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Dennis Rodman will be the fifth member of the 2026 WWE Hall of Fame class, Shams Charania reported on Friday morning. Rodman, who was one of the NBA’s most eccentric and imposing defensive figures during the Bulls’ dynasty in the 1990s, became a key crossover component in World Championship Wrestling and the New World Order storyline during professional wrestling’s heralded …

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ace Bailey made seven 3-pointers and scored 33 points and the Utah Jazz snapped a four-game skid with a 128-96 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night. Bailey also had nine rebounds, four assists and three steals. Cody Williams scored 19 of his 23 points before halftime to give Utah’s offense an early spark. …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Reserve Coby White had 27 points and led the Charlotte Hornets’ 3-point barrage in a 130-111 rout of the Orlando Magic on Thursday night. White shot 5 of 8 from beyond the arc and was one of four players with three or more 3-pointers, joining Brandon Miller (5 of 10), Kon Knueppel (4 of 9) and …

Last Thursday, Luka Dončić posted his first 50-point game with the Los Angeles Lakers. This Thursday, he went a step further. The Slovenian star posted 60 points in a 134-126 win over the Miami Heat, the highest scoring total of his Lakers career and tied for the second-highest mark of his career. It’s also the most points a Laker has …

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Rashaun Agee had 22 points and nine rebounds, and No. 10 seed Texas A&M beat seventh-seeded Saint Mary’s 63-50 on Thursday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Ruben Dominguez added 11 points for the Aggies (22-11), who advanced in the South Region to face either No. 2 seed Houston or No 15 seed …

Among its many wonderful traits, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has a way of creating indelible moments and making heroes of the people at the center of them. It took only the fourth game of the first full day of the 2026 NCAA Tournament for such a moment to arise. Advertisement High Point pulled off the first upset of the …

SAN DIEGO – Much like Deion Sanders in football, Rick Pitino has developed a bit of a reputation for himself in this new era of men’s college basketball. He’s a Hall of Famer who pioneered the art of flipping a team roster and becoming king of the transfer portal, following a blueprint similar to the one used by Sanders, the …

The shorthanded Cleveland Cavaliers will take on the more shorthanded Chicago Bulls. We’ll see if the Cavs can even up the season series with a win tonight. Share your thoughts as the game unfolds. If you aren’t a member of the community, sign up so you can talk to your fellow Cavalier fans and make your voice heard! Advertisement Join …

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Darius Acuff Jr. had 24 points and seven assists, and No. 4 seed Arkansas continued its strong play after winning the Southeastern Conference Tournament, beating No. 13 seed Hawaii 97-78 on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Arkansas (27-8) moves on to face No. 12 High Point in the second round of the …

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tyler Tanner had 26 points, seven rebounds and five assists, and Vanderbilt rallied to beat McNeese 78-68 in an NCAA Tournament game on Thursday. The Commodores (27-8), the No. 5 seed in the South Region, will play No. 4 seed Nebraska in the second round on Saturday. Advertisement Duke Miles scored 13 points and Devin McGlockton …

The Cleveland Cavaliers won’t be at full strength for their game against the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday. Jarrett Allen will be missing his seventh-straight contest after injuring his knee in the team’s win over the Detroit Pistons on March 3. The Cavs might also be without the services of Donovan Mitchell. Mitchell was added to the injury report on Thursday …

Yaxel Lendeborg has been everything Michigan basketball wanted — and then some. In making his pitch for Lendeborg to win Big Ten Player of the Year earlier this month, Wolverines coach Dusty May said, “… he’s done everything. He’s outperformed his contract; he’s outperformed all expectations up to this point.” Advertisement “Outperformed his contract” raised a few eyebrows, but such …

Well, the dream was while it lasted .. all two-ish hours of it. The bid for a perfect NCAA men’s tournament bracket disappeared for over 25 million people by mid-afternoon on Thursday, fueled by 12th-seeded High Point’s first-round stunner over fifth-seeded Wisconsin. Advertisement ESPN reported that just under 900,000 blemish-free brackets remained after the opening wave of games. That’s just …

Terry Rozier hasn’t appeared in a game for the Miami Heat this season. In October, he was arrested and indicted as a result of an expansive federal gambling investigation that unearthed two separate cases that altogether feature 34 total defendants. But the 32-year-old guard is still on the Heat’s roster with just 13 games remaining in the regular season. He …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The New Orleans Pelicans are really late to the party, but they’re finally healthy and clicking as they welcome the Los Angeles Clippers to The Big Easy tonight. Advertisement New Orleans is 9-4 SU in its last 13 games, including a win over …

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TCU and Ohio State delivered a banger start to the NCAA Tournament. Xavier Edmonds’ shot with 4.1 seconds remaining gave the No. 9 seed Horned Frogs a 66-64 win over No. 8 Ohio State to kick off March Madness action on Thursday, March 19, in the first game of the tournament. Bruce Thornton attempted a halfcourt heave as time expired, …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The Detroit Pistons will look to complete a two-game series sweep as they visit the Washington Wizards for the second time this week. Advertisement Washington has kept it close with Detroit in each of their meetings this season, and I’m taking the home …

It seemed so innocuous at the moment: just a bit of backcourt pressure early in a sleepy mid-March game between two teams on diametrically opposed ends of the Eastern Conference standings. Cade Cunningham forces Tre Johnson to turn — Job No. 1 for any pressing defender trying to make a ball-handler uncomfortable. Johnson loses the ball and his balance as …

Detroit Pistons star Cade Cunningham has suffered a collapsed lung and will miss at least two weeks with less than a month remaining in the NBA’s regular season, the team announced Thursday. Cunningham was injured Tuesday night when he collided with Washington’s Tre Johnson while diving for a loose ball during the first quarter of the Pistons’ 130-117 victory over …

Cameron Boozer has lived up to all the hype — and then some — that surrounded his name as one of the top players in college basketball this season. The Duke basketball freshman has been one of the more impactful players in the country this season, as he has led the Blue Devils to back-to-back ACC tournament championship titles while …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The Milwaukee Bucks are in Salt Lake City tonight to take on the Utah Jazz at the Delta Center, with tip-off scheduled for 9 p.m. ET. Advertisement With numerous key pieces out, my Bucks vs. Jazz predictions are eyeing the Under here. Read …

Major League Baseball is entering an official partnership with Polymarket and has an agreement with the federal commission overseeing prediction markets to collaborate on integrity concerns. MLB said in a statement Thursday it has a memorandum of understanding with Michael S. Selig, the chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to “further protect the integrity of baseball by ensuring swift …

I might have lost some friends this week. I hate that for them, but it had to be done. A man’s got to have a creed, and all that. A line in the sand. Some wrongs are just too much to stomach. It’s not that I cannot forgive. Advertisement Toppmeyer: Arizona ‘built for’ March Madness, says one expert. Call it …

When Eric Collins and Dell Curry sat down for what appeared to be the first installment of an interview series about Charlotte Hornets history, Curry wasn’t expecting much. The two had talked before about the possibility of his No. 30 being retired by the Hornets — and Curry had largely let the idea go. So when Collins told him his …