We missed you, college basketball. The first night of the 2019-20 campaign, per the norm, did not disappoint as teams around the country tipped off the season and produced an abundance of highlights. Here are a few moments that stood out Tuesday night, ...
There's an SEC feel atop the first College Football Playoff rankings, with three teams from the conference inside the top six, and the timing couldn't be better: No. 3 Alabama hosts No. 2 LSU on Saturday, in one of the most hyped regular-season games of the ...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Austin Reaves made the most of his return to action. The junior guard scored 17 of his 23 points in the second half to help Oklahoma defeat Texas-San Antonio 85-67 on Tuesday night in the season opener for both teams. Reaves ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — James Banks III stood at the line, preparing for two shots with his Georgia Tech team down one and a hostile North Carolina State crowd roaring down on him from all sides. No problem. Banks hit both free throws with 2.1 seconds left in ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Andres Feliz scored 23 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and Illinois beat Nicholls State 78-70 in overtime on Tuesday in a season opener for both teams. Ayo Dosunmu scored 21, Giorgi Bezhanishvili added 11 points, and freshman ...
LOGAN, Utah — Shots weren't falling for Utah State guard Sam Merrill before halftime, so he found another way over the final 20 minutes. Merrill scored 28 points and went 17-of-18 from the free-throw line to help 17th-ranked Aggies beat Montana State 81-73 ...
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The defending Big 12 Champions took the floor at home for the first time since cutting down the nets last year as Kansas State beat North Dakota State 67-54 on Tuesday night. Cartier Diarra had 23 points, six rebounds and six ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — It is no secret that Arkansas is going to be an undersized basketball team. The lack of height ended up not affecting the Razorbacks, who won the rebounding battle 45-27 and cruised past Rice on Tuesday night, 91-43 in a ...
AUBURN, Ala. — The Auburn Tigers debuted their new look, minus the stars that led them to the program's first Final Four and also without the barrage of 3-pointers. Samir Doughty scored 20 points to lead No. 24 Auburn to an 83-74 victory over Georgia ...
Probably the best example of Justin Herbert's influence over No. 7 Oregon came after the Ducks fell behind to USC last weekend. The team gathered midway through the first half and collectively decided there was no reason to panic. Herbert led the effort by ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A tall, familiar figure with a black towel draped over his head made his way through the Carolina Panthers locker room on Monday as reporters entered for media availability. He went to his familiar spot in the front corner of the room, ...
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. (AP) — Bryson Langdon had 20 points in his Northern Kentucky debut and the Norse rolled past Cincinnati-Clermont 105-55 on Tuesday night in a season opener for both teams. Northern Kentucky broke a 10-10 tie with a 15-2 run ...
New Zealand Breakers coach Dan Shamir is confident he can get the best out of firebrand recruit Glen Rice Jr after organising their Auckland reunion this week. Rice, a former Washington Wizards guard and son of three-time NBA All-Star Rice Sr, will ...
It took a while, but the gulf in class between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Los Angeles Kings eventually became apparent on Tuesday. The return of John Tavares and a call-up for Nic Petan meant there were some new faces on display for the Leafs, while the ...
Utah sophomores Timmy Allen and Both Gach are the team's most experienced players, and they performed that way in a 79-74, season-opening victory at Nevada. Allen posted 23 points and 11 rebounds and Gach scored 19 of his 22 points in the second ...
Two-time Olympic champion Nicola Adams has retired from boxing at the age of 37 over fears that she could lose her sight. Adams was the first female boxer to become a double Olympic champion when she won gold in the flyweight division at the Rio 2016 ...
Wednesday morning. I'm back in a quite wet Cape Town and struggling to sleep, probably because my body clock, after weeks of getting used to Japanese time, has now finally settled on Japan time as the zone I should be in. It works like that! Tokyo suddenly ...
CLEMSON— Dabo Swinney met the media on Tuesday to preview Clemson's game at N.C. State on Saturday in Raleigh. The Tigers (9-0, 6-0 ACC) play the Wolfpack (4-4, 1-3 ACC) at 7:30 p.m. on ABC. "N.C. State, it's never easy to go up there," Swinney ...
Most professional boxers will begin their careers in front of a handful of people at obscure leisure centres. KSI and Logan Paul are not most professional boxers. On Saturday night, the YouTubers - combined following 40 million - will fight in front of an ...
Teams battling for supremacy in the MAC-West meet when the Ball State Cardinals visit the Western Michigan Broncos on Tuesday. The Cardinals (4-4) are looking for their first conference championship since 1996, while the Broncos (5-4) are eyeing their ...
1) Give the St. Louis Blues a ton of credit. All they've done since learning the devastating news that sniper Vladimir Tarasenko is done for the season is win. It would have been easy for the group to sag knowing its path back to the playoffs got significantly ...
Oklahoma State, as expected, is unranked in the SB Nation FanPulse top 25 poll after a 34-27 home win over TCU. It's the second straight week the Cowboys have won by that score after back-to-back Big 12 losses. OSU is idle this week before hosting ...
Dylan Larkin didn't want to hear it. Justin Abdelkader pushed back, too. When a losing streak grows as ugly as the Detroit Red Wings' has — they head into Madison Square Garden on Wednesday after three consecutive blowouts — the spotlight on the coach ...
Australia batsman Steve Smith wants to improve his batting record in the T20I as he feels it is not 'crash hot'. "If you look at my batting record in T20 internationals, it's not crash hot," International Cricket Council (ICC) quoted Smith as saying. Smith guided his ...
OKLAHOMA CITY -- In a powerful pregame moment Tuesday, the Oklahoma City Thunder presented custom city-edition jerseys to the families of the 168 people killed in the 1995 Alfred P. Murrah bombing. Following a short video presentation, the families ...
Latrell Mitchell's family friend Anthony Mundine has urged the out-of-favour Sydney Roosters star to "get as much money as he can" as the race for the representative centre's signature heats up. Mitchell has quickly become the NRL's hottest free agent after ...
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