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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Peyton Manning is looking forward to the transition from football player to football fan.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — When general manager Doug Wilson entered last offseason he had a long list of needs after the San Jose Sharks missed the playoffs for the first time since 2003.

TORONTO (AP) — Fantasy sports fans will soon be able to draft Canadian Football League players.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Nationals have agreed to terms with 23 of their 40 draft picks, including first-rounder Carter Kieboom.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When the 12-0 Minnesota Lynx visit the 11-0 Los Angeles Sparks on Tuesday, the WNBA will have a bit of history on its hands.

The Stanley Cup-champion Pittsburgh Penguins open the 2016-17 NHL season at home on Thursday, Oct. 13, against the Washington Capitals.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on a black bear attack that wounded a New Mexico marathon runner (all times local):

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Hall of Fame executive Bill Polian will become the 13th member of the Indianapolis Colts' Ring of Honor during a Jan. 1 game against Jacksonville.

CHEBOKSARY, Russia (AP) — One day before an IOC summit to discuss Russia's ban from Olympic track and field, Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko again insisted that the government played no role in doping.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cleveland had one. So did Golden State.

The seniors interact well with fans and joke around with their fellow competitors more than they did back in the day, but this is still a competition with prize money and Charles Schwab Cup points at stake.

Kansas City Chiefs safety Eric Berry has won the George Halas Award for overcoming adversity to succeed.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Muhammad Ali Center in Kentucky has received its first big corporate donation since the boxing great's death.

This year more than ever, the so-called "face" of the Olympics could be a wrestler, or a fencer, or an athlete who most of the world has never heard of before.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Cleveland Cavaliers celebrated their NBA championship Vegas-style on their way back home.

The Big Ten will reportedly nearly triple its annual media rights revenue beginning in 2017.

ROME (AP) — An anti-establishment party founded by a comic has triumphed in Italian mayoral runoff elections, trouncing Premier Matteo Renzi's candidates in Rome and another key city and turning its sights Monday toward its next goal — national power.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius and other relatives have been threatened in an extortion attempt ahead of the former track star's sentencing on July 6 for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, Pistorius' family said Monday.

PARIS (AP) — The Latest from soccer's European Championship (all times local):

Overshadowed again in a loaded National League, the San Francisco Giants have taken control of their division with a run that feels awfully familiar.