Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers earned 35 of 61 first-place votes to top Monday's poll to begin the 2025-26 season. That put Matt Painter's squad ahead of the two teams that played in last year's NCAA title ...
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Southern California star JuJu Watkins propelled the Trojans to a Big Ten regular-season title and a second consecutive Elite Eight appearance last season. If the Trojans want to match that success this year, they'll need to do it without her. The absence of Watkins, who's ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Vladimir Tarasenko and his family welcomed a summer visitor to their home in Florida with a feast befitting a New Year's Eve celebration in their native Russia, sending him off after a five-hour stay with an armful of leftovers. Minnesota Wild coach John Hynes was so ...
MILWAUKEE — Blake Snell was injured and unavailable to pitch in July when the Los Angeles Dodgers lost all six of their regular-season meetings with the Milwaukee Brewers. Facing the Brewers for the first time this year in the National League Championship Series, the two-time Cy Young Award ...
LAS VEGAS — With tears in his eyes and needing a moment to compose himself, Denny Hamlin collected his sixth checkered flag and reflected on everything it meant. The victory Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway was the 60th of his career — a lifetime goal he dedicated to his ailing father ...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — From the day he was hired more than a decade ago, James Franklin stressed the importance of creating a family atmosphere at Penn State. Over the course of 11-plus seasons in Happy Valley, that approach helped the Nittany Lions churn out pros and double-digit victory ...