Year: 2022

BOSTON — Azar Swain had 25 points as Yale topped Penn 67-61 in the Ivy League tournament semifinals. Jordan Dingle led the Quakers on Saturday with 28 points.

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer Sergiy Stakhovsky is a recently retired professional tennis player from Ukraine who has left his wife and three young children at home in Hungary to go back to his birthplace to help how he can during Russia’s invasion. Stakhovsky said in a video interview with the AP that he

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By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge and the rest of baseball’s biggest stars are due at spring training Sunday for the first official day of preseason training following the end of Major League Baseball’s 99-day labor lockout. Pitchers and catchers were supposed to report a month ago,

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Villarreal is back on the winning path in time for its trip to Italy to face Juventus after beating Celta Vigo 1-0 thanks to Dani Parejo’s goal. The victory in the Spanish league came after a defeat at Osasuna that had ended a five-match unbeaten run

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Kwadwo Opoku scored late in the first half and Ismael Tajouri-Shradi added an insurance goal in the second half to propel Los Angeles FC to a 2-0 victory over Inter Miami FC in MLS play. Neither team managed a shot on goal in the first 40 minutes of a match

By DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — NaLyssa Smith had a career-high 37 points as No. 4 Baylor routed No. 21 Oklahoma 91-76 in the first semifinal of the Big 12 women’s tournament. Smith’s previous high was 35 earlier this year against Texas Tech. The Bears used a 28-16 advantage in the

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lucas Zelarayan and Derrick Etienne Jr. scored second-half goals and the Columbus Crew rallied to beat Toronto FC 2-1 in MLS play. Jesus Jimenez staked Toronto to a 1-0 lead in the 14th minute when he took a crossing pass from Alejandro Pozuelo and headed a shot past Columbus goalkeeper Eloy

By DAVID BRANDT AP Sports Writer PHOENIX (AP) — It was an impressive holdout for the National League, which made it nearly 50 years staving off a full-time designated hitter rule that the American League implemented before the 1973 season. Well, the rules have finally changed. Among the most noticeable switches in MLB for the

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer LSU has fired men’s basketball coach Will Wade after receiving formal allegations of serious NCAA violations this week. The university announced the decision Saturday in a joint statement from President William Tate and athletic director Scott Woodward. They said the program had “operated under an exhausting shroud of negativity.”

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Conference player of the year Joe Bryant Jr. scored 23 points and top-seeded Norfolk State used a closing flourish to finish off Coppin State 72-57 on Saturday to win the Mid-East Athletic Conference tournament championship and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The conference champions went 12-2 to claim the top

WASHINGTON — Foster Loyer had 21 points as Davidson defeated Saint Louis 84-69 in a semifinal of the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship. Hyunjung Lee had 16 points for Davidson. Terrence Hargrove Jr. had 14 points for Saint Louis.

NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Callens scored a goal — the first this season for the defending MLS Cup champions — and New York City FC breezed to a 4-1 victory over CF Montreal. Santiago Rodriguez added what proved to be the game-winning goal in the 20th minute for NYCFC (1-1-1). Talles Magno scored in

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jordan Bohannon banked in a 3-pointer from just inside the midcourt logo with 0.8 seconds left, lifting No. 24 Iowa over ninth-seeded Indiana 80-77 in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals. The Hawkeyes will play for their first league tourney title since 2006 on Sunday. Keegan Murray

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Quenton Jackson scored 20 points and eighth-seeded Texas A&M took down a ranked opponent for the second straight day, stunning No. 15 Arkansas 82-64 to reach the championship game of the SEC Tournament. Jackson also had six assists, five rebounds and four steals to pace

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Rattled by a derogatory shout from a spectator, Naomi Osaka went on to lose 6-0, 6-4 to Veronika Kudermetova in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open. Osaka trailed 3-0 in the first set when a woman in the stands apparently shouted, “Osaka, you suck.” The Japanese star approached