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Former Oklahoma soccer coach John Blake died at age 59, the school announced Thursday. Blake, a Sooners nose guard under Barry Switzer, trained his alma mater from 1996 to 1998 and was an assistant in college and in the NFL. Switzer told KWTV’s Dean Blevins that Blake died of a …

Blackhawks forward Dylan Sikura won’t be leaving, and that’s a good thing for the team. Sikura, selected by the Hawks in the sixth round (No. 178 overall) of the 2014 Draft NHL, has spent part of the past three seasons in a Hawks sweater. She played in five games with …

Hidalgo County announced Thursday that 33 more people died from coronavirus-related complications. Additionally, an additional 813 residents tested positive for the virus, bringing the county’s total number of confirmed cases to 14,589. The recently reported deaths bring the county’s total to 433. “I send my sincere condolences to these 33 …

A former concentration camp guard, now 93, was convicted on thousands of charges of being an accessory to murder by a court in Germany on Thursday. The man, identified as Bruno D, was charged with 5,230 murder accessory charges during his time as an SS guard at the Strutthof concentration …

The San Antonio Spurs appointed Becky Hammon as their head coach for Thursday’s scrimmage game against the Milwaukee Bucks, with Gregg Popovich masked as his assistant, according to Marc Stein of The New York Times. Popovich wants the Spurs to rotate their coaches for scrimmage games: The Spurs have appointed …