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PITTSBURGH — Sitting in a coffee shop with Paul Skenes while discussing his addiction to winning, the thought is hard to ignore.

The same for a conversation with Don Kelly at the Clemente Museum about managing his ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Because of the Winter Olympics, the Flyers won’t play again for another two-and-a-half weeks, not that anyone is all that broken up about their impending absence. They’ve been a lousy hang for a while,...Read more

The question in the wake of Thursday’s NBA trade deadline was one of: wouldn’t or couldn’t?

Because where the Miami Heat stood entering the process and where they stand exiting the process is not a place to be ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls have barely had time to go around in a circle and introduce themselves since they first assembled as a team. Yet they somehow gave the Denver Nuggets a baffling scare on Saturday.

Denver ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On the night the Los Angeles Lakers introduced the newly-acquired guard Luke Kennard, they also discuss relatively good news about Luka Doncic's injury and how long he'll be out.

The Lakers said Doncic was...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky was down double digits to Tennessee on Saturday night. Again.

The Wildcats made a game of it. Again.

And then Mark Pope’s team did it. Again.

The Cats stormed back in the second half and ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Byron Murphy II has already won in more ways than one.

I’m not even talking about the 23-year-old defensive tackle’s ascendant second season, which included 62 tackles and seven sacks. Or the former ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A few moments before 7-foot-2 Kristaps Porzingis lifted his new No. 7 Golden State jersey for the flashing cameras in downtown Los Angeles, the newest Warrior tried his hand at comedy.

“Forty-eight ...Read more

Too much talent.

That’s why the Seattle Seahawks will beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 60 on Sunday.

The Seahawks boast the better lines, team speed, depth and special teams.

Quarterback Sam Darnold will ...Read more

EAST LANSING, Mich. — If Tom Izzo hadn’t made up his mind about disciplining Jeremy Fears Jr. when he spoke to the media Friday, then he had by tipoff of Saturday’s top-10 matchup with Illinois. He started Fears, his...Read more

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina’s first lead over Duke on Saturday night was the only one that mattered.

Seth Trimble’s 3-pointer from the corner in front of UNC’s bench with 0.4 seconds left gave the 14th-...Read more

In the same setting and against the same team that one potential Seahawks dynasty began its descent, a new one has a chance to arise Sunday.

From the moment the Seattle-New England Super Bowl matchup was set two weeks ago...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — When the Magic traveled to Utah in late-December, Orlando needed a game-winning layup from Desmond Bane in the final moments of overtime to escape with a one-point win at Delta Center.

And on Saturday ...Read more

MIAMI — It only required two seasons of wandering through the wilderness, two years of being irrelevant while the franchises reset.

That’s the timeline it took for the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks to ...Read more

A few weeks ago, right as the Seahawks were beginning their playoff run to the Super Bowl, coach Mike Macdonald noted that one way he eases anxiety is to remember all that he has to be grateful.

“Just count your ...Read more

When Logan and Jennifer Wagler dropped off their youngest son in Champaign, Ill., over the summer, their hope was that he would put on 5 pounds, adjust well to college life and work hard so he could find a way to ...Read more

Patriots quarterback Drake Maye is following in the footsteps of Tom Brady, far beyond just the football field.

Maye has taken over the reins from Brady as an ambassador for Best Buddies, an international organization ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For all the Chiefs have achieved in the Patrick Mahomes era, I’m not sure any of that has eclipsed the sheer euphoria of the Royals’ back-to-back World Series seasons in 2014 and 2015 after not so ...Read more

I love the Super Bowl.

I absolutely love it.

I love everything about it: The overdone commercials. The over-the-top halftime shows. The overhyped game.

I love the Super Bowl not in spite of its excess, but because of it...Read more

BOSTON — How did Mike Smith get here?

Alone in a wooden cabin atop a remote mountain in Utah, hundreds of miles from home, sitting in the overnight dark. Days of solitude lay ahead of him, questions lingered behind.

...Read more