HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Solo Ball had 24 points, including a key 3-pointer in overtime, and Alex Karaban had all of his 17 after halftime as No. 2 UConn beat Villanova 75-67 on Saturday. Silas Demary Jr. and Tarris Reed Jr. each finished with 10 for UConn (19-1, 9-0 Big East), which won its ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Brunson scored 31 points, OG Anunoby added 23 and the New York Knicks followed their most lopsided win in franchise history with a 112-109 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday. The Knicks crushed the Nets 120-66 on Wednesday and then exploded with a ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Rookie Ben Kindel scored twice in the second period to lead the Penguins to a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday and a sweep of Pittsburgh's four-game western Canada trip. Kindel, from nearby Coquitlam, British Columbia, had a large contingent of ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Clayton Keller scored two twice to help the Utah Mammoth rally from a three-goal deficit and beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-4 in overtime on Wednesday night. Keller forced overtime when he scored on an unassisted backhand shot with 34.2 seconds left in regulation. He ...
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Tommy Novak and Evgeni Malkin each had a goal and an assist as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Calgary Flames 4-1 on Wednesday night. Yegor Chinakhov and Bryan Rust also scored for Pittsburgh (24-14-11). The Penguins have points in five straight games (3-0-2) and are ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tyrese Maxey scored six of his 36 points in overtime, Joel Embiid had 32 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists and the Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Houston Rockets 128-122 on Thursday night. Kelly Oubre Jr. added 26 points for the 76ers, who evened their home record at ...
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Anthony Mantha scored twice, Sidney Crosby made it three in an early 37-second span and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-2 on Thursday night. The 37-second spree was the fastest three goals in Penguins history and the fastest three allowed by the ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bo Bichette spurning the Phillies for the NL East rival New York Mets was akin to a gut punch for the NL East champions. A two-time All-Star shortstop with the Toronto Blue Jays, Bichette agreed last week with the Mets to a $126 million, three-year contract that left the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robbie Avila, Dion Brown and Trey Green each scored 14 points as No. 24 Saint Louis held off a frantic late rally by Duquesne to win 81-77 on Tuesday night. The Billikens (18-1, 6-0 Atlantic 10) extended their winning streak to 12 despite blowing most of a 17-point ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Devin Booker scored 27 points and Jalen Green added 12 points in his return to the lineup as the Phoenix Suns beat the Philadelphia 76ers 116-110 on Tuesday night in a matchup of teams playing the second game of a back to back. Grayson Allen and Jordan Goodwin scored 16 ...
BOSTON (AP) — Left-hander Ranger Suárez and the Boston Red Sox finalized their $130 million, five-year contract on Wednesday. Suárez gets a $3 million signing bonus, payable within 30 days of the deal's approval by Major League Baseball, and salaries of $7 million this year, $15 million in ...
SEATTLE (AP) — Brett Kulak broke a second-period tie with his first goal of the season, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Seattle Kraken 6-3 on Monday. Kulak, acquired from Edmonton in December as part of the trade for goalie Tristan Jarry, scored for the first time since last year's ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tyrese Maxey had 29 points and eight steals hours after being named an All-Star starter for the first time and Joel Embiid had 30 points and nine rebounds to lead the Philadelphia 76ers to a 113-104 win over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night. Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 18 ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Travis Konecny scored twice for his first multigoal game this season and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 on Monday. Philadelphia stopped a six-game slide and ended Vegas' seven-game winning streak. The Flyers improved to 6-8-2 since opening the ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Charlie Coyle scored the deciding goal in the shootout and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Saturday night. Kent Johnson also scored in the shootout for the Blue Jackets, who won their fourth straight game. It was the third consecutive win under ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored one of Pittsburgh's three power-play goals and the Penguins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 on Thursday night. Crosby also had an assist to become the eighth player in NHL history with at least 19 50-point seasons. Crosby, who reached 50 for the sixth ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jaylon Tyson scored a career-high 39 points, Evan Mobley's dunk with 4.8 seconds left was the winner and the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers completed a two-game sweep of the 76ers in Philadelphia with a 117-115 victory on Friday night. Donovan Mitchell added 13 points, ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mika Zibanejad became the Rangers' all-time leader in power-play goals and his three-goal performance tied the team record for most career hat tricks in New York's 6-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday. The 32-year-old Swede scored with a man advantage at 5:38 ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nikita Kucherov scored the deciding goal in the shootout and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 on Tuesday night for their 11th straight win. J.J. Moser scored in regulation and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 26 saves for the Lightning, who have not lost since ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Art Rooney II sensed Mike Tomlin might be ready for a change. Nineteen years doing any job is a long time, let alone in the white-hot spotlight that comes with coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers. So when Tomlin walked into Rooney's office on Tuesday and told his longtime boss ...