In what turned out to be a very busy trade deadline, the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors stole the show. Per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski, the Wolves brought in D'Angelo Russell, Jacob Evans and Omari Spellman. In return, the Warriors ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The time was right to let Branden Carlson and his impressive wingspan roam free. Carlson had 15 points, 10 rebounds and eight blocks to lead Utah over Stanford 64-56 in overtime on Thursday night. Utah coaches encouraged Carlson ...
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Knowing its season begins less than a week after one of the biggest betting events in America, the new XFL is embracing sports betting in a major way. The revived league owned by wrestling impresario Vince McMahon will ...
LOS ANGELES — Nobody taller than 6-foot-6 was in Houston's starting lineup, and a heavily bearded guard lost the opening tip. Nobody bigger than 6-foot-7 Robert Covington played for the Rockets in a game between division leaders at Staples Center.
A few hours after the NBA trade deadline passed Thursday, Carmelo Anthony stared at a horde of reporters huddled around his corner locker and chuckled. "What deadline?" Anthony said. The Portland Trail Blazers' veteran forward, who has lived through a ...
The Philadelphia 76ers will look for their 23rd win in 25 games at home when they host the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday. The Sixers, however, will enter this matchup after being swept on a four-game road trip, which concluded with a 112-101 loss to the ...
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Cavaliers were expected to move a big man. Instead, they added another one. In the final hour before the NBA trading deadline, Cleveland acquired two-time All-Star center Andre Drummond from the Detroit Pistons in exchange for ...
Giannis Antetokounmpo collected 36 points, 20 rebounds and six assists as the host Milwaukee Bucks avenged a Christmas Day loss to the Philadelphia 76ers with a 112-101 victory on Thursday. The reigning NBA MVP has recorded five consecutive games ...
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Mikael Granlund had a goal and an assist to lead to lead the Nashville Predators to a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday night. After assisting on the tying goal in the first, Granlund made it three straight goals for the ...
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Down one of its best big men, UCLA threw double teams at Romello White all night. Arizona State's big man did a good job of kicking it out to his teammates on the perimeter for open shots. And the Pac-12's worst 3-point shooting team ...
NEW YORK – As has been the case all season, the Orlando Magic struggled mightily when playing on the second night of a back-to-back set of games. Only this time it was more because of a lack of precision, fuzzy focus and a shaky closing stretch than it ...
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Tyler Bey made it a point to pick up the pace in the second half. Bey scored 13 of his season-high 21 points in the second half and No. 24 Colorado made key free throws down the stretch to beat California 71-65 on Thursday night.
To recap, Wednesday night they traded Alex Len and Jabari Parker, both of whom had been struggling with injuries, to Sacramento in exchange for Dewayne Dedmon plus 2020 and 2021 second-round picks. They waived Chandler Parsons to free up roster ...
USC guard Kyle Sturdivant went crashing into the video boards while the Arizona Wildcats went flying down the floor. Late in the first half Thursday night, Sturdivant tried to sneak behind the Arizona defense in transition. He tried to save a long pass from going ...
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Mylik Wilson made the go-ahead jumper with two seconds remaining as Louisiana-Lafayette overcame a 13-point second-half deficit to defeat Georgia State 80-78 on Thursday night. The Ragin' Cajuns trailed 62-49 with 9 minutes, ...
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Jordan Rawls scored 19 points. leading three into double-figure scoring and Western Kentucky defeated Louisiana Tech 65-54 on Thursday night, forging a second-place tie with the Bulldogs in conference. Carson Williams had ...
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — South Carolina freshman Aliyah Boston shined even brighter than her team's flashy yellow and orange shoes. The freshman forward had 18 points, 15 rebounds and seven blocked shots in the top-ranked Gamecocks' 86-65 win at No.
The Southeastern Conference dominated college football's recruiting landscape even more than usual this year. As most of the remaining unsigned top prospects finalized their college plans Wednesday, the SEC had six of the nation's top eight classes, ...
Simply unable to string together enough stops when it mattered, the Spurs let a vulnerable Trail Blazers team close them out with a 39 point 4th quarter en route to a 125-117 loss on Thursday night. The win gave the Trail Blazers a 2-1 victory in the teams' ...
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Marcus Sheffield finished with 18 points and eight rebounds and Elon defeated UNC Wilmington 62-56 on Thursday night. Sheffield sank half of his 14 shots from the floor, hitting two 3-pointers, for the Phoenix (8-17, 4-8 Colonial ...
ORLANDO - The Orlando Magic have acquired veteran forward James Ennis from the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for a 2020 second round draft pick (owed to the Magic from the L.A. Lakers), President of Basketball Operations Jeff Weltman announced ...
Before the four-bout Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury rematch pay-per-view on Feb. 22 (ESPN-Fox PPV, 9 p.m. ET) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, a pair of preliminary bouts will take center stage on a pre-PPV telecast. Unbeaten junior ...
If you want to play with Justin Thomas' wedges, it's going to cost you, but at least you can know that your money is going toward a good cause. Thomas, who stamped his Titleist wedges with Kobe Bryant nicknames and memories -- "81 points," "Kobe Bean ...
Several Klein area student-athletes signed their National Letter of Intent to play sports at the collegiate level on National Signing Day, Feb. 5. The regular football Division I and Division II signing period began Feb. 5 and concludes April 1 for Div. I and Aug.
Jerrick Harding scored 44 points — a season-high and Dee Events Center record — and Weber State needed all of them to edge past Sacramento State 70-66 on Thursday night. Harding was 14-for-21 shooting, made five 3-pointers and converted all 11 of ...
MISSOULA — It was scrappy, it was full of technical fouls and it was everything an Eastern Washington and Montana men's basketball game has been over the past few seasons. A Montana cheerleader was even ejected in a game that ended with 55 total ...
BOSTON — The good news is Steve Holman inching closer to an all-time record. The bad news is to get there, you have to be around a long, long time. In other words, you're old. The Lawrence native and Atlanta Hawks' radio play by play man hit a milestone ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — Turns out it's status quo. With the exception of Class 4A. It's anything but status quo there. The Iowa High School Athletic Association finally announced its regular-season and postseason structure for prep football Thursday. It remains a ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Hundreds of thousands of Kansas City Chiefs fans braved sub-freezing wind chills on Wednesday to celebrate the team's first Super Bowl victory in 50 years, and if Coach Andy Reid is to be believed, they'll be back for an encore next ...
The objective for James Franklin in hiring Ricky Rahne's replacement as Penn State's offensive coordinator was always clear. Franklin wanted someone who was innovative and knew how to run a successful offense, but he also wanted someone who was ...
EVERETT, Wash. — When Sofia Kenin looks back on the past week, it truly is a blur. As last Saturday night turned to Sunday morning, Kenin was basking in the adulation following her first career Grand Slam tournament title as the winner of the Australian ...
Todd Gurley has oft been used as a primary example for why running backs don't matter and as of late, why you should avoid paying them as much as top flight players at other positions. Gurley was perhaps the first top-10 pick of this era to be controversial ...
NEW YORK — As the dust settles after Thursday's active NBA trade deadline, the Warriors aren't done making moves. After deals that sent D'Angelo Russell to Minnesota and Alec Burks and Glenn Robinson III to Philadelphia, the Warriors have just nine ...
Hunt had a goal and an assist with three shots and two blocks in Thursday's 4-2 win over Vancouver. Hunt opened the scoring with a snap shot from the point just over six minutes into the first period. He also set up Kevin Fiala's power-play marker later in the ...
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 6, 2020 – Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was selected to replace Detroit Pistons guard Derrick Rose in the 2020 Taco Bell® Skills Challenge, it was announced today by the NBA. In 51 games (all starts) this ...
For the first time in his coaching career, Sean Snyder is going to be wearing something other than Kansas State colors. On Thursday, Ryan Black of the Manhattan Mercury reported that Snyder had been hired on Clay Helton's staff as a special teams ...
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