Category: Wirenews
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Dallas Maverick are in the middle of their longest road winning streak in three seasons. Head coach Rick Carlisle couldn’t care less. More important to him, he said, are the four games — two on the road — that Dallas will play from now until April 16. The stakes are much […]
LOS ANGELES — While the Los Angeles Clippers coast toward the NBA playoffs, the Los Angeles Lakers continue to drift toward the draft lottery. Point guard Chris Paul and forward Blake Griffin scored 23 points each, and the Clippers pounded the Lakers 120-97 Sunday at Staples Center. The Clippers (55-23) captured the season series, winning […]
ARLINGTON, Texas — For a game featuring the highest combined seed total in NCAA Tournament championship game history, there sure don’t seem to be any Cinderellas left at the ball. Seventh-seeded Connecticut vs. eighth-seeded Kentucky will be a matchup of perennial college basketball powerhouses dressed, oddly, as underdogs when the NCAA Tournament Final tips at […]
MIAMI — The Miami Heat had a lot to overcome on Sunday. They were down 16-3 in a start that coach Erik Spoelstra described as “flummoxing.” They were picked apart by New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith, who scored 32 points and set a franchise record with 10 3-pointers. And the Heat were without four […]
MIAMI — The Miami Heat, led by forward LeBron James’ 38 points, overcame a slow start to issue a damaging 102-91 defeat to the New York Knicks Sunday at AmericanAirlines Arena. New York was led by guard J.R. Smith, who made a franchise record 10 3-pointers in 21 attempts and had 32 points. Knicks forward […]
Ohio University reached an agreement on Saturday with North Dakota State’s Saul Phillips to fill its head coaching vacancy, according to multiple reports. Phillips confirmed that he is replacing Jim Christian, who left Ohio on Thursday after two seasons to take the Boston College job. “I am extremely excited about the future of Ohio basketball […]
ARLINGTON, Texas — If 2013 didn’t exist, we would be looking at a classic NCAA Tournament national championship pitting the past two seasons’ champions. But, of course, 2013 happened. And it just so happens that neither the Kentucky Wildcats, the 2012 national champion, nor the Connecticut Huskies, the 2011 national champion, even made the tournament […]
MILWAUKEE — With a little less than two weeks to go in the regular season, the Toronto Raptors are hitting their stride. Toronto, playing short-handed for the second consecutive night, stayed tied with Chicago for the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference by holding off the Milwaukee Bucks down the stretch for a 102-98 […]
CLEVELAND — There was no wild celebration in the Charlotte locker room after the Bobcats wrapped up the franchise’s second postseason berth in history with a 96-94 overtime victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night before 18,179 at Quicken Loans Arena. “It’s a wonderful feeling because we’ve come a long way,” Bobcats center Al […]
ARLINGTON, Texas –- Moments after his brother made what could have been a season-ending mistake, Kentucky freshman guard Aaron Harrison drilled the shot that kept the Wildcats’ national championship dreams alive. Harrison’s 3-pointer with 5.7 seconds left lifted Kentucky past Wisconsin 74-73 and into Monday night’s matchup with Connecticut for the national title at AT&T […]
