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Jizzle James pours in 24 as Cincinnati crushes Kansas State
Cincinnati's Jizzle James netted a season-high 24 points, and the Bearcats recorded their first road win in seven attempts by pounding Kansas State 91-62 on Wednesday in Manhattan, Kan.,James sank 9 of 14 shots, including 6 of 8 from beyond the 3-point arc.,Coming off a 20-point home thumping of UCF...
Ebuka Okorie, Stanford eke out win over Boston College
Ebuka Okorie tossed in a game-high 22 points to lead Stanford to a 70-64 victory over Boston College in an ACC matchup on Wednesday night in Chestnut Hill, Mass., ,Okorie, a freshman guard, entered the game averaging 22.4 points per contest, which ranked sixth among Division I players. He has scored...
Short-handed Heat stave off rally to beat Pelicans
Bam Adebayo scored 27 points and grabbed 14 rebounds as the visiting Miami Heat continued their dominance over the New Orleans Pelicans with a 123-111 victory on Wednesday.,Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored 23 points off the bench and Kel'el Ware had 16 points and 12 rebounds for Miami, which has won four str...
American Chloe Kim flies into halfpipe final on the hunt for 3rd gold
LIVIGNO, Italy, -- American snowboarder Chloe Kim cruised into the halfpipe finals at the Winter Olympics on Wednesday, showing off high-altitude tricks to easily lead the field as she moved a step closer to claiming a third straight gold medal.,Kim, one of the greatest snowboarders in history, burs...
Hot-shooting Maryland halts Iowa's 6-game Big Ten win streak
Freshman Andre Mills scored a career-high 24 points to propel Maryland to a 77-70 Big Ten victory over Iowa on Wednesday in College Park, Md.,David Coit scored 19 points off the bench and Solomon Washington put up 10 points and eight rebounds for the Terrapins (10-14, 3-10), who won their second str...
IOC 'begs' defiant Ukrainian to race without war dead helmet
MILAN/CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- The International Olympic Committee pleaded on Wednesday with skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych to compete without his banned helmet depicting Ukrainian athletes killed since Russia's invasion and avoid potential disqualification.,The athlete, however, remained d...
F Jeremy Sochan waived by Spurs, becomes free agent
The San Antonio Spurs waived Jeremy Sochan on Wednesday to permit the 22-year-old power forward to seek a fresh start as a free agent.,A frequent starter in past seasons, Sochan slipped out of coach Mitch Johnson's rotation and played a grand total of eight minutes over the Spurs' last dozen games.,...
Franjo von Allmen wins 3rd gold of Games in Super-G, American claims silver
BORMIO, Italy -- Switzerland's Franjo von Allmen joined a very exclusive club of Alpine skiers as he powered to his third gold medal of the Milan Cortina Olympics with a super-G masterclass down the Stelvio on Wednesday.,The 24-year-old followed his gold in the downhill and team combined with anothe...
Blake Griffin, Doc Rivers among Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame finalists
First-time candidates Blake Griffin and Candace Parker, as well as returning candidate Doc Rivers, are among the 21 finalists for election to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the 2026 class.,The organization announced its list of finalists, reduced from a larger candidate pool, on Wed...
Tearful US ice dance pair feels they skated a winning performance
MILAN, Italy -- American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates said they believed they had delivered an Olympic gold-medal performance on Wednesday despite having to settle for silver behind France's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron.,Chock and Bates entered the decisive free dance ...
Sweden overcomes Italy fight, Slovakia stuns Finland on Day 1 of men's hockey
MILAN, Italy -- Underdog Italy made podium-contending Sweden work for its 5-2 win in the men's ice hockey group stage on Wednesday and Slovakia stunned defending champions Finland 4-1, as the Olympic tournament delivered thrills on its opening day.,The two Nordic titans were expected to notch routin...
US' Madison Chock and Evan Bates narrowly lose ice dance gold to French pair
MILAN, Italy -- France's Laurence? Fournier? Beaudry and Guillaume? Cizeron captured ice dance gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Wednesday, edging Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates in a remarkable story of reinvention less than a year after they teamed up.,Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron -- wh...
Padres sign veteran OF/INF Miguel Andujar
The San Diego Padres signed veteran outfielder/infielder Miguel Andujar to a one-year contract on Wednesday with a mutual option for 2027.,MLB.com reported the deal is worth $4 million, and Andujar can earn up to $2 million in performance incentives.,Andujar, who turns 31 on March 2, batted a combin...
Falcons DC Jeff Ulbrich 'obviously disappointed' by James Pearce Jr.'s arrest
Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich said it's too early to determine James Pearce Jr.'s availability to the team after the edge rusher was arrested Saturday on five felony charges in Florida.,The Falcons have a voluntary offseason program beginning in April. Ulbrich said at a previous...
NBA fines Hawks' Mouhamed Gueye, Wolves' Naz Reid $35K for altercation
The NBA fined the Atlanta Hawks' Mouhamed Gueye and the Minnesota Timberwolves' Naz Reid $35,000 each on Wednesday for their roles in an on-court altercation during Minnesota's 138-116 victory on Monday in Minneapolis.,The Timberwolves were leading 106-97 when Gueye, a third-year forward, committed ...
Italian men and women both win gold in luge doubles
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy - Italian lugers enjoyed the greatest day of their long Olympic history on Wednesday, winning gold in both men's and women's doubles hugely against the odds as the time they had put in to learn every inch of their new Cortina track paid off spectacularly.,Andrea Voetter and ...
American Jordan Stolz takes 1,000m for speed skating gold
MILAN -- Jordan Stolz lived up to expectations as he charged to the men's 1,000 meters gold on Wednesday, delivering the United States' first speed skating title of the Milan Cortina Games after a brief delay caused by a re-skate in an earlier pair.,Dutchman Jenning de Boo and China's Ning Zhongyan ...
Lindsey Vonn reveals third leg surgery since downhill crash
American skiing star Lindsey Vonn revealed in a social media post on Wednesday that she underwent a third surgery since breaking her left leg in a violent crash during the Olympic downhill Sunday and said she will be "ok.","I had my 3rd surgery today and it was successful," Vonn said in an Instagram...
Lando Norris posts fastest lap time at Bahrain preseason testing
The first day of Formula 1's 2026 preseason testing at Bahrain bore a strong resemblance to the 2025 drivers' championship standings as Lando Norris delivered the fastest lap time.,Norris won his first F1 drivers' title last year ahead of runner-up Max Verstappen, who posted the second-fastest lap t...
Snoop Dogg to attend first Swansea game as co-owner
Snoop Dogg announced that he will attend his first Swansea City game in person since the American rapper became a co-owner of the Welsh club last July.,Snoop Dogg, who is currently in Italy as an honorary coach for Team USA at the Winter Olympics, will be in attendance when Swansea City plays host t...