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Top 25 roundup: No. 14 Illinois hangs on to beat No. 11 Texas Tech
Andrej Stojakovic scored 23 points and made the big defensive play Tuesday night as No. 14 Illinois held off No. 11 Texas Tech 81-77 in Champaign, Ill.,The son of former NBA star Peja Stojakovic scored 13 points in the second half, but his biggest play came without the ball. He blocked Christian And...
NBA roundup: Knicks hit 130 points for 3rd straight game
Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns each recorded double-doubles Tuesday night for the host New York Knicks, who made franchise history by earning a 133-120 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.,The Knicks, who are 5-0 on a season-high seven-game homestand, scored more than 130 points in each of the past...
NHL roundup: Gabriel Landeskog, Avs end Ducks' win streak
Gabriel Landeskog scored his first regular-season goal in more than three years, Artturi Lehkonen had a goal and an assist, and the surging Colorado Avalanche beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-1 in Denver on Tuesday night.,Martin Necas and Parker Kelly also scored, Nathan MacKinnon had three assists for his ...
NBA roundup: Cade Cunningham (46), Pistons nip Wizards in OT
Cade Cunningham scored a career-high 46 points as part of a triple-double and the host Detroit Pistons rallied from a double-digit deficit in the final five minutes of regulation to pull out a 137-135 overtime win over the Washington Wizards on Monday night.,Cunningham attempted 45 field goals and m...
Top 25 roundup: Tamin Lipsey, No. 16 Iowa St. handle Mississippi St.
Tamin Lipsey scored a career-high 25 points, Joshua Jefferson added 18 points and No. 16 Iowa State beat Mississippi State 96-80 on Monday night at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.,Virginia transfer Blake Buchanan had a strong all-around game for Iowa State (3-0) with 13 points, six rebound...
NHL roundup: Rangers down Predators for first home win
Artemi Panarin scored twice, Alexis Lafreniere finished with a goal and two assists and the New York Rangers ended their season-opening seven-game home winless streak by pulling away for a 6-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Monday night.,The Rangers, who went 0-6-1 in their first seven home...
Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 3 UCLA powers past No. 6 Oklahoma
Gianna Kneepkens scored seven of her 20 points in an 11-0 second-quarter surge that sparked No. 3 UCLA to a 73-59 nonconference win over No. 6 Oklahoma on Monday in Sacramento.,The Sooners (1-1) jumped on top 27-26 on a 3-pointer from Aaliyah Chavez before the game-changing sequence. Lauren Betts ga...
Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 25 Washington pulls away from Montana
Sayvia Sellers scored 19 points for No. 25 Washington, which pulled away with an 11-0 second-period run and went on to beat Montana 87-56 in nonconference action Monday in Seattle.,The Huskies (2-0) led 25-13 before Brynn McGaughy scored seven points in the pull-away sequence. Washington led 42-19 a...
NHL roundup: Gavin Brindley's OT goal pushes Avalanche past Canucks
Gavin Brindley scored 1:08 into overtime and the visiting Colorado Avalanche beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-4 on Sunday night.,Brindley carried the puck into the Vancouver end and put a shot on Kevin Lankinen, who couldn't corral the rebound. Brindley tapped it between the goaltender's leg to give Col...
NBA roundup: Knicks rout Nets to remain perfect at home
Karl-Anthony Towns posted another double-double Sunday night for the host New York Knicks, who remained perfect at home with a wire-to-wire 134-98 win over the Brooklyn Nets.,Towns had 28 points and 12 rebounds for the Knicks, who have won the first four games of a season-long seven-game homestand t...
NFL roundup: Texans outscore Jags 26-0 in 4th, surge to win
Davis Mills delivered a trio of fourth-quarter touchdowns to help the Houston Texans erase a 19-point deficit and rally for a 36-29 win over the visiting Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.,Mills completed 27 of 45 passes for 292 yards, two touchdowns and an interception in his first start since January...
Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 18 USC edges No. 9 NC State
Jazzy Davidson scored 21 points, including the go-ahead layup with 8.2 seconds left, as No. 18 Southern California edged No. 9 North Carolina State 69-68 on Sunday in a neutral-court battle in Charlotte, NC.,Londynn Jones added 19 points, and Kennedy Smith had 10 points and eight rebounds for USC (2...
Top 25 roundup: No. 15 Alabama knocks off No. 5 St. John's in barnburner
Labaron Philon Jr. produced another strong performance with 25 points, as No. 15 Alabama took control late in the first half and withstood a comeback attempt by No. 5 St. John's in an impressive 103-96 victory in New York Saturday afternoon.,Philon made 10 of 17 shots and had help from two players r...
NBA roundup: Short-handed Hawks halt Lakers' 5-game win streak
Mouhamed Gueye and Zaccharie Risacher combined for 40 points to help the short-handed Atlanta Hawks take a 122-102 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday.,Gueye scored a career-high 21 points on 8-for-12 shooting and Risacher scored 19 to set the pace early as the Hawks ended the L...
NHL roundup: Senators' Tim Stutzle scores twice, including in OT to edge Flyers
Tim Stutzle scored his second goal of the game 3:19 into overtime, lifting the Ottawa Senators past the host Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Saturday. ,Ottawa won despite registering only 13 shots, the final one coming off a nifty setup by Drake Batherson, who put a perfect pass on the doorstep for Stutz...
Top 25 roundup: No. 9 Oregon boosts resume with win at No. 20 Iowa
Atticus Sappington made a 39-yard field goal with three seconds left to lift No. 9 Oregon to an 18-16 Big Ten victory over No. 20 Iowa in damp Iowa City on Saturday.,The Ducks (8-1 overall, 5-1 in Big Ten) never trailed until 1:51 remained in the game -- when Iowa quarterback Mark Gronowski ran for ...
ATP roundup: Novak Djokovic wins Hellenic, withdraws from ATP Finals due to injury
No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic rallied to win the Hellenic Championship on Saturday in Athens, Greece, initially denying No. 2 seed Lorenzo Musetti's bid to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals.,However, Djokovic, 38, said afterward in a post on social media that an "ongoing" shoulder injury would keep him o...
ATP roundup: Novak Djokovic denies Lorenzo Musetti's quest
No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic rallied to win the Hellenic Championship on Saturday in Athens, Greece, and denied No. 2 seed Lorenzo Musetti's bid to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals.,The Serbian star claimed his 101st career title with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory in just under three hours. Djokovic traded s...
Top 25 roundup: No. 25 North Carolina rallies past No. 19 Kansas
Superstar freshman Caleb Wilson led four North Carolina players in double figures with 24 points as the No. 25 Tar Heels defeated No. 19 Kansas 87-74 in an early-season battle of college basketball titans on Friday night.,It was the first-ever matchup between the two schools in Chapel Hill, N.C. Nor...
NHL roundup: Sharks' Macklin Celebrini, 19, takes league points lead
Macklin Celebrini scored a goal and added an assist on Friday, grabbing sole possession of the league lead in points while carrying the San Jose Sharks to a 2-1 victory over the visiting Winnipeg Jets.,Celebrini, 19, boosted his point total to 23 (nine goals, 14 assists). It was his sixth multi-poin...