By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer
Tracking the changes upending college sports can be as frenetic as flipping between all the games going down over the first week of March Madness. Ultimately, those changes could impact what America's favorite basketball tournament looks like in the future ...
By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer
WALNUT, Calif. (AP) — Throughout his water polo career — from growing up in Long Beach to playing for UCLA and the U.S. national team — Max Irving has drawn inspiration from his father, Michael.
Each of them knows what it's like to work in front of a ...
By JOHN ZENOR AP Sports Writer
Bucky McMillan was a Birmingham teenager the last time Samford went to the NCAA Tournament, on his way to being a player at one hometown college and then a highly successful coach at a local high school.
McMillan stayed put for his next role, too, with similar ...
By MARK LONG AP Sports Writer
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida center Micah Handlogten, who gruesomely broke his left leg two minutes into the Southeastern Conference championship game on Sunday, will be on hand to watch the Gators in the NCAA Tournament.
Already using crutches while ...
By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer
James Madison's Terrence Edwards says his team has been dealing with pressure ever since it stunned the college basketball world with a season-opening upset of then-No. 4 Michigan State.
Edwards and the Dukes are hoping it enables them to make a similar ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — March Madness kept Tom Izzo sleepless for more than 24 hours before he heard and saw Michigan State made it into a 26th consecutive NCAA Tournament.
The Hall of Fame coach said he had one of the most anxious days of his career on ...
By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer
Nearly a year has passed since Lamont Butler hit a buzzer-beater that sent San Diego State to the NCAA championship game. He's seen it so often on social media and TV that he never had search it out himself.
"It's kind of hard to miss it," he ...
By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer
For the second straight year, Purdue's Zach Edey is the unanimous headliner for The Associated Press men's college basketball All-America team.
The 7-foot-4, 300-pound senior topped all 62 ballots from AP Top 25 poll voters in results released Tuesday. The ...
By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer
Iowa State will make the short trip to Nebraska for the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament in a lot better frame of mind than the Cyclones team that traveled to North Carolina a year ago.
This team blew out Houston in the Big 12 Tournament ...
By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Shohei Ohtani has received the most attention as his Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres prepare to launch the Major League Baseball season with the first regular season games in South Korea.
But the two-game series ...
By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer
Greg Kampe accepted his first head coaching job years before Tom Izzo, Mark Few, Roy Williams or Jay Wright ran their own programs.
And while Bob Knight, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim were winning national championships, Kampe was putting ...
By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler would rank near the bottom if the popular "strokes gained" statistic of golf had a category for celebrations. And he would be the first to concede that.
Just two weeks ago — right before he earned $8.5 ...
By TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell could miss at least another week after breaking his nose in Cleveland's loss at Houston last weekend.
Mitchell, who has also been dealing with a bruised left knee, got hurt in Saturday's game ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer
Clemson sued the Atlantic Coast Conference in a South Carolina court on Tuesday, joining Florida State in challenging the league's right to charge schools hundreds of millions of dollars to leave.
The complaint filed in Pickens County says the ...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to take part in the traditional parade at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, the IOC said Tuesday.
The opening ceremony on July 26 will see thousands of athletes travel on boats down the River Seine for ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer
The College Football Playoff and ESPN announced a $7.8 billion deal Tuesday that will give the network exclusive rights to the expanded postseason through the 2031 season, with the national championship game moving to ABC starting in ...
By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer
Cornelius Lucas is returning to the Washington Commanders, one of a handful of carryovers coming back as the team remakes the offensive line and the roster as a whole.
The Commanders on Tuesday re-signed Lucas to a contract for next season that's worth up ...
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Shane Bieber, who has shown signs of being an ace again for Cleveland following an injury-slowed 2023, will start the Guardians' opener for the fifth straight season.
The 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner, Bieber has had a solid spring training with the Guardians after ...
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Bill Self was downright curious to see what Kansas would look like in the Big 12 Tournament when injuries to Hunter Dickinson and fellow All-American candidate Kevin McCullar Jr. ruled them out for the games in Kansas City.
Turned ...
By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer
March Madness this year comes at a time of great uncertainty in college sports.
In addition to eyeing potential 5-12 upsets and trying to figure out which sleeper to put in the Elite Eight, fans also have to consider more existential questions about college ...