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Matt Calkins: NFL still reigns supreme, but baseball is rapidly ascending across the globe
SEATTLE — It might no longer feel like our official pastime, but we are in the midst of some of the sports' best times. ... Read More
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Dave Hyde: Its season ends, but Miami has a rising star at helm
There have been so many great moments for Jai Lucas this season, so many surprise comebacks to create a surprise season that his Miami team figured Sunday would become just another one in the final minutes against Purdue. ...Read more
Paul Sullivan: Baseball returns after a long, hard winter, and we're grateful to welcome it home
CHICAGO — The 2026 baseball season begins this week, and for that we’re eternally grateful.
Sure, it starts too early and ends too late, leading to cold-weather games every spring and World Series games into November....Read more
Troy Renck: Failure, faith, fortitude make Michael Lorenzen a good fit for the Rockies
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — From a red and gold espresso machine to Up with Purple.
Michael Lorenzen has lived the spectrum this spring.
He experienced the raucous World Baseball Classic — Team Italy provided caffeine shots ...Read more
Why the potential return of the Sonics to Seattle has never felt closer
SEATTLE — October 25, 2006. April 18, 2008. May 15, 2013.
March 25, 2026?
Those dates on the calendar — three in the past, one still yet to come — represent four seminal moments in the history of NBA franchise ...Read more
Bill Plaschke: The Dodgers and their fans are geared up for a three-peat. Why the quest will fall short.
LOS ANGELES — The truth of this Los Angeles Dodgers season was recently found in a place where all sports truths are clipped and tapered and styled into reality.
The barbershop.
Of course, the barbershop, where ball ...Read more
Alex Karaban leads UConn men to Sweet 16 with career-best effort in 73-57 win over UCLA
PHILADELPHIA – Alex Karaban played like a man trying to keep his career alive on Sunday night.
UConn’s all-time winningest player scored a career-high 27 points to lead the Huskies back to the Sweet 16 for the third ...Read more
Lightning fall to Flames in OT, end trip with 7 of a possible 8 points
The Tampa Bay Lightning knew that beating Calgary Sunday to complete a sweep of their four-game road trip would be no easy task. Playing an early evening game at the Saddledome after a late finish in Edmonton the previous ...Read more
Tom Krasovic: Shot in San Diego will forever be part of St. John's basketball memories
SAN DIEGO — All high drama requires a setting.
Sunday, that setting was San Diego.
Forever searing our city into the pleasure synapses of many thousands of New Yorkers, a driving layup at San Diego State’s Viejas ...Read more
Florida stunned by Iowa as bid for repeat ends in NCAAs second round
TAMPA, Fla. — Florida’s hopes for a rare repeat came to a stunning conclusion as ninth-seeded Iowa bounced the Gators from the NCAA Tournament.
A 3-pointer with 4.5 second by 6-foot-10 Spaniard Alvaro Folgueriras ...Read more
Tennessee tops Virginia in a thriller to head from Philadelphia to the Sweet 16
PHILADELPHIA — If the lack of an upset on Friday in Philadelphia’s NCAA Tournament games left fans disappointed, the consolation prize was a high-level contest to start Sunday’s doubleheader.
No. 6 seed Tennessee ...Read more
Celtics crater late in home loss to Timberwolves
BOSTON — A season-worst fourth quarter doomed the Boston Celtics on Sunday in a home loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Boston went 5 for 27 in the final period — with two of its makes coming by deep reserves in ...Read more
Kristian Winfield: Knicks rout Wizards, 145-113, despite another poor first quarter
NEW YORK — No longstanding NBA scoring records were hurt in the making of the New York Knicks’ 145-113 victory over the Washington Wizards on Sunday. As for the egos of the players suiting up for the nation’s capital...Read more
Danny Wolf injured as Nets fall to Kings despite Ben Saraf's career-high 22
Both teams were tanking, but Sunday at Golden 1 Center still turned into a night where young and fringe rotation players on each side were asked to step up.
The Sacramento Kings entered the day in fourth place in the ...Read more
Bryan Hodgson leaving USF to coach at Providence
TAMPA, Fla. — Bryan Hodgson is leaving USF after one season to become the men’s basketball coach at Providence College.
Hodgson, 38, led USF to a 25-9 record, American Conference regular-season and tournament titles, ...Read more
Dylan Darling's buzzer-beating lay-up pushes St. John's past Kansas and into Sweet 16
The drought is over. For the first time in 27 years, St. John’s is headed to the Sweet 16.
Dylan Darling delivered a dramatic, buzzer-beating lay-up to give fifth-seeded St. John’s a 67-65 win over fourth-seeded ...Read more
Mark Story: In Year 3 of the Mark Pope era, Kentucky needs to look like 'Kentucky'
ST. LOUIS — As it turned out, a 2025-26 Kentucky men’s basketball season that featured more dramatic ups and downs than “The Beast” ended in the only manner it could have:
With one more wild roller coaster ride.
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Hurricanes rout Penguins on rough day for Pittsburgh penalty kill
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Penguins entered Sunday’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes with the top penalty kill in the NHL. They likely won’t hold that distinction Monday.
Carolina shredded Pittsburgh with ...Read more
Nuggets trounce Trail Blazers behind Nikola Jokic triple-double, 37 team assists
DENVER — Winning has often been a burdensome enterprise for the Denver Nuggets the last few weeks. They’ll take every blowout they can get, regardless of the opponent.
They earned their second consecutive victory ...Read more
'It's been too much': Billy Donovan shouldering a series of family tragedies amid Bulls turmoil
CHICAGO — Too often over the course of the past five weeks, Billy Donovan found himself forgetting.
It happened in quiet moments, a too-rare phenomenon since the trade deadline upended the Chicago Bulls roster. The team...Read more
Kentucky basketball season comes to an end with March Madness loss to Iowa State
ST. LOUIS — A grueling Kentucky basketball season came to a disappointing end Sunday afternoon.
The Cats led 2-seeded Iowa State by double digits in the early going — sparking hopes that they might pull off a March ...Read more
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