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UConn guard Braylon Mullins might be this week’s new, shiny college basketball star.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he has no plans to end the league’s Rooney Rule despite recent objections from Florida’s attorney general, who wrote that the league’s minority hiring guidelines violate Florida state law.

In a new lawsuit, one of the first three women to officiate an NFL game describes her three years at the pinnacle of her profession as a descent into the grip of a sexist institution unable to treat a woman as an equal.

Fernando Mendoza won’t start right away for the Las Vegas Raiders if coach Klint Kubiak has his way.

Top prospect Colt Emerson and the Seattle Mariners have agreed to a $95 million, eight-year contract, the largest amount for a minor league prospect yet to make his major league debut.

NHL general managers of teams in the playoffs soon will have to deal with a new rule that has not been used in the league's history: Their game lineups must fit under the salary cap.

Roberto De Zerbi has been hired as Tottenham’s third coach of the season in a last-ditch bid by one of England’s top clubs to avoid costly relegation from the Premier League.

Iran players and officials have posed with pictures of children allegedly killed by U.S. and Israeli airstrikes before their World Cup warmup against Costa Rica in Turkey.

Tiger Woods says he’ll step away and seek treatment after his SUV crash in Florida.

One of soccer’s historic powers has reached a once-unfathomable low.

The NFL’s last foray into replacement officials ended in embarrassment for the league when a botched call and comic confusion in a prime-time game led to the end of a lockout that marred the first three weeks of the 2012 season.

Lance McCullers Jr. pitched seven innings for the first time since 2022 and Jose Altuve hit two of Houston’s four home runs to help the Astros to an 8-1 win over the Boston Red Sox Monday night.

Joyce Edwards scored 24 points and Agot Makeer added 18 to help South Carolina beat TCU 78-52 to advance to the Final Four.

Madison Booker had 19 points and seven rebounds, fifth-year senior guard Rori Harmon has 13 assists and Texas is going to the women’s Final Four for the second year in a row.

The Chicago Bulls waived guard Jaden Ivey on Monday in the wake of anti-LGBTQ comments and remarks about religion he made in a series of videos on his Instagram account.

This year’s Webby Award nominations highlight the internet’s wildest hits, from celebrity campaigns to strange viral products.

A Portland soccer tournament brought girls from immigrant and refugee families together to push back against fear tied to federal immigration enforcement.

Ahead of the World Cup, Chris Richards has a new take on what makes America unique.

The Trump administration has carried out on a threat to sue the state of Minnesota and its school athletics governing body for allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls sports.

Salvador Perez and the Kansas City Royals have been baseball’s best at utilizing their robot challenges through the first weekend of the Automated Ball-Strike System.

The WNBA is set to return to Houston, with plans to revive one of the league’s most historic franchises.

Every moment of any major sporting event can be dissected in high-definition these days, meaning officials and umpires sometimes seem to be staring at a TV screen to review close calls as much as they’re watching the game.

The NBA stretch run has arrived.

The Connecticut Sun say they will move to Houston in 2027 after reaching an agreement to sell the team to Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta in a deal worth a record $300 million, according to a person familiar with the sale.

The NFL is moving forward with plans to begin hiring and training replacement officials in the next several weeks because negotiations with the referees’ union have been unsuccessful, two people with knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press.

St. John’s says Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino has signed a new agreement that will keep him under contract with the school through the end of this decade.

Alperen Sengun had 36 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists, Houston dominated the second quarter, and the Rockets beat the New Orleans Pelicans 134-102.

Jannik Sinner rolled to a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Jiri Lehecka to capture the Miami Open title and complete the “Sunshine Double’’ a day after Aryna Sabalenka accomplished the same feat in a win over Coco Gauff.

The Final Four is set.

Braylon Mullins sank a desperation 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left to give UConn an astonishing 73-72 victory over top-seeded Duke, earning the Huskies a spot in the Final Four after they rallied from a 19-point first-half deficit.

Chase Elliott has outdueled Denny Hamlin at Martinsville Speedway to earn his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season.

Gary Woodland is a winner again just 30 months after brain surgery.

Lauren Betts had 23 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks to help UCLA rally from a rare halftime deficit and beat Duke 70-58, advancing to the women’s Final Four for the second straight season.

Yaxel Lendeborg scored 27 points, Elliot Cadeau had 10 assists and Michigan rolled into the Final Four by overwhelming Tennessee for a dominant 95-62 victory in the NCAA Tournament.

Geno Auriemma and defending national champion UConn are going to their 25th Final Four in the women's NCAA Tournament.

Munetaka Murakami of the Chicago White Sox and Chase DeLauter of the Cleveland Guardians have accomplished something in the last week that had been done only twice before.

Irish rugby player Neff Giwa has never played American football.

Igor Tudor has left his role as Tottenham interim coach after seven matches and 44 days in charge.

African soccer’s governing body has announced a raft of “changes and improvements” to its statutes and regulations as it deals with the fallout from a contentious Africa Cup of Nations final.

Replacement officials, potential rule changes, artificial intelligence, health and safety issues, international growth and flag football will be among many topics discussed when NFL owners, executives and coaches gather for their annual meeting this week in Arizona.

Arizona is headed back to the Final Four for the first time in 25 years after the top-seeded Wildcats got 20 points from freshman Koa Peat to beat Purdue 79-64 in the NCAA Tournament's West Region final.

Italian 19-year-old Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes has won his second consecutive Formula 1 race, taking the Japanese Grand Prix ahead Oscar Piastri of McLaren.

Freshman Keaton Wagler scored 25 points and Illinois ended Iowa’s underdog March Madness run by dominating in the frontcourt, beating the Hawkeyes 71-59 to advance to the Final Four for the first time since 2005.

The San Francisco Giants matched a franchise record by reaching 20 straight innings without scoring to begin the season, then finally recorded their first run in the third inning of their third game against the New York Yankees.

Luis Robert Jr. hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the 11th inning to give the New York Mets a 4-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Ta’Niya Latson scored 28 points and Raven Johnson added 18 to help top-seed South Carolina beat No. 4 seed Oklahoma 94-68 on Saturday and advance to the Elite Eight of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

A buzzer malfunction caused a delay — a very loud, very unpleasant delay — of about 10 minutes in the first half of the NCAA Tournament’s South Region final between Iowa and Illinois.

Gary Woodland is one round away from winning for the first time since brain surgery.

Belgium blew out the United States 5-2 in a World Cup warmup that exposed the Americans’ defensive difficulties, rallying from a late first-half deficit on two goals by Dodi Lukébakio and one each from Zeno Debast, Amadou Onana and Charles De Ketelaere.

The expansion Denver Summit’s match against the Washington Spirit broke the National Women’s Soccer League record for attendance with its announced crowd of 63,004.

Tiger Woods is out of jail and headed for more uncertainty.

Magnitude beat race favorite Forever Young to win the 30th Dubai Gold Cup in the first major outdoors sporting event in the United Arab Emirates since the outbreak of the Iran War.

Senegal keeps celebrating its Africa Cup title even after African soccer officials stripped it away and awarded it to Morocco.

UConn coach Geno Auriemma is ripping the double-regional format being used in the women’s NCAA Tournament.

Ilia Malinin reeled off one huge jump after another, and a backflip for good measure, to retain his world championship title for the third year running.

President Donald Trump is hosting a UFC fight on White House grounds to celebrate his 80th birthday and the nation’s 250th anniversary.

The Los Angeles Dodgers rode big early returns from new stars Edwin Diaz and Kyle Tucker to a 5-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Aryna Sabalenka beat Coco Gauff in the Miami Open women’s singles final 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.

Ashlon Jackson’s 3-pointer at the buzzer lifted third-seeded Duke to an 87-85 win over No. 2 seed LSU in the Sweet 16 of the women’s NCAA Tournament on Friday night.

Tarris Reed Jr. scored 20 points, Alex Karaban added 17, and both made pressure-packed free throws in the final minute that helped second-seeded UConn hold off third-seeded Michigan State 67-63 in the Sweet 16.

LeBron James literally passed it on to the next generation.

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli has taken the pole for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix.

The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated a rare back-to-back World Series run by receiving championship rings in a pregame ceremony.

Yaxel Lendeborg had 23 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists in a dazzling all-around performance, and Michigan beat Alabama 90-77 to advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in five years.

Caleb Foster returned from a broken foot and rescued Duke’s national title hopes, helping the top-seeded Blue Devils rally from a 10-point second-half deficit to beat St. John’s 80-75 and advance to the Elite Eight.

Tiger Woods’ arrest for a car crash in Florida is at least the fourth auto incident involving the golfer and the second in which he was charged with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer in the sixth to end an 0-for-7 start to his season after the two-time reigning AL MVP had a strike call overturned by the automated system earlier in that same at-bat when he challenged, and the New York Yankees beat the San Francisco Giants 3-0.

Sarah Strong had 21 points and 10 rebounds as defending national champion and overall No. 1 seed UConn overwhelmed North Carolina 63-42 in the women's NCAA Tournament.

Florian Wirtz scored two and made two as Germany twice came from behind to beat Switzerland 4-3 in a thrilling friendly.

The Connecticut Sun have reached an agreement to sell the team to Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta for $300 million and will move to Houston in 2027, according to a person familiar with the deal.

Jannik Sinner sat out the Miami Open a year ago as he served a three-month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance.

Hannah Hidalgo had 31 points, 11 rebounds, 10 steals and the assist on the go-ahead bucket in the final minute, leading Notre Dame to a 67-64 victory over higher-seeded Vanderbilt in the Sweet 16.

Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo has broken the NCAA’s single-season record for steals after getting seven in the first half of a Sweet 16 game against Vanderbilt.

Officials say Tiger Woods has been released on bail hours after he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

Golf superstar Tiger Woods was involved in a rollover car crash in Jupiter Island, Florida, on Friday, NBC News reports.

Team USA doesn’t need NFL players to help it go for the gold when flag football debuts at the Olympics in 2028.

Players held small backpacks as Iran’s national soccer team used a match against Nigeria to honor the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school.

Alabama guard Aden Holloway, who was arrested on felony drug charges, has been granted permission by a judge to leave the state as his team prepares to face Michigan in the Sweet 16 in Chicago.

Kaori Sakamoto bids farewell to figure skating with a fourth world championship title before retirement as one of the most decorated skaters in decades.

Robert Lewandowski and Edin Džeko had a combined 160 goals in 309 national team games going into the World Cup qualifying playoffs.

The Nashville Predators never doubted they could be a playoff team.

David Mirkovic had 14 points and 10 rebounds, and third-seeded Illinois flexed its defensive muscles to eliminate last year’s national runner-up from the NCAA Tournament, beating Houston 65-55 in the South Region semifinals.

A federal judge on Thursday denied the NCAA’s motion for a temporary restraining order to stop DraftKings from using registered trademarks associated with its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.

Trey Kaufman-Renn tipped in a miss by Braden Smith with 0.7 seconds left, and No. 2 Purdue edged hobbling Texas star Tramon Mark and the 11th-seeded Longhorns 79-77 on Thursday night in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

Alvaro Folgueiras converted a critical three-point play when Nebraska only had four defenders on the floor, and ninth-seeded Iowa continued its unpredictable NCAA Tournament run under first-year coach Ben McCollum, beating Nebraska 77-71 in a South Region semifinal.

After KPRC 2’s investigation into Katy American Little League, families across the Houston area are raising similar concerns, highlighting a lack of oversight in youth sports — and what parents can do to protect their money and their kids.

Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm is suing his parents for milllions of dollars, accusing them of siphoning large amounts of his money into financial accounts they managed for him and then using some of the cash to pay their own expenses.

The Houston man recently returned from a 16-month journey across the globe, and he didn’t go anywhere without his Houston Astros flag in hand.

France forward Kylian Mbappé showed no ill effects of his left knee injury when he broke free for a goal to give France an early lead on its way to a 2-1 victory over Brazil in a World Cup tuneup between two of the world’s top teams.

Vladyslav Heraskevych was shunned by the Olympics, then invited to the United Nations.

Brett Baty laced a bases-loaded triple and the New York Mets chased Paul Skenes in the first inning of his worst major league start, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-7 in their season opener at Citi Field.

Tom Brady says he has thought about returning to the NFL, but the league isn't a fan of the idea.

Paul Skenes didn’t even get through the first inning on opening day.

A professional cornhole player who is also a quadruple amputee has waived his right to an extradition hearing in a fatal shooting case.

LSU has fired fourth-year coach Matt McMahon and has rehired former Tigers coach Will Wade from N.

Ilia Malinin has a massive nine-point lead at the figure skating world championships in Prague after winning the short program with a personal-best score.

The Milwaukee Brewers are opening their NL Central title defense without outfielder Jackson Chourio after he fractured his left hand during the preseason.

Transgender women athletes are now excluded from the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy It aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on women's sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Sweet 16 games tip off in Houston tonight at Toyota Center, but officials are warning fans to be careful when buying tickets after reports of scams targeting last-minute buyers.