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West Virginia overtakes Cincinnati with second-half surge
Honor Huff sparked a key 14-0 second-half run with 11 consecutive points and finished with a team-leading 16, rallying West Virginia past host Cincinnati 59-54 on Thursday.,DJ Thomas added 14 points and drained two late 3-pointers, including one with 1:30 left to put West Virginia ahead 53-49. His t...

No. 2 Michigan crushes Penn St.; Nimari Burnett drops 31 in 21 minutes
Nimari Burnett scored a career-high 31 points to lead No. 2 Michigan to a 110-69 rout of Penn State in a Big Ten contest on Thursday in Ann Arbor, Mich.,Burnett went 11 of 16 from the field overall and 7 of 10 from 3-point range while playing just 21 minutes. L.J. Cason, Trey McKenney and Morez John...

Talor Gooch joins Thomas Detry, Peter Uihlein in LIV Riyadh lead
Talor Gooch shot his second straight round of 5-under-par 67 to join Peter Uihlein and Belgium's Thomas Detry atop the leaderboard after the second round of LIV Golf Riyadh on Thursday in Saudi Arabia.,The trio is at 10-under 134 halfway through the event. Uihlein and LIV newcomer Detry were the fir...

US women's hockey opens with dominant win over Czechia
Hayley Scamurra scored two goals and captain Hilary Knight also tallied to begin her last Olympics, fueling the United States a 5-1 victory over Czechia on Thursday in a Group A preliminary-round game at the Milano Cortina Games in Milano, Italy.,Alex Carpenter collected a goal and an assist and Joy...

Capitals F Pierre-Luc Dubois returns to lineup after 47-game absence
Washington Capitals forward Pierre-Luc Dubois will return Thursday against the visiting Nashville Predators after missing 47 games following surgery to repair injuries to his abdominal and adductor muscles, the team said.,Dubois, 27, was injured after his knee buckled on a defensive zone faceoff dur...

Nets acquire G Ochai Agbaji from Raptors as part of 3-team trade
The Brooklyn Nets acquired guard Ochai Agbaji and a second-round pick in the 2032 NBA Draft from the Toronto Raptors on Thursday.,The Nets also pocketed cash considerations from the Los Angeles Clippers, who acquired the draft rights to small forward/shooting guard Vanja Marinkovic.,Agbali, 25, aver...

New-look Bulls bid to build chemistry vs. Raptors
The Chicago Bulls will have a different look when they complete a four-game road trip Thursday night against the Toronto Raptors.,The Bulls have been busy in the trade market, with Coby White, Nikola Vucevic and Kevin Huerter among the departures.,On the court, Chicago and Toronto will try to overco...

Caps carry ' desperation-mode' mindset into clash vs. Predators
The Washington Capitals are aware of the importance of Thursday night's home game against the Nashville Predators.,Heading into the final game before the Olympic break, the Capitals -- who ran away with the Metropolitan Division title last season -- are a half-dozen points outside of a playoff spot ...

Tundra Esports win 4 matches, rise atop BLAST Slam VI
Tundra Esports won all four of their matches on Wednesday to move into sole possession of first place at the BLAST Slam VI.,Tundra improved to 6-1 through the first two days of competition after defeating MOUZ, Team Yandex, GamerLegion and HEROIC -- all on red. Tundra Esports dispatched MOUZ in 38 m...

Tounde Yessoufou's game-high 27 points guide Baylor past Colorado
Tounde Yessoufou scored a game-high 27 points Wednesday night, and Baylor led nearly wire-to-wire en route to an 86-67 rout of Colorado in Waco, Texas.,Yessoufou converted 10 of 16 field-goal tries, including 4 of 7 from the 3-point arc, as the Bears (13-9, 3-7 Big 12) earned their second straight w...

Matt Boldy nets hat trick as Wild outlast Predators in OT
Matt Boldy scored a hat trick in the first period and set up Jared Spurgeon's game-winning goal as the Minnesota Wild pulled off a crazy 6-5 overtime victory against the host Nashville Predators on Wednesday night.,Late in the extra session, Boldy sent a cross-ice pass to Spurgeon, who beat Juuse Sa...

Blue Jackets shut out Blackhawks, run winning streak to 7
Jet Greaves made 21 saves as the Columbus Blue Jackets registered their second consecutive shutout in a 4-0 win over the visiting Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night.,It was the final game before the Olympic break for both teams.,The Blue Jackets shut out the New Jersey Devils 3-0 in Newark on Mon...

Bench strength helps No. 24 Louisville get past Notre Dame
The evening didn't start well for Louisville, but a late first-half run and solid bench play led the No. 24 Cardinals to a 76-65 home win over Notre Dame on Wednesday.,Louisville (16-6, 6-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) fell behind 10-2 to open the game and saw starting guard J'Vonne Hadley exit due to...

Bucks down Pelicans in OT despite Trey Murphy III's 12 treys
Ryan Rollins scored 27 points and six teammates scored in double figures as the host Milwaukee Bucks defeated the New Orleans Pelicans 141-137 in overtime Wednesday night., ,AJ Green scored 20, Kevin Porter Jr. had 18, Amir Coffey, Pete Nance and Myles Turner added 16 each and Gary Trent Jr. had 13 ...

Stan Wawrinka, 40, earns noteworthy win in Montpellier
Stan Wawrinka wasn't acting his age on Wednesday during a first-round victory over Serbia's Hamad Medjedovic in the first round of the Open Occitanie on Wednesday in Montpellier, France.,The 40-year-old Swiss veteran prevailed 7-6 (3), 6-4 to become the oldest man to win an ATP Tour indoor match sin...

Iowa dominates Washington behind Bennett Stirtz's 22 points
Bennett Stirtz scored 22 points and dished out five assists Wednesday night as Iowa rallied from a nine-point, second-half deficit for an 84-74 Big Ten Conference road win over Washington in Seattle.,The Hawkeyes (17-5, 7-4 Big Ten) also got 16 points off the bench from Alvaro Folgueiras, plus 11 ea...

Golden Knights defeat Canucks to end 5-game skid
Jack Eichel scored a goal and had an assist and Mark Stone added two assists as the Vegas Golden Knights snapped a five-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night in Las Vegas.,Cole Reinhardt, Ivan Barbashev, Pavel Dorofeyev and Alexander Holtz also scored go...

Cam Spencer's clutch hoops push Grizzlies past Kings
Ty Jerome put up a game-high 28 points, Cam Spencer hit two key late 3-pointers, and the Memphis Grizzlies held off the host Sacramento Kings for a 129-125 victory Wednesday night.,The defeat spoiled the Kings debut of De'Andre Hunter, who was making his Sacramento debut after being acquired from th...

Shane Wright pots 2 goals as Kraken defeat host Kings
Shane Wright scored two goals for the visiting Seattle Kraken in a 4-2 win against the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.,Adam Larsson and Vince Dunn also scored, Chandler Stephenson and Frederick Gaudreau had two assists each and Joey Daccord made 25 saves for the Kraken, who were coming off a 4...

Day after James Harden trade, Cavs demolish Clippers
Donovan Mitchell registered 29 points, nine assists and five rebounds as the Cleveland Cavaliers mauled the Los Angeles Clippers 124-91 on Wednesday night in Inglewood, Calif.,Cleveland won for the ninth time in its past 11 games one day after the two teams worked out a trade that included James Har...