LAS VEGAS – Christopher Bell won the first pole of his career and will lead the field to green Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Bell turned a lap at 182.673 mph in Saturday qualifying to put his Toyota from Joe Gibbs Racing on the pole.
WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was arrested last month at a Moscow airport after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges. The Russian Customs Service said Saturday that the cartridges were identified as containing oil derived from cannabis, which could carry a maxi mum penalty of 10 years in prison.
ORLANDO, Fla. – Billy Horschel got a rare break at Bay Hill on a day that punished so many others, leading to a birdie on the 18th hole Saturday for a 1-under 71 that gave him a share of the lead with Talor Gooch in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
NEW YORK – Max Scherzer favors a radical reworking of the playoffs, one that would have the higher seed in the first round of a 14-team postseason start off a best-of-five series with a 1-0 lead. Major League Baseball and lockedout players, who resume talks Sunday, both would expand the postseason from 10 teams – that’s been the field since 2012, other than the 16 teams in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
INDIANAPOLIS – Kayvon Thibodeaux looked like a lock to be this year’s top NFL draft pick – until Aidan Hutchinson played his way into the conversation. Now, with eight weeks until draft night, offensive linemen Ikem “Ickey” Ekwonu and Evan Neal are in the debate, too.
INDIANAPOLIS – From the time he started playing football at 7, Travon Walker has always recalled people make proclamations of grandeur about him. He was always bigger than most kids his age; faster, stronger and more advanced.
No. 13 Tennessee 78, No. 14 Arkansas 74: Freshman guard Zakai Zeigler, whose family was left homeless by a fire in New York City last weekend, made two key free throws in the final seconds to help host Tennessee (23-7, 14-4 SEC) hold off Arkansas (24-7, 13-5) on Saturday.
No. 3 North Carolina State 70, No. 21 Virginia Tech 55: Elissa Cunane had 20 points and 13 rebounds and North Carolina State (28-3) used a strong second half to pull away from Virginia Tech (23-9) on Saturday in Greensboro, N.C., and return to the ACC tournament championship game.
DENVER — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hit the dagger with 90 seconds left. A 3-pointer, of course.
SEATTLE – It started with an unsolicited email that landed in the inbox of the game presentation executives for the Seattle Kraken. The name Rod Masters didn’t immediately resonate with Jonny Greco and Lamont Buford, who are in charge of overseeing entertainment and game production for the expansion franchise, though they would soon make a connection.