A capsule look at what to expect and who to watch in Saturday’s second-round games during the NCAA Tournament.
Andre Ward, the former super middleweight world champion, has moved up to light heavyweight and will fight at 175 pounds for the first time March 26 against Sullivan Barrera at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Saint Joseph’s coach Phil Martelli will take the victory over Cincinnati. He just wishes it had ended a little differently.
State officials are examining whether political action committees created by state Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson were used as a conduit to allow donors to exceed contribution limits on Republican legislative campaigns.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Paul Jesperson banked in a halfcourt shot at the buzzer to give 11th seeded Northern Iowa a 75-72 win over No. 6 seed Texas Friday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament’s West Region.
Ding dong, there’s a robot at your door and it’s got your extra large pizza. This could be a future Saturday night scenario if Domino’s Australia gets its way.
There are 16 games today, presenting more entertainment and more opportunities to make money. The bad news is the most recent 16 games put a lot of bettors in a money pit. But bouncing back is part of this exercise.
Visiting Silverado came out swinging from the start and made quick work of Cimarron-Memorial, scoring 11 runs in the top of the first en route to a 14-4 five-inning victory.
Cierra Davis was 2-for-2 with a double and a run to help the Cimarron-Memorial softball team to a 6-3 win over visiting Silverado on Friday.
Corben Bellamy had a two-run double in the top of the sixth inning Friday to spark a six-run rally as the Coronado baseball team came from behind to beat host Liberty, 10-5.
Whatever becomes of German magician Jan Rouven in U.S. District Court, his career as a performer is almost certainly over, after he was charged this week with one count of receipt or distribution of child pornography.
NEW YORK — V.J. Beacham scored 18 points, including the 3-pointer that gave Notre Dame the lead for good, and the sixth-seeded Fighting Irish rallied to beat 11th-seeded Michigan 70-63 on Friday night in the first round of the East Regional.
Protesters clashed with supporters of Donald Trump after he gave a speech in Utah on Friday, ending a day full of presidential candidate appearances that also saw Mitt Romney intensifying his criticism of the GOP front-runner.
Corey Pool went 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs to back D.J. Myers’ strong pitching and lead UNLV to a 4-2 win over Fresno State in a Mountain West baseball game Friday in Fresno, California.
Chris McCoy had 15 kills, three aces and 11 digs Friday to help the Sierra Vista boys volleyball team to an 18-25, 25-20, 25-21, 29-27 win over visiting Bonanza.
ST. LOUIS — James Farr had 18 points and 15 rebounds, fellow big man Jalen Reynolds added 12 points and No. 2 seed Xavier pulled away late for a 71-53 victory over pesky 15th-seed Weber State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night.
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry says a passenger airliner from Dubai has crashed while trying to land at the airport in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Dillon Brooks and his Oregon teammates were glued to their televisions, watching and keeping up on the craziness happening elsewhere in the NCAA Tournament.
A Florida jury sided with ex-pro wrestler Hulk Hogan on Friday and awarded him $115 million in his sex tape lawsuit against Gawker Media. The jurors reached the decision Friday evening, less than six hours after they began deliberations.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Danuel House scored 20 points as Texas A&M pulled away in the second half to win its first NCAA Tournament game since 2010 with a 92-65 first-round victory over Green Bay on Friday night.
The Las Vegas Valley has been in spring mode this week and should have similar weather for the weekend, National Weather Service meteorologist Justin Pullin said.
A Soyuz space capsule carrying two Russians and an American is heading for the International Space Station after blasting off from Russia’s manned space launch complex in Kazakhstan.
Four adults and three children were displaced after a fire on the northeast side of the valley.
ST. LOUIS — Nigel Hayes has been to back-to-back Final Fours with Wisconsin, so he was the obvious choice when freshman forward Ethan Happ asked for some advice before his own NCAA Tournament debut.
California is proposing its most ambitious water project in a half-century. At $15.7 billion, it would run two giant tunnels, each four stories high, for 35 miles under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Northern California, sending water to cities and farms to the south.
A handful of political candidates, nearly all of them incumbents running for reelection, received the best present any office-seeker could ask for Friday: a free ride to a new term in public office.
NEW YORK — Thomas Walkup scored 33 points and 14th-seeded Stephen F. Austin faced down West Virginia’s full-court pressure with some of its own in-your-face defense, pulling off a rugged, 70-56 first-round upset of the third-seeded Mountaineers Friday night in the NCAA Tournament.
Eight U.S. sailors were injured on the flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier on Friday when a cable snapped during the landing of an E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft, the Navy said.
Desert Pines High School running back Isaiah Morris became the school”s second player to commit to UNLV”s 2017 recruiting class, joining Jaguars quarterback Marckell Grayson.
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