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3:35 PM on Friday, March 20

Lens has returned to the top of Ligue 1 after beating Angers 5-1

3:14 PM on Friday, March 20

The reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder will not visit the White House during their road trip to the nation’s capital this weekend

2:55 PM on Friday, March 20

A new lawsuit blames a Costa Rica resort’s owners and operators for the carbon monoxide death of former New York Yankees player Brett Gardner’s teenage son

2:50 PM on Friday, March 20

Hitting woes have cost Dylan Crews a spot on the Washington Nationals’ opening day roster

2:50 PM on Friday, March 20

Brajan Gruda and Christoph Baumgartner have score twice each and Leipzig has overrun Hoffenheim 5-0 in the Bundesliga

2:45 PM on Friday, March 20

The Falcons and Eagles have agreed on a trade that sends safety Sydney Brown to Atlanta for draft picks, two people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press

2:34 PM on Friday, March 20

Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson has announced that rookie right-hander Andrew Painter has made the team’s opening day roster as the No. 5 starter

2:30 PM on Friday, March 20

Second-seeded Iowa State blew out No. 15 seed Tennessee State 108-74 on Friday after losing star forward Joshua Jefferson to an ankle injury in the opening minutes of their first-round matchup

2:05 PM on Friday, March 20

Darrell Green already has a gold jacket as a pro football Hall of Famer

1:49 PM on Friday, March 20

Avery Howell had 30 points and nine rebounds to lead Washington to its first women’s NCAA Tournament victory since 2017, beating South Dakota State 72-54

1:45 PM on Friday, March 20

Taliah Scott scored 15 points and Baylor rallied from a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter, making 11 of 14 free throws down the stretch, to beat Nebraska 67-62 on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

1:43 PM on Friday, March 20

The top-seeded Duke Blue Devils are hoping to learn a lesson after a first-round NCAA Tournament scare from Siena: be aggressive from the start

12:42 PM on Friday, March 20

Iowa State forward Joshua Jefferson sprained his left ankle in the opening minutes of the second-seeded Cyclones’ 108-74 rout of No. 15 seed Tennessee State

12:38 PM on Friday, March 20

Napoli has moved into second place in Serie A after a comfortable 1-0 win at Cagliari

12:33 PM on Friday, March 20

Santa Clara may have lost to Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday, but few will forget the way everything unfolded at the end of regulation

12:26 PM on Friday, March 20

Baseball is changing at a dizzying speed in 2026 with the arrival of robot umpires, the return home of the Tampa Bay Rays and an alphabet soup of networks televising the games in perhaps the last season before a labor shutdown

11:54 AM on Friday, March 20

Otega Oweh rescued Kentucky with a buzzer-beater from just inside half court to force overtime, then hit the tiebreaking free throws in the extra period as the seventh-seeded Wildcats beat No. 10 seed Santa Clara 89-84 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament

11:13 AM on Friday, March 20

Right-hander Liam Hendriks, left-hander Andrew Chafin and infielder Gio Urshela have been released from minor league contracts by the Minnesota Twins

10:51 AM on Friday, March 20

Toby Fournier scored 24 points on 11-of-18 shooting and Duke maintained its momentum by opening the first round of March Madness with an 81-64 victory over the College of Charleston

10:33 AM on Friday, March 20

The Cleveland Guardians won’t have to pay indicted pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz while Major League Baseball’s investigation continues into allegations of pitch-rigging for gamblers