NEW YORK (AP) – Pierre Jackson put up his third straight double-double with 24 points and 10 assists to lift Baylor back into the National Invitation Tournament championship with a 76-70 win over BYU. The Bears will play Iowa for the title on Thursday night, after the Hawkeyes got 21 points and nine rebounds from [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Clayton Kershaw accomplished something that hadn’t been done for 60 years in the Dodgers season opening 4-0 win over San Francisco. Kershaw became the first pitcher to toss a shutout and hit a home run in an opening day game since Cleveland’s Bob Lemon in 1956. UNDATED (AP) – Two-time All-Star [...]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Louisville shook off the gruesome image of guard Kevin Ware writhing in pain from a broken leg to roll past Duke 85-63 and into the Final Four. Ware went down in the first half and players and coaches were visibly shaken by the sight of the incident. But behind 23 points from [...]

PITTSBURGH (AP) – Tomas Vokoun (voh-KOON’) turned aside 20 shots for his 50th career shutout and also picked up his first assist as Pittsburgh blanked Winnipeg 4-0 for their 14th straight win. The NHL’s top team got a pair of goals from Pascal Dupuis (pas-KAHL doo-PWEE) and one from Evgeni Malkin who returned to the [...]

TORONTO (AP) – Al Horford led Atlanta into the NBA post-season for the sixth straight year with 26 points in a 107-88 win over Toronto. The Hawks locked down the playoff spot by going on 16-0 run in the fourth quarter when Horford scored 10 of his points. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Reggie Evans was [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – NASCAR has declined to dole out any punishment for altercations that occurred during and after Sunday’s race at Fontana, California. Circuit chairman Brian France says that the contact between Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin as they battled for the win was just the kind of throwback racing he expects out of [...]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Tiger Woods has regained the top ranking in the world with a win in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Woods completed the final round today at 2-under 70 to finish two shots in front of Justin Rose. The last time Woods was No. 1 in the world was October 2010. Woods’ victory [...]

UNDATED (AP) – The NCAA regional semifinals will include 15th seed Florida Golf Coast and No. 13 La Salle. Bernard Thompson scored 23 points and Sherwood Brown added 17 as FGCU beat San Diego State 81-71 to become the first No. 15 seed to advance this far in the tournament. The Explorers pulled out a [...]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) – Tim Duncan scored 25 points and added 13 rebounds to lead San Antonio to a 104-93 win over Golden State that keeps the Spurs a game-and-a-half behind Miami for the best record in the NBA. Stephen (steh-FAHN’) Curry scored 24 for the Warriors who hang onto the sixth playoff spot in [...]

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – The NCAA men’s basketball tournament has opened in Dayton, Ohio, where Saint Mary’s knocked off Middle Tennessee 67-54 after North Carolina A&T nipped Liberty 73-72. Matthew Dellavedova shot 5-for-7 from three-point range and finished with 22 points, six rebounds and four assists for the Gaels. Jeremy Underwood scored 19 points to [...]