Month: March 2022

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer Duke and North Carolina will meet for the 258th time but first in the NCAA Tournament when they tip off Saturday night in the Final Four in New Orleans. It will be the final trip to college basketball’s biggest stage for Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski, who is chasing

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — North Carolina crushed all hope of a March Madness miracle, getting 20 points and 22 rebounds from Armando Bacot in a wire-to-wire 69-49 runaway over 15th-seeded Saint Peter’s. The eighth-seeded Tar Heels made their record 21st Final Four. Next on their list is none other than

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Kameron McGusty did all he could to keep Miami’s season going. Instead, it came to a bittersweet end. The 10th-seeded Hurricanes got run over in the second half and knocked out by top-seeded Kansas 76-50 in the Midwest Region final. McGusty scored 18 points, but just

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is the hottest player in golf and has the ranking to prove it. Just six weeks after his first PGA Tour victory, Scheffler won the Dell Technologies Match Play for his third win in five starts. And it was enough to move him

By THERESA SMITH Associated Press MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Following a lockout-induced abbreviated spring training, many players won’t feel ready for opening day on April 7.  With his one-year contract re-signing completed this weekend, Oakland Athletics infielder Jed Lowrie is even farther behind. Lowrie, who will turn 38 in April, can’t predict how long it

VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Villanova guard and second-leading scorer Justin Moore will undergo surgery this week for a torn Achilles tendon. Moore’s diagnosis is a brutal blow for the Wildcats ahead of their Final Four game with Kansas. Moore was a second-team All-Big East selection this season. He was injured in the final minute of

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cristhian Paredes scored on a penalty kick in the 80th minute to givel the Portland Timbers a 1-1 draw with Orlando City on Sunday. Junior Urso scored for Orlando City (2-1-2) in the 52nd minute in the first game between the two teams since August 2020, when they met in the

By MAURICIO SAVARESE AP Sports Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay have already secured the region’s four direct spots at the World Cup in Qatar later this year, but there’s still a lot at stake in the final round of South American qualifying on Tuesday. The biggest prize is the international

By CHUCK KING Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Houston manager Dusty Baker is trying to find a leadoff hitter this spring with the goal of batting All-Star José Altuve second. The 31-year-old second baseman hit leadoff in all 144 games he started last season, leading the Astros to their third World Series appearance in

By BILL WHITEHEAD Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer teamed up to give the New York Mets a complete performance. After deGrom started and pitched three innings, Scherzer relieved and threw the final six innings in a 7-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. In his

By DAVE HOGG Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Alec Burks hit a 3-pointer for New York’s final points and finished off Detroit with a last-second steal in the Knicks’ 104-102 victory over the Pistons on Sunday. R.J. Barrett led New York with 21 points, Julian Randle had 20 and Burks and Immanuel Quickly had 18

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Forward Jesús Ferreira, winger Paul Arriola, midfielder Luca de la Torre and right back Shaq Moore entered the United States’ starting lineup for a World Cup qualifier against Panama as coach Gregg Berhalter made four changes. Moore, summoned from Spain on short notice, replaced DeAndre Yedlin and Arriola took over from

By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Michigan’s first women’s hoops loss of the season was a doozy. The Wolverines were blown out 70-48 at Louisville in what is their second-largest margin of defeat so far this season. Michigan has a chance to avenge that loss on a grand stage. The third-seeded