By The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Bubba Watson made the final of the Dell Technologies Match Play look as though he were on vacation all along. Watson won his second World Golf Championships title Sunday with the biggest blowout since the championship matched switched to 18 holes ...
By JANIE McCAULEY, AP Sports Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Optimistic as always, Stephen Curry is ready to prove Steve Kerr wrong and return from a left knee injury for the first round of the playoffs. Not that it's entirely up to him. Kerr on Sunday ruled out the two-time MVP for the ...
By LUKE MEREDITH, AP Sports Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Kansas is going back to the Final Four. It's hard to argue that Duke shouldn't be headed there as well after the most riveting show of the NCAA tournament. Malik Newman and the top-seeded Jayhawks got past their Elite Eight road block ...
By ANDREW SELIGMAN, AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt and Loyola-Chicago got quite a reception as they returned to campus on Sunday. Fans serenaded the 98-year-old team chaplain and newfound celebrity with chants of "Sister Jean! Sister Jean!" as she was wheeled ...
By JOHN RABY, AP Sports Writer Press Virginia may never look the same. Jevon Carter turned defense into a personal mission at West Virginia, and he helped transform the Mountaineers into a team that suffocated opponents and used its stifling defense for scoring opportunities. Carter took ...
By AARON BEARD, AP Basketball Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In a wild NCAA Tournament full of upsets, it's somehow appropriate that the first ticket to the Final Four will go to a No. 9 or No. 11 seed. And the second could go to another 9-seed. Welcome to the madder half of the March Madness ...
By GENARO C. ARMAS, AP Sports Writer We interrupt this March for underdogs with a reality check from some of college basketball's blue bloods. Kansas, Villanova and Duke are still alive in the NCAA Tournament, ready to tilt the bracket back toward the favorites. Call Friday the exception to ...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — For the second consecutive season, the San Francisco Giants will be without injured ace Madison Bumgarner for a while. Bumgarner broke a bone in his pitching hand Friday when it was hit by a line drive off the bat of Kansas City's Whit Merrifield during a spring ...
By STEVEN WINE and TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) — H. Wayne Huizenga, a college dropout who built a business empire that included Blockbuster Entertainment, AutoNation and three professional sports franchises, has died. He was 80. Huizenga (HY'-zing-ah) died Thursday ...
By BEN WALKER, AP Baseball Writer Just the thought of Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge in the same lineup sent fans into a frenzy. Come opening day, all of baseball will see which teams really have the muscle. A season of haves and have-nots begins March 29 with Derek Jeter's pared-down ...
By WILL GRAVES, AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — The New Jersey Devils and their roster stuffed with speed and youth haven't made the playoffs in six years. The drought for Taylor Hall is even longer. Eight years after being taken with the top pick in the draft, the Devils forward is still ...
By JIMMY GOLEN, AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — Chris Beard did it to Purdue again. The Texas Tech coach knocked the Boilermakers out of the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years, this time leading the third-seeded Red Raiders to a 78-65 victory to advance past the Sweet 16 for ...
By ERIC OLSON, AP Sports Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — All that talk about busted brackets and the maddest March ever — not happening in the Midwest. What started as a chess match turned into a free-throw-shooting contest. When it was over, Duke won. Grayson Allen and Gary Trent Jr., made ...
By LUKE MEREDITH, AP Sports Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — For the third year in a row, Kansas made it through the Sweet 16 — although not before Clemson tried its hardest to add another wild chapter to an already unbelievable tournament. The top-seeded Jayhawks brought at least a temporary ...
By TOM WITHERS, AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — For any other team, a historic 22-game winning streak, 102 victories, second straight division title and playoff appearance would be worth celebrating. Not the Cleveland Indians, who remain unsatisfied, yet undeterred after consecutive ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Charlotte Hornets center Dwight Howard has been suspended for Thursday's game against Memphis after picking up his 16th technical foul this season. The NBA announced the penalty Thursday, noting that league rules require an automatic one-game suspension without pay for a ...
By GREG BEACHAM, AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Austin Hatch finished high school less than two miles from Staples Center, playing basketball at Loyola High and golfing throughout the warm California winter four years ago. But he mostly spent his one year in Los Angeles simply learning ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former lightweight boxing champ Paul Spadafora pleaded guilty Thursday to resisting arrest and simple assault on police officers who responded to a domestic dispute at his Pittsburgh home in 2016. Spadafora, 42, was sentenced to time served and probation. Authorities have ...
By TOM CANAVAN, AP Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Sending two-time Pro Bowl defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul to Tampa Bay for two draft picks gives the New York Giants much-needed salary cap space for 2019 and allows the Buccaneers to continue rebuilding a line that had the fewest ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby ignited a rally with a highlight-reel goal and became the third active player with 700 assists in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 5-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night. Crosby scored his 24th goal when he knocked a pass from Jake Guentzel out ...