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Michigan Sports

Washington welcomes a stellar March Madness quartet

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jon Scheyer is the coach at Duke, the NCAA Tournament's No. 1 overall seed and arguably the top brand in college basketball. Among his peers in the East Region, however, he's also the neophyte. His opponent in the Sweet 16 — Rick Pitino — coached in his first Final ...

McGonigle has 4 hits in electric debut for Tigers

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Kevin McGonigle got four hits and drove in two runs in his auspicious major league debut during the Detroit Tigers' 8-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday. The 21-year-old McGonigle hit a two-run double with the bases loaded on the first big league pitch he saw ...

Playoff chase in NHL East ‘a fight for your life’

NEW YORK (AP) — Connor McDavid called the Pacific Division path to the playoffs "a bit of a pillow fight right now." The same race down the stretch in the NHL's Eastern Conference is anything but. No team has clinched a berth, and only three — Carolina, Tampa Bay and Buffalo — are ...

Tops seeds, other than Florida, sail into Sweet 16

Florida isn't around to defend its title anymore, but all the other top seeds in this year's NCAA Tournament are still around. And many of them are winning convincingly. In the first week of the NCAA Tournament, games were decided by an average of 15.3 points. According to Sportradar, ...

Sweet 16 filled with veteran teams that held together

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Purdue was struggling to put away Miami in the second half of their second-round NCAA Tournament game on Sunday when Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kauffman-Renn combined to score the Boilermakers' next 22 points, helping them to turn a three-point lead into a 79-69 ...

Izzo gave UConn coach Hurley advice in 2024

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Tom Izzo has turned down multiple opportunities to coach in the NBA, including with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks. When the Los Angeles Lakers were willing to give UConn coach Dan Hurley a $70 million, six-year contract in 2024, Hurley asked Izzo ...