Tyler Hansbrough’s loyalty to the North Carolina Tar Heels remains unwavering. The former UNC basketball star hopes his alma mater’s top rival, Duke, will come up short in its next game in the NCAA Tournament.Duke survived against Arizona in the Sweet 16 Thursday. Cooper Flagg finished the 100-93 victory with a…

Former World Series champion Curt Schilling took issue with the use of pitch counts in Major League Baseball as the 2025 season got underway.Schilling appeared Friday on “The Will Cain Show” on Fox News Channel. Fill-in host Charles Hurt asked the former Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox star whether…

The 2025 NCAA Women’s Tournament continued Friday with the first day of Sweet 16 action.[Read more: 2025 Women’s March Madness Schedule: Dates, locations, channels, how to watch]Duke started the day with a vintage defensive performance, as the second-seeded Blue Devils stifled third-seeded North Carolina. Now, No. 1 seed South Carolina continues…

The New York Yankees on Thursday paid tribute to the late teenage son of former outfielder Brett Gardner before their 4-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.Miller Gardner, 14, died while in Costa Rica last week. The team observed a moment of silence before the first pitch and displayed a photo of…

Deion Sanders will be coaching in Boulder for the foreseeable future.Two years ago, Coach Prime brought an unprecedented level of attention to Colorado football. On Friday, the university announced that a five-year contract extension for Sanders had received approval from the Board of Regents. The five-year contract is worth $54 million,…

The College Basketball Crown unveiled a unique trophy that will be handed to the winners of the 16-team men’s postseason tournament in Las Vegas next month.The trophy is an actual crown and the first wearable piece of hardware of its kind in postseason college basketball. The gold crown was unveiled…

The Memphis Grizzlies fired head coach Taylor Jenkins despite being the No. 5 seed in the Western Conference on Friday. The Grizzlies’ shocking decision to part ways with Jenkins comes with just nine regular-season games before the NBA playoffs begin. “I’m genuinely appreciative of Taylor’s contributions to this team and this…

A lawmaker in Washington on Thursday likened legislation aimed at banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports in the state to racial segregation in the United States, arguing that those across the aisle are “making a lot of the same arguments today.”Washington Democratic state Rep. Kristine Reeves spoke during an executive…

Olympic alpine skier Berkin Usta, 25, was tragically killed alongside his father in a fire that consumed a closed ski resort in the northwest region of Turkey early Thursday morning.Usta, who represented Turkey at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, was staying at the Kervansaray Hotel in Uludag, around three hours…

Chelsea Freeman, the wife of Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman, said this week that life is slowly starting to “feel more normal,” after their young son was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition over the summer. Max Freeman was just 3 years old when the couple announced in a joint Instagram…