Breaking News

Ohio State faces its toughest schedule in years

A dozen preseason predictions for Ohio State and the rest of the Big Ten this college football season: • 1. Ohio State will lose at least one game. Ryan Day has called the Buckeyes' schedule “a monster” and he's not wrong. He's also not afraid of that schedule. Calling it a monster ...

LIV Golf limps to the finish line

LIV Golf is ending its season one week earlier than planned, announcing Monday it will not hold the team championship in Michigan next week and instead crown the team champion this week 20 miles north of Indianapolis. The 12 events this year — New Orleans was previously postponed — is ...

Clark has Fever on the right track

ATLANTA (AP) — After the Indiana Fever's fourth straight win, Caitlin Clark said coach Stephanie White "made a great point" in her postgame talk with the team by saying "This felt like a playoff game." If so, the Fever looked playoff-ready in their 95-91 overtime win over the Atlanta Dream on Sunday. The Fever showed impressive depth with four players scoring 18 or more points. Perhaps of more importance, Indiana responded to a major challenge from an Atlanta team that began the day one-half behind the Fever for the important fourth-place spot in the playoff standings. The top four ...

Buss family exits Lakers after 47 years

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Buss family has voted to sell its 17.8% minority ownership of the Los Angeles Lakers to new majority owners Josh Kushner and Bob Iger, ESPN and The Athletic are reporting. The decision Monday by the six children of late owner Jerry Buss will end the family's 47 years in an ownership role with the 17-time NBA champion franchise. The move also appears to end Jeanie Buss' tenure as the Lakers' governor. "We have decided as a family to sell the remaining Buss Family Trust shares to the Bob Iger group as part of the ongoing transaction," the Buss family said in a ...

ACROSS THE NATION

Hayden Panettiere, who starred in ‘Heroes’ and ‘Nashville,’ dies at 36 Hayden Panettiere, a onetime child star who soared to fame in the TV shows “Heroes” and “Nashville” while enduring struggles with alcohol addiction and depression, has died. She was 36. Police said ...

Marathon US-Israel meeting produces optimism but no firm commitment to American plan for Gaza

JERUSALEM (AP) — A marathon meeting Monday between U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the fate of the Gaza ceasefire unclear, with officials signaling moderate optimism but offering no concrete commitment by Israel to the latest U.S.-proposed plan. Hamas has already agreed to the proposal. American negotiators appeared to acquiesce to Israeli demands that Hamas disarmament must come before any reconstruction of the devastated Palestinian enclave. They did not publicly signal that Israel had made any commitments to withdraw from the 60% of ...