PHOENIX — Triston McKenzie and Logan Gilbert both dress a few lockers down from a surprise American League Cy Young Award winner. In the Cleveland Guardians’ clubhouse in Goodyear, Ariz., it is Shane Bieber, who won in 2020; in the Seattle Mariners’, in Peoria, it is Robbie Ray, who won for Toronto the next season. Neither had finished in the […]

The first bite? Carter Mazur hated it. Lose in the NCHC Frozen Faceoff semis. Kiss another trophy goodbye. Then he remembered the aftertaste. And how sweet it felt at this time a year ago. “Yeah, I feel like it’s the exact same (vibe) as last (March),” Mazur, the DU Pioneers’ top goal-scorer, said earlier this week at Magness Arena in […]

AUSTIN, Texas — It was not all that long ago — Tom Kim, after all, is only 20 years old — but before Kim emerged as one of the PGA Tour’s wunderkinds-in-progress, he would watch the World Golf Championships. “For sure, 100 percent,” Kim cheerfully reminisced as he clacked along this week at Austin Country Club, the site of the […]

Photo: Jeffrey Brown/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images For the first time since 1998, two No. 1 seeds have failed to reach the women's Sweet 16. State of play: No. 9 Miami knocked off No. 1 Indiana, 70-68, on Monday, one night after No. 8 Ole Miss beat No. 1 Stanford, 54-49. Between the lines: The Hurricanes (first appearance since 1992) […]

MIAMI — The games in this World Baseball Classic, collectively, have been like the very best postseason series, with the mayhem unspooling so fast that you cannot possibly keep it all together. It is a grand mosaic, each little piece its own story, all of them essential to the whole. Now we come to the end, on Tuesday night, when […]

The University of Denver hockey team will begin its national title defense out east. The Pioneers were given the No. 1 seed in the Manchester Regional and will open NCAA Tournament play at 3:30 p.m. Thursday (ESPNews) against Cornell University at SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire. Boston University and Western Michigan will play in the region’s other semifinal at […]

MIAMI — The United States was in trouble. The defending World Baseball Classic champion trailed Venezuela by two runs in the eighth inning of a quarterfinal on Saturday night at loanDepot Park. Facing a tough team that had overcome an injury to a star player to take the lead, the right to advance the semifinals was on the line. Then […]

The men’s basketball team at Fairleigh Dickinson University, a private commuter school with a campus in Teaneck, N.J., went 4-22 last season. Three of its best players and its coach were competing in Division II. And the Knights, playing in the Northeast Conference, didn’t even win their conference tournament, a title they normally would have needed to make the N.C.A.A. […]

The round of 32 gets started for the men’s N.C.A.A. basketball tournament, while the women kick off their second day of first-round action. Follow along with the bracket and live scores, and check out our picks for the Saturday games we don’t want to miss (all times Eastern): Men’s Tournament No. 5 San Diego State vs. No. 13 Furman 12:10 […]

The Grand Canyon University student section had its one shining moment Friday evening at Ball Arena. And the national audience noticed the energy they brought to Denver. Even with their team down 12 points in the final minute against Gonzaga, the purple wall was still coordinated effortlessly in dance moves, chants and Antelope pride. No matter the No. 14 seed […]