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Mark Stone missing two months and counting after back surgery threatened to sink the Vegas Golden Knights. Instead, they've risen to the top of the Western Conference. Losing Kirill Kaprizov for several weeks looked like a big blow to the Minnesota Wild. They've since moved into third in the Central Division. Similarly, in the East, [...]
Connor McDavid has put together the first 150-point season in the NHL since the mid-1990s, Erik Karlsson is the first defenseman to hit 100 points in more than 30 years and the Boston Bruins made history by setting the single-season wins record. Put all that together, and who will win the league's major awards this [...]
DALLAS — March Madness may have been the last time for fans to see many of the talented college women players compete. Players' options for professional basketball careers are limited, whether in the United States or overseas — the jobs just aren't there. "You can be a great college player and not make a WNBA [...]
HOUSTON — There was a short list of believers in the potential of a rebuilt UConn roster before the season started. It was made up mostly of the UConn players and coaches themselves. The team that was among "others receiving votes" in the first AP poll of the season ended up cutting down nets after [...]
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods hit a 7-iron that was ordinary by his standards, some 30 feet from the hole. No one could have guessed where it landed judging by the massive roar at Riviera from the crowd next to him and 175 yards away around the 13th green. It's like that whenever he plays, [...]
Major league pitchers and batters aren't the only ones going on the clock this season — big league broadcasters have used spring training to adjust to baseball's new rhythm amid a series of rules changes. With the opening of the season last week, Major League Baseball ushered in an age of sharper, quicker and more [...]
Guardians ace Shane Bieber was musing about Cleveland manager Terry Francona's importance to the club earlier this spring when he made a somewhat surprising acknowledgement of what baseball's youngest team had done a year ago. "We kind of maximized our input," Bieber said, "and our output." Indeed, that young bunch of Guardians rolled to the [...]
Making TikTok videos for fun evolved into a serious moneymaking venture for Nebraska track athlete Jess Gardner, who is among the many social media stars in college sports. A comical video of her teaching a football player how to pole vault has been viewed nearly 4 million times, though the majority of her self-described "girly [...]
EAST PALESTINE — On the surface, everything looks normal. There's the East Palestine High School baseball team learning the finer points of baserunning at one edge of Reid Memorial Stadium. At the other, a handful of sprinters dart through the mild March air, the blue parachutes attached to their waists mushrooming behind them as they [...]
TAMPA, Fla. — Baker Mayfield is excited to have an opportunity to try to win Tom Brady's old job with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The No. 1 overall pick from the 2018 draft signed a one-year deal worth up to $8.5 million in free agency and will compete with third-year pro Kyle Trask to become [...]