After a run to the Sweet 16 following a middling regular season, the No. 14 Razorbacks enter the second year of the John Calipari era having to replace their top three scorers from last season. Calipari reloaded with a highly-rated freshman recruiting class and the Razorbacks picked up a pair of all-conference big men from the port...

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BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Los Angeles FC forward Son Heung-Min tops Major League Soccer’s summer signings with a salary of $10,368,750 and total compensation of $11,152,852, becoming the second-highest-paid player behind Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi. Son joined LAFC in August after more than a decade at Tottenham and scored nine goals in...

LONDON (AP) — Felipe Massa’s claim for $85 million in a legal case against Formula One was described in court Wednesday as a “misguided attempt” to reopen the 2008 drivers’ championship that he lost to Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton’s first F1 title is the subject of civil action in London brought by the Brazilian against former F1 boss...

MADRID (AP) — Vinícius Júnior has apologized for his outburst toward Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso after being replaced in the clasico against Barcelona, blaming his “passion” and “competitive nature”. “I want to apologize to all Madrid fans for my reaction after being substituted,” he said on X on Wednesday. “Just as I already apo...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Avram Grant left as coach of the Zambia soccer team Wednesday, eight weeks before the Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco and after failing to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. “I am proud to leave the team in a much better position than when I inherited it,” Grant said in a post on Instagram. The former Israel, Gh...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Billy Gonzales has coached as many years at Florida as Hall of Famer Steve Spurrier. He has twice as many national titles, too. Gonzales is in his third stint with the Gators, having first stepped foot on campus under Urban Meyer in 2005. He returned with Dan Mullen in 2018 and came back again when Billy Na...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers have acquired safety Kyle Dugger from New England in hopes of giving the back end of the secondary another experienced option with starter DeShon Elliott out indefinitely with a knee injury. Pittsburgh sent a sixth-round pick in the 2026 draft to New England in exchange for Dugger and a sev...

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL’s Salute to Service Award nominees range from Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh and 49ers star running back Christian McCaffrey to a member of the Patriots security staff, an Eagles game day employee and the Dolphins head groundskeeper. The NFL and USAA announced this year’s nominees for the Salute to Service Awar...

Fans were gifted the most free football in eight years last week when seven Bowl Subdivision games required overtime to decide a winner. The last time there had been so many overtime games was Oct. 21, 2017, when there were eight. This season’s 29 overtime games are most through a Week 9 since there were 33 in 2016. Two Top 25 team...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — C.J. Carr’s learning curve has been more like a drive down the expressway — bumpy, full of obstacles and, of course, fast. After losing his first two games as Notre Dame’s starting quarterback, at then-No. 10 Miami and at home against then-No. 16 Texas A&M by four combined points, Carr has settled in. He’s w...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Mammoth signed Logan Cooley to an eight-year, $80 million extension, a deal that keeps the budding star center under contract through 2033-34. Cooley will count $10 million against the salary cap beginning when the contract that was announced Wednesday kicks in next season. “Logan is elite in every se...

Marco Andretti said Wednesday he is retiring from racing, a decision that likely means the “Andretti Curse” at the Indianapolis 500 will never end. The 38-year-old grandson of Mario Andretti announced on social media he will not attempt to enter the Indianapolis 500 next season and will instead turn his attention to his daughter, b...

Embattled NBA guard Terry Rozier will not receive his salary from the Miami Heat while on leave because of his arrest on federal charges related to a gambling scheme, two people with knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Rozier’s salary — about $26.6 million this season, paid in installments, the first for...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fiserv shares careened to their lowest level in more than five years Wednesday after the fintech payment company badly missed Wall Street’s profit targets, lowered its forecast and announced a shake-up in leadership. The company, which owns the point-of-sale business management platform Clover, cut its full-year r...

NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors is laying off about 1,700 workers across manufacturing sites in Michigan and Ohio, as the auto giant adjusts to slowing demand for electric vehicles. The Detroit News first reported the cuts on Wednesday — covering about 1,200 jobs at an all-electric plant in the Detroit area and 550 workers at Ultium...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Times of London has apologized for running an article that falsely claimed former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had criticized current Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani. The British newspaper said it was duped by someone impersonating the ex-politician. In a statement, the newspaper said it retracted the...

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1977, at the tail end of another bruising battle for New York City mayor, Mario Cuomo publicly spoke up against bigoted remarks leveled at his opponent. Almost 50 years later, his son is taking a different approach. Back then, Andrew Cuomo was a 19-year-old adviser to his father, who would later become the state’...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. ambassador to Kuwait faces steep odds of confirmation with several Republican senators planning to oppose Amer Ghalib over past remarks they say are antisemitic. Ghalib, the mayor of the Arab-majority city of Hamtramck, Michigan, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he...

NEW YORK (AP) — Philanthropy isn’t so different from theater for Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell. “Life is a collaborative art,” explained Mitchell, one of Broadway’s preeminent leading men for more than two decades and a leader who steered the industry’s support of performing arts professionals as the longtime chair of The...

CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh (AP) — Romario Shepherd and Akeal Hosain claimed three wickets apiece as West Indies beat Bangladesh by 14 runs in the second Twenty20 to take a winning 2-0 lead in the three-match series on Wednesday. Bangladesh was restricted to 135-8 after West Indies had earlier made only 149-9. Pace bowler Shepherd remov...

There are scary movies where everything is fleshed out, where filmmakers and craftspeople show a nightmare in all its horrifying detail. In those kind of films, jump scares and reveals can even be a relief, allowing the tension and anticipation to deescalate so you can move on to the next thrill. Filmmaker Babak Anvari’s “Hallow Ro...

AP Business Writer (AP) — In long-awaited cuts just months after completing its $8 billion merger with Skydance, Paramount has begun layoffs set to impact about 2,000 employees. Paramount initiated roughly 1,000 of those layoffs company-wide on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just before Janelle Monáe’s DJ set at Cinespia — an outdoor movie series framed by the marble mausoleums of a storied Hollywood cemetery — the multi-hyphenated performer wasn’t just focused on rehearsing a setlist. Instead, Monáe paused to guide a symbolic circle inspired by “The Craft.” Inside a candle-lit mauso...

Nvidia on Wednesday became the first public company to reach a market capitalization of $5 trillion. The ravenous appetite for the Silicon Valley company’s chips is the main reason that the company’s stock price has increased so rapidly since early 2023. Nvidia’s journey to be one of the world’s most prominent companies has produce...

UNITED NATION (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to condemn the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba for a 33rd year. Yet the vote — as Hurricane Melissa tore through the island nation — softened Washington’s isolation on a longstanding issue in the Caribbean while new friction grows around its military buildu...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Iran does not appear to be actively enriching uranium but that the agency has recently detected renewed movement at the country’s nuclear sites. Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services. The tech company posted a note to its Azure status page that its teams are currently investigating issues related to its Azure Front Doo...

One viral video shows what appears to be four sharks swimming in a Jamaican hotel’s pool as floodwaters allegedly brought on by Hurricane Melissa swamp the area. Another purportedly depicts Jamaica’s Kingston airport completely ravaged by the storm. But neither of these events happened, it’s just AI-generated misinformation circula...

Arooj Aftab became the first Pakistani Grammy winner when she took home the global music performance award for her song “Mohabbat” in 2022. A year later, actor and singer Diljit Dosanjh stepped onto the smoke-filled stage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Southern California, becoming the festival’s first artist fr...

The Trump administration has been signaling that it may have finally reached a deal with China to keep TikTok running in the U.S., with the two countries finalizing it as soon as Thursday. President Donald Trump is visiting South Korea, where he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping to try to de-escalate a trade war. Treasury...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The widow of a beloved Utah fashion designer who was fatally shot during a June “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City demanded Wednesday that someone be held accountable for her husband’s death after more than four months without any charges filed in the case. Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, known as Afa, died June 15 wh...

CHICAGO (AP) — A senior Border Patrol official is due in court Wednesday for the first of his daily court-mandated check-ins about the Chicago area immigration enforcement operation, which has produced more than 1,800 arrests and complaints of excessive force. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis took the rare step Tuesday of ordering Gr...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Wednesday that Russian troops have surrounded Ukrainian forces in two key eastern cities of Ukraine and offered to negotiate a deal for their surrender. Ukrainian military officials vigorously denied the claim. Putin, speaking at a meeting with wounded soldiers at a Mosc...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people including patients in a hospital after they seized el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the U.N., displaced residents and aid workers, who described harrowing details of atrocities. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A police raid and ensuing clashes with a drug gang in Rio de Janeiro left at least 119 people dead, including 115 suspects and four policemen, officials said Wednesday, a day after the massive operation drew criticism for using excessive force. The death toll was an increase over what authorities originally sa...

Torrential rains have triggered severe flooding in central Vietnam, killing at least nine people and leaving five missing, according to authorities. The government said in a statement on Wednesday that six of the fatalities were in the coastal city of Da Nang and in the ancient city of Hoi An. The floods have also injured 11 people...

Kyiv, Ukraine – Both Russia and Ukraine depend on Chinese-made components for drones, jamming systems and the fibre optic cable attached to the drones to make them immune to jamming. If Beijing wanted to end the Russia-Ukraine war, it could do so promptly and singlehandedly by banning the imports, according to one of the pioneers o...

United States President Donald Trump has expressed regret at not being allowed to run for a third term, acknowledging the limits laid out in the US Constitution after musings about serving beyond his mandate. “If you read it, it’s pretty clear,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday on board Air Force One while en route from Japan to S...

Palestinians in Gaza have experienced the deadliest 24 hours since the start of the United States-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect almost three weeks ago. Israel killed more than 100 people, including 46 children, in attacks late on Tuesday and on Wednesday. Medical sources told Al Jazeera the strikes hi...

Parts of Mali’s capital have been brought to a near standstill as a group affiliated with al-Qaeda imposes an economic siege on the country by blocking routes used by fuel tankers, in a bid to turn the screw on the military government. As the Sahel country plunges deeper into crisis, the United States Embassy in Mali on Tuesday urg...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When he was elected the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee in June, Rep. Robert Garcia at once gained a powerful perch and a pressing problem. Colleagues elected Garcia with a mandate to hold President Donald Trump’s administration to account. He’d pitched himself as an energetic personality who cared a...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After waiting more than four decades to clear his name in a friend’s 1980 killing, Subramanyam Vedam was set to walk free from a Pennsylvania prison this month. Vedam and Thomas Kinser were the 19-year-old children of Penn State University faculty. Vedam was the last person seen with Kinser and was twice convict...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s brutal two-year war has entered a new, dangerous phase. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces this week seized control of the entire Darfur region, after ousting the rival Sudanese army from its last stronghold there. The fighting for control of Sudan has killed over 40,000 people and created the world’s worst...

BANGKOK (AP) — A major ethnic rebel group in Myanmar announced Wednesday it signed a cease-fire with the military following China-mediated talks, easing months of intense fighting in the country’s northeast near the Chinese border. The ceasefire with the Ta’ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, marks a significant victory for Myan...

Nvidia has become the first $5 trillion company, just three months after the Silicon Valley chipmaker was first to break through the $4 trillion barrier. Hitting the new benchmark puts more emphasis on the upheaval being unleashed by an artificial intelligence craze that’s widely viewed as the biggest tectonic shift in technology s...

Uber said Wednesday that the San Francisco Bay Area will be the first market for its specially built autonomous taxi, which is expected to launch in late 2026. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said in July it was developing a robotaxi with the electric car company Lucid and the self-driving technology company Nuro Inc....

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania said Wednesday it will keep the country’s border crossings with Belarus closed for a month after balloons used to smuggle cigarettes across the frontier caused repeated disruption at the capital’s airport, though there will be some exemptions. The two border crossings with Belarus were closed las...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States has informed its NATO allies that it will scale back its troop presence along Europe’s eastern border with Ukraine as it focuses on security priorities elsewhere in the world, Romania’s defense ministry said on Wednesday. The U.S. Army later confirmed the move, but denied it was a sign of lessened...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has conducted a successful test of a new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, declaring that the new weapon can’t be intercepted. Putin’s statement, which comes three days after he praised a successful test of a new nuclear-powered cruise missile, appears...

Higher prices, less help and a government shutdown all hang over health insurance markets as shoppers start looking for coverage this week. The annual enrollment window for millions of people to pick an individual plan opens Saturday in nearly all states, and a heavy dose of politics weighs on this year’s search. The federal govern...

CVS Health rode double-digit sales growth from drugstores and its pharmacy benefits management business to a better-than-expected third quarter. The health care giant also hiked its 2025 forecast well above Wall Street estimates. But it booked a nearly $6-billion charge for scaling back the Oak Street Health clinic business it boug...

Cameron Boozer’s extraordinary potential is evident from the way Tennessee coach Rick Barnes described him before the Duke freshman forward even played a college game that counts. “One of the best players in the country,” Barnes said after Boozer collected 24 points and 23 rebounds in No. 6 Duke’s 83-76 exhibition victory over No....

UConn has been the standard of success in the Big East, taking over Villanova’s spot on the mantel with consecutive national championships. St. John’s rapid rise under coach Rick Pitino brought the Red Storm back into the national spotlight and created what could be a two-team race with UConn at the top of the Big East. “Anybody wi...

Jon Scheyer inherited a seemingly impossible task at Duke in following retired Hall of Fame coaching great Mike Krzyzewski. Yet the sixth-ranked Blue Devils have kept on winning. They’re starting this year as Atlantic Coast Conference favorite again. The Blue Devils are coming off a 35-win season that included reaching the Final Fo...

Battling through the Southeastern Conference turned out to be tougher than anyone could’ve imagined last year. The league routinely had half or more of its 16 teams ranked in the AP Top 25 and ended up claiming a record 14 bids to March Madness. And it certainly had Florida prepared for its run to the program’s third NCAA champions...

MILAN (AP) — With 100 days to go, northern Italy is gearing up to host the Milan-Cortina Olympics, the most spread-out Winter Games in history. The two main clusters of the Games are Milan — the beating heart of Italy’s industrial north — and Cortina d’Ampezzo, an upscale winter resort in the Dolomites mountain range. Visitors shou...

Purdue has gone to the Sweet 16 three of the last four seasons under Matt Painter, reached the Final Four and played for a national championship. The Boilermakers earned their first No. 1 ranking in the AP Top 25 three years ago and are preseason No. 1 for the first time this season. All that’s left in West Lafayette is a national...

Kara Lawson’s push to build a championship program at Duke reached her goal in Year 5 while the Blue Devils got within a game of the Final Four, too. The Blue Devils’ neighbors in the 919 area code — N.C. State and North Carolina — weren’t far behind. Now, for the first time in more than two decades, the instate schools from the “T...

The best team in the Big 12 the last few years has pretty clearly been Houston, a once-middling mid-major that Kelvin Sampson has taken to five straight Sweet 16s, a pair of Final Fours and came oh-so-close to leading to a national title last year. It hasn’t been Kansas, which struggled to live up to its billing as the preseason No...

UCLA captured the Big Ten Tournament title, then made a run to the Final Four last season for the first time in program history before falling to eventual champion UConn. The Bruins enter the season ranked No. 3 with their sights set on going even further, possibly all the way to a national title. UCLA is the Big Ten favorite with...

Texas is coming after South Carolina in the Southeastern Conference. The Longhorns burst into the SEC last season by ending the Gamecocks’ long league winning streak and earning a share of of the regular-season championship behind player of the year Madison Booker. Texas then stormed to its first Final Four in 22 years, only to get...

Following back-to-back 20-win seasons and Georgia’s first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2015, coach Mike White was given a contract extension through the 2030-31 season on Sept. 26. A second straight NCAA appearance could be challenging following a roster overhaul that included the exits of top scorer and rebounder Asa Newell, a...

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA banned fans of Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday from attending the team’s next away game in the Europa League because of racist and offensive incidents. Fans of the Serbian champion chanted slurs about Roma people, Europe’s largest ethnic minority, and also targeted home team Braga when Red Star was beat...

MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid will seek compensation from UEFA after a Spanish court dismissed appeals filed by the European soccer body against a ruling that said the governing body breached EU competition law when it blocked plans for a breakaway Super League. On Wednesday, the Madrid Provincial Court dismissed the appeals that were...

Penn State-Ohio State Week is finally here! A month ago, this was one of the most anticipated games of the season. The twists and turns of the season have left the Nittany Lions to enter November with a coaching vacancy and as a three-touchdown road underdog against the top-ranked Buckeyes. The other big games in the Southeastern C...

AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) — There are only two certainties heading into NASCAR’s title-deciding season finale race: Rick Hendrick or Joe Gibbs will be the winning car owner, while the driver will be in either a Chevrolet or a Toyota. Beyond that, the winner-take-all showdown Sunday at Phoenix Raceway is a guessing game with no obvious f...

DEL MAR, Calif. (AP) — Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Sovereignty has been scratched and will not run in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday after catching a fever this week, taking the favorite out of the $7 million world championship race. Trainer Bill Mott announced the decision Wednesday to scratch the country’s top...

Many NFL teams have lost star players to season-ending injuries this season, or played without them for significant stretches — but a new poll finds that many football fans want more games, even if it means more risk. A new Quinnipiac poll found about half of NFL fans say the league is doing enough to protect players from serious i...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka said on Tuesday that his non-resident visa to enter the United States had been rejected, adding that he believes it may be because he recently criticized U.S. President Donald Trump. The Nigerian author, 91, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, becoming the first A...

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Zimmern and Barton Seaver are what you’d call seafood fanatics. Or blue food evangelists. They want us to eat more things from the water, even first thing in the morning. “Seafood for breakfast is delicious,” says Zimmern, a chef, writer and TV host. Seaver, a chef and National Geographic Explorer, agrees — h...

Fish sticks, like any other frozen, breaded product, conjure up visions of a utilitarian meal. But there’s no reason fish sticks, which really can be very tasty, can’t be lent a little class by pairing them with marquee ingredients, such as fresh-from-the-vine heirloom tomatoes. Panzanella, a rustic Italian salad made of chunks of...

With millions of people in the United States at risk of losing access to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – also known as food stamps – from November 1, a viral chart has claimed to show the majority of the nation’s food stamp recipients are non-white and noncitizens. The chart, titled Food Stamps by Eth...

United States President Donald Trump insists that the Washington-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is holding, despite Israeli forces killing more than 100 Palestinians, including 46 children. In about 12 hours from Tuesday to Wednesday, Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least 104 Palestinians and wounded 253 others, according to Gaza’s M...

Bangladesh’s fugitive former leader Sheikh Hasina has warned that excluding her Awami League party from next year’s elections would deepen divisions in the country as millions of her supporters are set to boycott the vote. Now exiled in India, the 78-year-old is currently being tried for crimes against humanity after being toppled...

A pet dog fell off an oceanside bluff in San Francisco and spent more than 20 minutes clinging to a narrow ledge until firefighters came to its rescue, officials said. The brown and white dog was playing with another pooch on Tuesday at Fort Funston, a coastal park with steep bluffs that can drop up to 200 feet (61 meters) to the b...

No. 19 Kansas (21-13, 11-9 Big 12) The Jayhawks were the preseason No. 1 team last season and never lived up to the hype. They were bounced by Arizona in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament, then were beaten by Arkansas in the first round of the NCAAs. Just about everyone from that team is gone now, replaced by a few select...

Arizona State (13-30, 4-16 Big 12) Coach Bobby Hurley enters his 11th season in Tempe and the final year of his contract potentially needing a strong March run to keep his job. The Sun Devils haven’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 2023 and are coming off a difficult injury-filled season. Hurley will have to do it with a roster t...

GUWAHATI, India (AP) — England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt won the toss and opted to bowl first against South Africa in the opening Women’s Cricket World Cup semifinal on Wednesday. Four-time champion England finished second in the league stage, winning five out of seven games with one loss and one no-result. South Africa was third wi...

Oklahoma State (17-18, 7-13 Big 12) Oklahoma State built a reputation for being scrappy last season under first-year coach Steve Lutz. Now, he’ll have more talent to work with. On3 and HoopsHQ say the Cowboys had the Big 12’s top transfer portal class. Lutz seems to have rectified the scoring issues, as evidenced by a 97-95 overtim...

Mark Byington debuted as Vanderbilt’s new coach by guiding the Commodores to their first NCAA Tournament berth since 2017. They won 20 games for the first time since 2011-12 and had 11 more victories than the season before. Byington filled up his roster with 11 transfers. Byington has gone back to the portal for more help after poi...

Coach Matt McMahon enters what could be a make-or-break fourth season. His three-year record is 45-54. His only winning season finished with a 17-16 mark two seasons ago. He has yet to coach the Tigers to the NCAA Tournament, something he was able to do in his previous job at Murray State. McMahon received a boost in financial back...

West Virginia (19-13, 10-10 Big 12) The Mountaineers have their fourth coach in four seasons and they have undergone a roster overhaul under Ross Hodge, who was hired after Darian DeVries left for Indiana after one season. Hodge went 46-24 in two seasons as coach at North Texas. As a Mean Green assistant, his teams twice led the na...

Texas Tech (28-9, 15-5 Big 12) The 10th-ranked Red Raiders have never started a season ranked so high. This is after being No. 8 in the final Associated Press Top 25 poll last season, matching the best in program history. They made it to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament before an 84-79 loss to eventual national champion Flori...

Houston Cougars (35-5, 19-1 Big 12) The second-ranked Cougars are expected to be one of the nation’s top teams after falling to Florida 65-63 in the national title game last season. They return three starters and seven lettermen from a team that won 31 of its final 33 games last season to advance to the Final Four for the seventh t...

Cincinnati (19-16, 7-13 Big 12) Wes Miller goes into his fifth season leading a Bearcats program that has not made the NCAA Tournament since Mick Cronin’s final season in 2019. Jizzle James, UC’s leading scorer last season at 12.7 points per game, was dismissed from the program in August, but Miller rebuilt the roster by leading he...

Jamie Dixon goes into his 10th season coaching his alma mater, which has four NCAA Tournament appearances in that span after only four in the 67 seasons before he returned to Fort Worth from Pittsburgh. The only returning starter is sophomore forward David Punch, but the roster turnover isn’t as drastic as it was going into last se...

Texas A&M Aggies (23-11, 11-7 SEC) This Aggies team will look nothing like the one from last year after multiple players exhausted their eligibility before many more left in the transfer portal after coach Buzz Williams departed for Maryland after six seasons. Bucky McMillan, who has been Samford’s coach since 2020, took over and p...

Iowa State (25-10, 13-7 Big 12) The beat goes on in Ames under T.J. Otzelberger, who enters his fifth season with a 95-45 record, four straight NCAA Tournament appearances and two Sweet 16s. Three starters return from the 25-win team that was ranked in the top 10 from the preseason until the second week of March. Iowa State begins...

No. 15 Alabama (28-9, 13-5 SEC) The Crimson Tide might have the most dynamic backcourt in the league, maybe even the country, despite losing point guard Mark Sears to graduation. Aden Holloway, Labaron Philon and Latrell Wrightsell Jr. are back for coach Nate Oats, who is trying to lead Alabama to the NCAA Tournament for a sixth co...

No. 13 Arizona (24-13, 14-6 Big 12) The Wildcats have reached the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 three of coach Tommy Lloyd’s first four seasons and are hoping to make an even deeper March run with one of the nation’s top recruiting classes. Arizona still has a solid core of players despite some key losses and several freshmen from a r...

Scott Drew goes into his 23rd season with the Bears, the fifth since their national championship, with a completely new roster. Miami is the only other power conference team with zero returning players. All 14 players from last season’s Baylor team photo are gone. Only four exhausted their college eligibility. Nine left in the tran...

The Longhorns have a new coach and a mostly new lineup. Texas is set for another rebuild heading into its second season in the Southeastern Conference after what can only be described as a rough debut. Sean Miller’s Xavier team bounced Texas out of the NCAA Tournament in the First Four last season. Texas then fired Rodney Terry and...

South Carolina (12-20, 2-16 SEC) South Carolina stumbled in the Southeastern Conference last season and things aren’t expected to change this much as the Gamecocks were picked to finish last for the second straight season per media polls. Coach Lamont Paris went from 11 wins in his first season to 26 in his second to earn SEC Coach...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Danish former coach of a two-time Olympic badminton quarterfinalist has been banned from the sport for four years for betting on games courtside. The Badminton World Federation said Joachim Persson placed bets on his mobile phone during a match at the Japan Open last year — played two weeks after t...

Tad Boyle, the all-time winningest coach in program history, and the Buffaloes try to rebound after turning in their first losing season since 2014-15. They have a solid but youthful nucleus led by big man Bangot Dak, who was seventh in the Big 12 in blocked shots last season. He also averaged 8.2 points and 3.9 rebounds. Colorado...

No. 9 Kentucky (24-12, 10-8 SEC) Mark Pope replaced John Calipari as Kentucky coach and took the Wildcats to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament before losing five players. Pope turned to the transfer portal to restock his roster including bringing Jayden Quaintance to campus after he chose Arizona State with Calipari’s departure f...

The Utes are hoping veteran NBA assistant Alex Jensen can restore the program to the heights it experienced when Jensen played for Utah under Rick Majerus in the late 1990s. Utah has not earned an NCAA Tournament bid since 2016, and the Utes face a long rebuild and tough climb up the ladder in the Big 12 Conference. Utah returns on...

No. 20 Auburn (32-6, 15-3 SEC) The Tigers are replacing longtime coach Bruce Pearl and all five starters, including SEC player of the year Johni Broome. Pearl retired in late September and turned the program over to his 38-year-old son Steven. The younger Pearl has never been a head coach before, but he played a pivotal role in bui...

After reaching the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2011 in Kevin Young’s first season at the helm, the No. 8 Cougars have their sights on making an even bigger splash this season. Buoyed by additions of preseason AP All-American AJ Dybantsa and Robert Wright III, along with the return of leading scorer Richie Saunders, BYU is pos...

Most of last year’s NCAA Tournament team is gone, including lottery pick Jeremiah Fears. Oklahoma coach Porter Moser has gotten pretty good at creating new rosters each year. The Sooners have already beaten No. 24 Wisconsin in exhibition play, providing hope for another solid year. Mohamed Wague and Dayton Forsythe are two of the t...

UCF is one of five teams in the Big 12, ACC, SEC and Big Ten to return none of their scoring from last season. The Knights had to dig into the transfer portal to remake their roster, finding veteran players looking for bigger opportunities on the Big 12 stage. There is a lot of uncertainty with the Knights this season. But this sho...

The Tigers bounced back from a disastrous second season under Dennis Gates, when they went 0-for-everything in the SEC, to make the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Drake in the first round. It was a tough ending to a season in which they climbed as high as No. 14 in the AP Top 25. Caleb Grill and several others from that team a...

Amira Abdur-Rahim remembers her first conversation with Houston coach Matthew Mitchell after she entered the transfer portal. He had brought up his “winning tools,” which had helped him turn Kentucky into a women’s basketball powerhouse, and which later formed the basis for his best-selling book. They were remarkably simple: honest...

No. 3 Florida (36-4, 14-4 SEC) The Gators won their third national championship and first since 2007 thanks partly to Walter Clayton, who repeatedly delivered tough shots and clutch plays while averaging 22.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists in six NCAA Tournament games. Coach Todd Golden built a roster that could win inside or...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Ajay Mitchell is the latest diamond the Thunder have created. The 6-foot-4 guard from Belgium played just 36 regular-season games as a rookie last season because of a turf toe injury, then got limited action in the playoffs during Oklahoma City’s run to the NBA title. Now, the second-round pick in 2024 is gener...

No. 18 Tennessee (30-8, 12-6 SEC) The Volunteers have coach Rick Barnes back with contract extension after 10 seasons and a 232-109 record that allows him to stay as long as he wants. Barnes also has the top recruit in the 2025 class in Nate Ament joining Felix Okpara, the only starter back from an Elite Eight squad. The Vols have...

The typical Sunday in the NFL features slates filled with tight games in the second half, back-and-forth lead changes and several comeback attempts. That’s all part of the parity built into a league with a salary cap, a draft that rewards losing teams and a scheduling formula designed to give the best teams the toughest matchups. D...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trey Yesavage rocks back to deliver a pitch and his arm whips down from behind his head as his body tilts to the left, the highest arm slot of any right-handed pitcher this postseason. “I’m sure some people think that would hurt to go all the way up there,” Toronto’s 22-year-old rookie said. “Everyone thinks it’s...

A live camera pans in every direction along the Rettenbach glacier in Soelden, Austria — a way to show the snow status at the resort in the Alps. Instead of blankets of snow everywhere leading into a season-opening World Cup ski race, the images reflected a light dusting — thanks to a recent snowfall — over the rocks, rubble and di...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Manny Pacquiao has hinted a rematch of his 2015 blockbuster with Floyd Mayweather Jr. could be on the cards next year. “Right now we have a lot of negotiations about my next fight — there’s a possible rematch with Floyd Mayweather,” Pacquiao told a news conference Wednesday. “There’s a lot of ongoing nego...

Compact luxury crossovers are ideal if you’re seeking a compelling blend of utility and style without having to pay full-size luxury SUV pricing. The BMW X3 has been a front-runner since the original model’s introduction in 2003, but it continues to face stiff competition from the Mercedes-Benz GLC. BMW recently introduced a fully...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s defense minister warned Afghanistan on Wednesday that any new “terrorist or suicide attack” by militants on Pakistani soil would draw a stern response, hours after talks between them in Istanbul failed to secure a peace agreement. Earlier this month, Pakistan’s military launched attacks on what it said w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the tumultuous political climate marked by this year’s assassinations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah and Democratic legislators in Minnesota, younger adults are less worried about political violence than older adults, according to a new AP-NORC poll. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults are concerned about...

PARIS (AP) — Paris police acknowledged major gaps in the Louvre’s defenses on Wednesday — turning this month’s dazzling daylight theft into a national reckoning over how France protects its treasures. Paris Police Chief Patrice Faure told Senate lawmakers that aging systems and slow-moving fixes left weak seams in the world’s most-...

LONDON (AP) — An Ethiopian man who was mistakenly released from a British prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting a teenager has been deported to his home country, the U.K. government said Wednesday. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu was on a flight to Ethiopia that landed Wednesday morning....

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Floodwaters swept through central Vietnam this week after record-breaking rains, leaving at least 10 people dead and five missing, officials said, as cities, farmland and transport networks were battered by the onslaught. Six deaths and four missing people were reported in the coastal city of Danang, where 19...

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday welcomed Japan’s determination to accelerate its ongoing military buildup and defense spending. During a visit to Japan, Hegseth said he hopes to see those pledges implemented as soon as possible, noting China’s increasingly assertive military activity. “The threats we f...

U.S. lawmakers have tried four times since September last year to close what they called a glaring loophole: China is getting around export bans on the sale of powerful American AI chips by renting them through U.S. cloud services instead. But the proposals prompted a flurry of activity from more than 100 lobbyists from tech compan...

ISTANBUL (AP) — A seven-story apartment building in Turkey’s northwestern city of Gebze collapsed early Wednesday morning, trapping five people under the rubble. Gebze Governor İlhami Aktas told reporters that it has been confirmed that the people under the rubble are members of one family. It is not yet known if there are any casu...

PARIS (AP) — France’s Senate is expected to give its final approval Wednesday to a bill defining rape and other sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act, a move that comes after the landmark drugging and rape trial that shook France and turned Gisèle Pelicot into a global icon. The bill was presented in January, just a few w...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV acknowledged Wednesday that there had been misunderstandings and conflicts with Jews over Israel’s war in Gaza. But he strongly confirmed the Catholic Church’s condemnation of antisemitism and commitment to fighting it as part of Christians’ Gospel-mandated friendship with the Jewish people. At a time of ri...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. on Wednesday mocked protesters who took part in “No Kings” demonstrations across the United States while praising his father’s business-first approach to the Middle East during a visit to Saudi Arabia. Trump spoke before business leaders and Saudi officials at the Future Investmen...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared Jamaica a “disaster area” after Hurricane Melissa barrelled across the Caribbean island as one of the most powerful storms on record, leaving behind a trail of devastation. The hurricane – which made landfall as a Category 5 storm on Tuesday – ripped off the roofs of homes, inundated the n...

People in the Netherlands are voting in a high-stakes snap election dominated by immigration and housing issues that will test the strength of the far right, which is on the rise across Europe. Voting began at 7:30am (06:30 GMT) on Wednesday, and polls suggested anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders and his far-right Freedom Party (PVV...

Voters in Tanzania are heading to polling booths on Wednesday to vote for a new president, as well as members of parliament and councillors, in elections which are expected to continue the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) – or Party of Revolution’s – 64-year-long grip on power. Despite a bevy of candidates in the lineup, incumbent...

Polls have opened in Tanzania for presidential and parliamentary elections being held without the leading opposition party, as the government has been violently cracking down on dissent ahead of the vote. More than 37 million registered voters will cast their ballots from 7am local time (4:00 GMT) until 4pm (13:00 GMT). The electio...

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and Jordan have condemned the abuses committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan, as more evidence emerged of mass killings in the strategic area. The denunciations on Tuesday came as researchers at Yale University said satellite...

BEIJING (AP) — Local authorities have shut down a popular hiking destination on Mount Everest in China’s Tibet region because of heavy snowfall and icy conditions. Tourism officials said Zhufeng peak in Dingri county, where the Chinese side of Everest is located, is shut until further notice, according to an announcement Tuesday. E...

BANGKOK (AP) — Shares were mostly higher Wednesday in Asia as Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index surged more than 2% to another record. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices were little changed. U.S. President Donald Trump has been touring Asia and his upbeat comments on relations with major economies like Japan and China have hel...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar. The students in Queensland ended up being exempt from the statewid...

DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Ever wondered what war smells like? Or ponder the odor of love, or the stench of medieval Paris, or the sacred fragrance of religion? A new exhibition in Germany allows visitors to discover unknown worlds of smells by sniffing their way through 81 different fragrances across 37 different galleries. The sh...

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Dijana Hrka’s world fell apart on Nov. 1 last year, when tons of concrete crushed her son to death at a train station in Serbia. The partial building collapse killed 16 people and has sparked countrywide anti-government protests. The 47-year-old Hrka has become the rare family member of those killed to speak...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent activist in Bahrain imprisoned since the country’s 2011 Arab Spring protests began a new hunger strike Wednesday, seeking to pressure the island kingdom and Europe over his internationally criticized detention. Abdulhadi al-Khawaja began what supporters described as an “open-ended” hun...

HOW TO PREPARE: Hurricane season can be stressful for anyone near the potential path of a storm. Powerful winds and heavy rain can cause widespread damage, cut power for days or weeks, and otherwise upend lives. But stress can be reduced when people have a plan, emergency management officials say. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (AP) — Hurr...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The death toll in Gaza from overnight Israeli strikes has climbed to 81, hospital officials said Wednesday. Previously, at least 60 people, including many children, were reported killed. Shifa Hospital Director Mohammed Abu Selmia says the hospital received 21 more bodies killed in the strikes, incl...

Golden State Warriors (3-1, third in the Western Conference) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (3-1, fifth in the Eastern Conference) Milwaukee; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Bucks host the Golden State Warriors in out-of-conference action. Milwaukee finished 48-34 overall with a 28-14 record at home during the 2024-25 season....

Sacramento Kings (1-3, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Chicago Bulls (3-0, second in the Eastern Conference) Chicago; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulls -4.5; over/under is 237.5 BOTTOM LINE: Chicago aims to keep its three-game win streak intact when the Bulls take on Sacramento. Chicago finished 39-43 overall...

Miami Heat (3-1, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (4-0, second in the Western Conference) San Antonio; Thursday, 8:30 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio is looking to build upon its four-game win streak with a victory over Miami. San Antonio finished 34-48 overall with a 20-21 record at home during the 2024-25...

Washington Wizards (1-3, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (5-0, first in the Western Conference) Oklahoma City; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will attempt to keep its five-game win streak alive when the Thunder take on Washington. Oklahoma City finished 68-14 overall a season ago while goi...

Calgary Flames (2-8-1, in the Pacific Division) vs. Ottawa Senators (5-5-1, in the Atlantic Division) Ottawa, Ontario; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Calgary Flames hit the road against the Ottawa Senators looking to end a five-game road skid. Ottawa has a 5-5-1 record overall and a 3-2-1 record in home games. The Senators h...

Buffalo Sabres (4-4-2, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Boston Bruins (5-7, in the Atlantic Division) BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres visit the Boston Bruins looking to end a three-game road slide. Boston is 5-7 overall with a 1-3-0 record against the Atlantic Division. The Bruins lead league play with 59 total penalties (averaging 4....

Pittsburgh Penguins (7-2-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Minnesota Wild (3-5-3, in the Central Division) Saint Paul, Minnesota; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Wild come into a matchup with the Pittsburgh Penguins as losers of four games in a row. Pittsburgh is 7-2-2 overall and 4-1-1 on the road. The Penguins...

Detroit Red Wings (7-3, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Los Angeles Kings (5-3-3, in the Pacific Division) Los Angeles; Thursday, 10:30 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Red Wings visit the Los Angeles Kings after Dylan Larkin’s two-goal game against the St. Louis Blues in the Red Wings’ 5-2 win. Los Angeles has a 5-3-3 record overal...

Vancouver Canucks (5-6, in the Pacific Division) vs. St. Louis Blues (3-6-1, in the Central Division) St. Louis; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Blues look to end their five-game skid when they play the Vancouver Canucks. St. Louis has a 3-6-1 record overall and a 1-4-1 record in home games. The Blues have a 1-2-0 r...

New York Islanders (4-4-1, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (6-3, in the Metropolitan Division) Raleigh, North Carolina; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The New York Islanders take on the Carolina Hurricanes in Metropolitan Division play on Thursday. Carolina is 6-3 overall and 2-0-0 against the Metropolit...

New York Rangers (4-5-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (5-4-2, in the Pacific Division) Edmonton, Alberta; Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Edmonton Oilers host the New York Rangers after Connor McDavid scored two goals in the Oilers’ 6-3 win over the Utah Mammoth. Edmonton has a 3-0-1 record at home and a...

Chicago Blackhawks (5-3-2, in the Central Division) vs. Winnipeg Jets (7-3, in the Central Division) Winnipeg, Manitoba; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Winnipeg Jets host the Chicago Blackhawks after the Jets defeated the Minnesota Wild 4-3 in overtime. Winnipeg is 7-3 overall and 2-2-0 against the Central Division. The Jets...

New Jersey Devils (8-2, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (2-6-2, in the Pacific Division) San Jose, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks take on the New Jersey Devils looking to stop their five-game home losing streak. San Jose has gone 0-3-2 in home games and 2-6-2 overall. The Sharks...

Toronto Maple Leafs (5-4-1, in the Atlantic Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (5-4, in the Metropolitan Division) Columbus, Ohio; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Blue Jackets -111, Maple Leafs -109; over/under is 6.5 BOTTOM LINE: The Columbus Blue Jackets host the Toronto Maple Leafs after the Blue Jackets knocke...

Nashville Predators (4-5-2, in the Central Division) vs. Philadelphia Flyers (5-3-1, in the Metropolitan Division) Philadelphia; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Nashville Predators visit the Philadelphia Flyers after the Flyers knocked off the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in a shootout. Philadelphia has a 5-3-1 record overall and...

Dallas Stars (6-3-1, in the Central Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (4-4-2, in the Atlantic Division) Tampa, Florida; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning host the Dallas Stars after Zemgus Girgensons’ two-goal game against the Nashville Predators in the Lightning’s 5-2 win. Tampa Bay has a 4-4-2 record overa...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia captain Mitch Marsh won the toss and sent India in to bat in the series-opening Twenty20 international on Wednesday, hoping to get an early idea of form ahead of the T20 World Cup against the defending champions. Australia won the three-match one-day international series 2—1, starting with a sev...

SEATTLE (AP) — Cole Caufield set a Montreal franchise record with his 11th career overtime goal, lifting the Canadiens to a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday after they squandered a 3-0 lead midway through the third period. Caufield, who had two goals and an assist, moved into a tie for the NHL lead with his ninth goal...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Brandt Clarke scored the tiebreaking goal from the right circle with 6:40 left and the Los Angeles Kings beat the San Jose Sharks 4-3 on Tuesday night after blowing a three-goal lead. Corey Perry got his third goal in four games for the Kings. Jeff Malott and Drew Doughty also scored, and Darcy Kuemper made...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jimmy Butler had 21 points, five rebounds and five assists, Stephen Curry added 19 points and eight assists, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Los Angeles Clippers 98-79 on Tuesday night. Curry shot 7 for 15 a night after four Warriors players scored 20 or more points to beat Memphis — but it marked just t...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois jury is set to continue deliberations Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of a sheriff’s deputy who shot Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had called 911 for help and was later killed in her home because of the way she was handling a pan of hot water. The nine-woman, three-man jury received the...

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Joel Quenneville returned to South Florida on Tuesday with an applause, a welcome message and a win. Quenneville last coached a game in Sunrise four years ago as head coach of the Panthers before he resigned and was banned from the NHL for his handling of a sexual assault scandal involving his 2010 Stanley Cup...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes’ injury trouble following a lengthy road trip worsened in their return home. Coach Rod Brind’Amour said defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere left Tuesday’s 6-3 loss to Vegas with an apparent injury to his midsection, coming after he had been activated from injured reserve following a lower-bod...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kyle Connor’s wrist shot 46 seconds into overtime gave the Winnipeg Jets a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night, their ninth straight win against their Central Division rival. Connor scored his fifth goal of the season off a clean look from the slot after a drop pass from Mark Scheifele. Nino...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Zemgus Girgensons scored two goals to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 5-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night. Brandon Hagel, Nikita Kucherov and Charl-Edouard D’Astous also scored for the Lightning, and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 18 saves. After winning just one of their first seven games o...

DALLAS (AP) — Jake Oettinger made 24 saves recording his first shutout of the season and Tyler Seguin scored a power-play goal deflected off a Washington defenseman’s stick as the Dallas Stars beat the Capitals 1-0 on Tuesday night. Washington’s Alex Ovechkin, the NHL career leader with 899 career regular-season goals, was held wit...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dylan Larkin scored twice and Alex DeBrincat also scored to help the Detroit Red Wings beat the St. Louis Blues 5-2 on Tuesday night. Ben Chiarot and Elmer Soderblom also scored, and John Gibson made 20 saves for the Red Wings, who had rallied from a four-goal deficit to beat the Blues 6-4 on Saturday night. Brayde...

CHICAGO (AP) — Connor Bedard had three goals and an assist in his first career hat trick, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Ottawa Senators 7-3 on Tuesday night. Frank Nazar and defenseman Louis Crevier each had a goal and an assist for Chicago in its third win in four games. Ryan Donato and Colton Dach also scored. Bedard took R...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Chase Belcher ran for 113 yards, including a 1-yard touchdown with 1:10 remaining, and Kennesaw State beat UTEP 33-20 on Tuesday night for its sixth straight victory. Kennesaw State (6-2, 4-0 Conference USA), which has losses to Wake Forest and No. 2-ranked Indiana, became bowl eligible in its first season of f...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Miles Wood’s vision. It was evident with the Blue Jackets’ fourth-line forward’s scoring touch in a two-goal outing on Tuesday night. Two weeks after fearing he lost his left eye by a high stick, Wood scored the tying and winning goals in a 4-3 victory over Buffalo in his r...

Michael Jordan didn’t believe in load management, even when he was violently ill. Jordan addressed the topic of NBA players missing games in the second installment of a series that NBC is calling “MJ: Insights to Excellence,” which aired Tuesday night between games of a doubleheader on the network. Asked by interviewer Mike Tirico...

DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Stars have signed defenseman Thomas Harley to an eight-year contract extension, the club announced Tuesday night. The extension will begin next season and run through the 2033-34 season for $84.696 million, an annual average value of $10.587 million. Harley is in his third full season with the Stars. With o...

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DENVER (AP) — Victor Olofsson had his first career NHL hat trick and added two assists, Nathan MacKinnon scored two goals, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the New Jersey Devils 8-4 on Tuesday night in the second game in three days between the teams. The loss snapped the Devils’ eight-game win streak, which tied a franchise record f...

SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) — Alonza Barnett III threw for 264 yards and four touchdowns, and he added 98 yards and a touchdown on the ground to help James Madison beat Texas State 52-20 on Tuesday night for its sixth straight victory. James Madison (7-1, 5-0 Sun Belt) has posted four consecutive second-half shutouts, including a 63-27...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dodger Stadium was still shaking with joy when Monday turned to Tuesday as the Toronto Blue Jays trudged into their clubhouse. Their 18-inning loss in Game 3 felt like a monumental setback that might have already decided the World Series. That’s when Vladimir Guerrero Jr. stepped up and told his team exactly what...

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Connor McDavid had a pair of goals and Evan Bouchard added three assists as the Edmonton Oilers exploded for five second-period goals to get past the sizzling Utah Mammoth 6-3 on Tuesday night. Leon Draisaitl and Mattias Ekholm each had a goal and an assist, while Isaac Howard and Ty Emberson also scored fo...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s biggest city will pick its next mayor on Tuesday in an election that has sparked debate over the future of the Democratic Party. Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state assembly member and democratic socialist who jolted the party with his victory in the New York City primary in June, w...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shane Bieber elbowed Shohei Ohtani right out of the spotlight. A former Cy Young Award winner who returned from Tommy John surgery just two months ago, Bieber outpitched the celebrated two-way star and struck him out twice in winning his World Series debut. “Yeah, it was awesome,” Bieber said with a wide smile af...