NASHVILLE — The Tampa Bay Lightning said having so many of their fans in the crowd at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium made a huge impact in their Stadium Series victory over the Predators. “Our coaching staff actually mentioned it before the game. There was some extra motivation because of all the fans that we had there. … Read more
March is still a couple days away, but the madness arrived early in college basketball Saturday as seven top-10 teams from the AP Top 25, including each of the top six, lost. No. 4 Purdue fell first, but No. 6 Kentucky and No. 3 Auburn soon followed in an afternoon that highlighted how fluid the … Read more
Hector Garcia capitalized on the opportunity of his lifetime Saturday night. The largely unknown underdog overwhelmed heavily favored 130-pound contender Chris Colbert en route to beating up the brash Brooklyn native and winning a 12-round unanimous decision in Showtime’s main event from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Colbert (16-1, 6 KOs) never … Read more
The final Saturday in February turned out to be a historic day in college basketball. Each of the top six teams in the AP Top 25 lost, the first time that has ever happened on a single day in the history of the poll. A total of seven members of the AP top 10 fell, … Read more
On a day when six other top-10 men’s college basketball teams lost, No. 1 Gonzaga also succumbed to an upset. Saint Mary’s, ranked No. 23 in the Ferris Mowers Coaches Poll, came out on fire to build a big lead and did just enough to stave off the Bulldogs (24-3, 13-1 WCC) in hanging on … Read more
March is still a couple days away, but the madness arrived early in college basketball Saturday as seven top-10 teams from the AP Top 25, including each of the top six, lost. No. 4 Purdue fell first, but No. 6 Kentucky and No. 3 Auburn soon followed in an afternoon that highlighted how fluid the … Read more
On the day after progress was made on a side issue, baseball owners and players proved again Saturday what happens when they try to touch core economic issues: anger. Both sides made package proposals Saturday that led to so much frustration that the talks themselves joined Opening Day as jeopardized. The players began the day … Read more
JUPITER, Florida — Fans walked around outside Roger Dean Stadium on Saturday, so badly wanting to be optimistic that MLB’s 87-day lockout would soon be over, but by the end of the day, officials came out of their negotiations and delivered the cold- hearted reality. They still are nowhere remotely close to reaching an agreement … Read more
No, it was not the signature win over a fellow contender like him and his team had hoped. But Islam Makhachev made a statement that was necessary to peg himself as the next UFC lightweight title contender. Makhachev dominated Bobby Green, finishing with a ground-and-pound TKO at 3 minutes, 23 seconds of the first round … Read more
No ranked Big Ten teams win at The RAC. That was the rumor leading into Saturday night’s game between the No. 13 Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Sometimes, rumors are just that, though. The Badgers (23-5 overall, 14-4 Big Ten) beat the Scarlet Knights (16-12 overall, 10-8 Big Ten) by … Read more