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The 3rd Annual Adaptive Golf Open is underway in Kansas as disabled golfers from 32 states and 11 countries vy for a championship. The field includes A 20 year old Utah golfer, paralyzed from a ski accident, who’s back defending the championship he won last year in the seated impairment category

Players at the Copa America have been seen exiting team buses with Mate gourds. Part of the point of Yerba Mate is that it's communal -- perfect to be shared with your 10 best friends after a game.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with The Athletic's Greg O'Keeffe about the Copa America and Euro 2024 semi final matches that kick off this week.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the US men's soccer team's flameout at Copa America and a criminal probe into doping.

One focus of the probe appears to be on the World Anti-Doping Agency, which reviewed repeated positive drug tests by elite Chinese swimmers.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic about the potentially record-breaking sale of the NBA's Boston Celtics.

Birmingham, Alabama was one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the Civil Rights Movement. And in order to understand the struggle, you don't have to look any further than Rickwood Field, the oldest baseball stadium in the country. Over more than a century it's hosted Negro League baseball, a women's suffrage event, a Klan rally — and eventually, the first integrated sports team in Alabama.

Today on the show, we're joined by host Roy Wood, Jr., to bring you the first episode of Road to Rickwood, an original series from WWNO, WRKF, and NPR telling the story of America's oldest ballpark.