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Top 25 roundup: Indiana rallies past struggling No. 13 Purdue
Malik Reneau and Trey Galloway led five players in double figures with 15 points apiece and Indiana overcame a 12-point halftime deficit to stretch No. 13 Purdue's losing streak to four games with a 73-58 Big Ten Conference victory Sunday in Bloomington, Ind.,Myles Rice and reserve Oumar Ballo score...

Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 13 NC State downs No. 1 Notre Dame in 2OT
Zoe Brooks poured in a career-high 33 points and Aziaha James scored 20 points as No. 13 North Carolina State defeated No. 1 Notre Dame 104-95 in double overtime in a classic back-and-forth battle Sunday afternoon in Raleigh, N.C.,The Wolfpack scored the first 10 points of the second overtime until ...

Surge first team to 3-0 at Stage 2 Major qualifying
The Vancouver Surge lived up to their name on Saturday, surging to the top of the Call of Duty League Stage 2 Major standings with a 3-1 win over Los Angeles Guerrillas M8.,The Atlanta FaZe, Carolina Royal Ravens and Toronto Ultra also picked up wins Saturday.,The Stage 2 Major qualifying round cons...

Chimera Esports, PARIVISION remain unbeaten at DreamLeague Season 25
Chimera Esports and PARIVISION are the early teams to beat at DreamLeague Season 25, as each improved to 2-0 with wins on Day 2 of Group Stage 2 play on Saturday.,In the day's two other matches, Team Spirit and Team Falcons picked up their first Group Stage 2 wins to improve to 1-1.,Group Stage 2 of...

Austin Hill's domination at Atlanta continues with Xfinity Series win
HAMPTON, Ga. -- The Atlanta Motor Speedway is Austin Hill's home track after all -- and the Georgia native proved again Saturday night that he absolutely "owns it.",Hill dominated the NASCAR Xfinity Series Bennett Transportation and Logistics 250 on the Atlanta high banks -- leading 146 of the 163 l...

Truck Series Atlanta: Kyle Busch prevails in photo finish
HAMPTON, Ga. -- With seven previous NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Atlanta Motor Speedway trophies already on his mantle, Kyle Busch was obviously the odds-on favorite for Saturday's Fr8 Racing 208. And the veteran did not disappoint., ,Pulling ahead of Stewart Friesen about 20 yards from the finish ...

Trio of sweeps kicks off Stage 2 Major qualifying Week 2
It was a day of blowouts at the Call of Duty League Stage 2 Major on Friday, as all three matches to open Week 2 saw 3-0 sweeps.,Two of the matches saw clubs pick up their first wins of the event -- the Miami Heretics and Carolina Royal Ravens -- while in the day's final match Cloud9 New York improv...

Team Tundra, PARAVISION earn sweeps at DreamLeague Season 25
Team Tundra and PARAVISION opened Group Stage 2 on Friday with sweeps at the DreamLeague Season 25 event.,BetBoom Team and Chimera Esports also picked up Group Stage 2 victories.,Group Stage 2 of the $1 million Dota 2 event is a single round-robin group, with eight teams facing off in best-of-three ...

FaZe, Falcons, MOUZ, Astralis head to PGL Cluj-Napoca semis
FaZe Clan, Team Falcons, MOUZ and Astralis advanced to the semifinals of the $1.25 million PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 event by winning their quarterfinal matches Friday in Romania.,It was nearly a clean sweep, with only one of the four best-of-three matches going the distance. FaZe swept SAW, MOUZ blanked...

Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 15 Tennessee fends off No. 18 Tide
Jewel Spear scored 20 points and Talaysia Cooper added 16 as No. 15 Tennessee continued its late-season surge with an 88-80 victory Thursday at home over No. 18 Alabama in Knoxville, Tenn.,Zee Spearman had 13 points and nine rebounds for the Lady Vols (20-6, 7-6 SEC), who won for the fifth time in t...

Team Liquid advance at DreamLeague Season 25
Team Liquid beat Gaimin Gladiators in the final tiebreaker match Thursday to reach Group Stage 2 at the DreamLeague Season 25 event.,Group Stage 1 concluded with Thursday's action to determine the fourth and final team to advance from Group B.,Group Stage 2 will be a single round-robin group, with t...

Falcons, HEROIC advance in DreamLeague Season 25
Team Falcons and HEROIC won matches Wednesday to clinch advancement to Group Stage 2 at the DreamLeague Season 25.,Falcons (4-1-2) earned a 2-0 victory over 9Pandas (0-5-2) to wind up in third place in Group A after round-robin play in Group Stage 1. HEROIC (4-3-0) took fourth place in Group A follo...

Women's Top 25 roundup: Paige Bueckers, No. 5 UConn rout Seton Hall
Paige Bueckers scored 23 points with nine rebounds and No. 5 UConn extended its winning streak to four games with a 91-49 victory on the road against Seton Hall on Wednesday at South Orange, N.J.,Aubrey Griffin and Kaitlyn Chen each contributed 15 points, Ashlynn Shade scored 14 and Sarah Strong add...

NFL salary cap rising to at least $277.5M
The 2025 salary cap will surge to an estimated $277.5 million per team and could climb as high as $281.5 million, up at least $22 million from last season.,The new cap marks an increase of more than $53 million over the past two years.,The NFL sent a memo to teams on Wednesday outlining the new rang...

Nationals OF Dylan Crews runs own race with spotlight on '23 draft class
Three weeks into the 2025 regular season, Washington Nationals outfielder Dylan Crews will head to Pittsburgh to face former college teammate Paul Skenes, the much more familiar face of LSU baseball. ,Skenes, the power pitcher selected No. 1 ahead of Crews in a mildly debated pick in the 2023 draft,...

Stubbs: How William Byron's rise compares to Jeff Gordon's best years
More than 25 years after Jeff Gordon earned his second Daytona 500 win in 1999, he sat inside the media center at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday, preparing to take questions.,Gordon, now the vice chairman of operations for Hendrick Motorsports, was previously the youngest driver to win two...

Tundra, Spirit still cruising at DreamLeague Season 25
Tundra Esports and Team Spirit continue to lead their respective groups through three days of DreamLeague Season 25.,Tundra went 2-0-0 to break a tie for the top spot in Group A, while Team Spirit's one win and one tie were good enough to keep them alone in first in Group B.,Team Spirit, Tundra and ...

Playoff bracket finalized at PGL Cluj-Napoca
Astralis, SAW and MOUZ claimed the final three playoff spots Tuesday at the $1.25 million PGL Cluj-Napoca event in Romania.,Astralis swept BIG, SAW did the same to 3DMAX and MOUZ eliminated Virtus.pro 2-1 in their respective Round 5 matches to finalize the eight-team, single-elimination playoff brac...

Team Spirit improves to 4-0-0 at DreamLeague Season 25
Team Spirit is the only squad with a perfect 4-0-0 record after winning two Group B matches Monday on the second day of DreamLeague Season 25.,Spirit beat AVULUS in 26 minutes on red and 44 minutes on green, then dismissed BOOM Esports in 39 minutes on red and 39 on green. They have a commanding lea...

Women’s Top 25 roundup: No. 8 Ohio State needs OT to beat Iowa
Jaloni Cambridge scored six of her 29 points in overtime and No. 8 Ohio State survived visiting Iowa's fourth-quarter comeback to win 86-78 on Monday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio.,Cotie McMahon added 25 points and eight rebounds as the Buckeyes (22-3, 11-3 Big Ten) led by as many as 14, only for Lucy...