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Angel Reese traded to Atlanta Dream

By CHARLES ODUM AP Sports Writer ATLANTA — The Atlanta Dream acquired two-time WNBA All-Star Angel Reese from the Chicago Sky on Monday in exchange for first-round draft picks in 2027 and 2028. Atlanta also receives the right to swap second-round picks with Chicago in 2028. The ...

Michigan men muscle way to program's 2nd national title

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer INDIANAPOLIS — Michigan's new Fab Five threw style points out the door and brought home a prize not even the school's most famous team could capture. The five fabulous transfers who make up coach Dusty May's starting lineup got down and dirty with the ...

Tigers have been baseball's best at ABS challenges

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK — Catchers were far more successful than batters through Major League Baseball's first full week of challenges to robot umpires, led by the Detroit Tigers and Dillon Dingler. The overall success rate in the Automated Ball-Strike System was ...

UCLA dominates, wins its 1st NCAA women's basketball title

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer PHOENIX — It's mission accomplished for UCLA. Gabriela Jaquez, Lauren Betts and the rest of the UCLA seniors secured the first NCAA women's basketball national championship in school history — a goal that was set after losing in the first Final ...

Patrick Reed's long road back

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. — Patrick Reed has played golf all around the world, often out of choice, now out of necessity. Necessity so that he can start playing closer to home again. One of the early and polarizing defectors to LIV Golf a few years ago, the 2018 Masters champion made the similarly difficult decision to leave the lucrative, Saudi-backed tour earlier this year and return to the PGA Tour. But under the terms of his reinstatement, Reed cannot play in its events until after Aug. 25, which means most of this season will be spent on the European ...

Tiger Woods not at Masters, Day wonders why he was behind wheel in DUI arrest

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods was a big part of the conversation Monday at the Masters without even being at Augusta National. His absence stemming from his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence brought a degree of criticism from Jason Day. Florida authorities determined Woods was impaired March 27 when his Land Rover struck a trailer and flipped on its side on a residential street. They found two painkiller pills in his pocket. Woods was arrested and briefly jailed for refusing to submit to a urine test. "He's just a human being like ...