NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA may soon be significantly expanding its presence in European basketball, in the form of partnering with FIBA on a new league that the sides have been talking about for many years. Specifics are few, with the initial target — for now — being that it would be a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers. Major League Baseball said Wednesday that 617 of 1,182 challenges were successful in the 288 exhibition games using ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA will not bring back its All-Star Game mini-tournament next season. Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday that the format used last month — a four-team tournament made up of 24 NBA All-Stars and another team of rookies and sophomores that played their way in by ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Nearly every year there’s at least one lovable underdog that rises from obscurity in the NCAA Tournament to capture the hearts of basketball fans and bust their brackets. Not this year. All 16 regional semifinalists are from power conferences for the first time since ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL draft is less than a month away and there’s still some uncertainty over who will be the top pick. Quarterbacks Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders figure to be among the first players selected in next month’s NFL draft, though there’s no current consensus that either ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers added depth to their offensive line on Tuesday, claiming guard Lecitus Smith off waivers from the New England Patriots. The 26-year-old Smith has played in 18 career games with three starts after being taken in the sixth round of the 2022 draft by ...