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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jaime Jaquez Jr. is having the type of senior season at UCLA most players dream about. The 6-foot-7 guard/forward led his team in scoring and rebounding as the fourth-ranked Bruins captured their first outright regular-season Pac-12 title since 2013. What has made the year even

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Cornerback DJ Turner II posted an eye-popping 4.26-second 40-yard dash on the second day of workouts at the NFL’s annual scouting combine. It didn’t break the all-time record. John Ross still holds that with a 4.22 in 2017. But it was the fastest of the evening’s

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal jurors in New York are preparing to start deliberations on the fates of two former Fox executives accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to gain broadcasting rights to soccer’s biggest matches, including the World Cup. From the start, U.S. prosecutors depicted the

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Skip Schumaker was a Cardinals player 13 years ago when a brawl broke out and Cincinnati Reds pitcher Johnny Cueto kicked St. Louis backup catcher Jason Larue on the head, causing a career-ending concussion. Now Schumaker is Miami’s first-year manager and Cueto is on his pitching staff. Cueto had been pinned

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — Freshman Cotie McMahon had 28 points, 11 rebounds and four assists in her Big Ten Tournament debut, Taylor Thierry added 20 points and No. 14 Ohio State held off No. 17 Michigan 81-79. Ohio State defeated Michigan three times in a season for the first time in program history to advance

DETROIT (AP) — Former Michigan State University basketball star Keith Damon Appling has been sentenced in the death of a Detroit man. Prosecutors say Appling shot the man after an argument over a gun in May 2021. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office says a judge is sentencing the 31-year-old Appling to serve 18 to 40

By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Borussia Dortmund captain Marco Reus has scored again in a 2-1 win over Leipzig that lifted the team three points clear at the top of the Bundesliga and preserved its winning start to 2023. Reus opened the scoring with a penalty in the 21st minute and

PARIS (AP) — Nice has extended its unbeaten run to 10 matches in the French league after drawing at home with lowly Auxerre 1-1. Midfielder Gauthier Hein put the visitors ahead in the 36th minute and then striker Gaëtan Laborde missed a penalty for Nice three minutes later. Laborde made up for that miss with

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Sociedad’s hold on third place in the Spanish league is in danger after it slipped again in a scoreless draw with Cadiz at home. Atletico Madrid is only two points back and can leap head of Sociedad with a win over Sevilla on Saturday. Sociedad

By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Sonia Citron had a season-high 28 points to help 10th-ranked Notre Dame beat three-time reigning champion North Carolina State 66-60 in Friday’s quarterfinals at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. Maddy Westbeld added 15 points and 10 rebounds for the top-seeded Fighting Irish. Notre Dame opened

By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer Max Scherzer has theorized that baseball’s new pitch clock will allow pitchers to dictate the pace of games. In the eyes of one umpire, he raced too fast even for the pitch timer Friday. Scherzer tested the boundaries of baseball’s novel pace-of-play rules during his second spring training start,

By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Georgia coach Kirby Smart says proposed changes to clock operating rules shouldn’t significantly impact games next season. He called them a good first step to reducing the number of plays and keeping games moving. The NCAA Football Rules Committee approved a proposal to keep the clock running when

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kurt Kitayama has experience facing some of the best players in golf. He’ll get that experience again at Bay Hill in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Kitayama had a 68 and built a two-shot lead going into the weekend. Right behind was Jordan Spieth. The three-time

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — A downhill race in Aspen, Colorado, was canceled Friday after 24 racers due to the deteriorating weather conditions and with Adrian Smiseth Sejersted of Norway in line for his first World Cup win. Sejersted set the tone on a day that started out sunny, grew breezy and saw a snow storm

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer With the new pitch clock showing early success at speeding up the sport, baseball’s brain trust is already trying to figure out what might come next in its efforts to make the games more exciting and keep them moving along. Panelists at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference say

By PATRICK DONNELLY Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mackenzie Holmes scored 27 points and Sara Scalia added 20 as second-ranked and top-seeded Indiana overcame a slow start to hold off Michigan State 94-85 in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament. Chloe Moore-McNeil had 19 points and 11 assists for the Hoosiers, while Yarden Garzon

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Led by Drew Pember’s 29 points, the UNC Asheville Bulldogs defeated the Charleston Southern Buccaneers 75-66 in the Big South Conference Tournament

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Daniil Medvedev has ended Novak Djokovic’s 20-match winning streak by beating the world’s top-ranked player 6-4, 6-4 to reach the final at the Dubai Championships. The third-seeded Medvedev will face defending champion Andrey Rublev in an all-Russian final that could have political overtones after Rublev reiterated his call for