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Today in Sports - 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams plays final match at U.S. Open 09/02/2024 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 Vandagriff tosses 3 TD passes, Kentucky earns lightning-shortened 31-0 shutout of Southern Miss 09/01/2024 01:30am • LEXINGTON, Ky (AP) — Brock Vandagriff emerged from a two-hour-plus lightning delay to throw three touchdown passes in his Kentucky debut to lead a 31-0 opening-game shutout of Southern Miss on Saturday night in a game that was called for good with 9:56 remaining in the third quarter after a second Jake Retzlaff's three TD passes guides BYU to 41-13 romp over Southern Illinois in opener 09/01/2024 01:07am • PROVO, Utah (AP) — Jake Retzlaff threw for a career-high 348 yards and three touchdowns to lead BYU to a 41-13 victory over Southern Illinois on Saturday night. Retzlaff earned his first career victory as the Cougars’ starting quarterback after beating out South Florida transfer Gerry Bohanon fo Bryson Barnes throws for 2 TDs, runs for another; Utah State beats Robert Morris 36-10 09/01/2024 12:10am • LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Back-up quarterback Bryson Barnes passed for two touchdowns and ran for another Saturday night, Kyrese White caught three balls for 131 yards, including touchdowns of 57 and 53 yards, and Utah State beat Robert Morris 36-14 in the season opener for both teams. Nate Dreiling, wh Dual-threat QB Finn helps Baylor dominate Tarleton State in 45-3 win 08/31/2024 11:39pm • WACO, Texas (AP) — Dequan Finn threw for 192 yards and two touchdowns and ran for a 39-yard score to lift Baylor to a season-opening 45-3 win over FCS Tarleton State on Saturday. Finn made his mark immediately with a 39-yard touchdown run on the Bears’ first drive and added a 32-yard scoring pas South Florida runs for 5 TDs in 48-3 rout of Bethune-Cookman 08/31/2024 11:09pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Kelley Joiner ran for two touchdowns and South Florida scored five rushing touchdowns en route to a 48-3 win over Bethune-Cookman in a season opener Saturday night. South Florida's ground game rolled up 231 yards while its defense held Bethune-Cookman to just 48. Quarterback Byr A Georgia Democrat seeks to unseat an indicted Trump elector who says he only did what he was told 08/31/2024 11:32am • DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — A young Georgia Democrat is raising big money from voters across the country by labeling a suburban Atlanta senate race as a chance to unseat a Republican election denier. Although incumbent Shawn Still was one of 18 people indicted alongside Donald Trump in Georgia’s Fulton Wisconsin bounces back from 4th-quarter deficit to beat pesky Western Michigan 28-14 08/31/2024 01:47am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's only punt of the nght resulted in arguably the biggest play of the game. The Badgers were trailing early in the fourth quarter when a punt from Atticus Bertrams bounced sideways and hit Western Michigan’s DaShon Bussell, who was trying to get away from it. Wiscon Brazil blocks Musk’s X after company refuses to name local representative amid feud with judge 08/31/2024 12:35am • SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil started blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on both the web and through its mobile app after the company refused to comply with a judge’s order. X missed a deadline imposed by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Mor Get out your top hat and cape, it’s a weekend full of magic in DC 08/30/2024 07:25pm • The D.C. Festival of Magic returns this weekend to the Capital Hilton. The three-day festival includes performances from professional magicians from around the country, including top slight-of-hand artist Eric DeCamps and magician Chris Capehart, who got his start as a street performer in New Yor How one Brazilian judge could suspend Elon Musk's X 08/30/2024 06:16am • SAO PAULO (AP) — It's a showdown between the world's richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice. The justice, Alexandre de Moraes, has threatened to suspend social media giant X nationwide if its billionaire owner Elon Musk doesn't swiftly comply with one of his orders. Musk has responded w New Trump book defends 2018 Putin meeting, taunts rivals and threatens to imprison Meta's Zuckerberg 08/29/2024 04:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — In a new book, former President Donald Trump calls his 2018 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki “a GREAT meeting” and threatens to imprison Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg if the tech mogul does anything this year akin to his $400 million donation to local Biden restarts immigration program for 4 countries with more vetting for sponsors 08/29/2024 04:21pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is restarting an immigration program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to come to the United States, and it is including “additional vetting” of their U.S.-based financial sponsors following fraud concerns. The Department Today in Sports - Week Ahead, Aug. 30 - Sept. 5 08/29/2024 10:00am • 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 Prosecutors in Arizona's fake electors case dispute defendants' allegations of a political motive 08/29/2024 12:40am • PHOENIX (AP) — A three-day hearing on whether to dismiss charges against Republicans accused of plotting to overturn the results of the close 2020 presidential race in Arizona concluded Wednesday with prosecutors insisting their case is not politically motivated after defendants argued their alleg