 13, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers talks with soccer great Briana Scurry about The Only, a new Paramount+ documentary about her stardom and struggles after the U.S. Women's Soccer's historic 1999 World Cup win.

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Empty seats and cutouts are viewed in Dodger Stadium as Houston Astros' Lance McCullers Jr. pitches against the Oakland Athletics during the first inning of Game 1 of a baseball American League Division Series in Los Angeles, Oct. 5, 2020. Concession work

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Employees at Dodger Stadium threaten to strike days before the MLB All-Star Game

3:19am July 13, 2022

by Ayana Archie

The concessions stands are operated by Compass Group and its subsidiary, Levy Restaurants. The company employs about 1,500 people at the stadium.

Mo Farah is one of the world's most successful track athletes, but he says he was first brought to the U.K. and forced to work as a child servant. He's seen here celebrating winning the One Hour Race at the Memorial Van Damme Brussels 2020 Diamond League

Mo Farah says he was trafficked to the U.K. and forced into child labor

9:50am July 12, 2022

by Bill Chappell

"Most people know me as Mo Farah, but it's not my name — or, it's not the reality," Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah said, in a clip from an upcoming documentary.

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The Contreras brothers will play together at the MLB All-Star game

7:11am July 12, 2022

This is the fifth pair of brothers to play together as starters in the All Stars since 1942

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