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No. 4 Alabama dominates Texas A&M in SEC title gameVideo
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Brandon Miller scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds as fourth-ranked Alabama smothered No. 18 Texas A&M, 82-63, on Sunday for the Crimson Tide’s second SEC Tournament championship in three seasons. The Crimson Tide also capped their second SEC double dip in three seasons after picking up...
Princeton tops Yale to win Ivy League championshipVideo
PRINCETON, N.J. — Tosan Evbuomwan scored 21 points, Caden Pierce added a double-double and Princeton beat Yale, 74-65, on Sunday to win the Ivy League Tournament and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. No. 2 seed Princeton’s victory ends top-seeded Yale’s three-year run as league champion. The Tigers...
VCU earns NCAA bid by beating Dayton in A-10 championshipVideo
NEW YORK — Jalen DeLoach had 13 points and 10 rebounds, and top-seeded VCU beat second-seeded Dayton, 68-56, on Sunday to win the Atlantic 10 Tournament for the first time in eight years. Ace Baldwin added 16 points and seven assists, sending the Rams (27-7) to the NCAA Tournament with...
In post-Roe world, college coaches search for middle ground
The conversation Cecile Landi never imagined she’d feel compelled to have with the gymnasts she coaches came abruptly last summer, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Landi, who competed for her native France at the 1996 Olympics before going into coaching with her husband, Laurent, gave...
Pickett, Penn State beat Indiana 77-73 in Big Ten semis
CHICAGO — Jalen Pickett scored 28 points, Seth Lundy had 16 and Penn State beat No. 19 Indiana, 77-73, on Saturday to advance to the Big Ten Tournament championship. Andrew Funk added nine points as 10th-seeded Penn State (22-12) won for the eighth time in nine games. The Nittany Lions...
Harvick goes for win No. 10 at Phoenix in final Cup seasonVideo
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Kevin Harvick has had a big share of his best Cup moments at Phoenix Raceway. While his dominance in the desert has faded slightly over the past five years, Sunday is one of two more chances to get win No. 10 here and join some elite company...
No. 10 seed Penn St. reaches semis, beats Northwestern 67-65
CHICAGO — Seth Lundy scored 16 points, Jalen Pickett had 15 points and nine rebounds and No. 10 seed Penn State beat second-seeded Northwestern 67-65 in overtime on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament. It was Penn State’s second overtime win over Northwestern in nine...
Georgia Tech fires Josh Pastner after 7 seasonsVideo
ATLANTA — Josh Pastner was fired Friday as Georgia Tech’s basketball coach, two seasons after he guided the Yellow Jackets to a surprising ACC Tournament title. Pastner was dumped after seven seasons, his fate sealed by a second straight losing season and few signs of progress in a program that...
Ex-Alabama player Miles indicted on capital murder charges
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles has been indicted by a grand jury on capital murder charges for the January shooting death of a 23-year-old woman near campus, his lawyer confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday. Michael Davis, who is also charged in the shooting death...
Mikaela Shiffrin gets her record 86th World Cup victory
ARE, Sweden — Moments after winning her record-tying 86th World Cup race, Mikaela Shiffrin was asked by a Swedish broadcaster to directly address Ingemar Stenmark, the skiing standout who had promised to watch at home on television. From one great to another, the 27-year-old American spoke to the 66-year-old Swede...
Fury wants 70-30 split to fight Usyk
LONDON — Tyson Fury is only interested in fighting Oleksandr Usyk to become undisputed world heavyweight champion if he gets 70% of the earnings from the bout. Time looks to be running out to arrange a deal between the two titleholders, with Usyk’s promoter, Alex Krassyuk, saying the latest offer...
Chad Ramey leads, Rory McIlroy stumbles at The Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Chad Ramey managed to avoid stress and bogeys Thursday in The Players Championship for an 8-under-par 64, making him an unlikely leader on a TPC Sawgrass course that rarely fails to deliver a surprise. Ramey had a one-shot lead over two-time major champion Collin Morikawa...
Patrick Ewing fired by Georgetown after going 13-50 last 2 seasonsVideo
WASHINGTON — Before coaching his first game at Georgetown — indeed, his first game as a head coach at any level of basketball — Patrick Ewing acknowledged that his tenure would be judged on one basis: his record. “People could call me ‘the greatest Hoya ever,’ but as you know,...
Former NBA star Shawn Kemp being released following arrest
TACOMA, Wash. — No charges are immediately being filed against former NBA star Shawn Kemp following his arrest in a drive-by shooting in Washington, prosecutors said Thursday. Kemp, 53, was booked for investigation of felony drive-by shooting shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday in Tacoma, online jail records show. No one...
Texas Tech coach Mark Adams resigns after insensitive comments
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Texas Tech coach Mark Adams, who had been suspended recently for racially insensitive comments made toward one of his players, resigned shortly after the Red Raiders were eliminated from the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday night. Second-year assistant Corey Williams had led the Red Raiders in...
Jim Boeheim retires after 47 years as Syracuse coachVideo
Basketball Hall of Famer Jim Boeheim’s 47-year tenure as coach at Syracuse came to awkward end Wednesday, with the university saying Orange assistant Adrian Autry has been promoted to the job. The move came less than three hours after Syracuse lost to Wake Forest in the ACC Tournament, after which...
The man behind @Super70sSports landed a TV show with Jimmy Kimmel. Here’s how it happened
CHICAGO — Ricky Cobb has tweeted for nearly 3,000 consecutive days. The man behind the hilarious Super 70s Sports Twitter account — which Cobb started in earnest on Jan. 1, 2015 — has posted at least 60,000 times since then. And that’s a conservative estimate considering he frequently tweets 30...
Slap fighting: The next big thing, or unsporting stupidity?
LAS VEGAS — The competitors stand rigidly upright with their hands behind their backs, waiting to absorb a brutal slap to the face. When the open-handed blow is delivered, there’s a sharp report and the reaction can be dramatic. Some fighters barely move, while others stumble backward or fall to...
Sports talk host Greg Giannotti makes headlines for rant defending those battling mental illness
Greg Giannotti, a sports talk host at WFAN in New York who formerly worked at 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh, made headlines after ripping a caller who minimized mental health issues in an on-air rant Tuesday. The tirade prompted Giannotti’s co-host, former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason, to walk out of...
Colorado police say no charges to be filed against Ja Morant
Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant will not face charges in Colorado related to the livestreamed video is which he appeared to be displaying a gun in a strip club, police said Wednesday. The Glendale Police Department said it looked into the video, which was a stream that Morant showed on...
AP source: Giants give Jones 4-year, $160M deal, tag BarkleyVideo
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — After days of hard-fought, down-to-the wire negotiating, the New York Giants reached a new four-year contract with quarterback Daniel Jones on Tuesday and put a franchise tag on running back Saquon Barkley. A person with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press the Giants and...
Kansas out to defend Big 12 Tournament title in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The bull’s-eye on the back of third-ranked Kansas these days is about as big as it’s been in coach Bill Self’s tenure. The Jayhawks already have defended their Big 12 regular-season championship, winning the toughest league in the country by almost any measure in outright fashion....
Edey, Purdue on top of wild Big Ten heading into tourney
CHICAGO — While Zach Edey and Purdue won the Big Ten title this season, Trayce Jackson-Davis and Indiana had their share of big moments. Same for Boo Buie and Northwestern, and Tyson Walker and Michigan State. The Big Ten Conference Tournament is back in Chicago this year, and — judging...
NASCAR’s Denny Hamlin says he hit it big in Powerball
NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin recently revisited one that slipped right past most of us late last year. Hamlin hit it big in the $2 billion dollar Powerball draw back in November. He even tweeted about it back then. That said, no, he didn’t hit the jackpot, but he said he...
Furman wins, headed to first NCAA tourney since 1980
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Jalen Slawson scored 20 points, and Furman beat Chattanooga, 88-79, on Monday night to win the Southern Conference Tournament and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1980. The NCAA field contained 48 teams the last time the top-seeded Paladins made the Big Dance....
