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No. 8 Texas A&M pull away late to seal win over Arkansas
Wade Taylor IV scored 18 points and keyed a late Texas A&M surge as the eighth-ranked Aggies pulled away over the final eight minutes for a 69-61 win over Arkansas on Saturday afternoon in a Southeastern Conference clash in College Station, Texas.,A&M never trailed after the 12:30 mark of the first ...
Dillon Hunter (17 points), No. 23 Clemson flatten Florida State
Clemson's Dillon Hunter netted a career-high 17 points as the surging Tigers breezed to a 72-46 Atlantic Coast Conference rout of the Florida State Seminoles Saturday afternoon in Tallahassee, Fla. ,The sixth-leading scorer for No. 23 Clemson (21-5, 13-2 ACC) at 5.6 points per game, Hunter made 7 of...
Pitt overcomes slow start to beat Miami, snap losing streak
Ishmael Leggett had 21 points, including 15 in the first half, Cameron Corhen added 17 and Pitt snapped a four-game losing streak with a 74-65 Atlantic Coast Conference win over Miami on Saturday in Pittsburgh.,Leggett also logged 10 rebounds, five assists and four steals for the Panthers, who were ...
Xavier dominates over injury-riddled DePaul
Zach Freemantle scored 19 points and hauled in nine rebounds while Dailyn Swain added 17 to lead host Xavier to an 85-68 Big East win over injury-depleted DePaul Saturday in Cincinnati.,Swain added seven rebounds and eight assists while Ryan Conwell and Dayvion McKnight each had 14 points to lead a ...
Amanda Anisimova captures biggest win of career in Doha
Amanda Anisimova won her first WTA 1000-level title on Saturday, defeating Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 6-4, 6-3 at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open.,It was the first final in Doha to have two players ranked outside the top 30 and capped a stellar week for both players.,Per OptaAce, Anisimova is the first...
Abraham Ancer ascends into share of lead at LIV Golf Adelaide
Abraham Ancer shot a 5-under 67 in the second round on Saturday to pull into a three-way tie atop LIV Golf Adelaide in Australia.,Ancer carded six birdies against one bogey at blustery The Grange Golf Club to join fellow Mexican Carlos Ortiz and England's Sam Horsfield at 9-under 135 for the tournam...
Napheesa Collier claims Unrivaled one-on-one title
Napheesa Collier clinched the Unrivaled one-on-one tournament in a most fitting fashion.,The forward, who is the reigning WNBA Defensive Player of the Year, shut out Washington Mystics forward Aaliyah Edwards 8-0 in the deciding game of the best-of-three final on Friday night in Medley, Fla.,Collier...
Corey Heim gets Daytona Truck win after Parker Kligerman's DQ
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- When the caution flag flew on the final lap of the Fresh from Florida 250 at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, Corey Heim thought he had finished second in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season opener.,Roughly an hour later, Heim was declared the winner of the super...
Stephon Castle, Team C prevail in NBA Rising Stars event
San Antonio Spurs rookie Stephon Castle produced 12 points, three rebounds and two assists while leading Team C to a 25-14 win over Team G League in the championship game of the NBA Rising Stars event on Friday in San Francisco.,Team C, also featuring the Los Angeles Lakers' Dalton Knecht, the Memph...
NTMR, Timeless part of 4-way tie atop OCS NA Stage 1
NTMR and Timeless are among four teams tied atop the standings for the Overwatch Champions Series' North American Stage 1 after opening Week 3 with victories on Friday.,NTMR swept Avidity 3-0 while Timeless defeated Amplify 3-1, keeping the latter as the only winless team in the competition. Both vi...
Surge stop FaZe as CDL Major 2 qualifying begins
The Atlanta FaZe, fresh off winning the Call of Duty League Stage 1 Major, dropped their opening qualifying match for the Stage 2 Major on Friday.,The Vancouver Surge posted a 3-1 win over Atlanta as Stage 2 Major qualifying got underway.,In the other opening-day matches, the Stage 1 Major finalist ...
UCLA staves off Indiana's comeback attempt
Dylan Andrews sank two clutch free throws with four seconds remaining to help UCLA avoid a late-game collapse in a 72-68 win over Indiana on Friday in Bloomington, Ind.,The Bruins (19-7, 10-5 Big Ten) led for the entire second half and more than 34 minutes overall, but the Hoosiers' Mackenzie Mgbako...
Rome Flynn, Team Bonds win NBA All-Star Celebrity Game
Actor Rome Flynn scored 22 points to earn MVP honors while leading Team Bonds to a 66-55 win over Team Rice on Friday in the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game in Oakland.,The victorious team was coached by San Francisco Giants legend Barry Bonds and rapper/actor 2 Chainz. The losing team was led by anothe...
Davis Thompson leads Scottie Scheffler by a hair at Genesis
Davis Thompson birdied his final hole to finish off a 6-under-par 66 and take a one-shot lead over Scottie Scheffler at the halfway mark of the Genesis Invitational on Friday in San Diego.,At 8 and 7 under, respectively, Thompson and Scheffler will comprise the final pairing on Saturday at Torrey Pi...
Paul Stankowski, Mario Tiziani seek first win at Chubb Classic
Paul Stankowski and Mario Tiziani each shot 7-under-par 65 to share the first-round lead at the Chubb Classic on Thursday in Naples, Fla.,Both Stankowski and Tiziani, who lead Sweden's Freddie Jacobson by a shot, are vying for their first win on the PGA Tour Champions.,Stankowski converted five of h...
Action underway at $1.25M PGL Cluj-Napoca event
The MongolZ and FaZe Clan were among six teams recording Round 1 sweeps Friday as action began at the $1.25 million PGL Cluj-Napoca event in Romania.,Sixteen teams are competing in the Counter-Strike 2 competition, with the winner of the Feb. 23 grand final taking home $400,000.,MOUZ, Team Falcons, ...
Jelena Ostapenko ends Iga Swiatek's reign in Doha
Jelena Ostapenko improved to 5-0 against No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek with a 6-3, 6-1 semifinal rout Friday against the three-time defending Qatar TotalEnergies Open champion.,Ostapenko halted Swiatek's 15-match winning streak in Doha and advanced to her 17th WTA Tour final, her first at the WTA 1000 leve...
Panthers LS J.J. Jansen returns for 17th season
The Carolina Panthers re-signed long snapper J.J. Jansen to a one-year deal, bringing him back for his 17th season with the team.,The team acquired Jansen in a 2009 trade with the Packers, though he never played for Green Bay.,The 39-year-old has played a franchise-record 260 career games in Carolin...
Sam Horsfield shoots day's only bogey-free round, leads at LIV Golf Adelaide
Sam Horsfield shot a bogey-free 66 to take the opening-round lead Friday at LIV Golf Adelaide in Australia.,England's Horsfield was the only player to go without a bogey at The Grange Golf Club, and he has turned in just one bogey over the past 60 holes, including action last week at the season-open...
No. 14 Memphis overcomes poor shooting to beat South Florida
Four players Memphis scored in double figures Thursday night and the 14th-ranked Tigers expanded their American Athletic Conference lead to two games with an 80-65 win over South Florida in Tampa.,Dain Dainja scored a game-high 20 points for the Tigers (21-4, 11-1 AAC), who overcame unusually poor s...