PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Travis Konecny had a goal and an assist to help the Philadelphia Flyers snap a five-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.
Scott Laughton and Garnet Hathaway also scored for Philadelphia. Samuel Ersson made 32 saves.
Erik ...
By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Simmons was waived by the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday after the team agreed to a buyout with the last remaining link to a failed era of building around All-Stars.
The No. 1 pick in the 2016 draft was not with the Nets for their ...
By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Viktor Lakhin scored 22 points, Clemson held player of the year candidate Cooper Flagg in check for most of the game and the Tigers defeated No. 2 Duke 77-71 on Saturday night to snap the Blue Devils' 16-game winning streak.
Chase ...
By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer
CLEMSON. S.C. (AP) — He's back, baby!
ESPN's Dick Vitale received a standing ovation Saturday night at Clemson's Littlejohn Coliseum in his first game back as a commentator since recovering from his fourth bout with cancer.
About 30 minutes before Clemson ...
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Sixth-ranked Florida made program history with its victory over No. 1 Auburn on Saturday.
It wasn't the Gators' 90-81 win over the Tigers that'll find its way into the program's record books. Florida had already taken down a top-ranked team this season, beating then- No. ...
By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State coach Tom Izzo tied Bob Knight's Big Ten record for wins, leading the ninth-ranked Spartans to a comeback 86-74 victory over Oregon on Saturday.
Perhaps fittingly, Izzo matched the mark with conference win No. 353 ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Connor Joe is going home, signing a one-year contract with the San Diego Padres.
Joe hit .228 with nine homers and 36 RBIs in 123 games for Pittsburgh last year. The San Diego native played his college ball for the University of San Diego.
The 32-year-old Joe has made big ...
By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Danny Wolf finished with 20 points and nine rebounds, and Tre Donaldson and Vladislav Goldin each added 18 points to help No. 24 Michigan hold off hard-charging Indiana 70-67 on Saturday.
Wolf also had five assists as the ...
By STEVE McCLAIN Associated Press
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Otega Oweh scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half and No. 14 Kentucky snapped a two-game skid with an 80-57 win over South Carolina on Saturday.
Brandon Garrison came off the bench and scored 15 points for Kentucky (16-7, ...
By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — They are two of the more delightful — in Philadelphia — and detestable — to the rest of the league — words that have escalated into the fast-evolving NFL lexicon.
Tush push.
No team has taken advantage of the rugby-style scrum ...
By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer
SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — Her top speed of 86 mph (138.51 kph) was among the fastest ever recorded by a woman in an Alpine skiing race.
The 38 yards (35 meters) that she soared off the big Panorama jump midway down matched how far the men leap ...
PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored a season-high 47 points, Grayson Allen hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime and the short-handed Phoenix Suns rallied to beat the Utah Jazz 135-127 on Friday night.
With 0.9 seconds left in regulation, Allen caught an inbounds pass and hit the ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Seth Jarvis had two goals and two assists, and the Carolina Hurricanes beat Utah 7-3 on Saturday to stop a three-game losing streak.
Sebastian Aho added two goals and an assist for Carolina, which scored a total of three times during its losing streak. Jalen Chatfield, ...
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Norman Powell and Ivica Zubac scored 26 points apiece, James Harden added 23 and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Utah Jazz 130-110 Saturday night to snap a three-game losing streak.
Zubac, who was 13 of 16 from the field, had a season-high in points as well as 15 ...
DETROIT (AP) — Malik Beasley scored a career-high 36 points and Detroit Pistons built a 34-point lead and beat the Philadelphia 76ers 125-112 on Friday night.
Tobias Harris added 22 points and nine rebounds for the Pistons, who led 78-49 at halftime. Ausar Thompson had 14 points, eight ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Andy Reid and Matt Nagy vs. Vic Fangio. Nick Sirianni and Kellen Moore vs. Steve Spagnuolo.
This Super Bowl is a matchup of some of the brightest — and oldest — minds in the NFL. Reid and Fangio are 66. Spagnuolo is 65.
When the Kansas City Chiefs (17-2) go for a ...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — RJ Davis scored 18 points, Ven-Allen Lubin added 17, and North Carolina defeated Pittsburgh 67-66 on Saturday in a back-and-forth battle between two teams in need of a win.
North Carolina (14-10, 7-5) won after losing four of five games, including a 73-65 setback at ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kiki Iriafen had 24 points and 13 rebounds and No. 7 Southern California defeated eighth-ranked Ohio State 84-63 on Saturday night when Trojans star JuJu Watkins struggled offensively.
It was a cold shooting night for Watkins, the Big Ten's leading scorer who averages 24.2 ...
By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer
PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored a season-high 47 points, Grayson Allen hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to force overtime and the short-handed Phoenix Suns rallied to beat the Utah Jazz 135-127 on Friday night.
With 0.9 seconds left in regulation, Allen ...
By The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Miles Bridges knocked down a 3-pointer from the corner off a wraparound feed from LaMelo Ball with 1.4 seconds left to lift Charlotte to a 117-116 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Friday night and snap a six-game skid for the ...