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NEWARK, N.J. – Even when Cooper Flagg wasn’t at his best in the NCAA men’s tournament East Regional Final against Alabama, his potential NBA lottery-bound teammates picked up the slack, and it was good enough…

The game plan for Texas Tech on Saturday afternoon was to limit Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr. Do that, and the Red Raiders had a good shot to return to the Final Four since their first…

BOSTON — Ilia Malinin’s top rival said this week that he’s starting to think the self-proclaimed ‘Quad God’ is invincible. But with every effortless quadruple jump Saturday at TD Garden, every elegant twist, every precise…

SPOKANE, Washington — UCLA’s historic season is rooted in loss. The one to LSU in last year’s NCAA tournament, specifically. UCLA’s first-ever No. 1 ranking in both the USA TODAY and Associated Press polls, the…

Half of the NCAA men’s tournament Final Four spots are filled. Florida is a representative of the SEC after beating Texas Tech and Duke is there from the ACC after dispatching Alabama. The other two…

In 2014, then Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban made a prediction. He said the NFL would implode within a decade. ‘I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion,’ Cuban said then. ‘I’m…

Half of the NCAA men’s tournament Final Four spots are filled. Florida is a representative of the SEC after beating Texas Tech and Duke is there from the ACC after dispatching Alabama. The other two…

And we’re onto the Elite Eight in women’s March Madness! What a slate of matchups we’ve got ahead. All four No. 1 seeds — UCLA, South Carolina, USC, Texas — are still alive, but their…

About USA TODAY Sports’ 30 Days to the NFL draft series, which started March 25: Every five days, we will focus on a unique aspect of the 2025 draft, which is April 24-26. ESPN’s Louis Riddick…

SPOKANE, Washington — With or without JuJu Watkins, USC’s goal remains the same. It might sound preposterous, the idea that the Trojans can still win a women’s basketball national championship without one of the most…