COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Freshman Devin Carter had 17 points and eight rebounds, Jermaine Couisnard also scored 17 points with seven assists and South Carolina beat Missouri 73-69 on Tuesday night.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Major League Baseball’s financial fight cost regular-season games for the first time in 27 years when often acrimonious talks to end a management lockout collapsed Tuesday and Commissioner Rob Manfred scrapped March 31 openers.
Boldly going where no NFL coach has gone before, recently fired Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores put his future career at stake and filed a class-action lawsuit against the league, the New York Giants, the Denver Broncos and the Dolphins, alleging discriminatory hiring practices among team owners.
Their confidence at a season high and their play reflecting it, the Marceline High School basketball Tigers slugged it out, point for point, in last Saturday’s Class 3 District 16 tournament championship game against the top-seeded Milan Wildcats, who had twice defeated them by double-digits margins in an 8-day span a month earlier.
MEADVILLE — The Linn County High School basketball Lady Mustangs punctuated the “upset the apple cart” plot line of the Class 1 District 12 tournament last Thursday as two No. 2 seeds walked away with the top prizes – district crowns and a chance to play last night in the state tournament.
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — Locked-out players and Major League Baseball engaged in a series of intense meetings that stretched into Monday night as they attempted to forge the path to a labor deal before management’s deadline for salvaging opening day on March 31.
TRENTON — The court might have been neutral for last Friday night’s postponed Class 3 District 16 tournament game, but the Marceline High School basketball Tigers jammed it into high gear immediately and crushed injury-crimped Carrollton 48-29 in a semifinals clash that wasn’t nearly as close as the final 19-points margin.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Tari Eason scored 18 points off the bench, leading four in double figures, and LSU rolled past Missouri 75-55 on Saturday night.
GENEVA (AP) — In a sweeping move to isolate and condemn Russia after invading Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee urged sports bodies on Monday to exclude the country’s athletes and officials from international events.
LONDON (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will play in the NFL’s first regular-season game in Germany this year and the Green Bay Packers are traveling abroad for the first time. The league said Monday that the Bucs will host the inaugural game in Munich next season, although their opponents and the date for the game have yet to be announced.