By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Petr Yan stunned Merab Dvalishvili with a dominating effort to capture the bantamweight championship by unanimous decision at UFC 323 on Saturday night. With punishing strikes and several crushing kicks to the rib cage, Yan (20-5) ended ...
By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It wasn't hard to spot Ben Overby and James Turner as they weaved through the stands at Saturday night's Atlantic Coast Conference championship game between No. 16 Virginia and Duke. They were proudly wearing the purple of their ...
By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Duke has its first outright Atlantic Coast Conference football championship since 1962. Now it wants a little more. Blue Devils coach Manny Diaz wasted little time Saturday night advocating for his team to make the 12-team College ...
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon scored 2:46 into overtime for his second goal of the game, helping the Colorado Avalanche top Artemi Panarin and the New York Rangers 3-2 on Saturday. MacKinnon finished Colorado's third win in four games when he beat Igor Shesterkin ...
By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Alabama is forcing the committee that will set the College Football Playoff bracket to revisit an old question: Should a 12-team tournament to determine the national champion include a program with three losses? And Duke is bringing up a new ...
By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Fernando Mendoza's 17-yard touchdown pass to Elijah Sarratt gave No. 2 Indiana the lead midway through the third quarter and the Hoosiers' stingy defense shut down No. 1 Ohio State the rest of the way in a 13-10 victory on Saturday night for their ...
By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Koa Peat scored 18 points, Jaden Bradley added 16 and No. 2 Arizona blew out No. 20 Auburn 97-68 on Saturday night. The Wildcats (8-0) won their first three games against ranked teams away from Tucson and made an emphatic ...
By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza made all the big plays Saturday night. Then his Hoosiers teammates and their fans celebrated like it was 1967. Mendoza's neatly tucked 17-yard pass to Elijah Sarratt gave the No. 2 Hoosiers the ...
By DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brandt Clarke scored twice to help Los Angeles break out of an offensive funk, Darcy Kuemper made 23 saves and the Kings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6-0 on Saturday night to split a two-game set. Warren Foegele, Andrei Kuzmenko, Mikey ...
By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Zuby Ejiofor had a career-high eight blocks along with 15 points and nine rebounds, anchoring a strong defensive performance that carried No. 23 St. John's past Mississippi 63-58 on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Ejiofor ...
By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Anthony Davis scored 29 points and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Houston Rockets 122-109 on Saturday night to finish a back-to-back coming off a blowout loss at defending champion Oklahoma City. Davis went 14 of 19 from the field a night ...
By TYLER MASON Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Naz Reid made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 13 seconds remaining, Jaden McDaniels scored 27 points and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Los Angeles Clippers 109-106 on Saturday night. Julius Randle added 24 points for Minnesota. Reid's ...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Joel Hofer made 41 saves, Jake Neighbours scored twice and the St. Louis Blues beat the Ottawa Senators 2-1 on Saturday night. Fabian Zetterlund scored, and Linus Ullmark made 18 saves for Ottawa. The Senators have lost four of five games. The Blues also beat the ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Zach LaVine had season highs of eight 3-pointers and 42 points, and the Sacramento Kings got their first double-digit win of the season Saturday by topping the Miami Heat 127-111. Keegan Murray scored 16, Nique Clifford had 15 and DeMar ...
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — Pat Spencer scored a career-high 19 points in his first NBA start and the Golden State Warriors shook off an awful-shooting first quarter to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 99-94 Saturday night. It was the third consecutive game the ...
By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Morgan Geekie scored his 22nd goal, Jeremy Swayman made 29 saves and the Boston Bruins beat New Jersey 4-1 on Saturday night, sending the Devils to their season-high fifth straight loss. Fraser Minten, Casey Mittelstadt and Andrew Peeke also ...
HOUSTON (AP) — Emanuel Sharp scored 27 points, Kingston Flemings added 21 and No. 8 Houston beat Florida State 82-67 on Saturday night. Flemings and Sharp each scored 13 points in the first half and were a combined 10 of 15 from the floor as the Cougars (8-1) held a 41-33 halftime ...
By DAVE HOGG Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Cade Cunningham had 23 points and 12 assists and the Detroit Pistons beat Milwaukee 124-112 on Saturday night to end the Bucks' 15-game winning streak in Detroit. Milwaukee came into the season with a 13-game winning streak against the ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tomislav Ivisic and Keaton Wagler each scored 16 points and No. 14 Illinois beat No. 13 Tennessee 75-62 Saturday night in the second part of the Music City Madness. The Fighting Illini (7-2) came in rested after an eight-day break with this their last of four Top 15 ...
By ERIK ERLENDSSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Ilya Sorokin stopped all 32 shots he faced for his third shutout of the season, tying the Islanders' franchise record for career shutouts, and New York beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 on Saturday night. Sorokin recorded his 25th ...