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Johnson makes it 3 of 4 with win in Michigan 06/16/2014 09:10am • NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) -- After a slow start to the Sprint Cup season -- by his standards -- Jimmie Johnson appears poised for a run at yet another championship.His latest victory came at one of the few tracks where the six-time champion had never won before."We said comi Oregon WR Allen says football comes before track 06/16/2014 03:37am • ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- In a span of just more than 13 seconds, redshirt freshman Devon Allen cemented his status as a player to watch when the Oregon Ducks open the season this fall.The nimble wide receiver won the 110-meter hurdles title this weekend in the NCAA trac Obama longs to break out of White House bubble 06/16/2014 03:14am • NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- It's perhaps appropriate that President Barack Obama is vacationing this weekend in California, where the state flag features a roaming grizzly.The restless president, who has compared himself to a caged animal on recent wanderings by decl US Women's Open players arrive at Pinehurst No. 2 06/15/2014 11:00pm • AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) -- In the final group at a major for the first time, Rickie Fowler was on the putting green about 45 minutes before his tee time with six other players.All were women.Defending U.S. Open champion Justin Rose was walking over a bridge when he passed a Madison Pressel wins Symetra Tour event 06/15/2014 10:30pm • DECATUR, Ill. (AP) -- Madison Pressel won the windy Decatur-Forsyth Classic on Sunday for her first Symetra Tour title, beating Ashley Tait with a 20-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff.The 22-year-old Pressel, LPGA Tour player Morgan Pressel's younger sister, finished with an even-par 7 Natal had big role for US in WWII 06/15/2014 05:26pm • JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer NATAL, Brazil (AP) -- Long before the U.S. soccer team arrived in this balmy coastal city for the World Cup, another group of uniformed Americans came through. They turned this isolated part of northeast Brazil -- the closest point in the Americas to Africa -- into a Wor Earnhardt, Keselowski among favorites at Michigan 06/14/2014 04:27pm • NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. snapped a long losing streak when he won at Michigan International Speedway two years ago.How much have times changed? A victory this week would give NASCAR's most popular driver a winning streak.Earnhardt has already reached V Families Run Amuck, get muddy and have a great time 06/14/2014 02:47pm • Quantico, Va. -- It's after a four-mile race when you get to your picture taken a second time. At that point, runners aren't so pretty. In fact, they're such a muddy mess that everyone needs to get hosed down by the fire department. "The badge of honor for running this race is getting as messy a Obamas kick off long weekend in California 06/13/2014 10:36pm • NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- President Barack Obama is spending a long Father's Day weekend in the California desert oasis of Rancho Mirage.The president and first lady arrived at the Palm Springs airport Friday night after visiting an Indian reservation earlier in th A Father's Day surprise for Kisner's dad at Open 06/13/2014 09:41pm • JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) -- Kevin Kisner got a jump on Father's Day by coaxing his own dad out of the gallery Friday to serve as a last-minute caddie.The 30-year-old PGA Tour pro was already 8 over and certain to miss the cut in his first national championship when he arr Montoya ready for return to NASCAR 06/13/2014 07:52pm • NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) -- Juan Pablo Montoya is ready for his abbreviated return to Sprint Cup racing.Montoya will be in the No. 12 Ford for Sunday's 400-mile race at Michigan International Speedway, his first Cup race since moving back to IndyCar after last season. Monto Fran Quinn's 68 a 1st-day highlight at US Open 06/12/2014 09:24pm • JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) -- For the past 18 years, Fran Quinn never had the time to play the U.S. Open.He had more important things to do -- like scratching out a living on the Web.com Tour.Now that he's finally here, he's making the most of it.In the field for the first Amateur Fitzpatrick shoots 71 in US Open debut 06/12/2014 05:48pm • AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) -- Matthew Fitzpatrick never looked overwhelmed Thursday, not by the pressure of his first U.S. Open nor by the two guys next to him.One was the defending champion, Justin Rose.The other was Phil Mickelson.The U.S. Amateur champion handled the moment Qataris cast eyes on foreigners in modesty push 06/12/2014 05:44am • AYA BATRAWY Associated Press DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Mariam Saleh avoids malls and outdoor markets on the weekends because the low-cut tops, sheer dresses and miniskirts that foreign women wear reveal much more than she would like her impressionable young children to see.Saleh is part of a campaign in Q Egypt's el-Sissi visits sex assault victim 06/12/2014 01:58am • HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press CAIRO (AP) -- Bearing red flowers, Egypt's newly sworn-in president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on Wednesday apologized in person to a woman who was sexually assaulted by a mob during weekend celebrations marking his inauguration, a gesture that is likely to bolster the care