Sports News

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

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

2:05 PM on Friday, March 20

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

2:05 PM on Friday, March 20

UTSA senior point guard Ereauna Hardaway lost most of her hearing about three years before starting to play basketball

1:59 PM on Friday, March 20

The Miami Marlins have optioned left-hander Braxton Garrett to Triple-A Jacksonville

1:51 PM on Friday, March 20

Duke coach Jon Scheyer is “hopeful” starting big man Patrick Ngongba II will play Saturday against TCU in the second round of the NCAA Tournament as he recovers from soreness in his right foot

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

1:43 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

1:15 PM on Friday, March 20

The women's NCAA Division I subregional in Storrs is loaded with international players who have helped their teams into the NCAA tournament

1:06 PM on Friday, March 20

Raven Johnson looks around and sees all that top-seeded South Carolina needs to reach another Final Four

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

11:50 AM on Friday, March 20

Olivia Miles is the third player with multiple triple-doubles in women’s NCAA Tournament games

11:14 AM on Friday, March 20

Olivia Miles had her 12th career triple-double with 12 points and career highs of 16 rebounds and 14 assists as third-seeded TCU beat UC San Diego 86-40 in a first-round NCAA Tournament game

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

7:17 AM on Friday, March 20

The martial arts grandmaster and action star Chuck Norris has died