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Legge is ready make historic attempt to try and complete racing's 1,100-mile 'double'

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Katherine Legge missed the Indianapolis 500 media day festivities Thursday because of a flight delay in New York. She's hoping it's the only hiccup she has on a potentially historic week. While Legge is trying to become the first female driver to attempt the one-day, two-race, 1,100-mile marathon known as the "double" on Sunday, her team has spent the past week fine-tuning her race-day plans while getting advice from the most recent driver to attempt the feat, Kyle Larson. "Hopefully, we get all of the travel woes out of the way now before the weekend, and ...

CEO of NIL enforcement: These are your rules, we just enforce them

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RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — 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 wrote. In an interview with The Associated Press this week at the Big Ten meetings, Bryan Seeley, the CEO of the 11-month-old College Sports Commission, said he has actually heard more good feedback than bad as he's started making the rounds at league meetings. The problem is that the bad stuff ...

Baker provides updates on West Tower Project for WVU's Milan Puskar Stadium

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MORGANTOWN — It’s been over six months since West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker presented the West Tower Project at Milan Puskar Stadium to the WVU Board of Governors. During that meeting, Baker talked about how it’d drive more premium seating, which WVU lacked, showed renderings and presented an estimated cost for the project of $156 million. At the end of Baker's pitch, the board approved the early steps for Baker to find an engineering firm, a sales representative and an owner representative. Since the meeting, WVU has partnered with Barton Malow and March-Westin to ...

A look at Rodgers' accomplishments as he enters his final season

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One more time around the track for Aaron Rodgers. The 42-year-old four-time NFL MVP says the 2026 season will be his last. Rodgers will spend it in Pittsburgh reuniting with first-year Steelers coach Mike McCarthy. The two won a Super Bowl together during a highly successful run in Green Bay ...

Joe Burrow thrilled by Bengals' bold offseason moves, but says he didn't drive them

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CINCINNATI (AP) — Joe Burrow threw his support behind the Cincinnati Bengals' offseason moves but declined to take any of the credit for them. Speaking to the Cincinnati media for the first time since the end of the 2025 season, the franchise quarterback praised the free agent signings of safety Bryan Cook, defensive end Boye Mafe and defensive tackle Jonathan Allen, along with the big swing of the offseason, trading the No. 10 pick for defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence. There was a lot of speculation that the slew of moves was the result of pressure applied by Burrow and the front ...

Blue Jays beat the Pirates 6-2 for their 3rd straight victory

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TORONTO — Kevin Gausman pitched into the seventh inning, Yohendrick Pinango and George Springer had two-run doubles and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-2 on Friday night for their third straight victory. After Springer scored Toronto’s first run in the third inning, ...