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NBA roundup: Spurs hold off Anthony Edwards (55 points), Timberwolves
Victor Wembanyama stood tall with 39 points and a crucial rebound in the final seconds as the host San Antonio Spurs held on for a 126-123 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday.,San Antonio snapped a five-game losing streak against Minnesota and won despite a career-high 55-point showing b...
NHL roundup: Hat trick for Mika Zibanejad as Rangers ground Flyers
Mika Zibanejad notched a hat trick to lift the visiting New York Rangers to a much-needed 6-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday afternoon.,Artemi Panarin contributed two goals and an assist for New York and Brennan Othmann scored his first NHL goal. Rangers goaltender Spencer Martin finis...
Top 25 roundup: Cincinnati knocks off No. 2 Iowa State, loser of 2 straight
Day Day Thomas scored 19 points while Jalen Celestine had four 3-pointers and 12 points off the bench to help host Cincinnati shock No. 2 Iowa State 79-70 in a Big 12 game on Saturday afternoon.,Baba Miller grabbed 12 rebounds while adding eight points, and Jizzle James scored 15 points as Cincinnat...
Ducks beat rival Kings for 2nd straight night in extra time
Mikael Granlund scored with 58 seconds remaining in overtime and the Anaheim Ducks extended their winning streak to three games with a 2-1 overtime victory at home over the rival Los Angeles Kings on Saturday., ,Granlund scored on a breakaway after rookie Beckett Sennecke forced a turnover as the Du...
Mark Stone extends streak as Vegas throttles Nashville
Mark Stone extended his point streak to a career-best 11 games with his 10th goal in those 11 games and the Vegas Golden Knights scored five goals in the third period to rout the Nashville Predators, 7-2, on Saturday night in Las Vegas.,Shea Theodore, Mitch Marner, Alexander Holtz, Cole Reinhardt an...
Jamal Murray (42 points) leads Nuggets' rally past lowly Wizards
Jamal Murray scored seven of his game-high 42 points in the final 2:12, and the host Denver Nuggets rallied to beat the Washington Wizards 121-115 on Saturday night.,Tim Hardaway Jr. scored a season-high 30 points, Peyton Watson added 21 points and Aaron Gordon nearly recorded a triple-double with 1...
Heat use late Andrew Wiggins 3 to beat Thunder
Bam Adebayo scored 30 points and made a career-high six 3-pointers as the host Miami Heat knocked off the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder, 122-120, on Saturday night.,Andrew Wiggins made the go-ahead 3-pointer with 31 seconds left, giving Miami a 122-120 lead. He got the assist from Nor...
Cole Caufield's OT goal propels Canadiens past Senators
Cole Caufield scored his second goal of the game, a slapshot off an assist from Lane Hutson, 33 seconds into overtime, to give the Montreal Canadiens a 6-5 victory over the host Ottawa Senators.,Caufield's winning tally completed a furious rally for Montreal, which trailed by two goals with less tha...
Panthers rebound from drubbing a day earlier to top Caps
Sam Bennett had a goal and two assists to lead the Florida Panthers to a 5-2 win over the host Washington Capitals on Saturday night.,A.J. Greer had a goal and an assist, and Anton Lundell, Carter Verhaeghe and defenseman Uvis Balinskis also scored for the Panthers, who bounced back from a 9-1 loss ...
Denver Broncos’ Playoff Victory Turns Hollow After Bo Nix Fractures Ankle
The Broncos advanced past the Bills in the divisional round of the NFL Playoffs, but Bo Nix’s fractured ankle could end their Super Bowl hopes....
Inside Jaylon Tyson's Sophomore Breakout With Cleveland Cavaliers
Jaylon Tyson delivers a career-best performance, leading the Cavs past the 76ers and announcing his arrival....
Nate Calmese's winning jumper completes Wake Forest comeback over FSU
Nate Calmese's running jumper with 6.8 seconds left lifted Wake Forest to a 69-68 comeback win over Florida State on Saturday night in Tallahassee, Fla., ,Calmese finished with a game-high 18 points to lead the Demon Deacons (11-7, 2-3 ACC) and snap a two-game losing skid., ,Calmese drove into the p...
Braden Smith's heroics help No. 5 Purdue hold off USC
Braden Smith scored two of his game-high 22 points on a crucial steal and layup to help No. 5 Purdue escape with a 69-64 road win over Southern California on Saturday in Los Angeles. ,After buoying his team with 18 first-half points, Smith went scoreless for more than 19 minutes following intermissi...
Cameron Boozer, No. 6 Duke dominate Stanford on road
Cameron Boozer scored 30 points, Duke's suffocating defense held Stanford star Ebuka Okorie to nine and the No. 6 Blue Devils completed a San Francisco Bay Area sweep with an 80-50 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball romp over the host Cardinal on Saturday afternoon., ,Boozer completed a doub...
Treysen Eaglestaff, West Virginia down Colorado
Treysen Eaglestaff scored a game-high 22 points to lead West Virginia to a 72-61 win over Colorado in a Big 12 Conference matchup on Saturday in Morgantown, W. Va.,Honor Huff added 14 points, and Brenen Lorient racked up 12 points and pulled down nine rebounds. Harlan Obioha chipped in 10 points and...
Miami not fazed by being visitors in 'home' digs
Miami will be the visitors in every meaning of the word when it faces Indiana in Monday night's College Football Playoff national title game.,The top-seeded Hoosiers are 8.5-point favorites over the No. 10 Hurricanes despite the game being played in Miami's home stadium at Miami Gardens, Fla., and t...
Flames race ahead early, handle Islanders to start homestand
Adam Klapka collected one goal and one assist to pace the host Calgary Flames to a 4-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday afternoon to open a five-game homestand., ,Yegor Sharangovich, Justin Kirkland and Yan Kuznetsov also scored for the Flames, who staked a four-goal lead and held on ...
Grand Canyon snaps No. 23 Utah State's 8-game win streak
Brian Moore Jr. and Makaih Williams each scored 20 points as Grand Canyon ended an eight-game winning streak for No. 23 Utah State with an 84-74 victory Saturday at Phoenix.,Jaden Henley scored 12 points, while Nana Owusu-Anane added 11 points and 11 rebounds as the Antelopes (11-6, 4-2 Mountain Wes...
No. 19 Florida upsets No. 10 Vanderbilt in high-scoring battle
Florida's Rueben Chinyelu had 20 points, 10 rebounds, and three blocks, as the Gators upset No. 10 Vanderbilt, 98-94, in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday.,The Gators out-rebounded Vanderbilt, 40-26, shot 52.5 percent from the floor, 37.5 percent from 3 and 83.3 percent from the foul line.,Xaivian Lee (...
Women's Top 25 roundup: Kansas State upsets No. 17 Texas Tech
Kansas State handed No. 17 Texas Tech its first loss of the season in a 65-59 nailbiter in Lubbock, TX.,The battle was won on the backboards, as the Wildcats recorded 46 rebounds compared to the Red Raiders 20.,Wildcats senior guard Tess Heal recorded 12 points and four rebounds, alongside freshman ...