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GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Adam Duvall is hard at work in the Arizona desert, looking for an encore to his breakout season for the Cincinnati Reds. For the slugging outfielder, the biggest key is the smallest details. “You don’t try to repeat anything,” Duvall said. “You’ve got to get your work in. You’ve got to stay

PITTSBURGH — The four players tasked with overseeing a transition they never asked for and never saw coming can’t quite explain what went wrong. It wasn’t, Pittsburgh seniors Jamel Artis, Mike Young, Sheldon Jeter and Chris Jones insist, longtime head coach Jamie Dixon’s abrupt departure for TCU last spring or Kevin Stallings’ inelegant arrival a

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando Magic president Alex Martins entered the season believing this was the franchise’s best chance to break into the playoffs for first time in the post-Dwight Howard era. With 23 games remaining, Martins realizes that’s a longshot at best. “The season to date has been incredibly disappointing,” Martins told The Associated Press.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Authorities say a man accused of taking 11 people hostage in a credit union in Alabama has been charged with one count of bank robbery and two counts of hostage taking. A federal grand jury indicted 18-year-old Cedrick Lamar Collins on Friday. Authorities say Collins was armed with a BB gun during

DENTON, Texas — North Texas has given football coach Seth Littrell a new contract after one season on the job. The five-year deal announced Friday goes through the 2021 season, and replaces his original five-year deal that was through 2020. The new contract could be worth about $5 million over the length of the deal.

ARCADIA, Calif. — Stewart Elliott, who rode Smarty Jones to victories in the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, has been named winner of the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. He was chosen in a nationwide vote of his fellow jockeys for the award that honors riders whose careers and personal character earn esteem for the

WICHITA, Kan. — Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker only seemed as if they were at Wichita State forever. The pair of guards led the Shockers to the Final Four. They put together an undefeated regular season and helped earn the team a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. They led the program to heights

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Kurt Busch’s car could have been parked at an auto show. Models in skimpy attire lingered around his Monster Energy car, posing for a steady stream of fans wanting snapshots and selfies. Even among the cluster of candy, beer and fast food companies adorned on cars lined on the grid at

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas star freshman Josh Jackson has been charged with misdemeanor criminal damage after allegedly vandalizing a woman’s car outside a Lawrence bar. A press release from the district attorney’s office says police responded to a report Dec. 9. The case against Jackson was filed in Douglas County District Court on Friday. The

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Long snapper Zak DeOssie will be back with the New York Giants for an 11th season. The Giants announced Friday that the team’s second longest-tenured player has signed a new contract. The 33-year-old DeOssie, who could have become a free agent, and quarterback Eli Manning are the only active Giants who

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — One of dog mushing’s leading figures has suffered panic attacks and undergone therapy in the year since she was stalked by a drunken snowmobile driver on an isolated stretch of the Iditarod race across Alaska. Aliy (AL’-ee) Zirkle tells The Associated Press that she has had a really hard time during the

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Suspended Winthrop coach Kevin Cook is no longer with the school. Eagles athletic director Ken Halpin said Friday that the university and Cook have “agreed mutually and amicably to part ways.” Cook was suspended last month for what the school said was a personnel matter. Assistant Lynette Woodard has been the

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Prosecutors in the death of a high school football player who shielded two girls from gunfire have let a deadline pass to seek the death penalty. The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/2l8oyFA ) said Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen’s office confirmed no notice was submitted ahead of the Dec. 9 filing

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — Jack Sock moved into the semifinals at the Delray Beach Open by beating Steve Johnson 6-4, 7-6 (4) in an all-American matchup Friday. Sock will play yet another American on Saturday for a berth in the final: Donald Young, who didn’t even need to play a point to get there. Young’s

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan police say an official has been killed by livestock bandits in the volatile Rift Valley county of Baringo, where a drought has increased cattle rustling. A police report says about 30 bandits on Friday killed the government-appointed administration chief in the western region when they raided Chepkew village and stole an

SURPRISE, Ariz. — Billy Burns keeps getting assigned to team mascot duty. When the Oakland Athletics first called up the outfielder in September 2014, he had to travel with a goldfish as part of his rookie hazing. “I took it to all the clubhouses,” Burns said. “It was tougher to carry that’s, for sure.” The

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina coach Dawn Staley says center Alaina Coates’ status is uncertain heading into the final regular-season game against No. 22 Kentucky on Sunday. Coates missed the Gamecocks’ 80-64 win at Texas A&M on Thursday night with a sprained right ankle. She was injured in the third quarter of a loss at

JOHANNESBURG — Paul Waring led by one shot after 12 holes of his second round when play was suspended for bad light at the Joburg Open on Friday. The Englishman made five birdies in those holes on the West Course at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington to move 12 under par, ahead of South Africans Darren

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s governor has met with the U.S. treasury and health secretaries to seek support in pulling the island out of a deep economic crisis. Gov. Ricardo Rossello is in Washington. He said he spoke Friday with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin about how the federal office could help transform the

GUATEMALA CITY — The United States government will seek the extradition of former Guatemalan Vice-President Roxana Baldetti and ex-Interior Minister Hector Mauricio Lopez Bonilla on drug trafficking charges, the embassy said in a statement Friday. Baldetti and Lopez Bonilla were indicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday, according to

WASHINGTON — A draft Republican bill overhauling the nation’s health care law would provide tax credits that grow to $4,000 for people age 60 and up, and let insurers boost rates for older people. The 105-page document largely follows outlines that Republican leaders have advanced previously of how they’d annul President Barack Obama’s health care

News organizations including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN and Politico were blocked from joining an informal, on the record White House press briefing on Friday. The Associated Press chose not to participate in the gaggle following the move by White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “The AP believes the public should

MOSCOW — A Ukrainian lawmaker visited the rebel-held east on Friday to meet with Ukrainian prisoners there, a trip that irked many in Ukraine. Nadiya Savchenko, a pilot who spent two years in a Russian prison before her release last year, visited a prison in the rebel-held city of Makiivka. Savchenko said on Facebook that

WASHINGTON — Executives at The Washington Post say they began considering the newspaper’s eye-grabbing new motto long before President Donald Trump was elected. The newspaper began running the phrase “Democracy Dies in Darkness” beneath its online masthead this week. The slogan will begin appearing in the Post’s print edition next week. The Post (http://tinyurl.com/jdegot4 )

NEW YORK — Lionel Richie says he won’t recover from a knee procedure in time to launch his tour with Mariah Carey next month. The 67-year-old singer said in a statement Friday that their All The Hits Tour will be postponed until the summer. The 35-date trek was supposed to launch March 15 and wrap