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Dawn Staley and Joni Taylor embraced before and after the Southeastern Conference Tournament championship, savoring an historic moment in women’s college basketball. It took 41 years for two Black women coaches to meet for the first time in the tournament championship of a Power Five conference. A reason for that long wait may be that over the last five years there have been 16 and this past season just 13 Black women were head coaches at Power Five schools. Of those 13, seven resided in the Southeastern Conference. Taylor, who led Georgia to the second round of the women's NCAA Tournament, says you can't dream what you can't see. 

Houston's Kelvin Sampson has gotten a lift from transfers in guiding the Cougars back to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16. The second-seeded Cougars have multiple transfer starters, including Associated Press third-team All-American Quentin Grimes from Kansas. That group has helped the Cougars extend the best sustained run since the “Phi Slama Jama” days of the 1980s. Sampson says teams that don't take on transfers in today's game are behind. Transfers are also playing key roles for several top teams. That list includes No. 1 overall tournament seed Gonzaga, Baylor, Michigan and Arkansas. 

Hundreds of mourners gathered Wednesday night at a candlelight vigil to remember the 10 people gunned down at a supermarket in a Colorado college town. Meanwhile, the 21-year-old man suspected of carrying out the rampage prepared to make his first court appearance Thursday. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa has been jailed for investigation of murder since he was arrested inside the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder on Monday and treated at a hospital for a leg wound. He was to hear the pending charges he faces and his rights as a defendant, and he would not be asked for a plea until later in the judicial process.

Fernando Tatis Jr. is feeling a lot better, a huge relief to the star San Diego shortstop, his team and his many fans. A day after Tatis walked off the field during an exhibition game in a worrisome scene, the Padres said the discomfort in his left shoulder had improved. In fact, the flashy 22-year-old wanted to play Wednesday night against San Francisco in Scottsdale, Arizona. No way, said manager Jayce Tingler. The manager said after Tuesday’s game that Tatis has been dealing with a minor shoulder issue for a few years.  Tingler said he doesn’t know when Tatis first encountered the shoulder trouble.

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party is lashing out at H&M and other clothing and footwear brands as it retaliates for Western sanctions on Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region. The attacks began when…

Donovan Mitchell scored 27 points and the Utah Jazz routed the short-handed Brooklyn Nets 118-88 on Wednesday night. Bojan Bogdanovic made 4 of 6 3-point attempts and scored 18 for the Jazz, who have won four of five. Alize Johnson, who was signed to a 10-day contract on Monday, had a career-high 23 points and 15 rebounds. Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot added 12 for Brooklyn. The Nets James Harden was sidelined with a sore neck.

Amid a dramatic rise in migrant children and families arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum, many are kept at outdoor intake sites and overcrowded detention facilities well past a 72-hour court-imposed limit. From there, the families are either released into the U.S. or expelled to Mexico. The lucky ones dropped off at a COVID-19 testing site with a package of documents. The unaccompanied children are taken to federal shelters that are quickly filling up as well.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — It was 50 years ago on the night of March 25, 1971, that Pakistan's military launched a violent crackdown on the city of Dhaka, then part of East Pakistan, to quell a rising nationalist movement seeking…

Uriel Antuna scored following a sloppy giveaway by Sebastian Soto in the 45th minute, and Mexico beat the United States 1-0 at Guadalajara in qualifying for the men’s Olympic soccer tournament. Both teams already were assured of advancing from Group A. The United States finished Group B in second place at 2-1 and is likely to play Honduras, unless Canada beats the Catrachos in Thursday’s finale of Group B. Semifinal winners from the North and Central American and Caribbean region get the final two places in the 16-nation field for the Olympics.

Jordan Nixon banked in a short jump shot at the buzzer in overtime, giving her a career-high 35 points and lifting Texas A&M to an 84-82 victory over Iowa State in the second round of the women’s NCAA Tournament. Nixon scored seven of A&M’s nine points in OT, pushing the Aggies into the Sweet 16 for the third straight time. She also led the rally in the fourth quarter, scoring the last four points of regulation.  

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's sudden suspension of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is another blow to a vaccination program already struggling against a wall of public distrust. Hong Kong on Wednesday suspended use of the…

The torch relay for the postponed Tokyo Olympics has begun its 121-day journey across Japan and is headed toward the opening ceremony in Tokyo on July 23. The first runner with the torch was 2011 Women's World Cup-winning player Azusa Iwashimizu. The opening ceremony for the start of the relay was closed to the public but was televised live. Organizers say they will stop or reroute the relay if crowding becomes a problem. The relay is a test for the upcoming Olympics with fear among the public that the event could spread the coronavirus.

From Ancient Olympia to the opening ceremony, the Olympic flame has played a big part in the Games for nearly a century. The Associated Press has covered every modern Olympics, and that includes photographs of the Olympic flame both along…

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Two men trapped in vehicles hundreds of kilometers (miles) apart have become the first fatalities of record flooding on Australia's east coast. A car got trapped in floodwater northwest of Sydney at dawn Wednesday and emergency…

Major League Baseball is increasing its monitoring of baseballs in an attempt to suppress any use of foreign substances by pitchers. Mike Hill, newly hired as executive vice president of baseball operations and disciplinarian, wrote that team leaders may be held responsible for violations by staff. In a two-page memo to owners, Hill outlined three new enforcement components that include gameday compliance monitors and electronics compliance officers, submission of random baseballs by umpires and equipment authenticators and a review of MLB Statcast data comparing games to pitchers' career norms.