National Sports
No. 2 Arizona clinches first Big 12 regular-season title, eyes a deep March run
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Bill Self spent the morning before his team’s game at Arizona walking around campus, getting some exercise while enjoying the mild desert weather. But the Kansas coach couldn’t seem to get very far without being stopped. Nothing derisive. Just basketball talk. “There’s no telling how many people stopped me to talk ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Scherzer calls daughter’s letter to Blue Jays ‘the cutest thing you can possibly imagine’
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Max Scherzer says the note his daughter composed asking the Toronto Blue Jays to re-sign the three-time Cy Young Award winner arose as his kids were writing letters to Santa Claus in December. After Scherzer agreed last week to a $3 million, one-year contract to return to the Blue Jays, his ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!AP women’s basketball player of the week is No. 5 Vanderbilt’s Mikayla Blakes
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
The Associated Press national player of the week in women’s basketball for Week 17 of the season: Mikayla Blakes, Iowa The sophomore guard led No. 5 Vanderbilt to wins over Alabama and Tennessee last week, averaging 34.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists. She is the first SEC player in the past 26 years to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!TCU enters the women’s Big 12 tournament as the No. 1 seed, chasing a repeat title
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It took TCU well over a decade to finally win the women’s Big 12 tournament, and in doing so, end a drought of exactly two decades since its last league tournament title back in its Conference USA days. The No. 10 Horned Frogs have a good chance to make it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Real Madrid confirms Brazil winger Rodrygo has a torn ACL just 100 days before World Cup
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
MADRID (AP) — Brazil international Rodrygo is expected to miss the rest of Real Madrid’s season and the World Cup because of a torn ACL and meniscus in his right knee, the Spanish club said Tuesday. The 25-year-old winger was injured in Madrid’s 1-0 loss to Getafe on Monday, when he came on as a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jets place franchise tag on running back Breece Hall before the deadline, AP source says
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
The New York Jets placed the franchise tag on running back Breece Hall, while several other teams decide whether to use the tag on potential free agents before Tuesday’s deadline. A person familiar with the decision said the Jets placed the non-exclusive franchise tag on Hall, guaranteeing him a one-year contract worth about $14.3 million. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Copa Libertadores-winning coach Filipe Luís fired by Flamengo after 8-0 win
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
SAO PAULO (AP) — Defending South American and Brazilian champion Flamengo fired coach Filipe Luís on Tuesday, just hours after his team won 8-0 in a Rio de Janeiro league semifinal. Only two month ago, Luís extended his contract at Flamengo to the end of 2027. This year his team lost the trophies of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!No. 2 Arizona’s Brayden Burries named AP’s national player of the week for a 2nd time
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
The Associated Press national player of the week in men’s college basketball for Week 17 of the season: Brayden Burries, No. 2 Arizona The 6-foot-4 freshman guard is the first player to earn AP national player of the week honors twice this season after a stellar two-game stretch. Burries led the Wildcats to at least ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Dunstone beats Calvert in all-Manitoba battle at Montana’s Brier
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
ST. JOHN’S — Matt Dunstone defeated Braden Calvert 6-3 in a battle of Manitoba skips on Tuesday morning at the Montana’s Brier. Dunstone (4-0) scored pairs in the fifth and seventh ends en route to his fourth straight round-robin victory. He remained tied for first place in Pool B with Alberta’s Kevin Koe (4-0), who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tennessee Tech fires coach John Pelphrey as it prepares for move to Southern Conference
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Tech has fired John Pelphrey after his seventh straight losing season ended with the Golden Eagles failing to qualify for the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. Pelphrey, 55, posted a 79-138 record that included a 13-18 mark this season. Tennessee Tech’s season ended Saturday with an 89-73 loss to Southeast Missouri ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Shane Lowry has no choice but to pick himself up and move on after PGA National collapse
By Canadian Press on March 3rd, 2026
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — It’s OK to feel sad for Shane Lowry. He had one hand on the trophy and the other hand outstretched to hug his 4-year-old daughter when she ran onto the 18th green at PGA National to celebrate the first time seeing her father win. That was the plan, anyway. Lowry could ... Read More »
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