May 22, 2013

Golf: Tiger’s breathtaking victory was tempered by a soap opera sideshow

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(PhatzRadio / Golf.com) — There is the golfer and there is the man, and both are great, as Jay Gatsby was great, as Barry Bonds and Mickey Mantle and Michael Jordan were great. Can you imagine someone more exciting and flawed and unknowable than Tiger Woods? For a half-hour there at the finale of the [...]

March Madness – Women’s National Championship: UConn women top Louisville to win eighth national title

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(UConn capped a dominant tournament by beating Louisville 93-60 for their eighth national title. Chris Graythen/Getty Images) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Geno Auriemma has been chasing Pat Summitt since he started coaching. Now with his eighth national championship, he has finally caught her. It might not be long before Auriemma stands alone with freshman Breanna [...]

March Madness – Women’s Results: UConn and Cal are the first two teams to punch tickets to the Final Four.

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(Kentucky took a 23-22 lead with 9:08 left in the first half. That would be the last lead the Wildcats would see as the Huskies outscored UK 61-30 the rest of the way to punch the first ticket to New Orleans.) BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) Geno Auriemma and his Connecticut Huskies are headed back to a [...]

College Basketball: Top 25 Monday’s Women’s and Men’s Results / Griner reaches 3,000 career points as Baylor beats UConn

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(Baylor No. 1 for seventh week in a row. For the seventh consecutive week, Baylor has topped the AP Top 25 Poll after defeating Texas Tech and TCU this past week. Nebraska and Wisconsin-Green Bay also entered the poll this week.) (PhatzRadio / AP) — HARTFORD, Conn. — Brittney Griner scored 25 points, including the [...]

College Basketball: Top 25 Men’s Results / Michigan moves up to No. 1 in AP Poll

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(Guard Trey Burke and Michigan climbed to No. 1 in the AP Poll after beating Illinois 74-60 on Sunday.AP) ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) John Beilein acknowledged Monday afternoon that he had quite a few text messages on his phone. The Michigan coach just hadn’t checked them yet. “I’ve been absorbed in Northwestern tape,” Beilein said. [...]

College Basketball: Monday’s Men’s Results and Louisville jumps to No. 1 in AP basketball poll

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(New No. 1 Louisville opened 4-0 in conference play for the first time in four seasons with a 73-58 victory against UConn on Monday. Russ Smith led the Cardinals with 23 points.) HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Russ Smith scored 23 points and Gorgui Dieng had six points and 16 rebounds and Louisville, playing just hours [...]

NASCAR: Mayfield calls radio show to confront NASCAR CEO

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(Photo: Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Sports) Story Highlights Jeremy Mayfield called into the NASCAR Live radio show Tuesday night The suspended driver asked NASCAR CEO Brian France about coming back to racing France reminded Mayfield of the process that driver AJ Allmendinger went through to be reinstated An offseason NASCAR radio show took a bizarre [...]

BCS Championship: Saban, Kelly lead Bama and ND out of darkness

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(PhatzRadio / AP) — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — There were some dark days at Notre Dame and Alabama, dark years really, during which two of college football’s proudest programs flailed and foundered. Notre Dame won the national championship in 1988, then spent much of the next two decades running through coaches — four if you [...]

College Football: Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly wins AP coach of the year

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — After two seasons as Notre Dame coach, Brian Kelly decided he wasn’t spending enough time doing the best part of his job: coaching players. Kelly changed that in 2012, and he shuffled his staff. Then, with Kelly more in tune to his team and the assistants in sync with the [...]

College Football Top 25 AP – BCS: Irish, Tide sit atop new poll

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NEW YORK (AP) — Notre Dame is a victory away from playing for the BCS title. Alabama and Georgia each need two, and could have to go through each other. A day after Oregon and Kansas State lost to give up control of the BCS race, the Fighting Irish (.9973) moved into first place in [...]