By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Former Wake Forest star and 12-year NBA player Rodney Rogers has died. He was 54. The school announced Saturday that Rogers had died on Friday. Rogers — the No. 9 overall NBA draft pick in 1993 — had been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a ...
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Germany's Laura Nolte edged American rival Kaysha Love to win the monobob test event on the new track for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Saturday. Nolte, the reigning Olympic and world champion in two-woman, finished 0.15 seconds ahead of Love, the world ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Anthony Colandrea threw three touchdown passes and UNLV breezed to a 38-10 victory over Hawaii on Friday night. UNLV (9-2, 5-2 Mountain West Conference) turned the game-opening drive into a 44-yard field goal by Ramon Villela, but Hawaii (7-4, 4-3) answered with Micah ...
By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves had an eight-point lead with less than minute to go Friday night, talking a little smack to their opponents as a hard-fought, chippy game between Western Conference rivals came to a close. There was one problem: ...
By MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Deni Avdija had 26 points, a career-high 14 assists and six rebounds as the Portland Trail Blazers held off the Golden State Warriors 127-123 in the NBA Cup on Friday night. Avdija shot only 6 for 14 from the floor but made 12 of ...
By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Justin Joly had a clinching fourth-down touchdown catch with 1:47 left — coming after Florida State committed turnovers on back-to-back late punt returns — to help N.C. State hang for a 21-11 win Friday night and become bowl ...
DALLAS (AP) — Cooper Flagg scored a career-high 29 points, Naji Marshall hit the go-ahead 3-pointer against his former team with 30.7 seconds left and the Dallas Mavericks beat the New Orleans Pelicans 118-115 on Friday night in NBA Cup play. The 3-pointer by Marshall, who played four ...
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Oscar Cluff had 15 points and 15 rebounds as No. 1 Purdue remained unbeaten with an 86-56 win over No. 15 Texas Tech on Friday night in the final of the Baha Mar Championship. Trey Kaufman-Renn had 12 points, Omer Mayer and Daniel Jacobsen each scored 11, and Fletcher ...
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Jordan Staal scored twice and the Carolina Hurricanes beat Winnipeg 4-3 on Friday night in the Jets' first game since learning star goalie Connor Hellebuyck will be sidelined four to six weeks. Hellebuyck will have arthroscopic surgery for a knee problem dating to ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brandon Montour scored with 50 seconds left in overtime to give the Seattle Kraken a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. Montour's wrist shot from the left side beat Penguins' goaltender Sergei Murashov and gave the Kraken their fourth win in their last ...
ATLANTA (AP) — Ja'Kyrian Turner ran for 201 yards and a touchdown, Braylan Lovelace had a 100-yard interception return and Pittsburgh held off No. 15 Georgia Tech 42-28 on Saturday night to keep its Atlantic Coast Conference championship hopes alive. "Incredible job by our guys going on the ...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Kaytron Allen ran for 160 yards and two touchdowns, and Penn State's defense played its best game of the season to keep the Nittany Lions' bowl hopes alive with a 37-10 win over Nebraska on Saturday night. Allen, who racked up 181 yards rushing in last week's win ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tyson Foerster and Matvei Michkov each grabbed a share of three stacked pucks dated and noted for the Flyers forwards role in the fastest three goals scored in team history. The Flyers shoot, they score, again and again in record time. The Philadelphia Flyers set a ...
DETROIT (AP) — Alex DeBrincat scored 1:50 into overtime, and the Detroit Red Wings beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 on Saturday. DeBrincat skated in from the right side and lifted a shot over goaltender Jet Greaves' left shoulder. It was his 10th goal this season. Moritz Seider and Ben ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Even without its top two playmakers on offense, top-ranked Ohio State had more than enough on Saturday to pull away in the second half for a 42-9 victory over Rutgers. But with the game well in hand during the fourth quarter, coach Ryan Day's thoughts began to turn ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — LJ Martin ran for a career-high 222 yards and scored twice to help No. 11 BYU keep its Big 12 title-game hopes alive with a 26-14 victory over Cincinnati on Saturday night. After Brendan Sorsby's 19-yard TD pass to Jeff Caldwell cut the Cougars' lead to six points with 4:37 ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A fifth consecutive Formula 1 championship is within Max Verstappen's reach following the disqualifications of contenders Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri after Saturday night's Las Vegas Grand Prix. Verstappen won the event for the second time in three years to close the gap ...
By ERIC W. BOLIN Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Malique Ewin scored 21 points in 14 minutes off the bench to lead seven Arkansas players in double figures, and the 21st-ranked Razorbacks routed winless Jackson State 115-61 on Friday night. It was the most points Arkansas has ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Kel'el Ware had 20 points and 14 rebounds, Norman Powell scored 19 points and the Miami Heat rolled past the Chicago Bulls 143-107 on Friday night. Bam Adebayo scored 18 points, while Pelle Larsson and Davion Mitchell each scored 16 for Miami, which topped the 140-point mark ...
By BRENDAN McGAIR Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Nic Claxton had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists for his first NBA triple-double and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Boston Celtics 113-105 on Friday night for their first victory in the NBA Cup in-season tournament. Michael Porter Jr. ...