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Smoky skies force Denver Broncos to move practice indoors

By ARNIE STAPLETON - AP Pro Football Writer
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Poor air quality in Denver forced the Broncos to scuttle a stadium practice. Instead they moved their workout indoors at their suburban headquarters. The Pat Bowlen Fieldhouse is usually a haven when wintry weather or late-summer thunderstorms force the team indoors. Coach Vic Fangio said he might schedule a stadium practice later this month. The skies are smoky because of the California wildfires and no wind along the Front Range to move the pollution along. When the Broncos began practice Denver’s air quality was the second worst in the world behind the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.

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OLYMPICS US women’s volleyball team finally golden TOKYO (AP) — It’s a breakthrough for the U.S. women’s volleyball team and old hat for the country’s women’s basketball team at the Tokyo Games. The volleyball team will leave Japan with the first Olympic gold medal in the program’s history. The Yanks took the final with a straight-sets victory over Brazil. The…

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OLYMPICS US women’s volleyball team finally golden TOKYO (AP) — It’s a breakthrough for the U.S. women’s volleyball team and old hat for the country’s women’s basketball team at the Tokyo Games. The volleyball team will leave Japan with the first Olympic gold medal in the program’s history. The Yanks took the final with a straight-sets victory over Brazil. The…

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OLYMPICS US women’s volleyball team finally golden TOKYO (AP) — It’s a breakthrough for the U.S. women’s volleyball team and old hat for the country’s women’s basketball team at the Tokyo Games. The volleyball team will leave Japan with the first Olympic gold medal in the program’s history. The Yanks took the final with a straight-sets victory over Brazil. The…

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OLYMPICS US women’s volleyball team finally golden TOKYO (AP) — It’s a breakthrough for the U.S. women’s volleyball team and old hat for the country’s women’s basketball team at the Tokyo Games. The volleyball team will leave Japan with the first Olympic gold medal in the program’s history. The Yanks took the final with a straight-sets victory over Brazil. The…

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OLYMPICS US women’s volleyball team finally golden TOKYO (AP) — It’s a breakthrough for the U.S. women’s volleyball team and old hat for the country’s women’s basketball team at the Tokyo Games. The volleyball team will leave Japan with the first Olympic gold medal in the program’s history. The Yanks took the final with a straight-sets victory over Brazil. The…

US rolls to women’s hoops gold medal in Bird’s last Olympics

By DOUG FEINBERG - AP Basketball Writer
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Sue Bird capped off her unblemished 17-year Olympics run with a record fifth gold medal. All she and longtime U.S. teammate Diana Taurasi have done on the international stage is win and now stand alone with five gold medals — the first basketball players ever to accomplish that feat — after a 90-75 win over Japan on Sunday at the Tokyo Games. The U.S. has now won the last seven Olympic gold medals matching the country’s men’s program for the most ever in a row. The men did it from 1936-68.

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OLYMPICS Seven straight golds for US women’s basketball team TOKYO (AP) — The US women’s basketball team has run its Olympic winning streak to 55 games and seven gold medals. Brittney Griner poured in 30 points on 14 of 18 shooting as the Americans knocked off Japan, 90-75. The U.S. jumped out to a 18-5 lead and was up 24-13…