By CLIFF BRUNT and JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writers NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma finally got the chance to celebrate its long-awaited move to the Southeastern Conference. As the switch from the Big 12 became official on Monday, the school finally was letting loose. Festivities ...
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The two-day NBA draft was tinged with sadness for the Los Angeles Clippers without Jerry West in their war room. West spent the last seven years as a consultant for the team, helping recruit Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. The ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer It was during the NBA Finals in 2010. Kobe Bryant was asked a question about whether he thought he was the greatest Los Angeles Laker ever. The answer was immediate. "No," Bryant said. He wasn't being difficult or misleading and the question was ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Jerry West left West Virginia decades ago. He never left his home state behind. For years, he quietly gave significant sums of money to his alma mater, West Virginia University. He always spoke with pride about where he came from, how the small-town ...
By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Since 1969, Jerry West has been the faceless face of the NBA. For those 5 1/2 decades, the NBA's logo has been a blank white silhouette of a player flanked by panels of blue and red. The player is dynamically dribbling a ball upcourt, ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive, and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. He ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer Joe Mazzulla watches as many Manchester City matches as he can, and there's a clear symmetry there between that English soccer powerhouse and his Boston Celtics. They had games on the same date 10 times during the Celtics' regular season. When Man City ...
By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Tennessee shook off upstart Evansville in the middle innings Friday and moved within a win of a third College World Series appearance in four years. But Atlantic Coast Conference mates North Carolina, Virginia and Florida State turned in the most eye-opening ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Logan Suave had three hits and drove in three runs, West Virginia scored multiple runs in four of the first five innings and the Mountaineers dispatched Grand Canyon 10-6 on Sunday night, winning the Tucson Regional and earning the school's first berth to a super ...
By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer IRVING, Texas (AP) — Big 12 schools will share in a record $470 million of revenue distribution, the conference announced Friday when wrapping up its first spring meetings as a 14-team league and before growing by two more teams. While the 10 ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Derek Clark threw a complete game, allowing a run on four hits, and catcher Logan Sauve hit a three-run homer as third-seeded West Virginia defeated Conference USA tournament champion Dallas Baptist 4-1 to start the Tucson Regional at the NCAA Tournament on Friday. Clark ...
By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The NCAA and a coalition of states suing the organization announced a proposed settlement of a lawsuit Thursday that would allow athletes to be immediately eligible to play no matter how many times they transfer and offer some who ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Three power conferences have joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in urging a Tallahassee court to keep the league's TV deals with ESPN private. The Big Ten, the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference filed a joint request in Leon County Circuit Court this week ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The NCAA and a coalition of states suing the organization announced a proposed settlement of a lawsuit Thursday that would allow athletes to be immediately eligible to play no matter how many times they transfer and offer some who were sidelined an extra year of ...
By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Toronto pitcher Alek Manoah will get an MRI on Thursday after he left the Blue Jays' 3-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox because of right elbow discomfort. With two out and a runner on third in the second inning, Manoah was checked on by ...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Owen Boerema pitched a seven-hitter for the first nine-inning complete game of his career and No. 6 seed Kansas State beat fourth-seeded West Virginia 8-4 on Wednesday in the Big 12 Tournament. Kansas State (32-23) advances to play in another elimination game on ...
By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer RENTON, Wash. (AP) — With the number of stops he's made and the number of offensive coordinators he's worked with over the years, learning yet another new offense isn't quite as daunting as it once was for Seattle quarterback Geno Smith. That doesn't mean ...
By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer Kristen Faulkner rebounded from a second-place finish in the U.S. time trial championships, which cost her a spot on the American cycling team for the Paris Olympics, by dropping Ruth Edwards along with everyone else and rolling uncontested to the finish ...
By CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer Oklahoma begins its quest for an unprecedented fourth consecutive national softball title on Friday. Coach Patty Gasso's Sooners appear to have a shot. They have claimed the No. 2 overall seed and beat No. 1 seed Texas for the Big 12 Tournament title. The ...
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer SCOTTDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Before the realigned Big 12 — sans Oklahoma and Texas —even kicks off, the expanded College Football Playoff's new revenue structure has created a perception that the conference is no longer the equal of the Big Ten ...