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WNBA players would like more time off after the Olympics are over before league play resumes 08/20/2024 02:57pm • The WNBA didn't waste anytime returning to the hardwood after the Olympics and the quick turnaround following the Paris Games is something players may look to change in the next collective bargaining agreement. Teams started playing games four days after the Paris Games ended, including Breanna Stew Gabby Williams re-signs with the Seattle Storm after stellar Olympics 08/20/2024 02:37pm • Gabby Williams is back with the Seattle Storm. Williams, who helped France win a silver medal at the Olympics earlier this month, signed a rest-of-season contract with the Storm on Tuesday. She will start play next week when the Storm return from their current road trip. It's her third season with S After Trayon White arrest, violence intervention leader says 'we have to stay committed to the work' 08/20/2024 02:36pm • After D.C. Council member Trayon White was arrested and charged with a federal count of bribery, "the initial reaction was shock," said Marcus Ellis, an anti-violence leader in the District. Ellis has known White for a long time, often working with him on homicide scenes or with families that hav Mississippi State resets with rookie coach Jeff Lebby overhauling Bulldogs in every phase 08/20/2024 02:12pm • Mississippi State hopes its third coach in as many seasons settles one of the program's most tumultuous stretches in recent memory. It���s Jeff Lebby���s turn to lead the Bulldogs, and this season will require patience as the rookie head coach handles the growing pains of starting virtually from scr Seat warms for Arkansas coach Sam Pittman, with hopes of fixes on defense and new faces on offense 08/20/2024 02:01pm • FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) ��� Sam Pittman acknowledges what he faces heading into the 2024 season, his fifth as Arkansas football coach. Another year like the last and he likely will no longer carry that title in December. The Razorbacks are coming off a 4-8 season with a 1-7 record in the Southeaster Counting to 11 is one goal for embattled Florida coach Billy Napier. A winning season is another 08/20/2024 01:38pm • GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) ��� Billy Napier jokes about it now. The Florida coach routinely makes light of his team���s inability to consistently get 11 men on the field. When asked about potential position battles in training camp last week, Napier quipped: ���The reality is you only get to put 11 out Caring for a woman's heart 08/20/2024 01:34pm • This content was written by Tania Chao, MD, Cardiologist with Kaiser Permanente in Tysons Corner, VA. Listening to your body can be a lifesaver when it comes to heart health. Elizabeth "Tookie" Gentilcore, a 76-year old Poolesville resident, is proof. In 2019, Tookie, an active retiree, noticed u Coach Mike Elko looks to get No. 20 Texas A&M back on track after Jimbo Fisher's firing 08/20/2024 01:25pm • COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) ��� Mike Elko turned around Duke���s program in his first head coaching job. He is embarking on a much greater challenge at No. 20 Texas A&M, where he will try to take the Aggies to the next level after replacing the underperforming Jimbo Fisher. Elko spent four years Obama made his DNC debut 20 years ago. He's returning to make the case for Kamala Harris 08/20/2024 01:21pm • Barack Obama was days shy of his 43rd birthday and months from being elected to the U.S. Senate when he stepped onto a Boston stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. A state lawmaker from Illinois, he had an unusual profile to be a headline speaker at a presidential convention. But the Book Review: In 'The Slow Road North,' a New York writer finds solace in a Northern Irish town 08/20/2024 01:01pm • Can what looks like running away from grief and sadness actually be a way to heal? In ���The Slow Road North,��� writer Rosie Schaap chronicles her circuitous route from spending most of her life as a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to finding herself settling down far away in a small town in Northern I Maui Invitational returns to the island a year after wildfires. UConn highlights the field 08/20/2024 12:53pm • LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) ��� Two-time defending national champion UConn will highlight the Maui Invitational, which is returning to the Lahaina Civic Center a year after fatal wildfires forced a move to Honolulu. The tournament, which will be played from Nov. 25-27, announced its invited schools and sch Jury finds parents of Texas student accused in 2018 deadly school shooting not negligent 08/20/2024 11:37am • The parents of a former student accused of killing 10 people at a high school near Houston in 2018 do not bear financial responsibility for the shooting, a jury decided Monday. A lawsuit brought by victims and their families sought to hold Dimitrios Pagourtzis and his parents, Antonios Pagourtzis an Rookie Michael Penix Jr. to sit again in Falcons' final preseason game against the Jaguars 08/20/2024 09:59am • FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) ��� Rookie quarterback Michael Penix Jr. has played in one preseason game for the Atlanta Falcons. That's enough for coach Raheem Morris. Penix, the No. 8 pick in the NFL draft and the Falcons' quarterback of the future, did not play in last weekend's game at Baltimore. He w Braves take another major blow, losing 3B Austin Riley for 6-8 weeks with broken hand 08/20/2024 09:47am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� The injury-plagued Atlanta Braves have sustained another major blow, announcing Monday that third baseman Austin Riley will miss at least the rest of the regular season after breaking his right hand. Riley was struck Sunday by a 97 mph fastball from Los Angeles Angels starter Jack K Kenyan man being held over the discovery of dismembered female bodies escapes from police custody 08/20/2024 08:42am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� A suspect who police said confessed to killing 42 women and was being detained over the discovery of dismembered bodies in Kenya���s capital has escaped from police custody, officials said Tuesday. Mohamed Amin, the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, said Col