By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Clark Hunt was not quite 5 years old when he settled into his seat in Tulane Stadium beside his parents to watch the Kansas City Chiefs, the franchise his father had founded in the brazen days of the American Football League, as they ...

By NICOLE KRAFT Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Will Cuylle scored the go-ahead goal with 1:39 left and the New York Rangers rallied to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 on Saturday night. Mika Zibanejad had a goal and an assist, Arthur Kaliyev and Urho Vaakanainen also scored ...

By W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press Dricus Du Plessis didn't like the way his first meeting with Sean Strickland ended in a split decision a little more than a year ago, so he made sure there was no doubt on Sunday at UFC 312 in Sydney. In a rather lackluster rematch, Du Plessis retained his ...

By BRIAN J. PEDERSEN Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jaden Bradley and Caleb Love each scored 16 points and No. 20 Arizona avenged its only Big 12 loss with an 82-73 victory over No. 13 Texas Tech on Saturday night. Arizona (17-6, 11-1) has won six straight since a 16-point loss ...

By JACK THOMPSON Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Nikola Jokic had 28 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists to just miss a triple-double before sitting out the fourth quarter and the Denver Nuggets won their season-best sixth straight game, beating the Phoenix Suns 122-105 on Saturday ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 40 points and the Boston Celtics easily handled the New York Knicks for the second time this season, winning 131-104 on Saturday night. Payton Pritchard added 25 points off the bench for the Celtics, who rebounded from their loss to Dallas on Thursday in ...

By ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 34 points and tied a season high with eight 3-pointers, Jimmy Butler added 25 points in his Golden State debut and the Warriors rallied to beat the Chicago Bulls 132-111 on Saturday night. Curry scored 24 of his ...

By DICK SCANLON Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Paolo Banchero's 15-foot shot put Orlando ahead with 24.7 seconds left in a game they played mostly from behind and Victor Wembanyama missed a mid-range jumper in the final seconds as the Magic held on for a 112-111 win over the San ...

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk scored for a sixth consecutive game and added two assists, sparking a four-goal second period that lifted the Florida Panthers to a 5-1 win over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday night. Aleksander Barkov had a goal and ...

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first five players to put up at least 45 points, seven rebounds and seven assists in one game for the Los Angeles Lakers were Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. The sixth is Austin Reaves, who ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Travis Konecny had a goal and an assist to help the Philadelphia Flyers snap a five-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. Scott Laughton and Garnet Hathaway also scored for Philadelphia. Samuel Ersson made 32 saves. Erik ...

By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Simmons was waived by the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday after the team agreed to a buyout with the last remaining link to a failed era of building around All-Stars. The No. 1 pick in the 2016 draft was not with the Nets for their ...

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Viktor Lakhin scored 22 points, Clemson held player of the year candidate Cooper Flagg in check for most of the game and the Tigers defeated No. 2 Duke 77-71 on Saturday night to snap the Blue Devils' 16-game winning streak. Chase ...

By STEVE REED AP Sports Writer CLEMSON. S.C. (AP) — He's back, baby! ESPN's Dick Vitale received a standing ovation Saturday night at Clemson's Littlejohn Coliseum in his first game back as a commentator since recovering from his fourth bout with cancer. About 30 minutes before Clemson ...

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Sixth-ranked Florida made program history with its victory over No. 1 Auburn on Saturday. It wasn't the Gators' 90-81 win over the Tigers that'll find its way into the program's record books. Florida had already taken down a top-ranked team this season, beating then- No. ...

By LARRY LAGE AP Sports Writer EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State coach Tom Izzo tied Bob Knight's Big Ten record for wins, leading the ninth-ranked Spartans to a comeback 86-74 victory over Oregon on Saturday. Perhaps fittingly, Izzo matched the mark with conference win No. 353 ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Connor Joe is going home, signing a one-year contract with the San Diego Padres. Joe hit .228 with nine homers and 36 RBIs in 123 games for Pittsburgh last year. The San Diego native played his college ball for the University of San Diego. The 32-year-old Joe has made big ...

By STEVE McCLAIN Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Otega Oweh scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half and No. 14 Kentucky snapped a two-game skid with an 80-57 win over South Carolina on Saturday. Brandon Garrison came off the bench and scored 15 points for Kentucky (16-7, ...

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Danny Wolf finished with 20 points and nine rebounds, and Tre Donaldson and Vladislav Goldin each added 18 points to help No. 24 Michigan hold off hard-charging Indiana 70-67 on Saturday. Wolf also had five assists as the ...

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer SAALBACH-HINTERGLEMM, Austria (AP) — Her top speed of 86 mph (138.51 kph) was among the fastest ever recorded by a woman in an Alpine skiing race. The 38 yards (35 meters) that she soared off the big Panorama jump midway down matched how far the men leap ...