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Kings, Mavericks battle for ground in tight West terrain
Two teams dealing with injured big men and looking to move out of the play-in portion of the Western Conference standings go head-to-head Monday night when the Sacramento Kings visit the Dallas Mavericks.,Three consecutive wins by the Kings and three losses in four games by the Mavericks have left t...

UCLA refocused on defense in road game against Northwestern
UCLA looks to salvage its final road trip of its inaugural Big Ten Conference season on Monday when the Bruins face recently surging Northwestern in Evanston, Ill.,UCLA (20-9, 11-7 Big Ten) suffered a major blow to its pursuit of a top-four seed and bye into the quarterfinals of the upcoming confere...

Filip Gustavsson, Wild eke out 1-0 win over Bruins
Filip Gustavsson pitched a 28-save shutout and Frederick Gaudreau scored the only goal of the game as the Minnesota Wild snapped their three-game skid with a 1-0 victory Sunday in Saint Paul, Minn.,Gaudreau's second tally in three games came at 5:01 of the second period and stood up as Gustavsson ma...

Illinois uses balanced attack to knock off No. 15 Michigan
Tre White led four players in double figures with 19 points to lead visiting Illinois to a 93-73 win over No. 15 Michigan on Sunday in Ann Arbor.,Kasparas Jakucionis and Kylan Boswelll each scored 17 points, and Will Riley had 13 points for Illinois (19-11, 11-8 Big Ten), which beat Michigan for the...

South Carolina wins coin flip to decide No. 1 seed in SEC
The bracket for the SEC women's basketball tournament came down to a coin toss.,South Carolina (27-3) earned the No. 1 seed in this week's conference tournament over Texas (29-2) after commissioner Greg Sankey performed a coin flip televised live on ESPN Sunday.,South Carolina, the defending nationa...

Spring training roundup: Braves shell Marcus Stroman, Yankees
Austin Riley and Matt Olson hit back-to-back home runs off Marcus Stroman and the host Atlanta Braves blasted the New York Yankees 11-1 in spring-training action on Sunday in North Port, Fla.,Riley later had an RBI double off Stroman (1-1), who was making his second start of the spring since declari...

Kings out to halt skid, end trip with win vs. Blackhawks
The suddenly skidding Los Angeles Kings will shoot to salvage the finale of a three-game road trip Monday as they visit the Chicago Blackhawks.,Losers of three straight, Los Angeles had a brief respite Sunday after back-to-back road losses in Dallas and St. Louis to start the weekend.,Kings coach Ji...

Jessica Pegula wins Austin final for seventh career title
Top-seeded Jessica Pegula defeated fellow American and No. 5 seed McCartney Kessler 7-5, 6-2 on Sunday to win the ATX Open final in Austin, Texas and record the seventh singles title of her career.,Pegula converted 6 of 10 break points while downing Kessler in 83 minutes. Kessler committed four doub...

William Nylander nets OT winner as Maple Leafs beat Penguins
William Nylander's goal a minute into overtime gave the Toronto Maple Leafs a 6-5 win over the host Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday afternoon.,Nylander also had an assist, Matthew Knies and Auston Matthews also each had a goal and an assist and Max Domi, Conor Timmins and John Tavares scored for the M...

No. 8 Michigan State earns crucial win vs. No. 11 Wisconsin
Jaden Akins had 19 points and eight rebounds and No. 8 Michigan State pulled away late for a pivotal 71-62 Big Ten Conference victory over No. 11 Wisconsin in East Lansing, Mich., on Sunday afternoon.,Jase Richardson supplied 11 points, six assists and five rebounds for the Spartans (24-5 overall, 1...

Panthers tasked with cooling off red-hot rival Lightning
The Tampa Bay Lightning -- the hottest team in the NHL -- are set to visit the rival Florida Panthers on Monday night in Sunrise, Fla.,Tampa Bay has the longest active win streak in the league at eight games and has also won three straight road contests.,The key for the Lightning has been their defe...
Three Early Winners From the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine
These three players have been declared early winners from the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine, improving their draft stock due to impressive showings in workout drills....

Agent: Wizards' Justin Champagnie signing 4-year deal
Enjoying the best season of his young career, Washington Wizards forward Justin Champagnie landed a four-year, $10 million contract, his agent told ESPN on Sunday.,Champagnie, 23, in his second season in Washington, is averaging career highs in points (7.5), field goal percentage (50.4), 3-point per...

Reports: Commissioner weighs removing Pete Rose from MLB ineligible list
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is reviewing whether to reinstate the late Pete Rose from baseball's ineligible list, multiple outlets reported.,The move comes after President Donald Trump blasted MLB in a social media post late Friday for Rose's lifetime ban in 1989 for gambling. Tru...

Report: Wisconsin G Max Klesmit out vs. Michigan State
Wisconsin guard Max Klesmit will not play Sunday against No. 8 Michigan State due to a lower-body injury, CBS Sports reported.,Klesmit aggravated the injury early in the first half of the Badgers' 88-62 victory over Washington on Tuesday. Wisconsin head coach Greg Gard said Klesmit had been dealing ...
Best College Basketball Bets Today: Michigan vs. Illinois Picks March 2nd
March 2nd's college basketball slate was slightly underwhelming, so we locked in our Michigan vs. Illinois pick before flipping over to the women's slate for the rest of our bets....

Wild look to halt skid, slow David Pastrnak, Bruins
The Minnesota Wild know that time is running short with 22 games left in the regular season.,The Wild also know that they are playing shorthanded without several prominent players, including top scorer Kirill Kaprizov and steady veteran Joel Eriksson Ek.,"We have no choice," forward Mats Zuccarello ...

Maple Leafs aim to stay hot in matchup vs. Penguins
Teams going in opposite directions will meet when the Toronto Maple Leafs visit the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday afternoon.,The Maple Leafs have won four games in a row and seven of their last eight after Friday night's 3-2 road victory over the New York Rangers. ,The Penguins, in turn, have lost f...

FaZe bounced from CDL Stage 2 Minor
The Atlanta FaZe's time in the Call of Duty League Stage 2 Minor was much more brief than the time it took to get there.,Earning the top seed to the event by way of their win in the Stage 1 Major, the FaZe were bounced in their opener in the Minor playoffs on Saturday, losing 3-2 to the Vancouver Su...

Spring training roundup: Paul Skenes wows in spring debut
Reigning National League Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes was solid in his spring training debut on Saturday, striking out four over three innings to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-2 win over the host Baltimore Orioles in a Grapefruit League game at Sarasota, Fla.,The 22-year-old Skenes, who went ...