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Saint Peter’s rides stunning Sweet 16 run behind Doug EdertVideo

PHILADELPHIA — Doug Edert could use a few wet wipes to keep all his free chicken wing sauce out of a wispy mustache so mythical it has its own Twitter account. Around tiny Saint Peter’s, students wear fake mustaches in honor of the guard who has plucked the Peacocks —...
NASCAR hits Keselowski with huge fine for modifying Next GenVideo

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR issued steep penalties against Brad Keselowski and his new race team Thursday for illegally modifying a supplied part on the Next Gen car. Keselowski was docked 100 driver points and the No. 6 Ford team docked 100 owner points. Matt McCall, his crew chief, was fined...
March Madness viewer’s guide for the Sweet 16Video

A No. 1 seed and two No. 2s did not get past the first weekend. A band of Peacocks from Jersey City took down a blue blood to reach the Sweet 16. They will be joined by a team that won two games last season. March Madness lived up to...
That’ll do: Ash Barty signs off on tennis at 25, ranked No. 1

BRISBANE, Australia — Ash Barty signaled the end of the photo opportunities at her retirement news conference in her typically low-fuss, matter-of-fact style: “Righto, that’ll do.” A day after revealing in a video posted on social media that she was quitting the women’s tennis tour after spending the last two...
Villanova, Michigan return to site of 2018 NCAA Tournament championshipVideo

SAN ANTONIO — Collin Gillespie, Jermaine Samuels and Villanova are back in the city of the Alamo for the first time since winning the national championship there four years ago. Even the opponent is the same, though in a different arena for this somewhat unexpected Sweet 16 matchup against Michigan....
Duke-Texas Tech matchup in NCAA Tournament features contrast in coaching pathsVideo

SAN FRANCISCO — When Texas Tech coach Mark Adams got his first head coaching job in 1981, Mike Krzyzewski was getting ready for his second season at Duke. While Krzyzewski was winning five NCAA titles, three Olympic gold medals and setting records for most wins by a men’s coach in...
U.S. consulate sees WNBA star Brittney Griner in Russian detention facilityVideo

The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that a U.S. Embassy official visited with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who remains detained near Moscow, to check on her condition. State Department spokesperson Ned Price told CNN the official found Griner “to be in good condition.” Price did not identify the official who...
Cinderella Saint Peter’s enjoying spotlight at NCAA TournamentVideo

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Saint Peter’s University is so small, one could motor down John F. Kennedy Boulevard and drive right past it without noticing. A pedestrian walkway bears the name of the Jesuit-run school, but it’s easy to miss the 5-foot letters amid an urban forest of apartment buildings,...
Big Man KC Ndefo almost missed Saint Peter’s tourney run

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — One of the biggest changes in college sports in recent years has been the transfer portal. It has allowed players to move from one program to another without sitting out a year, and given some schools a player or two to allow them to compete for...
Blazers’ Jusuf Nurkic fined $40K for throwing Pacers fan’s phoneVideo

NEW YORK — The NBA fined Jusuf Nurkic of the Portland Trail Blazers $40,000 on Tuesday for confronting a fan at a game in Indiana and throwing the person’s cellphone. The incident happened shortly after Sunday’s game between the Blazers and the Pacers. Nurkic approached the fan, walked within a...
Michigan on a run at right time in NCAA Tournament; Villanova nextVideo

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan went into the NCAA Tournament with a troubling trend, alternating between winning and losing for 10 straight games. In a one-and-done tournament, that’s not going to work. So, Hunter Dickinson had an idea. The sophomore center suggested a scrimmage against the team’s student managers as...
North Carolina leaning heavily on ironmen starters in NCAA TournamentVideo

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — R.J. Davis knows North Carolina’s starters can’t afford to get tired. That’s why the sophomore is doing everything possible to stay ready. Extra naps. Making sure to get in an ice bath. Working to calm his mind and reset. Whatever it takes to be ready for...
Match Play the format where every day feels like SundayVideo

AUSTIN, Texas — Jordan Spieth has been in serious contention just once this year, and he is certain that’s going to change in the Dell Technologies Match Play. He won’t even have to wait until the weekend. The most unpredictable format in golf starts Wednesday at Austin Country Club, beginning...
Doug Ferguson: Golf in a different place when Match Play beganVideo

AUSTIN, Texas — The number of countries at the Match Play is the same as when this concept of World Golf Championships began, except for the flags. The 17 countries at the first Match Play in 1999 included Paraguay and the Philippines, Zimbabwe and Fiji. Now we have Chile and...
Still out of sight, Phil Mickelson decides to sit out the MastersVideo

Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson, out of public view since his inflammatory remarks about the Saudi-funded rival league and the PGA Tour, has decided not to play at Augusta National this year. Mickelson’s name was moved from the list of players expected to compete in the Masters to a section...
Latrobe graduate Jake Biss leaves lasting impression at ShippensburgVideo

Latrobe basketball practices were flush with elite talent during the late 2010s. Those Wildcats teams produced future Division I players Austin Butler (Holy Cross, Charlotte) and Reed Fenton (Lehigh). Sean Graytok averaged 19.9 points as a senior in 2015-16 and went on to play at Coast Guard. And Bryce Butler,...

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