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Today in Sports - 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams plays final match at U.S. Open 09/02/2025 10:10am • Sept. 3 1908 — Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Australian Bill Lang in 6 rounds in Melbourne in a warmup fight for his famous title bout with Jack Johnson. 1921 — The U.S. defeats Japan in five straight matches to win the Davis Cup. 1928 — Future Baseball Hall of Fam Aaron Rodgers is cutting through the noise to build connections and reshape his legacy in Pittsburgh 08/31/2025 01:28pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Rodgers sits in the corner of a largely empty Pittsburgh Steelers locker room on a random afternoon late in training camp. The day might be over, but the NFL's oldest active player is in no rush to leave. The four-time MVP stands up and walks over to a nearby trash can, whi Stockton flashes dual-threat skills with 2 TD passes, 2 TD runs as No. 5 Georgia routs Marshall 45-7 08/30/2025 08:31pm • ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Gunner Stockton enjoyed a promising start to his first full season as No. 5 Georgia's starting quarterback, running for two touchdowns and adding two scoring passes as the Bulldogs rolled past Marshall 45-7 in their season opener on Saturday. Stockton, a junior, had scoring runs Fernando Mendoza leads No. 20 Indiana past Old Dominion 27-14 in his debut as Hoosiers QB 08/30/2025 07:00pm • BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Fernando Mendoza scored on a 5-yard run in his debut as Indiana's quarterback, Jonathan Brady returned a punt 91 yards for a score, and the 20th-ranked Hoosiers wore down Old Dominion in a season-opening 27-14 victory on Saturday. Mendoza, the starter at California last se King scampers for 45-yard TD with 1:07 left, Ga. Tech overcomes early miscues to beat Colorado 27-20 08/30/2025 12:27am • BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Haynes King faked a pitch and scampered for a 45-yard touchdown with 1:07 remaining as Georgia Tech overcame a turnover-filled start to beat Colorado 27-20 on Friday night. King finished with 156 yards rushing and three TDs in the season opener. He also threw for 143 yards. O South Florida routs No. 25 Boise State 34-7 for 1st win over ranked team since 2016 08/29/2025 12:56am • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Quarterback Byrum Brown ran for two touchdowns, Keshaun Singleton caught a 45-yard touchdown pass on a fake punt and South Florida routed No. 25 Boise State 34-7 on Thursday night in the opener for both teams. South Florida beat a Top 25 opponent for the first time since topping St. Thomas avenges 2024 blowout, breezes by Lindenwood 35-13 08/28/2025 10:34pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — St. Thomas combined for 447 yards of total offense and five touchdowns as the Tommies beat Lindenwood 35-13 on Thursday night in a season opener for both teams. The Lions missed three field goals and lost a fumble, resulting in four scrapped drives down the stretch. Despite Today in Sports - Week Ahead, August 29 - September 4 08/28/2025 10:00am • Sept. 2 1901 — Seven-year-old Ogden wins two races in a single day at Sheepshead Bay race track in Coney Island, New York. Ogden edges Cameron by a head in the second race on the card, a six furlong sprint on the main track. In the sixth race, a 1 1-16 mile distance on the turf, Ogden beats Monark Prosecutors seek seven-year prison term for wife of ex-Sen. Bob Menendez 08/26/2025 10:01pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez should serve at least seven years in prison for playing a pivotal role in a bribery scheme that put the New Jersey Democrat behind bars for 11 years, prosecutors told a judge Tuesday. Nadine Menendez, age 58, was convicted in April, a year after 24 decomposing bodies removed from Colorado funeral home, investigators say 08/26/2025 07:46pm • DENVER (AP) — Authorities said Tuesday they removed two dozen decomposing bodies and multiple containers of bones and likely human tissue after discovering remains last week behind a hidden door of a Colorado funeral home owned by the local county coroner. The homes of Pueblo County Coroner Brian Wisconsin missing kayaker who faked his own death is sentenced to 89 days in jail 08/26/2025 05:25pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning while kayaking and left his wife and three children to meet a woman in the country of Georgia was convicted Tuesday of obstructing an officer and sentenced to 89 days in jail, which was the amount of time he successfully misled law en Analysis: College campuses nationwide rocked by dangerous 'swatting' incidents 08/26/2025 05:18pm • The University of Kentucky joined a growing list of American campuses targeted by false “active shooter” calls on Tuesday, when it was confirmed that a report of gunfire near William T. Young Library was a hoax. UK officials said police from the campus and Lexington responded within two minut Police arrest LA burglary crew suspected in nearly 100 break-ins 08/25/2025 09:36pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles law enforcement agencies have arrested a burglary crew linked to nearly 100 break-ins across the region, officials announced Monday. Multiple police agencies and the LA County sheriff's deputies searched eight homes around 5 a.m. Wednesday, arresting seven men betwee Book Review: 'The Martians’ by David Baron spins a clever tale about a real craze 08/25/2025 05:07pm • Talk about fake news: In 1907 a New York Times banner headline declared, “There Is Life On the Planet Mars.” Upping the ante the next year, the stodgy Wall Street Journal claimed “proof” of “conscious, intelligent human life” on our red neighbor. A decades-long cultural phenomenon is rev Trump was once a Republican Party outsider. Now it's his GOP and the MAGA faithful are in the lead 08/23/2025 10:11am • ATLANTA (AP) — Amy Kremer was an early tea party leader who supported Donald Trump for president in 2016. She ran for Congress from Georgia in 2017 and got less than 1% of the Republican primary vote. In 2021, she organized the rally near the White House that took place hours before hundreds of Tr