National Sports

National sports stories from The Associated Press.

Snowboarder Su Yiming delivers China’s 1st gold of Winter Olympics

LIVIGNO, Italy — Su Yiming sat in the snow at the bottom of the snowboarding course, tears rolling down his cheeks. So close to winning China its first gold at the Milan Cortina Games, he still had a long wait to endure. Luckily for Su, one by one his rivals either fell or came up short of ...

Italian speedskaters beat US record-holders

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) —mItaly's Davide Ghiotto, Andrea Giovannini and Michele Malfatti beat U.S. world record-holders Casey Dawson, Emery Lehman and Ethan Cepuran by 4 1/2 seconds to win the men's team pursuit gold medal in speedskating. The Italian men finished in 3 minutes, 39.20 ...

Liu surges into medal range as US teammates stumble

MILAN — Alysa Liu is left to carry the hopes of the "Blade Angels" into the women's free skate at the Milan Cortina Olympics. The reigning world champion was the only one of American's vaunted figure skating trio to put herself in contention for gold after the short program on Tuesday ...

Kansas State fires basketball coach Jerome Tang, days after fans wore bags over heads

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas State fired basketball coach Jerome Tang on Sunday night, four days after many Wildcats fans showed up with bags over their heads for a home blowout. Athletic director Gene Taylor announced the move in a statement. “This was a decision that was made in the best ...

Jordan Stolz joins Eric Heiden with a speedskating double gold

MILAN — For a while now, Jordan Stolz's talent and dominance as a speedskater, and his much-anticipated potential for Olympic success, prompted many to repeatedly mention his name — prematurely, no doubt — alongside that of Eric Heiden. Now they really do belong in the same sentence, at ...