National Sports

National sports stories from The Associated Press.

Colts place transition tag on Daniel Jones; Breece Hall gets franchise tag from Jets

The Indianapolis Colts placed a transition tag on quarterback Daniel Jones and the New York Jets used the franchise tag on running back Breece Hall as teams beat the deadline Tuesday to place tags on potential free agents. The Colts opted to use the $37.8 million transition tag instead of the ...

No. 2 Arizona eyes deep run after first Big 12 regular-season title

TUCSON, Ariz. — Bill Self spent the morning before his team's game at Arizona walking around campus, getting some exercise while enjoying the mild desert weather. But the Kansas coach couldn't seem to get very far without being stopped. Nothing derisive. Just basketball talk. "There's no ...

US wins its record 11th gold medal at the Winter Olympics

LIVIGNO, Italy — The U.S. Olympic team won its record-breaking 11th gold medal of the Winter Games on Saturday, with at least one more good possibility when its men's hockey team wraps up the action on closing day with the title game against Canada. The trio of Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and ...

US sets up gold-medal game against Canada

MILAN — Zach Werenski and his U.S. teammates tried not to look ahead at a potential gold-medal game against Canada at the Olympics. After each went unbeaten in group play, there was no way the North American rivals could meet before the final, but there was work left to do. After routing ...