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Good friends, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas have same Masters goal
Augusta, Ga. — Jordan Spieth is a little frustrated he has just one green jacket. Justin Thomas is just as frustrated he has only won one major championship — and it didn’t come with a green jacket. If their motivations this week at the Masters are similar it shouldn’t come...
Kansas’ victory most-viewed men’s title game on cable TV
NEW YORK — Kansas’ comeback victory over North Carolina to win the NCAA basketball championship was the most-viewed men’s title game on cable television. The Jayhawks’ 72-69 win averaged 18.1 million viewers on TBS, TNT and truTV. It is also a 4% increase over last year’s title game between Baylor...
Kansas wins NCAA title 3 years in the makingVideo
NEW ORLEANS — The Great Kansas Comeback, as it forever will be known in the history books, is about more than just one stifling, scintillating 20-minute stretch of Jayhawks basketball. The championship KU captured Monday night traced its roots to 2020, when the Jayhawks were a team that looked to...
World No. 1 Scheffler playing Masters ‘like it’s my last’Video
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The world’s top-ranked golfer is uncomplicated. He likes board games. He likes to “hang out,” a phrase Scottie Scheffler uses repeatedly when asked what he does in his free time, even if he’s almost pathologically vague on what exactly hanging out entails. “Trying to describe yourself is...
St. Peter’s standouts Daryl Banks, Matthew Lee, Doug Edert enter transfer portalVideo
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Three of the stars of Saint Peter’s remarkable run to the Elite Eight have put their names in the transfer portal after coach Shaheen Holloway’s departure for Seton Hall. Starting guards Daryl Banks III and Matthew Lee and backup Doug Edert tweeted about their moves Wednesday....
Tiger Woods says he’s planning to play the Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Two words can go a long way when Tiger Woods is behind them. No one would have been surprised if Woods never played golf again after a car crash in Los Angeles that damaged his right leg so badly he said doctors raised the prospect of amputation....
Bryson DeChambeau looks to regain swagger at Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Bryson DeChambeau’s power game hasn’t done him much good at Augusta National. Now, injuries have cut him down to size. DeChambeau has been limited by hip and hand ailments in recent months, which leaves him at less than full strength and a bit of an afterthought heading...
Jayhawks’ Bill Self masterminds epic championship comeback
NEW ORLEANS — In a national championship game nobody at Kansas will soon forget, Bill Self went from the Hall of Fame coach who far too often failed on the big stage to the brilliant mastermind of the biggest comeback in NCAA title-game history. Blitzed by North Carolina for most...
Kansas rallies, tops North Carolina to win national title
NEW ORLEANS — The Great Kansas Comeback, as it will forever be known in the history books, is about more than just one stifling, scintillating 20-minute stretch of Jayhawks basketball. The championship KU captured Monday night traced its roots back to 2020, when the Jayhawks were a team that looked...
Masters is all about Tiger Woods, even with so many subplotsVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The gates to Augusta National opened a little after 7 a.m. Monday. It didn’t feel as though Masters week started until just before 3 p.m. Tiger Woods was on the first tee, and this was no time to be shopping for shirts and caps or standing in...
NCAA woes: More fixing needed for hoops, all college sportsVideo
NEW ORLEANS — If the nine months that led to Monday night’s national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it’s that college basketball and all of college sports are changing. Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won’t necessarily be the NCAA — will help...
Tim Benz: How North Carolina played itself into a unique position in sports
As the North Carolina Tar Heels ride into Monday night’s NCAA Tournament Championship game against Kansas, they are in one of the most unique sports positions in recent memory. A blue-blood, high-profile, historically elite college basketball team. Yet it’s somehow in the underdog, “playing with nothing to lose” role at...
Doctor’s orders: Chloe Poulich gets late start at Towson to fulfill nursing degree requirements
An injury had nothing to do with Chloe Poulich missing a month’s worth of games and almost every practice in February for the Towson softball team. Still, getting a doctor’s note would not have been a problem. Poulich, a Mt. Pleasant graduate, spent February fulfilling her final 120 hours to...
South Carolina defeats UConn for 2nd women’s national titleVideo
MINNEAPOLIS — Dawn Staley and South Carolina buttoned up on defense and won their second national championship, stifling UConn for a 64-49 victory Sunday night that ended the Huskies’ undefeated streak in title games. Destanni Henderson scored a career-high 26 points, Aliyah Boston added 11 points and 16 rebounds and...
She’s No. 1: Swiatek downs Osaka 6-4, 6-0 to win Miami Open
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Iga Swiatek ended her journey to the women’s No. 1 ranking in fitting fashion. Swiatek continued her searing start to 2022 on Saturday, beating Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-0 to win the women’s title at the Miami Open and extend her winning streak to 17 matches. Swiatek,...
Kansas, North Carolina leaning on dynamic duos in NCAA title runVideo
NEW ORLEANS — North Carolina’s top offensive priority, particularly early in a game, is to feed the ball to Armando Bacot in the post. Once the opposing team inevitably starts sending extra defenders at the Tar Heels’ big man, Caleb Love has more space to let 3-pointers fly or drive...
Hamlin earns NASCAR victory at RichmondVideo
RICHMOND, Va. — Denny Hamlin ran down William Byron with five laps to go Sunday and ended the slowest start to his career with a victory in the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway. In a race that featured four sets of green-flag pit stops and a whole lot of...
Duke’s Scheyer ready for program’s ‘pivotal’ coaching changeVideo
NEW ORLEANS — Jon Scheyer tried to soak up every possible nugget and detail he could as retiring Mike Krzyzewski’s designated successor in their final season together on the Duke sideline. Conversations on everything from game strategy to motivating players turned into an endless stream of notes and ideas, studiously...
Spaun takes Texas Open for 1st PGA win, 1st trip to MastersVideo
SAN ANTONIO — J.J. Spaun won his first PGA Tour event — and his first trip to the Masters — by firing a final-round 69 at the Valero Texas Open on Sunday. In his 147th PGA Tour start, Spaun survived a double-bogey start to his round by recording five birdies...
Out of the blue, North Carolina goes for NCAA title vs. KansasVideo
NEW ORLEANS — It should come as no shock that North Carolina and Kansas are playing for the national title. Their names, complete with their intertwined histories, are cemented on the short-short list of college basketball’s greatest programs. There’s a bit of a twist in 2022. While lots of folks...
On the prowl? Tiger arriving at Masters, unsure of playingVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — A comeback unlike any other for Tiger Woods might start at the Masters. Just over 13 months since Woods damaged his right leg so badly he said doctors considered amputation, Woods arrived at Augusta National on Sunday afternoon and warmed up on a range where there were...
Thad Matta returning to Butler for 2nd stint as coachVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — Thad Matta is returning to Butler, hired Sunday to coach the Bulldogs almost five years after he cited his health while stepping down at Ohio State. The 54-year-old Matta led Butler to a 24-8 record and an appearance in the 2001 NCAA Tournament during his only season as...
North Carolina takes out Duke, Coach K
NEW ORLEANS — For the 48th time over 47 years of unparalleled coaching, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski took the slow walk to midcourt and shook the hand of the North Carolina coach who beat him. After that, he found his wife, Mickie, and they made the slow, sad walk, hand-in-hand, off...
Villanova could have used Justin Moore in Final Four loss
NEW ORLEANS — Villanova needed Justin Moore on offense — to add another scoring threat and spread the floor against Kansas’ swarming interior defense. The Wildcats could have used him on defense — to rotate out on the Jayhawks’ shooters and help dig down into the post. For all the...
Kansas starts fast, cruises to win over Villanova in Final FourVideo
NEW ORLEANS — Kansas and Villanova waged a 3-point shooting contest at the Final Four with one of them racing out to a big lead in the opening minutes and the other spending the rest of the night trying in vain to catch up. It all may sound familiar to...
