Your Top Plays for Today

Your Top Plays for Today: AP’s Sports Guide

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—WORLD CUP TICKETS IN SHORT SUPPLY

Less than 10 percent of ticket requests will be filled in second phase of allocations for World Cup.

https://bigstory.ap.org/article/less-10-percent-ticket-requests-be-met

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—RACING SANTANDER BOYCOTTS SPANISH CUP GAME

Racing Santander boycott Spanish Copa del Rey game over unpaid wages, refusing to play and forcing end of the game after one minute.

https://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268759/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=kHlBh6xs

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—BRAZILIAN WOULD-BE OLYMPIAN FIGHTING FOR LIFE

A Brazilian gymnast who was expected to compete in freestyle skiing and the upcoming Winter Olympics is fighting for her life after a ski accident in Utah.

https://wintergames.ap.org/article/doctors-brazilian-olympian-fighting-her-life

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—DOCTORS ATTEMPT TO BRING SCHUMACHER OUT OF COMA

Michael Schumacher’s doctors have started trying to wake up the Formula One great from the medically induced coma he’s been in since a skiing accident last month.

https://racing.ap.org/article/doctors-trying-bring-schumacher-out-coma

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—MCILROY SHOOTS A BLAZING 63 IN DUBAI

Rory McIlroy shot his lowest European Tour score in more than three years with a 9-under 63 Thursday to take the lead in the first round of the Dubai Desert Classic.

https://bigstory.ap.org/article/rory-mcilroy-shoots-63-take-lead-dubai