DENVER — Two months ago, the Colorado Rockies assembled more than 300 of their scouts, coaches, business personnel and new baseball minds for a meeting at Coors Field. First order of business: An introduction. The main item: Getting everyone on the same page. Because turning around a ...
NORMAN, Okla. — Raegan Beers had 18 points and 14 rebounds to help No. 4 seed Oklahoma beat fifth-seeded Michigan State 77-71 on Sunday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Beers, a 6-foot-4 senior center, used her strength to dominate the paint, even though Michigan State had ...
ST. LOUIS — Purdue was struggling to put away Miami in the second half of their second-round NCAA Tournament game on Sunday when Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kauffman-Renn combined to score the Boilermakers' next 22 points, helping them to turn a three-point lead into a 79-69 victory ...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Paul Maurice will see the video tributes, whether he thinks they're warranted or not. He'll hear the ovation from fans, see players tapping their sticks on the ice in the hockey version of applause and give a wave in what will probably be a futile effort to make it all ...
HOUGHTON — Houghton Gremlins girls basketball coach Julie Filpus cannot remember what court she was on in the Fall of 1999 when she tallied her first varsity win. However, fast forward 26 years to a night in February which became an unforgettable one for the local coach. On Feb. 24, Filpus ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Yaxel Lendeborg punctuated his 25-point outing with a massive dunk in transition, and the Midwest Region's top-seeded Michigan advanced to the Sweet 16 with a 95-72 victory over Saint Louis in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday. Morez Johnson Jr. had 15 and ...