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Michigan State’s Fears thankful to play after shooting

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State point guard Jeremy Fears is one of the most thankful players in the NCAA Tournament. Fears was relegated to watching March Madness last year, recovering from getting shot. “Grateful,” Fears said. “I’m just happy to be in this position and thank God because I could not be playing basketball. “Sometimes when I think about it and look back, it’s crazy that it actually happened. Now, I’m back and playing. It just seems like a bump in the road, basically over a year ago.” Fears had a 3-hour surgery to remove a bullet from his ...

Michigan’s Goldin reunited with parents from Russia

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Vladislav Goldin, holding a bouquet of flowers, stood alongside his fiance at Detroit Metropolitan Airport as he waited a little longer for a moment he had been looking forward to for five years. Goldin reunited with his parents, whom he left in Russia to pursue his dreams, and hugged them in a breathtaking moment. “When the door opened and I saw them walking to me, it was like I lost all the oxygen in my lungs,” he said. Goldin’s mother and father could not believe what his life is like at Michigan. “Everything is like a dream to ...

Transfer portal and NIL making a three-peat even more difficult

NEW YORK (AP) —Florida had a dominating team in 2005-06, winning 33 games on its way to the program’s first national championship. The Gators returned nearly everyone the following season and did it again, becoming the seventh team to win consecutive national titles. Their three-peat bid fell short the next year. The key players from the title teams were all gone and the Gators didn’t even make the NCAA Tournament, proving just how difficult it is to win three straight national championships. “It’s just hard to win in general,” said former Florida coach Billy Donovan, now ...

Extensions signed, Chase and Higgins ready to resume title hunt with Cincinnati

CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati Bengals wide receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins officially inked four-year extensions on Tuesday that keep them in Cincinnati for their primes along with quarterback Joe Burrow. The two star playmakers highlighted how much expectations have changed within the Bengals’ organization over the last five years, which have included four straight winning seasons, five playoff victories and an appearance in the Super Bowl. “I want to win a championship, and we can definitely win it here,” Higgins said during a joint press conference shortly after the ...

Skenes is youngest opening day starter since 2014

PITTSBURGH (AP) —Pittsburgh right-hander Paul Skenes, the reigning National League Rookie of the Year award winner, will be the youngest pitcher in 11 years to start a season opener when he takes the mound for the Pirates next week. Skenes will be 22 years and 302 days old on March 27 when Pittsburgh plays at Miami. Jose Fernandez of the Marlins was 21 years and 243 days old when he opened the 2014 season. In its annual announcement of the opening day starters, most of which had been already informally confirmed by their clubs during spring training, Major League Baseball also ...

Penguins to play in Sweden

MANALAPAN, Fla. (AP) — The Country Music Association Awards ceremony kicks the Nashville Predators out of their arena for a long stretch every November. This year, they’ll use that absence to travel to Sweden. The NHL announced Tuesday the Predators are facing the Pittsburgh Penguins in regular-season games in Stockholm on Nov. 14 and 16 as part of the league’s Global Series. “I think it’ll be a good event for us,” Predators general manager Barry Trotz told The Associated Press. “We’re either going on a long trip out West or we can go to Europe.” The games at ...