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Big 12 tournament roundup: TCU, Baylor advance to title game
Top-seeded TCU advanced to the championship game of the Big 12 women's basketball tournament with a 71-65 victory over fourth-seeded West Virginia on Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.,The No. 8 Horned Frogs on Sunday will face second-seeded and No. 17 Baylor, which worked overtime to knock off No. 21 Okl...

Big 12 tournament roundup: No. 16 West Virginia, No. 8 TCU in semis
Sydney Shaw hit two free throws with 11 seconds left to secure No. 16 West Virginia's 73-69 victory over No. 20 Kansas State in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 women's basketball tournament on Friday in Kansas City, Mo.,The Mountaineers (24-6), seeded fourth, used an 8-0 run in the fourth quarter to...

Big 12 tournament roundup: No. 16 West Virginia, No. 8 TCU advance to semfinals
Sydney Shaw hit two free throws with 11 seconds left to secure No. 16 West Virginia's 73-69 victory over No. 20 Kansas State in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 women's basketball tournament on Friday in Kansas City, Mo.,The Mountaineers (24-6), seeded fourth, used an 8-0 run in the fourth quarter to...

Big 12 tournament roundup: Kansas State rolls past UCF
Serena Sundell poured in 21 points and No. 20 Kansas State easily handled UCF 80-65 to open the second round of the Big 12 women's basketball tournament on Thursday in Kansas City, Mo.,The fifth-seeded Wildcats led 41-30 at halftime, and the No. 13 seed Knights got to within seven points in the four...

Big 12 tournament roundup: UCF bounces BYU
Kaitlin Peterson scored 25 of her game-high 35 points in the second half and UCF dismissed BYU from the Big 12 Women's Championship tournament on Wednesday afternoon in Kansas City, Mo. ,BYU entered the fourth quarter clinging to a one-point lead but couldn't contain Peterson, who put the game out o...

Dricus du Plessis retains title in rematch with Sean Strickland
Middleweight champion Dricus Du Plessis outboxed Sean Strickland for 25 minutes en route to a unanimous decision win (50-45, 50-45, 49-46) in the main event of UFC 312 in Sydney, Australia, on Saturday night (Sunday in Australia).,The fight was never competitive as Strickland (29-7 MMA) stayed on hi...

Dricus du Plessis, Sean Strickland ready for rematch in Sydney
A middleweight title rematch between champion Dricus du Plessis and Sean Strickland takes center stage at UFC 312 in Sydney, Australia on Saturday night (Sunday morning locally).,Their first fight took place at UFC 297 in January 2024, with Strickland attempting to defend his championship for the fi...

SMU in, Alabama left out of College Football Playoff
When this college football season began, who envisioned the first 12-team College Football Playoff featuring byes to Boise State and Arizona State while waving bye-bye to 18-time national champion Alabama?,Oregon, Georgia, Mountain West titlist Boise State and Big 12 champ Arizona State secured the ...

Oregon, Georgia, Boise State, Arizona State top CFP seeds
Oregon is the No. 1 seed in the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff, as expected, followed by Georgia, Boise State and Arizona State.,The CFP selection committee unveiled the field of 12, with the first four spots assured of going to conference champions, on Sunday afternoon, with the discus...

Colorado's Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter Big 12 POYs
Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders and cornerback Travis Hunter swept top honors in the Big 12 Conference on Thursday.,Sanders, a senior and son of Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders, was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year. He leads the conference in pass completions (337), yards (3,926) and...

Out-of-nowhere Arizona State, Iowa State fight for Big 12 title, playoff bid
Picked to finish last in the 16-team Big 12, Arizona State jets to Texas one victory away from representing the conference in the 12-team College Football Playoff.,The No. 15 Sun Devils can take the final step when they face No. 16 Iowa State in the conference title game on Saturday at Arlington, Te...

Bettors behind Alabama to make CFP field
Bookmakers are adjusting the odds for making the 12-team playoff field with a surge of support for a familiar postseason power. ,Alabama is running to the front of the futures pool for teams to make the College Football Playoff 12-team field when it's announced Sunday afternoon as part of a bowl sel...

Big 12 championship game capsule: Arizona State vs. Iowa State
Big 12 championship game,Arizona State (10-2) vs. Iowa State (10-2),Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, at Noon ET,Arlington, Texas, AT&T Stadium,TV: ABC,Early line: Arizona State -1.5 (FanDuel),What's at stake:,Where Arizona State is in the standings on Tuesday will determine if the Sun Devils are facing a mus...

‘Farmageddon’ could help decide Big 12 championship
"Farmageddon" has never been bigger.,The rivalry between No. 24 Kansas State and No. 18 Iowa State is one of the longest continuously played series in college football. The two schools have played each other every year since 1917, making this the 108th straight season and the eighth-longest uninterr...

Arizona State fined $25K after storming snafu vs. BYU
The Big 12 Conference fined Arizona State $25,000 on Tuesday in response to fans storming the field during the final moments of Saturday's 28-23 win over BYU.,The league also issued a public reprimand to the school for the chaotic ending in Tempe, Ariz. Fans streamed onto the field thinking the game...

Top 10 Player Props For NFL Week 12
If watching the Cleveland Browns upset the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday Night Football makes you think twice about betting on Sunday games -- well, you don't have to. If you don't want to fall victim to the next upset, bet on one of the many NFL player props offered by online sportsbooks instead....

Week 12 NFL Capsules
Kansas City Chiefs (9-1) at Carolina Panthers (3-7), 1 p.m. ET, FOX,At Buffalo last week, Kansas City came out on the losing end of a game for the first time since last Christmas. The Chiefs don't lose, so it stands to reason they almost never drop back-to-back games. Kansas City lost back-to-back g...

Lions speed into Indianapolis with win streak at 8
It's up to Shane Steichen and his Indianapolis Colts staff this week to figure out ways to neutralize the steamrolling Detroit Lions. ,The Lions head into Indiana on Sunday with an eight-game winning streak, their longest since their first season in Detroit in 1934. They carved up Jacksonville 52-6,...

Chiefs move past first loss, place target on Panthers
Rested and ready, the Carolina Panthers might find a testy crew of Kansas City Chiefs when Patrick Mahomes plays in Charlotte for the first time Sunday afternoon., ,The Panthers (3-7) have won two games in a row and are coming off an open week., ,The Chiefs (9-1) don't have a winning streak for the ...

No. 14 BYU must 'refocus' for trip to No. 21 Arizona State
BYU coach Kalani Sitake said the 14th-ranked Cougars "just gotta refocus" after dropping eight spots in the College Football Playoff rankings coming off their first loss of the season.,The Cougars (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) will try to rebound from a 17-13 setback at home against Kansas when they visit No. 2...