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The Latest: Nuggets, Avalanche arena OK for full capacity

By The Associated Press

The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: The International Skating Union has provisionally awarded the 2024 world figure skating championships to Montreal. The championships were scheduled to be held in Montreal in 2020 but they were cancelled on March 11 — five days before the start of the event — because of the…

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NBA PLAYOFFS-SCHEDULE Suns and Lakers on brink of elimination UNDATED (AP) — The last time Damian Lillard was on the court he had one of the best individual playoff performances ever, with 55 points, including 12 3-pointers. Yet, his Portland Trail Blazers lost to the Denver Nuggets in double overtime. Now the series shifts to Portland for Game 6 with…

USFL relaunching next year, four decades after its birth

By ARNIE STAPLETON - AP Pro Football Writer

The United States Football League is relaunching four decades after the spring league shook up professional football in the mid-1980s. The new USFL will include at least eight teams and while no cities have been named the new USFL says it retains the rights to “key original team names.” The new spring league will partner with Fox Sports to broadcast its games. The original USFL was launched in 1983. The league folded in 1986 after a push by several owners including future president President Donald Trump to move to the fall and directly challenge the NFL. 

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NBA PLAYOFFS-SCHEDULE 76ers finish off Wizards without Embiid UNDATED (AP) — No Joel Embiid (joh-EHL’ ehm-BEED’)? No problem as the Philadelphia 76ers advanced to the second round of the NBA playoffs. Seth Curry scored a playoff career-high 30 points and the Sixers beat Washington 129-112 to end the series in five games, overcoming Embiid’s absence because of a knee injury….

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NBA PLAYOFFS-SCHEDULE 76ers finish off Wizards without Embiid UNDATED (AP) — No Joel Embiid (joh-EHL’ ehm-BEED’)? No problem as the Philadelphia 76ers advanced to the second round of the NBA playoffs. Seth Curry scored a playoff career-high 30 points and the Sixers beat Washington 129-112 to end the series in five games, overcoming Embiid’s absence because of a knee injury….

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NBA PLAYOFFS-SCHEDULE 76ers finish off Wizards without Embiid UNDATED (AP) — No Joel Embiid (joh-EHL’ ehm-BEED’)? No problem as the Philadelphia 76ers advanced to the second round of the NBA playoffs. Seth Curry scored a playoff career-high 30 points and the Sixers beat Washington 129-112 to end the series in five games, overcoming Embiid’s absence because of a knee injury….

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NBA PLAYOFFS-SCHEDULE 76ers finish off Wizards without Embiid UNDATED (AP) — No Joel Embiid (joh-EHL’ ehm-BEED’)? No problem as the Philadelphia 76ers advanced to the second round of the NBA playoffs. Seth Curry scored a playoff career-high 30 points and the Sixers beat Washington 129-112 to end the series in five games, overcoming Embiid’s absence because of a knee injury….

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NBA PLAYOFFS-SCHEDULE 76ers finish off Wizards without Embiid UNDATED (AP) — No Joel Embiid (joh-EHL’ ehm-BEED’)? No problem as the Philadelphia 76ers advanced to the second round of the NBA playoffs. Seth Curry scored a playoff career-high 30 points and the Sixers beat Washington 129-112 to end the series in five games, overcoming Embiid’s absence because of a knee injury….

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HORSE RACING-BAFFERT Baffert suspended by Churchill Downs officials LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Bob Baffert won’t be strolling the stalls at Churchill Downs for a while. Track officials have suspended the Hall of Fame trainer for two years after an additional drug test of Medina Spirit confirmed the presence of the steroid betamethasone in the Kentucky Derby winner’s system. The next…

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RACING-MEDINA SPIRIT-BAFFERT Medina Spirit drug test confirmed; Baffert suspended 2 years LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Bob Baffert is on track to have his record seventh Kentucky Derby victory taken away and won’t be able to run any horses in the prestigious race for the next two years. Churchill Downs on Wednesday suspended the Hall of Fame trainer for two years…