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MIAMI (AP) — A historic season for Fernando Mendoza ended with a national title. The Heisman Trophy winner didn’t have his best statistical game Monday night, but he came up big when it mattered. He completed 16 of 27 passes for 186 yards and ran the ball for six times, losing eight yards but plowing in for a touchdown. Advertisement …

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — There will be a new starting quarterback at Miami next season, new starters on the offensive and defensive lines, a new kicker and probably a slew of other depth chart changes between now and September. Mark Fletcher Jr. will be back, though. So will Malachi Toney. Advertisement No matter who is at quarterback next fall, …

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. Advertisement The Flyers improved to 6-8-2 since opening the season 17-9-6. They had lost six of their previous seven meetings with the …

Cooper Flagg’s ankle appears to be just fine. The Dallas Mavericks rookie returned to the court on Monday afternoon after missing a pair of games with a left ankle injury. Flagg picked up right where he left off, and helped lead the Mavericks to a blowout 114-97 win over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Advertisement Flagg went …

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Sarah Strong had 18 points, including the 1,000th of her career, as top-ranked UConn beat Notre Dame 85-47 on Monday and extended its winning streak to 19 games. Strong added 11 rebounds, three steals and three blocked shots the Huskies (19-0) snapped a three-game losing streak against Notre Dame. Advertisement KK Arnold had 12 points, five …

The Cleveland Cavaliers took a big loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder 136-102. Cleveland shot 22% from deep. All grades are based on our usual expectations for each player. Donovan Mitchell 19 points, 3 assists, 4 rebounds Advertisement This is a nightmare matchup for Mitchell. He’s shot 5-19 tonight, and was 3-15 and 3-16 in his previous two games against …

NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones appear on track to gain election to the Hall of Fame on Tuesday when voting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America is announced. As of Monday evening, Beltrán had been picked on 89.2% of the 223 ballots revealed early and tabulated on Ryan Thibodaux’s online vote-tracker, just over half of …

The Cleveland Cavaliers ran into a buzzsaw today as the Oklahoma City Thunder beat them 136-104. Let’s see who won and lost the game. WINNER – Lu Dort This is the first time I’ve given ‘winner’ to an opponent this season. That’s not to say there haven’t been great performances from the other teams all season long. There have been. …

CLEVELAND — It’s been wrong to use injuries as an excuse for many of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ losses this season. They’ve had enough talent in many of those defeats to prevail still. Monday afternoon was different. They didn’t have the right combination of skill players to compete with the Oklahoma City Thunder and were thoroughly outclassed as a result, leading …

The Atlanta Hawks had a chance at the end on Monday despite an atrocious shooting start from beyond the 3-point arc. But a late rally against the Bucks fell short as Milwaukee held on for a 112-110 win in a Martin Luther King Jr. matinee in Atlanta. Advertisement It was remarkable that the Bucks were in the game at all …

BIRMINGHAM, Mich.— Behind the scenes and away from the cameras, Jayson Tatum has been tirelessly rehabbing from the Achilles tendon rupture he suffered last May. Occasionally, the Celtics star has shared glimpses of his workouts on his YouTube channel and Instagram, but he has yet to let the media in for an extensive, unfiltered look at his recovery. Advertisement That …

Lakers guard Luka Doncic was voted as a Western Conference starter for the NBA’s All-Star team, becoming the 15th player in NBA history to earn six all-star selections before the age of 27. Doncic, who received his fifth starting nod, leads the league in scoring (33.3), is fourth in assists (8.6), is making 46.4% of his shots and is hitting …

LeBron James’ All-Star starter streak has ended. For the first time in 22 years, James did not receive enough votes to earn a starting spot on an All-Star team. As one of the most polarizing figures in sports for over two decades, James has been the most recognizable player in the NBA during that time, and his presence in a …

While college football is set to crown its national championship on Monday, Jan. 19 after Indiana’s game against Miami, the race for men’s college basketball’s ultimate prize is heating up about two months before the start of the NCAA Tournament. In a week, the number of undefeated teams in the sport dwindled from five to three, with No. 2 Iowa …

Arizona is the unanimous No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the first time. The Wildcats received all 61 votes from a media panel in Monday’s poll, a week after picking up all but one first-place vote. Advertisement Arizona (18-0) won both of its games last week to remain among the three undefeated Division …

Two years ago today, the Detroit Pistons were 4-37 and stumbling out of an NBA record 28-game losing streak. The Pistons were the league’s punchline, a team that would scrape together just 10 more wins before the nightmare finally ended. Now, they’re 30-10 and staring down at the rest of the Eastern Conference. But the climb is only starting. The …

We’re in a bit of a scoring drought in the NBA and fantasy basketball at the moment. It’s now been three straight weeks without a player eclipsing 80 fantasy points in a single game in High Score formats. Odd that this correlates with the injury to Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokić. Yes, very interesting indeed. We’ve got a bit of a …

Kevin Durant described Hall of Famer Dirk Nowitzki as “somebody I looked up to, I idolized,” and then went out and, with a fourth-quarter free throw, moved past Mavericks legend into sixth on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. Durant finished the game with 31,562 points, two more than Nowitzki (31,560). Next up on the scoring list for KD is Michael …

Welcome back to The Playlist: my weekly column that lets you know who to add off the waiver wire and get in your lineup for the upcoming week in fantasy basketball. [High Score is a new way to play Fantasy Basketball on Yahoo with simple rosters and scoring. It’s not too late to create or join a league] Every league …

The NBA’s MLK Day festivities continue tonight when the Indiana Pacers visit Xfinity Mobile Arena and the Philadelphia 76ers. Indiana struggles to score buckets, and my Pacers vs. 76ers predictions expect a strong overall performance from the home team. Advertisement Read on for my NBA picks for Monday, January 19. Pacers vs 76ers prediction Pacers vs 76ers best bet: 76ers …

Have you ever wondered how to measure Victor Wembanyama’s height in Oreo cookies, how birth order affects NBA performance, or which zodiac sign is the best at basketball? Chances are you haven’t. But for those questions and others you didn’t even know you had, the NBA Research & Development Department has an answer. Advertisement The popular Instagram account with the …

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Helping her opponent Marina Stakusic leave court in a wheelchair wasn’t how Priscilla Hon envisioned the scene when she finally returned to the second round of the Australian Open for the first time since 2020. Hon was leading 1-6, 6-4, 5-3 when her Canadian rival needed treatment for severe leg cramps on ANZ Arena on Monday. …

Los Angeles Lakers (25-16, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (29-14, third in the Western Conference) Denver; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles hits the road against Denver looking to stop its three-game road skid. Advertisement The Nuggets have gone 18-7 against Western Conference opponents. Denver ranks ninth in the league with 28.3 assists per game …

HOUSTON (AP) — Kevin Durant had 18 points and moved into sixth place on the NBA’s career points list, and Jabari Smith Jr. scored a season-high 32 points as the Houston Rockets beat the New Orleans Pelicans 119-110 Sunday night. Alperen Sengun had 21 points and eight rebounds and Amen Thompson finished with 20 points as Houston won for the …

The Lakers were as whole as they have been in a while Sunday, giving Coach JJ Redick more weapons at his disposal at a time when their schedule has picked up the pace. They got Luka Doncic (left groin soreness), center Deandre Ayton (left knee soreness) and backup center Jaxson Hayes (left hamstring tendinopathy) back in the fold for Sunday …