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Lia Thomas nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year

4:50pm July 18, 2022

Lia Thomas was nominated for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award by the University of Pennsylvania. In March, Thomas became the first transgender NCAA champion in Division 1 history.

Cameron Smith of Australia wins the British Open on a one-shot margin. It's his first major title.

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Cameron Smith makes a comeback and wins the British Open on a one-shot margin

2:06pm July 17, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Australian shot 8-under 64 to overturn a four-shot deficit in the final round. It's his first major title.

The 1983 Cricket World Cup final match between India and West Indies on June 25, 1983, in London.

Opinion: Wicket bad bet

9:47am July 16, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks about a cricket-match scam in an Indian village. Russian gamblers were duped. The scam is now under investigation.

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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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