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Trade-deadline acquisition James Harden came through in the clutch during his first two games with the Cavaliers, rallying Cleveland to road victories

Surging toward the All-Star break, the San Antonio Spurs will begin a back-to-back scenario before some much-deserved rest when they hit the road to f

Fifty years after he coached the last undefeated men's Division I basketball team, legendary Indiana coach Bob Knight will be honored with a statue at

Cade Cunningham led everyone with 33 points, nine rebounds and seven assists as the visiting Detroit Pistons held on for a 110-104 win over the Charlo

Flory Bidunga scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as No. 9 Kansas handed top-ranked Arizona its first loss of the season, 82-78 on Monday at Lawr

Freshman guard Mikel Brown Jr. tied the Louisville single-game scoring mark with 45 points and matched another single-game record with 10 3-pointers t

Jalen Williams scored 23 points and Isaiah Joe added 19 as the Oklahoma City Thunder ended a two-game losing streak with a 119-110 victory over the Lo

Toumani Camara established career highs of 30 points and eight 3-pointers while leading the Portland Trail Blazers to a 135-118 rout of the visiting P

Gui Santos turned a scramble under the hoop into a go-ahead layup with 19.4 seconds remaining and the Golden State Warriors rallied from 17 points dow

Sebastian Korda got a small measure of revenge by defeating Michael Zheng 6-4, 6-4 in an all-U.S. first-round clash at the Nexo Dallas Open on Monday.

Donovan Mitchell hit two free throws with less than a second left and the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers rallied to beat the Denver Nuggets 119-117 on M

Flory Bidunga scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as No. 9 Kansas handed top-ranked Arizona its first loss of the season, 82-78 on Monday at Lawr

Mikayla Blakes scored 34 points and freshman Aubrey Galvan poured in a career-high 30 points, powering No. 5 Vanderbilt to a 102-86 win over No. 10 Ok

Lamar Wilkerson had another big night of offense, scoring 41 points to lead Indiana to a 92-74 win over Oregon in Big Ten men's basketball Monday nigh

Two-time NBA All-Star game Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry will not compete in Sunday's annual showcase due to an ongoing injury to his right knee.

Anthony Edwards scored 30 points on 11-for-21 shooting, and the Minnesota Timberwolves pulled away for a 138-116 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday

Trey Murphy III produced 21 points and seven assists, Zion Williamson added 18 points, six assists and five rebounds, and the New Orleans Pelicans kno

Franz Wagner scored 14 points in 16 minutes in his return to action for Orlando and was a catalyst in a game-changing third-quarter run as the Magic d

Reserve Brice Sensabaugh knocked in a go-ahead 3-pointer with 46.8 seconds left in the fourth quarter as the visiting Utah Jazz shocked the Miami Heat

In his second season in the Big 12 Conference, Oklahoma State coach Steve Lutz is getting accustomed to how the ball can bounce.,His Cowboys took down

Nic Claxton collected a career-high 28 points and 10 rebounds as the Brooklyn Nets executed in the final minutes of the fourth quarter after losing a

Tight end David Njoku revealed in an Instagram post on Monday night that he will enter free agency and not return to the Cleveland Browns.,Njoku, 29,

Despite a Super Bowl LX loss to Seattle, the New England Patriots are positioned to contend again behind Drake Maye, Mike Vrabel, and a rising defense

In his first season at Villanova, head coach Kevin Willard has been lucky to have another Wildcats newcomer running his offense., ,Freshman point guar

Early Super Bowl LXI odds favor the Seattle Seahawks, with the Rams, Bills, 49ers and Broncos also emerging as top contenders for the 2027 title.

SMU looks to take care of business and build some momentum for the stretch run when it faces a struggling Notre Dame team Tuesday in Dallas., ,The Mus

Stingy defense remains a trademark for No. 3 Houston, which is making a push for a third straight regular-season Big 12 title.,Houston heads into Tues

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show wasn't bad at all - but it exposed a major NFL disconnect the league has with its core demographic of fans.

Heading into its game Tuesday night against Baylor in Waco, Texas, No. 22 BYU finds itself in a spot that it's never been since joining the Big 12 --

No. 8 Illinois and Wisconsin both were reminded this past weekend how much it stings to have a Big Ten road win ripped from your hands.,Those results

Searching for a bounce-back performance, No. 15 Vanderbilt will look for its first victory at Auburn in a decade when the Southeastern Conference oppo

If North Carolina coach Hubert Davis is hyped, imagine what his players must be feeling.,The 14th-ranked Tar Heels (19-4, 7-3 Atlantic Coast Conferenc

The Minnesota Timberwolves have two games left before the NBA All-Star break.,That's not much time to snap out of weeklong slump.,Minnesota will try t

The New York Mets are signing free agent outfielder MJ Melendez to a one-year contract worth $1.5 million with an additional $500,000 in incentives, a

Cloud9 enter the playoffs with momentum after cinching the No. 1 seed while Dignitas and Shopify Rebellion are out altogether after they were eliminat

Losers of 18 of their last 22 games, the Utah Jazz are playing for next season.,On Monday night, the Jazz will visit the Miami Heat to conclude a five

Super Bowl LXI in the Los Angeles area falls on Valentine's Day next year, and 31 teams will again be going home with heartbreak. ,With a little more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak said on the field Sunday night he's headed to Las Vegas to become a head coach.,"We

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sam Darnold didn't need to play a starring role to pen the final chapter in one of the greatest redemption stories in NFL histo

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The "Dark Side" was not going to let history repeat itself. Instead, the Seattle Seahawks' self-nicknamed defense more than ret

No. 1 Arizona enters its game at No. 11 Kansas on Monday with the best start in program and Big 12 history, topping the Jayhawks' performance in 1996-

A recent practice session with the great Serena Williams may have paid off for Alycia Parks, who took down Russian 15th seed Diana Shnaider 1-6, 6-4,

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Cortina d'Ampezzo's Olimpia della Tofane piste wrecked Breezy Johnson's Olympic downhill hopes four years ago but made ame

North Dakota State has reached an agreement to join the Mountain West Conference for football, multiple outlets reported on Sunday.,The Bison, a Footb

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Jason Myers kicked a trio of field goals and Kenneth Walker rushed for 94 yards as the Seattle Seahawks took a 9-0 lead against

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- The question of whether Lindsey Vonn should have started the Olympic downhill race on Sunday has expanded beyond a single

Winners of four of its last five games, Indiana is out for more as it hosts struggling Oregon on Monday night in Bloomington, Ind.,The Hoosiers (16-8,

MILAN, Italy -- Sidney Crosby waited 12 years to be back at the Olympics but the Canada captain said on Sunday that he sometimes felt as though no tim

Toby Fournier dropped 26 points on 12-of-16 shooting, freshman Arianna Roberson had career highs of 22 points and 16 rebounds and No. 17 Duke thrashed

Baba Miller scored 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead all five starters in double figures as Cincinnati controlled visiting UCF by a 92-72 coun