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New handsets expected to be unveiled this week to feature a faster processor and new True Tone color display, Ming-Chi Kuo predicts.

Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Sunday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT: – AUSTIN, Texas – Unsettled at quarterback and stung by off-field troubles in training camp, No. 10 Notre Dame opens the season at Texas, where coach Charlie Strong is facing a pivotal third year. UPCOMING: 600 words, photos. Starts 7:30 p.m. – NEW YORK –…

The nation’s richest athletic departments — those in the Power Five conferences — pulled in a record $6 billion last year, nearly $4 billion more than all other schools combined, according to an Outside the Lines analysis of NCAA data. The gulf between college sports’ haves and have-nots has never been greater. Powered by multimillion-dollar media rights contracts and rising ticket-sales revenue, the richest schools have spent aggressively: on private…

He doesn’t like sports. I don’t know why. I don’t care. I can guess, but really, that’s not the point. The point is that he doesn’t like sports, so when people ask him which sports he plays, it takes that moment of, “Yes, you see me; I am part of this world,” and crushes it into another uncomfortable, and quite honestly, annoying moment.

Sports Direct is braced for a fierce investor revolt at the company’s annual shareholder meeting this week as another influential City investor declared it would vote against the reappointment of chairman Keith Hellawell. Hermes Investment Management, which manages and advises on £215bn of assets, is the latest to call for Hellawell to go, saying it will vote against his reappointment on Wednesday. A year ago, the UK fund manager had…

4 Images  Find News Near Me Fayetteville, N.C. — Two men were arrested Sunday afternoon after one person died early Sunday following an assault in a Fayetteville parking lot. Around 12:30 a.m., officers with the Fayetteville Police Department responded to an incident at 301 Wingz, a sports bar located along the 400 block of North Eastern Boulevard. At the scene, they determined that two men had assaulted Michael Mansfield, 52,…

The modern baseball broadcaster provides a public service to sports fans everywhere: He receives our hatred; he’s a magnet, or a receptacle, for our frustration. To talk for three-plus hours extemporaneously, particularly during a game as leisurely and mannered as baseball, is to invite listeners to pounce on every poorly researched remark. Each year the baseball site Fangraphs.com asks its readers to rank all 30 teams’ announcers; perhaps the nicest…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

The Chesapeake Sports Club (CSC) will hold its monthly luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 12 at the Chesapeake Conference Center, 700 Conference Center Drive. Guest speaker for the luncheon will be Tommy Graves, a former football player from Norfolk‘s Lake Taylor High School. Graves went on to play college football for Michigan State University in the Big Ten. He was later signed by the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers,…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

Discovery Communications boss David Zaslav has been going deep into the sports world, meeting sports federations around the globe and having chats with the International Olympics Committee. The Olympics arrive on Discovery’s Eurosport network in 2018. So no wonder his end-of-the summer bash was scheduled to be thick with sports stars. Slated to attend the Saturday night party in East Hampton were tennis legends Serena Williams, Henri Leconte and Mats…

If only it were as easy as it used to be. Back in the day, year after year, the Giants and the Dodgers would play each other 22 times a year, 11 times at the Polo Grounds in upper Manhattan and 11 times at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, and there was little doubt about this: They were each other’s greatest rivals. Period. That’s how it was in 1903 and 1923…

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest has exposed a deep divide over something all too many Americans take as as a typical part of modern life. “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media’s Steve Wyche. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be…

Serena Williams won her first Grand Slam singles match at the 1998 Australian Open Serena Williams powered to a record 307th Grand Slam match win to reach the fourth round of the US Open. The world number one moved ahead of Martina Navratilova for most match wins in a major by a woman, and tied Roger Federer’s mark for men with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Sweden’s Johanna Larsson. “That’s…

Mike Ashley and the board of Sports Direct face a showdown with shareholders this week over a host of problems – including treatment of its employees, corporate governance and ailing performance. Investors in the controversial firm, which has faced months of pressure over working conditions for staff, get their chance to quiz directors at Sports Direct’s annual meeting in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, on Wednesday. Ashley, who founded the company and still…

The Italian Grand Prix is live on the BBC Sport website and 5 live on Sunday Jenson Button will not race in Formula 1 in 2017 but will remain with McLaren as an ambassador. The 2009 world champion will work with the team and could race again in 2018, having signed a two-year contract. Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne will be promoted from reserve driver to partner double world champion Fernando Alonso….

TENNIS NEW YORK (AP) — Before Jack Sock took on 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic in the third round, the 23-year-old American acknowledged that, as of a couple of years ago, simply making it that far would have made him, to use two of his words, ”satisfied” and ”excited.” Now Sock wants more. Sock overwhelmed No. 7-seeded Cilic 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a little more than 1 1/2 hours…