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Timeless, Spacestation Gaming open Overwatch Champions Series with wins
Timeless and Spacestation Gaming opened play in the 2025 Overwatch Champions Series North America with wins on Friday.,Timeless topped Team Liquid 3-0, with Spacestation Gaming taking out NTMR 3-1.,The $100,000 tournament, played online, features eight teams. The regular-season round robin will conc...
FURIA squeeze into IEM Katowice group stage
FURIA Esports rallied for a 2-1 victory over Wildcard on Friday in the last upper-bracket second-round match at the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice, earning a group-stage spot in Poland.,Four more teams -- BIG, Virtus.pro, Astralis and Team Liquid -- worked their way into the group stage by earning 2...
Rangers acquire F J.T. Miller from Canucks
The New York Rangers landed forward J.T. Miller from the Vancouver Canucks in a five-player trade Friday night.,Miller, defenseman Erik Brannstrom and defense prospect Jackson Dorrington are headed from Vancouver to New York in exchange for veteran forward Filip Chytil, defenseman Victor Mancini and...
Pistons' Cade Cunningham drops 40 on Mavs in 15-point win
First-time All-Star Cade Cunningham poured in 40 points and the host Detroit Pistons snapped a three-game losing streak with a 117-102 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night.,Tobias Harris had 17 points and Jalen Duren contributed 16 points, 13 rebounds and five assists. Marcus Sasser chi...
Jets keep poaching Lions, hire Tanner Engstrand as OC
The New York Jets announced the hiring of Tanner Engstrand as their next offensive coordinator on Friday, continuing to raid the Detroit Lions' cupboard in the process.,Engstrand, 42, was on the Lions' staff since 2020 and served as their passing game coordinator for the past three seasons.,He follo...
No. 6 Houston leans on top-tier defense as No. 22 Texas Tech visits
No. 6 Houston is seeking its 14th straight win on Saturday as it plays host to No. 22 Texas Tech.,Houston (17-3, 9-0 Big 12) hasn't lost since a 73-70 overtime defeat to San Diego State in Las Vegas on Nov. 30. The Cougars managed to win their last four nonconference games and have taken advantage o...
Bruins out to avoid goal flurries in visit from Rangers
As the NHL's break for the 4 Nations Face-Off approaches, the Boston Bruins have defenseman Charlie McAvoy back from injury and hope that consistency can follow.,He is slated to play his second game back after missing seven due to an upper-body injury when the Bruins host the New York Rangers on Sat...
Boston College looking to halt slide vs. Florida State
Boston College looks to snap a six-game losing streak when it hosts Florida State on Saturday in Chestnut Hill, Mass.,The Eagles (9-11, 1-8 ACC) haven't won since beating Miami 78-68 on Jan. 1. Four of their losses since then were by 18 or more points.,Boston College was without forward Elijah Stron...
Aussie Open ratings plummet despite American success
Viewership for the 2025 Australian Open was down 11 percent from last year and 16 percent compared to 2023.,That's despite Madison Keys winning her first Grand Slam title by upsetting World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the women's final, and fellow American Ben Shelton reaching the men's semifinals.,The...
No. 17 Wisconsin looks to snap road skid at Northwestern
Wisconsin looks to avoid a third consecutive Big Ten road loss when the 17th-ranked Badgers face Northwestern on Saturday in Evanston, Ill.,Wisconsin (16-5, 6-4) lost at Maryland 76-68 on Wednesday. Prior to that, the Badgers trounced Nebraska 83-55 at home last Sunday, coming off an 85-83 loss on t...
Pitt aims to ride momentum into clash vs. Wake Forest
Pitt looks for its third consecutive victory on Saturday afternoon when it visits Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C.,The Panthers (14-6, 5-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) answered a four-game losing skid with a 77-73 win over Syracuse last Saturday and a 73-65 victory over North Carolina on Tuesday.,Th...
Pistons' Isaiah Stewart suspended, fined after flagrant foul
The NBA suspended Detroit Pistons forward-center Isaiah Stewart for one game without pay after he tallied his sixth flagrant foul point of the regular season.,In the second quarter of the Pistons' 133-119 road loss to the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday, Stewart was called for a flagrant foul 2. ,Becaus...
Report: 9 Western Oregon players file $28M suit, claim coach abuse
Nine former women's basketball players at Western Oregon are suing their coaches and school, contending they were victims of physical abuse and bullying.,In the 58-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Oregon's Marion County Circuit Court, the players allege head coach Jessica Peatross and assistant DJ M...
Free-agent F Natasha Howard announces return to Fever
Three-time WNBA champion Natasha Howard is returning to the Indiana Fever, the team that selected her with the fifth overall pick of the 2014 WNBA Draft.,On Friday, she posted a throwback photo of draft night on her Instagram account with the caption, "Back to where all my dreams came true.",The 6-f...
Reports: INF Jorge Polanco to re-sign with Mariners
Free-agent infielder Jorge Polanco is returning to the Seattle Mariners, multiple outlets reported.,The Athletic pegged Polanco's contract at one year for $7.75 million, adding it includes a 2026 vesting option based on plate appearances in 2025.,The Mariners had yet to announce the deal, which is p...
Flyers acquire Andrei Kuzmenko in trade with Flames
Four forwards are on the move after the Philadelphia Flyers and the Calgary Flames pulled off a trade late Thursday night.,The Flames received Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee, while the Flyers got Andrei Kuzmenko, Jakob Pelletier and second-round draft pick this year and a seventh-round pick in 2028.,...
Beat-up Mavericks out to take down Pistons
The healthy players on the Dallas Mavericks roster know they have to ramp up their production until their injured teammates return.,Dallas began a five-game road trip on a winning note, defeating New Orleans 137-136 on Wednesday. The journey continues with a visit to Detroit on Friday.,Frontcourt st...
Massage therapists accuse Ravens K Justin Tucker of sexual misconduct
Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by six massage therapists in an investigative story by the Baltimore Banner on Thursday.,Tucker released a statement on social media vehemently denying the allegations, and the Ravens said in their own statement that ...
Three teams secure advancement at IEM Katowice
Eternal Fire, 3DMAX and GamerLegion nabbed the first three play-in berths into the group stage of the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice event on Thursday in Poland.,Eternal Fire defeated HEROIC, 3DMAX beat MIBR and GamerLegion knocked off paiN Gaming -- all by 2-0 scores -- in the second round of the p...
Heat's Terry Rozier investigated in illegal betting probe
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether NBA veteran Terry Rozier altered his performance as part of an illegal sports betting operation, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.,Rozier, now a point guard for the Miami Heat, was playing for the Charlotte Hornets when the game under scrutiny o...