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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
SEC fines LSU $100K for fans storming court vs. No. 17 Kentucky
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The SEC fined LSU $100,000 in connection with fans running onto the court after the Tigers’ victory over No. 17 Kentucky, the league announced Thursday. Tyrell Ward’s basket as time expired gave LSU a 75-74 win Wednesday night and prompted the court-storming. Safety risks associated with court-storming...
The stretch run of the NBA season has arrived. It’s time for the playoff push 
There’s no NBA player who is a bigger fan of harness racing than Denver’s Nikola Jokic. He owns horses, goes to tracks whenever he can and even accepted one of his MVP awards while riding around at his farm in Serbia. He knows the stretch run often decides races. And...
Tiger Woods’ son is taking his first step toward trying to play on the PGA Tour 
HOBE SOUND, Fla. — The 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods is taking the first step toward trying to play on the PGA Tour. Charlie Woods is entered in a pre-qualifier for the Cognizant Classic. The pre-qualifier for Woods is Thursday at Lost Lake Golf Club. The top 25 and ties...
Next on the Tee: Former Rams QB Jim Everett offers football insights, plus golf memories
On this episode of Next on the Tee, host Chris Mascaro is joined by former Rams Pro Bowl quarterback Jim Everett, 2014 Georgia PGA Teacher of the Year Kevin Roman, former Tour caddie and founder of Inspiring Warriors Golf Russ Holden, and Oklahoma Junior Golf Hall of Famer, Tour caddie...
William Byron battled ‘imposter syndrome’ in climb to Daytona 500 champ
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — William Byron grew up in the hotbed of NASCAR, so close to the stars that he could trick-or-treat at Jimmie Johnson’s house every Halloween. He’d tell Johnson every year that someday he’d race alongside him at Hendrick Motorsports. But aside from decorating his Charlotte, N.C., bedroom...
Column: Golf has a fractured landscape. Not even the majors can put it back together 
LOS ANGELES — The grill room at a California municipal golf course had one TV showing LIV Golf in Las Vegas, another showing the PGA Tour in Phoenix. A half-dozen people shifted eyes watching both, the former with fewer commercials on a network known more for “Young Sheldon” reruns. This...
College Football Playoff approves 5+7 format and reduces spots for conference champions
The field for the 12-team College Football Playoff beginning next season will comprise five conference champions and seven at-large selections after the university presidents who oversee the CFP voted unanimously Tuesday to tweak the format. The move to decrease the number of spots reserved for conference champions from six to...
Former Nebraska women’s basketball player sues school
OMAHA, Neb. — A former Nebraska women’s basketball player alleges coach Amy Williams and athletic director Trev Alberts did not take appropriate action when her sexual relationship with an assistant coach became widely known. Ashley Scoggin filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court describing how Chuck Love allegedly took...
William Byron launches Hendrick Motorsports’ 40th anniversary season with win in Daytona 500 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — William Byron launched Hendrick Motorsports’ 40th anniversary season by snapping the team’s nine-year Daytona 500 losing streak with a win Monday in the rain-delayed “Great American Race.” The last Hendrick driver to win the Daytona 500 was Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2014. The 26-year-old from Charlotte,...
Southern Cal jumps to 7th in women’s AP Top 25; South Carolina still unanimous No. 1
NEW YORK — Southern Cal, which has won six straight games, climbed three spots to No. 7 in the Associated Press women’s basketball poll Monday, and South Carolina remained a unanimous No. 1. USC swept Oregon and then-No. 11 Oregon State over the weekend. The Trojans moved into a tie...
UConn men unanimous No. 1 in AP Top 25 poll; Houston slides into No. 2 spot
UConn became the first unanimous No. 1 in the Associated Press men’s college basketball poll this season, while Washington State jumped into the rankings Monday at No. 21 to end a 302-week drought stretching back to the 2007-08 season. The Huskies remained atop the poll for the sixth consecutive week...
Points records fall at the All-Star Game, with the East beating the West 211-186
INDIANAPOLIS — The NBA wanted more competition. It got more points instead — more than ever before. And once again, the All-Star Game was all offense. All-Star MVP Damian Lillard of the Milwaukee Bucks scored 39 points and the Eastern Conference beat the Western Conference, 211-186, on Sunday night, with...
LeBron James committed to Paris Olympics; health remains big key
INDIANAPOLIS — LeBron James still wants to participate in the Paris Olympics this summer, sure sounds like extending his NBA career for at least a couple more seasons is an option and said he would like to see his playing days end as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers....
NASCAR teams have hired top antitrust lawyer on eve of Daytona 500
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR teams have hired one of the country’s top antitrust and sports lawyers to advise them in their ongoing dispute with the family-owned stock car series over a new revenue-sharing model. The decision to hire Jeffrey Kessler, partner and co-executive chair of Winston & Straw LLP,...
Ohio State upsets No. 2 Purdue in interim coach’s debut
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State stunned No. 2 Purdue on Sunday in its interim coach’s debut, winning 73-69 a day after the NCAA Tournament selection committee picked the Boilermakers as the early favorite to be the No. 1 overall seed during March Madness. Bruce Thornton scored 22 points, and Jamison...
Hideki Matsuyama becomes Asia’s most prolific PGA Tour winner
LOS ANGELES — Hideki Matsuyama set the Riviera record for the lowest closing round by a winner Sunday in the Genesis Invitational, giving the Japanese star another record that means far more to him. Matsuyama rallied from a six-shot deficit with a 9-under-par 62, punctuated by consecutive shots inside a...
Mac McClung earns perfect score to take 2nd straight NBA Slam Dunk Contest title over Jaylen Brown
INDIANAPOLIS — Mac McClung went back to school to win his second consecutive NBA Slam Dunk Contest. He asked Shaquille O’Neal to squeeze into McClung’s old high school jersey, then grabbed the ball out of the big man’s hands and leapt clear over him to draw five perfect scores on...
Rain pushes Daytona 500 to Monday in 1st outright postponement since 2012
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR postponed the season-opening Daytona 500 until Monday because of two days of rain at Daytona International Speedway. The race had been scheduled for Sunday afternoon, although the weather forecast put that in doubt all week. The final practice for drivers was canceled Saturday, as was...
Damian Lillard uses late shooting flurry to defend NBA 3-point title
INDIANAPOLIS — Milwaukee Bucks star Damian Lillard defended his NBA 3-point contest title by finishing with 26 points in the final round during All-Star Saturday night. Lillard, who won with Portland last season, became the eighth player to win at least two 3-point crowns and the first since Jason Kapono...
Patrick Cantlay leads by 2 at Riviera as he goes for a hometown win 
LOS ANGELES — Patrick Cantlay moved one round closer to winning before home fans at Riviera on his favorite course. He just moved the wrong way at the end Saturday in the Genesis Invitational. Cantlay got up-and-down from short of the 18th green to save par for a 1-under-par 70,...
Beard Motorsports carries on at Daytona 500 in honor of late patriarch
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Anthony Alfredo qualified for the Daytona 500 — no guarantee for the 24-year-old nicknamed “Fast Pasta” — and wrapped his arms tight around retired driver Brendan Gaughan for a bear hug. Alfredo was hoisted high for a fleeting moment before his feet returned to pit road,...
Heat’s Bam Adebayo to start NBA All-Star Game in place of injured Joel Embiid
Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo has been selected as a replacement starter for the Eastern Conference in Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game in Indianapolis. Adebayo, selected by conference coaches as a reserve, confirmed the elevation during his Saturday media session. Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers, who is coaching the East, was...
Patrick Cantlay builds a 5-shot lead at Riviera. Tiger Woods makes early exit with flu symptoms 
LOS ANGELES — Patrick Cantlay began with an eagle and never let anyone close to him the rest of the round Friday. He shot a 6-under-par 65 to build a five-shot lead at the Genesis Invitational going into a weekend that won’t include Tiger Woods. Woods made another early exit,...
Tiger Woods withdraws after playing only 6 holes at Riviera 
LOS ANGELES — Tiger Woods returned to the PGA Tour and lasted only 24 holes, withdrawing Friday at the Genesis Invitational with an undisclosed illness after hitting his tee shot on the seventh hole. PGA Tour rules official Mark Dusbabek said on the telecast that Woods had an illness, and...
Toyota takes high hopes into Daytona 500 but weather may affect ‘The Great American Race’ 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Denny Hamlin leaned into the window of Christopher Bell’s winning Toyota to congratulate his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate on beating him in a Daytona 500 qualifying race. Hamlin then gave Bell detailed directions to victory lane. “Been to victory lane at Daytona a time or three,”...


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