Arsenal

wins title

(AP) — Arsenal was crowned Premier League champion for the first time since 2004 after Manchester City drew 1-1 with Bournemouth. The result put an end to City’s title challenge with one round of the season go.

Pep Guardiola’s team needed to win at the Vitality Stadium to take it down to the final game of the campaign on Sunday. But the draw left Arsenal with an unassailable four-point lead at the top, ending its 22-year wait for the title. Arsenal fans celebrated wildly outside its Emirates Stadium.

The players did likewise after gathering to watch the game at the club’s training ground.

NAACP calls

for boycott

WASHINGTON (AP) — The NAACP is calling on Black athletes, alumni, fans and the general public to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that aim to redistrict longtime Black lawmakers. If Black athletes participate in the boycott, it could deplete rosters for powerhouse football and basketball programs across the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference.

The effort was launched Tuesday, and it comes as civil rights activists aim to apply pressure to Republican-led state legislatures through mass protests and economic boycotts. The Congressional Black Caucus has also said it will oppose a key piece of legislation backed by college athletic conferences unless conference leaders oppose the redistricting efforts.

Goodell says

NFL cooperating

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league is cooperating with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier after being issued a subpoena last week. Uthmeier sent the subpoena to the NFL on May 13 as his office investigates whether the league has committed potential civil rights violations related to the Rooney Rule and the league’s other employment practices, policies and programs.

Uthmeier threatened possible enforcement actions against the league in March if it didn’t suspend the 23-year-old Rooney Rule.

The subpoena commands the league to appear at the attorney general’s office in Tallahassee, Florida, on June 12.

Alcaraz

pulls out

LONDON (AP) — Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz has pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury. Alcaraz injured his wrist at the Barcelona Open last month. That forced him out of the French Open that starts this weekend.

Alcaraz started the year by winning the Australian Open final. He became the youngest man ever to win all four major titles in tennis.

Whale mural

replaced

DALLAS (AP) — The painting over of a giant mural in Dallas of swimming whales to make way for art related to the upcoming World Cup matches has spurred an outcry. The mural had become a beloved part the downtown landscape to many.

But this month, passersby began noticing that the mural that’s graced two entire walls of a parking garage for nearly 30 years was being painted over with solid blue paint. Wyland, the artist who created the mural, said in a statement that the destruction left him “deeply disheartened.”

Hundreds of people upset by the erasure have signed a Change.org petition.