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Bruins' Brad Marchand (upper-body injury) deemed week-to-week
Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand has been ruled week-to-week with an upper-body injury, interim coach Joe Sacco told reporters Tuesday.,Marchand suffered the injury just 5:56 into Saturday's 3-2 win over the host Pittsburgh Penguins. He collided awkwardly with the Penguins' P.O Joseph and came up...
The NBA’s Title Race: Contenders, Pretenders, and the Chaos to Come
These are the NBA's 2025 championship contenders and pretenders, as with the calendar flipped to March, chaos in the NBA's Playoff race is certainly on the way....

Fancy wins Madden Bowl to complete dream season
Top-seeded Jacob "Fancy" Worthington completed the best season in Madden Championship Series history, beating second-seeded Jonathan "JonBeast" Marquez 31-28 to win the Madden Bowl on Monday in London.,Fancy, from Frisco, Texas, previously won the Kickoff Challenge and the Most Feared Challenge in t...

Up 14 late, UCLA withstands Northwestern's rally
Tyler Bilodeau scored 19 points, Aday Mara came off the bench to register his second career double-double and UCLA held off a furious, late-game rally in a 73-69 win over Northwestern on Monday in Evanston, Ill. ,UCLA (21-9, 12-7 Big Ten Conference) went on an 8-0 run late in the second half, buildi...

Cade Cunningham nets 29 as surging Pistons rout Jazz
Cade Cunningham scored 29 points and the Detroit Pistons cruised to their 10th win in 11 games by beating the Utah Jazz 134-106 Monday night in Salt Lake City.,Cunningham also dished out nine assists -- and scored 17 points in the first half as Detroit built a 23-point lead -- to help the Pistons ki...

No. 3 Houston beats Kansas, sets Big 12 single-season wins mark
L.J. Cryer scored 18 of his game-high 22 points in the first half and No. 3 Houston beat visiting Kansas 65-59 on Monday to set a single-season mark for Big 12 victories.,The Cougars (26-4, 18-1 Big 12) extended their winning streak to nine by producing a plus-26 margin in shot attempts courtesy of ...

No. 3 Houston beats Kansas, sets Big 12 single-season mark
L.J. Cryer scored 18 of his game-high 22 points in the first half and No. 3 Houston beat visiting Kansas 65-59 on Monday to set a single-season mark for Big 12 victories.,The Cougars (26-4, 18-1 Big 12) extended their winning streak to nine by producing a plus-26 margin in shot attempts courtesy of ...

Up 14 late, UCLA withstands Northwestern rally
Tyler Bilodeau scored 19 points, Aday Mara came off the bench to register his second career double-double and UCLA held off a furious, late-game rally in a 73-69 win over Northwestern on Monday in Evanston, Ill. ,UCLA (21-9, 12-7 Big Ten Conference) went on an 8-0 run late in the second half, buildi...

New York nabs final TGL playoff spot; Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods out
New York Golf Club scored five points over the final four holes to pull away for a 10-6 victory over Boston Common Golf, clinching a playoff berth while eliminating Rory McIlroy's team from contention on Monday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.,New York's Xander Schauffele "threw the hammer" at the par-3 ...

Cooper Flagg excels as No. 2 Duke routs Wake Forest
Cooper Flagg scored 28 points in the last home game of his freshman season as No. 2 Duke dominated the second half in a 93-60 victory against visiting Wake Forest on Monday night at Durham, N.C.,Kon Knueppel had 17 points and Tyrese Proctor, who was back after missing the last 1 1/2 games with a kne...

Astros’ Jose Altuve to play ‘majority’ of games in LF
After experimenting with Jose Altuve in left field at spring training, the Houston Astros are flipping the switch.,The career infielder will play a "majority" of his games this season in left, manager Joe Espada said Monday.,"Right now the plan is for him to play the majority of his games in left fi...

Utah's Josh Eilert faces familiar foe as West Virginia visits
As the interim coach at Utah, Josh Eilert finds himself in the unusual position of facing the team he guided on an interim basis last year.,Tuesday night in Salt Lake City, Eilert leads Utah (16-13, 8-10 Big 12) against West Virginia (17-12, 8-10), the team he coached under difficult circumstances l...

SMU hunts ACC tournament double-bye vs. Syracuse
At home for the final time in its inaugural ACC season, SMU looks to regain its rhythm Tuesday night against a Syracuse team aiming to do the exact same.,The Mustangs (21-8, 12-6 ACC) have not won consecutive games since a stretch of five wins from Jan. 25-Feb. 11. That coincides with the departure ...

Bruins, Predators share offensive struggles
Playing the first of just four March home games, David Pastrnak and the Boston Bruins will have to start anew when they welcome in the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.,It will be Boston's first skate since the star winger's league-leading point streak ended at 17 games in a 1-0 loss Sunday to t...

Yankees RHP Luis Gil won't throw until at least mid-April
American League Rookie of the Year Luis Gil won't throw for at least six weeks due to a "high-degree lat strain," New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Monday afternoon.,Gil was unable to get loose in a bullpen session on Friday and the Yankees sent him for an MRI exam on Saturday. Boone said Gi...

Houston Dash F Yuki Nagasato retires after storied career
Houston Dash forward Yuki Nagasato has retired from professional soccer following a storied career that spans more than two decades and several continents.,Nagasato's seven seasons in the NWSL includes stints with the Chicago Red Stars (2017-2019, 2022-23), Louisville Racing (2021) and Houston, wher...

No. 3 Houston squares off with Kansas following Big 12 title
Roughly one month before the Big 12 schedule opened, and after Houston absorbed a pair of overtime losses during a tournament in Las Vegas, another conference title did not appear to be guaranteed.,With their 73-64 home victory over Cincinnati on Saturday, the third-ranked Cougars (25-4, 17-1 Big 12...

Katherine Legge, 44, to make Cup Series debut at Phoenix
Katherine Legge will make her NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend at Phoenix Raceway, Live Fast Motorsports announced Monday.,Legge, 44, will drive the No. 78 Chevrolet in Sunday's Shriners Children's 500, becoming the first woman to compete in a Cup Series race since Danica Patrick at the 2018 Day...

Jazz look for 'refocusing' moment as they prepare for Pistons
Though he's been patient as his team goes through a rebuilding phase, Utah Jazz coach Will Hardy didn't hold back on Sunday after a 128-121 home loss to the New Orleans Pelicans.,Considering how well the Detroit Pistons are playing coming into Monday's matchup in Salt Lake City, the Jazz will have t...

Laslo Djere edges Sebastian Baez to win Chile Open title
Serbia's Laslo Djere broke serve twice in the third set and finished off third-seeded Sebastian Baez on his second match point to win the Movistar Chile Open 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 in Santiago, Chile, on Sunday. ,Djere, who is ranked 103rd in the world, claimed his third ATP championship but his first since ...