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Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 4 UCLA takes down No. 19 Ohio State
Lauren Betts' 18 points and Kiki Rice's 16 points carried No. 4 UCLA past No. 19 Ohio State for an 82-75 Big Ten Conference victory Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, in the only game on the day's schedule pitting nationally ranked teams against each other.,Angela Dugalic added 15 points off the bench for UC...

TGL Season 2 primer: Schedule, what’s new, what to watch for
Atlanta Drive GC swept New York Golf Club 2-0 in the finals of the inaugural season of TGL. Season 2 begins Sunday afternoon with a rematch between Atlanta and New York.,Six teams of four PGA Tour stars apiece are back in the saddle for the second season of the indoor golf league co-founded by Tiger...

Women’s Top 25 roundup: No. 24 Michigan St. tops No. 15 Ole Miss in tourney final
Grace VanSlooten compiled 16 points and 10 rebounds, leading No. 24 Michigan State to a 66-49 win over No. 15 Ole Miss in the championship game of the Cherokee (N.C.) Invitational on Monday.,Isaline Alexander added 14 points and Rashunda Jones had 13 as the Spartans (11-1) won their third game in a ...

Women’s Top 25 roundup: No. 8 Oklahoma drops 126 points on NC Central
Zya Vann scored 21 points with 10 rebounds, six steals and three blocks to help No. 8 Oklahoma break the program record for points in a game during a 126-54 trouncing of North Carolina Central on Monday in Norman, Okla.,It marked career highs in points, rebounds and blocks for Vann, who shot 8 of 11...

Spain ends 2025 atop FIFA men's world rankings, U.S. stays 14th
With the start of North America's World Cup just over six months away, Spain will head into the new year as FIFA's top ranked team, with two of the three host countries for the 2026 tournament tightly bunched together.,The United States will end the year ranked No. 14 in the poll, while Mexico sits ...

Arizona still No. 1 as Michigan inches closer in AP poll
Iowa State, UConn and Purdue moved up a spot and Duke dropped three places to No. 6 in Monday's latest Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll.,Arizona remained No. 1 in the country and Michigan again is No. 2, but the Wolverines moved a mere 20 points away from the Wildcats in the vot...

UConn still No. 1 in poll; unbeaten Texas Tech joins party
It was another week of stability within the top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25 women's college basketball poll, with UConn remaining No. 1 in the country on Monday.,The teams that comprise the top 10 spots remained the same for the fifth consecutive week, and the order of the top seven -- UConn, ...

Team Yandex ralliy past Team Spirit for DreamLeague Season 27 title
Team Yandex fell behind early before surging past Team Spirit 3-1 in the grand final on Sunday in the DreamLeague Season 27 playoffs.,Team Spirit advanced to the best-of-five final round by sweeping PARIVISION 2-0 in the lower-bracket final earlier Sunday.,The championship was worth $214,000 in priz...

Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 10 Iowa State beats Kansas at buzzer
Kenzie Hare swished a 3-pointer from the left corner as time expired to give No. 10 Iowa State a 79-76 victory over Kansas on Sunday afternoon in the Big 12 opener for both teams at Ames, Iowa.,Kansas knotted the score at 76 on a basket by S'Mya Nichols with 5.2 seconds left. On Iowa State's final p...

Team Yandex in grand final at DreamLeague Season 27
Team Yandex advanced on Saturday to the grand final, awaiting the winner of Team Spirit vs. PARIVISION in the DreamLeague Season 27 playoffs.,Team Spirit and PARIVISION will battle in Sunday's lower-bracket final to determine the remaining berth in the grand final later that day.,The $1 million Dota...

Xtreme stave off elimination twice at DreamLeague Season 27
Xtreme Gaming won a pair of elimination matches Friday to remain alive in the DreamLeague Season 27 playoffs, advancing into the lower-bracket semifinal.,After losing its playoff opener 2-0 to Team Spirit on Wednesday, Xtreme Gaming began the Friday competition with a 2-0 sweep of Team Falcons in a ...

Women's Top 25 roundup: Joyce Edwards, No. 3 South Carolina cruises
Joyce Edwards poured in a career-high 34 points on a blistering 14-for-15 shooting night, and No. 3 South Carolina hit the century mark for the fifth time by blasting South Florida 103-44 on Thursday in Tampa, Fla.,Edwards missed her second shot of the night before making her final 13 attempts, all ...

Yandex, Spirit reach upper-bracket final at DreamLeague Season 27
Team Yandex won two matches Thursday and joined Team Spirit in reaching the upper-bracket final of the DreamLeague Season 27 playoffs.,After the playoffs began with three matches Wednesday, Yandex played in the last upper-bracket quarterfinal match saved for Thursday. They took down Virtus.pro 2-1 t...

OG, Falcons take upset losses in DreamLeague Season 27 playoffs
OG and Team Falcons, two of the top three teams in the DreamLeague Season 27 group stage, dropped their openers in the double-elimination playoffs on Wednesday.,Team Spirit, who joined OG and Team Falcons in posting a 5-1 group-stage record, won their first playoff match, downing Xtreme Gaming 2-0 i...

2026 World Cup winner to earn record $50M
FIFA will pay out a record $727 million to the 48 teams participating in the 2026 World Cup.,At its meeting in Doha, Qatar, the FIFA council agreed that $655 million of that pot will be paid as prize money, the organization confirmed Wednesday. The remainder will be given to participants -- $1.5 mil...

ACC reveals ‘26 schedule: Some play 9 league games, others 8
The Atlantic Coast Conference revealed Tuesday that not all 17 of its football members will make the move to a nine-game conference schedule in 2026.,Instead, 12 teams will play nine games while Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech and North Carolina will have eight games in what the...

Team Yandex squeeze into DreamLeague Season 27 playoffs
Team Yandex, PARIVISION, Xtreme Gaming and Tundra Esports each won their group-stage finale on Monday and advanced to the playoffs of DreamLeague Season 27.,That quartet, which all finished with 4-2 records, joined four teams that had already clinched advancement: OG (5-1), Team Spirit (5-1), Team F...

Top six unchanged, No. 15 Nebraska surges in Top 25
The top six teams were unchanged and No. 15 Nebraska surged to its highest ranking in 34 years in the Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll released Monday.,No. 1 Arizona (9-0) received 42 of 61 first-place votes, while 15 votes went to No. 2 Michigan (10-0), three to No. 3 Duke (10-...

UConn holds at No. 1 as top seven teams unchanged
UConn remained at No. 1 and the top seven teams were unchanged in the Associated Press Top 25 women's college basketball poll released on Monday.,The defending national champion Huskies (10-0) received 24 of the 32 first-place votes after routing then-No. 16 Southern California 79-51 on Saturday in ...

Team Falcons remain undefeated at DreamLeague Season 27
Team Falcons knocked OG from the unbeatens to stand alone in first place on Sunday at DreamLeague Season 27.,OG now share a 4-1 record with Team Spirit and Virtus.pro.,The $1 million Dota 2 event features 24 teams starting in a Swiss System group stage. All matches are best-of-three, with the top ei...