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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....
Louisiana clinches Sun Belt’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Themus Fulks scored a career-high 23 points, Jordan Brown had 13 points and 16 rebounds and second-seeded Louisiana beat No. 8 seed South Alabama, 71-66, on Monday night to claim the Sun Belt Tournament championship. The fifth NCAA Tournament berth for Louisiana (26-7) will be its first...
Jenna Fryer: IndyCar bullish on future even after sloppy opener
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Michael Andretti had his head in his hands nearly every time the camera showed him during the IndyCar season-opening race. He started with at least three true challengers to win Sunday on the downtown streets of St. Petersburg, only to see two of his cars involved...
Houston, UCLA, Kansas top latest AP Top 25; Duke back in, Pitt falls out
UCLA is surging, both toward the postseason and in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll. While Houston was No. 1 for a third straight week in Monday’s poll, the Bruins rose two spots to No. 2 for their highest ranking of the season. UCLA (27-4) has won its last...
Kennesaw State makes history with first trip to NCAA Tournament
The Kennesaw State men’s basketball team is going to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history. Terrell Burden hit a free throw with 0.7 seconds remaining to lift the Owls past Liberty 67-66 on Sunday in front of a school-record announced attendance of 3,805 to win the...
Kurt Kitayama breaks through in wild finish at Bay HillVideo
ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama only had to look around at the players next to him in the practice area and right below him on the leaderboard at Bay Hill to know what he was up against Sunday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. “You can’t ignore it. You got to...
William Byron grabs lead in penultimate OT lap for win at Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — William Byron took the lead on the second-to-last lap of overtime to win the NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas on Sunday and put an exclamation mark on a dominant day for Hendrick Motorsports. The top three drivers were from Hendrick, with Byron beating teammates Kyle...
Marcus Ericsson wins rough IndyCar season-opening raceVideo
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jack Harvey was taken to a hospital and Helio Castroneves needed an ice pack and X-rays. A pair of cars went airborne, the leaders crashed each other and the entire Andretti Autosport fleet was eliminated. Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson, meanwhile, won the IndyCar season-opening race....
Texas Tech suspends coach Mark Adams over racially insensitive comment
LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech suspended coach Mark Adams on Sunday over “an inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive comment” he made to a player. Athletic director Kirby Hocutt said he was made aware of the incident Friday and issued a written reprimand before deciding to suspend Adams to investigate further....
Kitayama holds onto Bay Hill lead over Scheffler, HovlandVideo
ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama had to leave home to find his way in golf by playing circuits in Europe, Australia and Asia, all for a chance to get to the highest level. Along with three worldwide titles, he learned how to battle. That might come in handy Sunday at...
Kyle Busch suddenly fan favorite entering Las Vegas race
LAS VEGAS — When Kyle Busch emerged from his No. 8 Chevrolet following his victory last Sunday at Fontana, he was greeted with … cheers? The applause continued as Busch did his signature bow, and the feeling is new for him. Busch long has played the NASCAR villain, but the...
Chase Elliott out of NASCAR indefinitely after tibia surgeryVideo
LAS VEGAS — Chase Elliott is out indefinitely after undergoing a successful three-hour surgery to repair a fractured tibia, Hendrick Motorsports general manager Jeff Andrews said Saturday. Andrews said there was no timeline on when the star NASCAR driver would return. Elliott injured his left leg Friday while snowboarding in...
Olympic ticket sales for Paris Games get off to rocky start
PARIS — Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics promised relatively modest prices and egalitarian access to events, thanks to an online system meant to revolutionize ticket sales and bring the masses to stadiums and arenas for as little as $26. As the month-long opening round of sales winds down, however,...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Basketball’s best ever? Give me Wilt Chamberlain
This past Thursday was the 61st anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in an NBA game. That game had a lot of quirks, not least Chamberlain hitting the century mark. It was a neutral-site game played in Hershey. That was the state of the NBA then: A game played...
Kurt Kitayama handles a windy Bay Hill as Jon Rahm faltersVideo
ORLANDO, Fla. — Kurt Kitayama is chasing his first PGA Tour victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational with a world-class group of contenders right behind him. Kitayama should be used to that. Last year alone, he fell one shot sort of Jon Rahm in Mexico, Xander Schauffele in Scotland and...
Medvedev beats Djokovic, to face Rublev in Dubai final
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Daniil Medvedev ended Novak Djokovic’s 20-match winning streak by beating the world’s top-ranked player 6-4, 6-4 to reach the final at the Dubai Championships on Friday. The third-seeded Medvedev will face defending champion Andrey Rublev in an all-Russian final of the hard-court tournament. The former...
