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Red Wings blank Golden Knights for much-needed win
Petr Mrazek made 18 saves for his first shutout of the season and the host Detroit Red Wings blanked the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0 on Sunday afternoon.,Rookie defenseman Albert Johansson scored his second career goal. Lucas Raymond and Marco Kasper also scored for the Red Wings, who had lost seven of...
Reports: Bengals signing WRs Ja'Marr Chase, Tee Higgins to 4-year deals
The Cincinnati Bengals are keeping star wide receivers Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins after the pair agreed to contract extensions, according to multiple reports on Sunday night.,The receivers told Fox Sports, with figures confirmed by an NFL Network report, details of the new pacts. Chase, who was e...
10 players poised to become household names in NCAA Women's Tournament
March Madness gives college basketball's best players the stage to become transcendent. ,In recent years, Sabrina Ionescu of Oregon's run to the 2019 Final Four, and the 2023 national championship game matchup between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have launched these names into the stratosphere.,The...
Midwest Region: Top seed Houston looks primed for Final Four run
The top-seeded Houston Cougars have been knocking on the door in recent seasons and now appear primed to make a championship run.,Houston has reached the Sweet 16 the past five times the NCAA Tournament has been played. That includes a Final Four appearance in 2021 and the Elite Eight in 2022.,Last ...
Eight teams most likely to make Women's Final Four
Some teams are riding the momentum of having won their conference tournament championship.,Some are hoping the break after the conference tournaments enables them to regain their season-long form after experiencing some slippage down the stretch.,And everyone is hoping to be as healthy and rejuvenat...
Gilgeous-Alexander, Thunder cruise past Bucks
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander recorded 31 points and eight assists to help the Oklahoma City Thunder post a 121-105 victory over the host Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday night.,Isaiah Hartenstein scored a career-high 24 points on 11-of-15 shooting and collected 12 rebounds as the Thunder (56-12) won their third...
West Region: Intriguing coaching matchups loom in early rounds
When the NCAA Selection Committee members filled out the West Region bracket, they must have been looking ahead to potential coaching matchups in the second round.,How else to explain this:,Todd Golden, the coach of top-seeded Florida, has never won an NCAA Tournament game. If he gets the first one,...
Dylan Samberg's OT winner lifts Jets over Kraken
Dylan Samberg had a goal and an assist, scoring the winner at 1:47 of overtime, as the Winnipeg Jets rallied to defeat the host Seattle Kraken 3-2 Sunday night to regain first place in the NHL's overall standings.,Cole Perfetti also had a goal and an assist, Kyle Connor tallied and Vladislav Namestn...
Can South Carolina repeat in NCAA Women's Tournament?
South Carolina has found extra incentive going into the NCAA Women's Tournament.,Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley said she felt slighted by the selection committee's decision to give South Carolina (30-3) the No. 2 overall seed.,What matters is where they end up on the season's final weekend. But for now...
10 players primed to become household names in NCAA Tournament
The last time a freshman was the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament was 2015, when point guard Tyus Jones piloted Duke to its fifth national championship. ,Jones -- and Jahlil Okafor, another freshman -- came up big for the Blue Devils, and Duke beat Wisconsin for the national title with...
Goals are plentiful for Blues in win over struggling Ducks
Dylan Holloway and Jake Neighbours each had a goal and an assist as the St. Louis Blues rolled past the visiting Anaheim Ducks 7-2 on Sunday.,The Blues won their 10th straight game against the Ducks and improved to 9-2-2 overall in their last 13 games.,Brayden Schenn, Pavel Buchnevich, Radek Faksa, ...
SMU, Dayton among top seeds in NIT as teams decline bids
SMU, Dayton, UC Irvine and San Francisco are the No. 1 seeds in the 2025 National Invitation Tournament, organizers revealed Sunday night.,Only four of the 32 teams in the field -- SMU, Stanford, Georgia Tech and Oklahoma State -- hail from one of the five power conferences, marking a potentially sh...
South Region: Despite recent struggles, Auburn is No. 1 overall for a reason
The top overall seed, Auburn, lives here. Even though the Tigers wobbled a bit at the end of the regular season and Southeastern Conference tournament with three losses in four games, they still amassed a whopping 16 Quad 1 wins from a 28-5 worksheet.,They might have the nation's best player in John...
Utah rallies to beat Canucks for boost in playoff chase
Logan Cooley's goal 5:08 into the third period broke a tie and the Utah Hockey Club came from behind to defeat the host Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Sunday night.,Kevin Stenlund and Clayton Keller also scored for Utah, which had lost four of its last six and is battling to remain in playoff contention. ...
Iowa State loses G Keshon Gilbert to injury before NCAA Tournament
Iowa State's run in the NCAA Tournament will come without standout senior guard Keshon Gilbert, who has been ruled out because of a groin injury, coach T.J. Otzelberger announced Sunday.,The Cyclones (24-9), ranked No. 12 in the nation, are seeded third in the South Region with a first-round game Fr...
East Region: No. 1 Duke's chance for title run goes through Cooper Flagg
A decade has passed since Duke won its most recent of five national championships, the longest title drought for the program since claiming its first in 1991. All five of those titles came under the direction of legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski.,Duke has the firepower in 2025 to end an excruciating w...
Islanders score 4 unanswered, double up Panthers
Marc Gatcomb, Maxim Tsyplakov and Noah Dobson scored in a span of a little more than six minutes in the third period Sunday night for the New York Islanders, who stormed back to beat the Florida Panthers 4-2 in Belmont Park, N.Y.,The Islanders (30-28-8) were outshooting the Panthers 27-12 when Gatco...
MLB betting primer: Top picks for futures markets
It's finally upon us: the start of another season of Major League Baseball. ,It's time for the Boys of Summer to play and for stats nerds like me to analyze all the data I can muster to figure out how I want to bet on some of the many MLB futures markets.,One of the beautiful aspects of this game is...
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins assists all 3 Oilers goals to top Rangers
Viktor Arvidsson scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins assisted on each Edmonton goal as the visiting Oilers won 3-1 over the New York Rangers on Sunday night.,Leon Draisaitl extended his career-high point streak to 18 games with an assist on Corey Perry's fi...
Anthony Edwards goes for 41 points as Timberwolves crush Jazz
Anthony Edwards scored 41 points on 16-for-27 shooting, and the Minnesota Timberwolves cruised to a 128-102 win over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night in Minneapolis.,Jaden McDaniels added 20 points and 12 rebounds for Minnesota (40-29), which won its eighth game in a row. Julius Randle and Donte DiVinc...