LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pandemic-era saga of tennis star Novak Djokovic in Australia this week is but one of many: Pro athletes who have refused to be vaccinated have been put at center court in a larger contest — as famous faces who are becoming proxy players in the accelerating worldwide cultural battles over COVID jabs.
The NFL is continuing to crowdsource new ways to track head and helmet impacts during games from data scientists and for the second straight year the winner of its artificial intelligence competition comes from outside the United States.
Antwain Scales has accomplished plenty during a coaching career destined for the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. He is the only head man in state history to lead a program to four straight 6A championships, and he turned around a Colby program that was considered the doormats of the Jayhawk Conference. But up until Wednesday, he had never beaten Butler.
SATURDAY, JAN. 15 Wrestling: 9 a.m., GCHS boys at Newton TOC; 9:30 a.m., Holcomb at Scott City Invite.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL BOYS Garden City 58, Liberal 37 Holcomb 66, Lakin 61 Ulysses 22, Cimarron 35 Meade 48, SW Heights 67 Minneola 40, South Gray 61 Sublette 65, Wichita Co. 51 Elkhart 72, Deerfield 9 Satanta 66, Bucklin 77 Wallace Co.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The treatment of tennis star Novak Djokovic by Australian immigration officials might seem harsh to people watching from afar. But Australia has long taken a severe stance on immigration, including warehousing refugees in offshore detention camps and preventing overseas citizens from returning home during the pandemic.
HUTCHINSON - In their first competition of the New Year, the Garden City Buffaloes boys’ swimming team had a strong performance on Tuesday at the Hutchinson Invitational. The Buffs placed second among seven teams, scoring 196 points while Buhler, a top Class 5A team in Kansas, won with 307 points.
LIBERAL - There was one thing that first-year coach Jeff Williamson has insisted on ever since he stepped onto the basketball court for the Garden City Buffaloes and that was his desire to build the program into a consistent winner.
With the holidays over, high school basketball teams are back on the court for the second half of the 2021-22 seasons. Holcomb boys 66 Lakin 61 The Holcomb High School boys’ basketball team picked up a road win Tuesday at rival Lakin, 66-61.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic acknowledged Wednesday that his Australian travel declaration form contained incorrect information, and he also confessed to an “error of judgment” in taking part in an interview and photo shoot in Serbia last month after testing positive for COVID-19.