Tag: College sports
NCAA basketball players use biggest stage to deliver message
<p>INDIANAPOLIS — A social media effort to raise awareness about inequities in college sports by some prominent basketball players came with calls for rules...
Michigan program in good hands with Howard
<p>Juwan Howard reflected recently on his first two seasons as Michigan’s coach — how the coronavirus pandemic shut down last year’s postseason, then forced...
Richmond rallies to win opening game of NIT 76-66
DENTON, Texas — Jacob Gilyard and Tyler Burton scored 18 points each and Richmond overcame the absence of their top two scorers to beat...
Washington State aim to begin new tradition with NCAA berth
Before the start of the season, Washington State coach Kamie Ethridge pointed to the rafters at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman and asked her team...
Texas Southern beats Mount St. Mary’s 60-52 in NCAA opener
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — John Walker III scored a season-high 19 points and Jordan Gilliam had 12 to help Texas Southern erase a 10-point halftime...
Calling shots, not blocking them, Ewing leads Hoyas to NCAAs
When Patrick Ewing thinks about the old days, about his 1980s college career at Georgetown as a dominant 7-foot center wearing a T-shirt underneath...
Have we met? Familiar names in a new place, March Madness
<p>INDIANAPOLIS — Nobody will get a lump in their throat or start sizing up glass slippers for programs like these — Alabama, Illinois, Baylor....
Freshmen who graduated early gain NCAA tourney experience
<p>UCLA assistant coach Tasha Brown calls her “Little Intern” — and Dominique Darius doesn’t mind.</p>
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Kentucky’s Jackson to enter NBA draft, but not hire an agent
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky forward Isaiah Jackson says he will enter the NBA draft and be evaluated but not hire an agent, leaving the...
Illinois residents must travel to bet on Illini, Loyola
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. —
A state law on sports gambling law...