Month: March 2022

LEEDS, England (AP) — Aston Villa handed Leeds a sixth straight Premier League loss as Steven Gerrard’s impressive side won 3-0 Thursday at Elland Road. Philippe Coutinho’s deflected effort gave Villa a halftime lead and the visitors added further second-half goals through Matty Cash and Calum Chambers. It was Villa’s third straight Premier League win,

By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer Carlos Correa, Freddie Freeman and Kris Bryant are among 138 free agents set to resume looking for a spot after a freeze on roster transactions lifts with the signing of baseball’s new labor deal. Teams combined to commit $1.4 billion to free agents in the hours before the lockout

WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) — Watford’s dwindling hopes of avoiding Premier League relegation suffered another blow with a 4-0 loss to Wolverhampton on Thursday. The result leaves Watford with just one win from its last 16 Premier League games, with Roy Hodgson’s side three points from safety with 10 games remaining. Wolves jumped into a 3-0

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Four-time Paralympian Jasmin Bambur watches the news out of Ukraine and the flashbacks arrive. How, as a kid, Bambur and his family escaped the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He made it from Bosnia to Serbia and eventually to the United States, where he was working on his degree

WASHINGTON — Francis Okoro recorded 17 points and 13 rebounds as Saint Louis easily defeated La Salle 71-51 in the second round of the Atlantic 10 Conference Tourney. Fred Thatch Jr. added 10 points and 11 rebounds for the Billikens on Thursday. Jhamir Brickus led the Explorers with 11 points.

BOISE, Idaho — Xavier Bishop had 14 points to lead five Montana State players in double figures as the Bobcats romped past Sacramento State 83-61 in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Conference tourney. Great Osobor added 13 points for the Bobcats on Thursday. Abdul Mohamed chipped in 11, Jubrile Belo scored 11 and RaeQuan

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Keegan Murray scored 26 points and Jordan Bohannon added 17 as No. 24 Iowa beat Northwestern 112-76 in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals. The Hawkeyes delivered a historic performance in coach Fran McCaffery’s 400th game. They broke single-game tourney records for points, field goals and 3-point

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Vegas Golden Knights sent home starting goalie Robin Lehner to further evaluate a lower-body injury. Coach Pete DeBoer announced the decision as the Golden Knights prepared to play the Buffalo Sabres in the second stop of a four-game road trip. DeBoer didn’t provide details on the injury except to say

TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without No. 1 goaltender Jack Campbell for at least the next two weeks because of a rib injury. Head coach Sheldon Keefe says the 30-year-old Campbell “tweaked something” a while ago and then aggravated the issue during a 26-save performance in Tuesday night’s 6-4 victory over

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — West Virginia coach Bob Huggins was ejected from the Mountaineers’ quarterfinal game against No. 6 Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament after he was given two technical fouls in quick succession by referee Doug Sirmons. The Mountaineers were trailing 19-4 and had missed 16 of their first 17 shots when

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hassan Diarra drilled a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 0.4 seconds left in overtime to give Texas A&M an 83-80 win over Florida in the second round of the Southeastern Conference tournament. After finding his driving lane cut off, Tyrece Radford passed the ball out to Diarra, who

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press Munir has scored the winning goal for Sevilla to lead the six-time Europa League champions 1-0 over West Ham in the first leg of the round of 16 of the European second-tier competition. In a game played at Sevilla’s Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium that will host the final, the hosts

FORT WORTH, Texas — David DeJulius had 22 points as Cincinnati beat East Carolina 74-63 in the American Athletic Conference tournament first round. Tristen Newton led the Pirates on Thursday with 26 points, nine rebounds and six assists.

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — TCU coach Jamie Dixon and Texas counterpart Chris Beard delivered the exact same message at halftime of their Big 12 quarterfinal: Even though the Longhorns had built an 18-point lead, the game wasn’t over. Their teams took it in wildly different directions. The Horned

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The largest soccer-specific stadium in the United States and Canada will be named GEODIS Park in a naming rights deal between the Nashville Soccer Club and the supply chain operator. Specific terms of the deal were not announced Thursday, though GEODIS also will be the presenting partner for a new soccer

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Paris Saint-Germain President Nasser Al-Khelaifi over heated incidents after the team’s Champions League loss at Real Madrid. The disciplinary case, which also includes sporting director Leonardo, followed reports that Al-Khelaifi went in search of the match officials to protest refereeing decisions on Wednesday night. PSG

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Juwan Howard was on his best behavior. Sure he worked the officials. And yes he spent most of Thursday’s game barking out instructions to Michigan’s players. But after serving a five-game, league-imposed suspension for taking a swing at Wisconsin assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft, the Wolverines coach

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Al Durham drained a go-ahead 3-pointer with 41 seconds left for his first basket of the game, and No. 11 Providence barely got past pesky Butler 65-61 in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals. Nate Watson scored a season-high 26 points for the top-seeded Friars, who

WASHINGTON — Chuba Ohams had 20 points and 16 rebounds as Fordham edged George Mason 54-49 in the second round of the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament. Josh Oduro led the Patriots on Thursday with 11 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks.

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — No. 7 Duke began coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament with a tougher-than-expected 88-79 victory over ninth-seeded Syracuse, which was playing without suspended star Buddy Boeheim. Wendell Moore Jr. scored 26 points and Jeremy Roach had 17 in the second half

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers’ latest stock offering raised $65.8 million and produced 176,160 new shareholders for the NFL’s only publicly owned franchise. The Packers sold a total of more than 198,000 shares at $300 each during the offering that began Nov. 16 and ran through Feb. 25. The Packers announced

CLEVELAND (AP) — With All-Star center Jarrett Allen sidelined indefinitely with a broken finger, the Cleveland Cavaliers signed big man Moses Brown to a 10-day contract. The 7-foot-2 Brown, who played for Dallas earlier this season, is expected to be available for Friday’s game in Miami. Allen broke his left middle finger in Monday’s win

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Trayce Jackson-Davis scored 19 of his 24 points in the second half, Xavier Johnson had 17 points, eight rebounds and seven assists and No. 9 seed Indiana closed on a 31-9 run to rally past eighth-seeded Michigan 74-69 in the second round of the Big Ten Conference tournament. Michigan led by 17

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A court date has been reset in the criminal case accusing ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs of driving drunk and causing a high-speed crash that killed a woman last November. Ruggs’ defense attorney, David Chesnoff, asked Thursday for more time to examine evidence that police

By MARK THIESSEN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The top five mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race appear to be taking an extended break in the ghost town of Cripple, Alaska. All mushers in the nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska must take a 24-hour layover and two eight-hour breaks along the way.

CLEVELAND — Setric Millner Jr. had 22 points as top-seeded Toledo narrowly beat eighth-seeded Central Michigan 72-71 in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference Tourney on Thursday. RayJ Dennis scored the winning basket with 10 seconds to go and then TJ Shumate forced a turnover on the Chippewas inbounds pass. However, Ryan Rollins missed the

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer Kevin Magnussen had thought was done with Formula One until he received a surprise call from Haas F1. The team had fired Russian driver Nikita Mazepin and wanted Magnussen to fill the seat. Magnussen drove for Haas from 2017 until 2020. During his one season away, the Danish

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain’s glitzy offseason recruitment drive was hailed as the best in European soccer and designed to lead PSG to Champions League glory. But it backfired completely as goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma’s error against Real Madrid on Wednesday night led to another capitulation in soccer’s elite competition.

DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland coach Stephen Kenny’s “big dream” is to qualify for the 2024 European Championship now that he’s signed a contract extension. Kenny discussed his goals for Ireland at a press conference a day after he was given an extension through the Euro 2024 tournament being held in Germany. He says, “The ambition

SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — Pierre Gasly was fastest for AlphaTauri in Formula One pre-season testing. Much focus was on the new-look Mercedes and Haas missing the morning start due to freight problems. The session under floodlights ended a few minutes early after Red Bull driver Sergio Perez got stuck in a gravel trap. Seven-time F1