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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Expansion: Women's NCAA field features inaugural First Four
Florida State coach Sue Semrau has always been a fan of adding teams to the women’s NCAA Tournament. She is thrilled it happened this season, giving her late-developing Seminoles the opportunity to be a part of history. Florida State (17-13) is one of the schools participating in the inaugural women’s...
Brent Sass wins his 1st Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Musher Brent Sass won the arduous Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska on Tuesday as his team of 11 dogs dashed off the Bering Sea ice through a crowd of fans in downtown Nome. Sass mushed down Front Street and across the finish line just before...
Former Penn State player Childress among newcomers for U.S. women's pro volleyball league
DALLAS — Volleyball players Carli Lloyd and Alisha Glass Childress, who helped the U.S. women win bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics, are among the newcomers for the second year of a pro volleyball team in their home country. Athletes Unlimited is returning to Dallas and will have fans at...
NCAA sets practice times Thursday at PPG Paints Arena for 8 tournament teams
The eight teams competing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament will begin arriving in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, and fans will be able to get a close look Thursday. Practices are open to the public for 40 minutes each at no cost at PPG Paints Arena. The schedule is...
Cameron Smith wins The Players Championship with big putts, gutsy shot
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Cameron Smith made the longest week at The Players Championship worth the wait. In a dynamic conclusion to five days of bad weather and high drama, Smith one-putted eight of his last nine holes with his pure stroke and delivered one of the gutsiest shots...
South Carolina fires Frank Martin after 10 seasons as men's basketball coach 
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina fired coach Frank Martin after 10 seasons with just one appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Athletic director Ray Tanner announced the move Monday, saying the change came after a “thorough evaluation of our men’s basketball program.” Martin completed his 10th season with an opening game...
45M Americans to bet on March Madness hoops, group estimates
About 45 million Americans say they plan to bet on this year’s March Madness college basketball championship tournament, and an increasing percentage will do it in a way that doesn’t include filling out brackets, according to the gambling industry’s national trade group. In a report released Sunday night, the American...
Sister Jean, 102, will be courtside at PPG Paints Arena with Loyola Chicago
Sticking to one of her favorite sayings (“It’s better to wear out than to rust out.”), 102-year-old Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt will accompany the Loyola Chicago Ramblers to Pittsburgh for their first-round game in the NCAA Tournament. Contacted Monday morning, Loyola Chicago associate athletic director Bill Behrns said, “We are...
March Madness brings back feel of the good ol' days
Any hoops fan hungering for a return to normal this March might have looked at the bracket when it finally came out and wondered what ever changed. Gonzaga is the tournament’s top seed. Kansas and Arizona are No. 1s, as well. Duke and Kentucky are right up there as No....
Picking the bracket: Big Ten resurgence, but title goes West 
Last season’s NCAA Tournament ultimately unfolded in familiar fashion. Upsets early — hi, Oral Roberts! — before the powerhouses eventually took over. By the time the championship game rolled around, undefeated Gonzaga and twice-beaten Baylor — two No. 1 seeds — were playing for the title. The lesson, then, is...
Anirban Lahiri ahead by shot as Players moves closer to conclusion 
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Anirban Lahiri showed up at the TPC Sawgrass in darkness Sunday morning wearing four layers of clothes — with a fifth layer just in case — to cope with near freezing temperatures he never experienced growing up in Bangalore, India. He walked off the course...
South Carolina top overall seed in Women's NCAA Tournament 
As expected, South Carolina earned the No. 1 overall seed in the Women’s NCAA Tournament on Sunday night. This year’s bracket expanded to 68 teams for the first time to match the men’s field with the play-in games on Wednesday and Thursday. The Gamecocks, who top the Greensboro Region, will...
Chase Briscoe races to 1st NASCAR Cup win, pulls away late in Phoenix 
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Chase Briscoe jumped out of his car and was obviously emotional, kneeling by his No. 14 for a few seconds before a couple of voice cracks during his postrace TV interview. The 27-year-old Briscoe took his lumps last season as a NASCAR Cup Series rookie. Now, he...
Gonzaga gets top nod for NCAA Tournament; Arizona, Kansas, Baylor next 
From the familiar names at the top of the bracket — Gonzaga, Kansas, Baylor — to the well-worn debates all across it — why did Coach K get shipped out West? did somebody do Dayton wrong? — this version of Selection Sunday felt as comfortable as a well-worn Air Jordan....
No. 18 Houston wins American Athletic Conference title over Memphis 
FORT WORTH, Texas — Fabian White Jr. scored 20 points, fellow big man Josh Carlton had 18 and 18th-ranked Houston beat Memphis, 71-53, in the American Athletic Conference championship game Sunday. A day after White played less than three minutes in the Cougars’ semifinal win because of back tightness, the...
No. 24 Iowa closes out No. 9 Purdue for Big Ten title 
INDIANAPOLIS — Keegan Murray had 19 points and 11 rebounds as No. 24 Iowa beat No. 9 Purdue, 75-66, to win its first Big Ten Tournament championship since 2006 and earn the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. The sixth-seeded Hawkeyes (26-9) became the fourth team in...
Richmond steals NCAA bid, beats top-seeded Davidson in A-10 Tournament title game 
WASHINGTON — Jacob Gilyard scored 26 points, Tyler Burton had 16 points and 12 rebounds and No. 6 seed Richmond beat top-seeded Davidson, 64-62, on Sunday to clinch the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament and an NCAA Tournament berth for the first time in 11 years. Richmond (23-12) was playing in...
No. 9 Tennessee tops Texas A&M for SEC tourney title 
TAMPA, Fla. — Santiago Vescovi scored 17 points, and Josiah-Jordan James had 16 points and 10 rebounds to help ninth-ranked Tennessee beat Texas A&M, 65-50, on Sunday to claim its first men’s SEC Tournament title in 43 years. The second-seeded Volunteers (26-7) never trailed, rattling off the first 14 points...
Yale edges Princeton to win Ivy League Tournament 
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Azar Swain scored 23 points, and Yale held on for a 66-64 victory over Princeton to win the Ivy League Tournament on Sunday. The Bulldogs will play in the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time. Yale last went to the NCAAs in 2019 and was to be...
Kansas beats Texas Tech in Big 12 final, makes case for No. 1 seed 
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ochai Agbaji was a lightly regarded three-star prospect when he left his home in Kansas City, Mo., four long years ago to play big-time college basketball just down the road at Kansas. Agbaji returned home this weekend as the Big 12’s player of the year, then...
Villanova tops Creighton to win Big East title 
NEW YORK — Collin Gillespie nailed consecutive 3-pointers late in the game that put No. 8 Villanova ahead for good, and the Wildcats beat Creighton, 54-48, to win the Big East Tournament championship Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Gillespie missed this tournament and the NCAAs last season with a...
Canada beats U.S. in women's hockey 'Rivalry Rematch'
The competitiveness of the rematch befitted the rivalry, even if the ending was less than climactic. Marie-Philip Poulin was credited with the winning goal 2 minutes and 13 seconds into overtime to lift the Canadian women’s hockey team to a 4-3 victory against Team USA in an exhibition dubbed the...
LSU fires men's basketball coach Will Wade, citing NCAA probe 
LSU fired men’s basketball coach Will Wade for cause amid “serious” allegations of NCAA violations, the university announced Saturday in a joint statement from its president and athletic director. The firing comes the day after LSU was bounced from the SEC Tournament by Arkansas, 79-67, in a quarterfinal game Friday...
Uncomfortably numb: Reddick deals with leg issues at Phoenix 
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Tyler Reddick is enjoying his status among NASCAR’s fastest drivers through the season’s first three races, adapting quickly to the sport’s Next Gen car that has provided solid racing and a new degree of difficulty for many drivers. The only issue is Reddick can’t seem to get...
Players Championship gets 4 hours of play and Monday finish
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — The Players Championship delivered only four hours of golf Friday before rain saturated the TPC Sawgrass, assuring the PGA Tour’s premier event will not end until Monday. So much for Saturday being “moving day.” Based on the forecast of overnight rain and raging wind, the...


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