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Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 19 West Virginia crushes Oklahoma State
Gia Cooke scored a game-high 21 points and Kierra Wheeler posted an 18-point, 10-rebound double-double as No. 19 West Virginia cruised to a 72-40 victory over Oklahoma State on Saturday in Morgantown, W.Va.,The Mountaineers (22-6, 12-4 Big 12), who have won five of their last six games, jumped out t...
No. 19 West Virginia dominant early, crushes Oklahoma State
Gia Cooke scored a game-high 21 points and Kierra Wheeler posted an 18-point, 10-rebound double-double as No. 17 West Virginia cruised to a 72-40 victory over Oklahoma State on Saturday in Morgantown, W.Va.,The Mountaineers (22-6, 12-4 Big 12), who have won five of their last six games, jumped out t...
US vs. Canada final inevitable, but this time the ice has tilted
MILAN -- Canada and the United States will play out another chapter in their long-standing rivalry after setting up the almost inevitable Olympic women's ice hockey final on Monday, but this time the Americans have flipped the script and tilted the ice in their favor.,The U.S. strolled to a 5-0 win ...
Kendall Coyne-Schofield scores twice as US routs Italy in women's hockey
Kendall Coyne-Schofield scored twice to highlight a five-goal second period, lifting the United States to a 6-0 romp over Italy on Friday in the quarterfinals at the Milan Cortina Olympics.,Megan Keller collected a goal and two assists and Laila Edwards and Britta Curl-Salemme had one of each for th...
US steamrolls rival Canada 5-0 to complete spotless Group A run
Hannah Bilka scored two goals and Caroline Harvey and Abbey Murphy each totaled three points, fueling the United States to a 5-0 rout of rival Canada on Tuesday at the Milan Cortina Olympics.,Harvey scored a goal and set up two others for the second straight game and Murphy notched three assists for...
Streaking Duke vaults to No. 11 in women's Top 25
Duke soared six places to No. 11 in this week's Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll after extending its winning streak to 15 games.,The top four remained unchanged Monday, with unbeaten and consensus No. 1 UConn (25-0) leading UCLA (23-1), South Carolina (24-2) and Texas (22-2).,Vanderbi...
Hilary Knight ties goals mark as US women's hockey routs Finland
Megan Keller collected a goal and two assists to lift the United States to a 5-0 victory over Finland on Saturday in a Group A game of the preliminary round in the Milan Cortina Olympics.,Abbey Murphy and Taylor Heise each had one goal and one assist, and captain Hilary Knight scored in her second s...
US women's hockey opens with dominant win over Czechia
Hayley Scamurra scored two goals and captain Hilary Knight also tallied to begin her last Olympics, fueling the United States a 5-1 victory over Czechia on Thursday in a Group A preliminary-round game at the Milano Cortina Games in Milano, Italy.,Alex Carpenter collected a goal and an assist and Joy...
UConn still consensus No. 1 as top four unchanged
As the nation's lone undefeated team, UConn remained the consensus No. 1 in Monday's Associated Press Top 25 women's college basketball poll.,The defending national champion Huskies (23-0) received all 31 first-place votes after running their winning streak to 39 games with a 96-66 rout of then-No. ...
Lindsey Vonn claims another downhill podium, taking third in Italy
It is now six podiums in seven races for Lindsey Vonn after she finished in third place Saturday in a World Cup downhill at Tarvisio, Italy.,That also marked Vonn's fifth consecutive top-three finish overall.,Nicol Delago of Italy was first with a time of 1:46.28, and Germany's Kira Weidle-Winkelman...
Hilary Knight leads U.S. women's Olympic hockey roster
Olympic veteran Hilary Knight leads the U.S. women's hockey team unveiled on Friday for next month's Milano Cortina Winter Games.,Knight, 36, will set an American record in her sport with her fifth Winter Olympics appearance after winning gold in 2018 and three silver medals.,The 23-member Team USA ...
Spain still No. 1 ahead of USWNT in FIFA Women's World Rankings
The U.S. women's national team remains hot on the heels of No. 1 Spain in the FIFA world rankings for December, released Thursday.,Spain stayed on top after clinching the UEFA Women's Nations League title. After falling to Spain in the final, Germany jumped two spots to No. 3 behind the Americans. ,...
Catarina Macario tallies twice as USWNT routs Italy
Catarina Macario recorded a brace and Olivia Moultrie scored in the second minute as the United States women's national team cruised to a 3-0 victory over Italy in an international friendly on Friday night at Orlando.,Rose Lavelle, Sam Coffey and Lily Yohannes had assists as the USWNT controlled pla...
Aryna Sabalenka, Amanda Anisimova to clash in Wimbledon semifinal
Aryna Sabalenka got all she could handle -- and more -- from Laura Siegemund of Germany but managed a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 win to advance to the semifinals at Wimbledon on Tuesday in London.,The 37-year-old Siegemund took Sabalenka out of her traditional power game, instead forcing the 27-year-old from Bel...
Virginia swimmer Gretchen Walsh wins Honda Cup as top woman athlete
Virginia star swimmer Gretchen Walsh won the prestigious Honda Cup as the top Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.,The other two finalists were UConn basketball star Paige Bueckers and Texas Tech softball player NiJaree Canady.,Walsh joins basketball legend Dawn Staley (1991) as the only Cavaliers ...
USWNT maintains dominance of Jamaica with 4-0 win
Ally Sentnor's first-half brace and two goals by second-half substitute Lynn Biyendolo helped the U.S. women's national team continue its dominance over Jamaica with an easy 4-0 victory in a friendly in St. Louis on Tuesday.,Sentnor scored in the 19th and 28th minutes and Phallon Tullis-Joyce record...
NFL Network to air all-female 'Good Morning Football' for two days
It will be an all-female cast running "Good Morning Football" -- the NFL Network's Emmy-winning show -- this Thursday and Friday.,Jamie Erdahl, who regularly hosts the weekday program, will be joined on Thursday by Cynthia Frelund, an NFL Network analytics expert; Jane Slater, a reporter for the net...
No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka opens French Open in top form
Aryna Sabalenka left no question as to why she is the top seed at the French Open, producing a dominant 6-1, 6-0 first-round victory over Kamilla Rakhimova in Paris on Sunday.,Sabalenka needed just one hour to defeat the Russian on the clay courts of Roland Garros.,"I'm super happy to be back in Par...
Women's hockey star Hilary Knight says 2026 Olympics will be her last
United States women's hockey great Hilary Knight said the 2026 Milan Olympics will be the final one of her stellar career, USA Today reported Tuesday.,It will be Knight's fifth Olympic Games. She has won one gold medal and three silvers. The gold came in 2018.,"It's time," Knight told USA Today. "I ...
Sue Bird to direct U.S. women's basketball national team
Five-time Olympic gold medalist Sue Bird was named the first-ever managing director of the USA Basketball Women's National Team on Thursday.,Bird, 44, spent two decades with the national team and won 11 international medals, making her the most decorated athlete in FIBA history. A two-time national ...