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Cal manhandles Morgan State for 8th straight victory
Chris Bell poured in a season-high 28 points and Cal blitzed Morgan State 97-50 on Friday in Berkeley, Calif., for it eighth straight win.,Cal freshman Semetri Carr had his best all-around game with 20 points, nine assists and six rebounds.,John Camden scored 23 points while Lee Dort chipped in with...

NFC North roots for Steelers, Aaron Rodgers against desperate Lions
Not everyone is rooting for the Lions to lose to the Pittsburgh Steelers, but most NFC contenders are on the black-and-gold bandwagon this week. ,Detroit (8-6) sits in the tenuous No. 8 spot looking up at the NFC seven-team playoff field with three regular-season games remaining and the fate of at l...

Stefan Noesen nets go-ahead goal as Devils edge Mammoth
Stefan Noesen scored the go-ahead goal at the 4:20 mark of the third period and Jacob Markstrom made 32 saves as the New Jersey Devils completed a sweep of their two-game western road trip with a 2-1 victory over the Utah Mammoth on Friday night in Salt Lake City.,Connor Brown also scored a goal and...

Avalanche top floundering Jets for 12th straight home win
Brett Burns and Martin Necas scored goals in the first period, Parker Kelly had the eventual game-winner and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 in Denver on Friday night.,Scott Wedgewood made 20 saves, and Josh Manson had two assists for Colorado, which has won 12 straight home games,...

AJ Dybantsa powers for career-best 35 as No. 10 BYU dumps Abilene Christian
AJ Dybantsa scored a career high 35 points and collected six rebounds to lead No. 10 BYU to a 85-67 victory over Abilene Christian on Friday night.,Richie Saunders added 21 points and Rob Wright III chipped in 10 to lead the Cougars (11-1) to their eighth straight victory. BYU shot 59.5% from the fi...

Alabama shakes off slow start, downs Oklahoma in CFP opener
Ty Simpson threw for 232 yards and two touchdowns to overcome a slow start and help No. 9 Alabama rally for a 34-24 win over No. 8 Oklahoma on Friday in Norman, Okla., in the College Football Playoff opener.,The Crimson Tide (11-3) will take on top-ranked Indiana in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1.,Alabama ...

Lakers look to remain on roll vs. struggling rival Clippers
The Los Angeles Lakers are feeling merry about the road ahead, while the Los Angeles Clippers have been weighed down with the holiday blues as the cross-town rivals get set to meet in a Clippers home game Saturday at Inglewood, Calif.,With an 11-3 record since Nov. 14, the Lakers are bumping elbows ...

No. 1 Arizona looks to match best start under Tommy Lloyd vs. SDSU
No. 1 Arizona enters Saturday night's game with San Diego State in Phoenix with a 10-0 record for the seventh time in program history and the second time under coach Tommy Lloyd.,The Wildcats started 11-0 in Lloyd's first season of 2021-22 and finished 33-4 with a Sweet 16 loss as a No. 1 seed to Ho...

Red-hot Flames ready for challenge of facing consistent Golden Knights
The Vegas Golden Knights will begin a key Pacific Division back-to-back Saturday night against the Calgary Flames without the services of leading scorer Jack Eichel and top-scoring defenseman Shea Theodore.,Eichel, tied for ninth in the NHL with 41 points (12 goals, 29 assists), and Theodore, who ha...

After rally fell just short, Kings get another crack at Blazers
The Trail Blazers and Kings get together for a rematch in Sacramento on Saturday night, just two days after Portland notched a wild victory over the same foe in the opener of a home-and-home set.,Portland recorded a 134-133 overtime home win on Thursday night after blowing a 15-point lead in the fin...

Bryce Lindsay powers Villanova to overtime win against Wisconsin
Bryce Lindsay scored 10 of his 12 points in overtime to pace Villanova to a 76-66 victory over Wisconsin in a nonconference game Friday night as part of the Milwaukee Hoops Showdown.,Wisconsin, which trailed by 15 early in the second half, pulled even at 56-all on Nolan Winter's short jumper with 31...

Butler, Northwestern seek resume-building win in Indy Classic opener
Pairs of courtside seats for Saturday's Indy Classic doubleheader are going for as much as $1,400 on StubHub -- primarily due to the nightcap clash between No. 6 Purdue and No. 21 Auburn.,No matter how that game turns out, though, the Boilermakers and Tigers know they're headed to the NCAA Tournamen...

Nikola Vucevic, Bulls emerge on top of Cavaliers
Nikola Vucevic collected 24 points and 15 rebounds and Matas Buzelis scored 24 points as the Chicago Bulls pulled away down the stretch for a 136-125 victory over the host Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday.,Josh Giddey scored 17 points and Coby White had 13 points, six rebounds and a season-high nine as...

Candace Parker, Blake Griffin among Basketball HOF nominees
Determining the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2026 isn't going to be easy, at least judging by the list of eligible candidates released by the organization Friday.,Among the more notable names included for the first time are Jamal Crawford, Mike D'Antoni, Elena Delle Donne, Blake Griffin...

Baylor buries Alcorn State with huge second-half run
Cameron Carr poured in 24 points, 17 of them in the first half, as Baylor used two huge runs at the end of the first half and midway through the second on the way to a 113-56 win over hapless Alcorn State on Friday in Waco, Texas.,The Bears (8-2) led by 25 points at halftime after a late 14-0 run, b...

Kiefer Sherwood nabs hat trick as Canucks rock Islanders
Kiefer Sherwood registered his third career hat trick Friday night, when the Vancouver Canucks continued their surge following the Quinn Hughes trade by beating the New York Islanders, 4-1, in Elmont, N.Y.,The hat trick was the second of the season for Sherwood, who scored all three of Vancouver's p...

Derrick White, Celtics pull away from banged-up Heat
Derrick White made 9 of 14 3-point attempts and scored a game-high 33 points while leading the Boston Celtics to a 129-116 home victory over the short-handed Miami Heat on Friday night.,It was a back-and-forth game through three quarters, but Boston outscored Miami 37-27 in the fourth. The Celtics m...

Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 7 Maryland crushes Central Connecticut St.
Yarden Garzon scored a season-high 25 points to lead No. 7 Maryland to a 98-30 rout of Central Connecticut State on Friday afternoon in College Park, Md.,Oluchi Okananwa added 22 points, 10 rebounds and six assists for the unbeaten Terrapins (13-0), who held the winless Blue Devils (0-11) to fewer t...

Florida State wallops Mississippi Valley State, ends 5-game skid
Chauncey Wiggins led four Florida State players in double figures as the Seminoles snapped their five-game losing streak with a 96-49 thrashing of Mississippi Valley State on Friday in Tallahassee, Fla.,Wiggins hit 6 of 10 shots and 2 of 5 3-point attempts to help the Seminoles (6-6) secure their fi...

Tajuan Simpkins' late 3 gives Seton Hall win in Big East opener over Providence
Tajuan Simpkins' late 3-pointer and Adam Clark's turnaround jumper helped visiting Seton Hall maintain its dream start by defeating normally potent Providence, 72-67, in the Pirates' Big East opener.,After trading the lead across the final two minutes, Clark kicked it out to a wide-open Simpkins, wh...