By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Nobody paying attention over the past 24 months would be surprised to see Indiana leading the way into this year's College Football Playoff. But anyone paying attention over the last 24 hours knew the only sure thing beyond the Hoosiers was that the ...
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The next stop on No. 1 Indiana's storybook journey to the top of college football is nothing less than the most fabled bowl venue in the sport. The Big Ten champion Hoosiers (13-0) are headed to their first Rose Bowl in 58 years ...
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Darryn Peterson scored 17 points in his return after a month lost to a hamstring injury, and No. 21 Kansas used a 23-3 run spanning halftime to seize control against Missouri, before the Jayhawks rolled to an 80-60 victory over ...
By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — In the waning seconds of a blowout win, fans at Arizona's McKale Center started a chant of "Number 1!" The second-ranked Wildcats can certainly make a case with Saturday night's dismantling of No. 20 Auburn and top-ranked Purdue's ...
By ERIC OLSON AP College Football Writer Indiana is the No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll for the first time after going through the regular season and Big Ten championship game 13-0, ending Ohio State's 14-week run atop the rankings. The Hoosiers' 13-10 win ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI LAKES, Fla. (AP) — The Dukes got in over Duke, and facing the Ducks is their reward. Bob Chesney will be bringing his UCLA team to Oregon next year, which would have been his first time going up against the Ducks. But he's about to get an unplanned ...
By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Petr Yan stunned Merab Dvalishvili with a dominating effort to capture the bantamweight championship by unanimous decision at UFC 323 on Saturday night. With punishing strikes and several crushing kicks to the rib cage, Yan (20-5) ended ...
By AARON BEARD AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It wasn't hard to spot Ben Overby and James Turner as they weaved through the stands at Saturday night's Atlantic Coast Conference championship game between No. 16 Virginia and Duke. They were proudly wearing the purple of their ...
By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Duke has its first outright Atlantic Coast Conference football championship since 1962. Now it wants a little more. Blue Devils coach Manny Diaz wasted little time Saturday night advocating for his team to make the 12-team College ...
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon scored 2:46 into overtime for his second goal of the game, helping the Colorado Avalanche top Artemi Panarin and the New York Rangers 3-2 on Saturday. MacKinnon finished Colorado's third win in four games when he beat Igor Shesterkin ...