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SportsLine’s computer model revealed its best upset picks and longshot plays for Saturday’s college basketball schedule

His illustrious career with the Rams almost certainly is coming to an end, and All-Pro receiver Cooper Kupp can’t help but feel bruising disappointment about that. He had heard the buzz for months, but that hardened into reality two weeks after the season ended with a narrow playoff loss at Philadelphia. It was then that…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Treysen Eaglestaff scored a Summit League-record 51 points — also the most in Division I this season — to power North Dakota to an 85-69 victory over South Dakota State on Friday night in the quarterfinals of the tournament. Geno Crandall set the previous conference record while playing for the Fighting…

The Sun Belt Conference tournament is back. And so is the format known as “The Gauntlet.” Four teams tied atop the Sun Belt standings this season with matching 13-5 records in conference play — South Alabama, James Madison, Troy, and Arkansas State — and those four teams have earned byes into deep in the tournament….

The Los Angeles Clippers are making a push for the NBA playoffs. If the postseason started today, the Clippers would be in the play-in tournament.  On Wednesday, Los Angeles bolstered their playoff hopes by defeating the Detroit Pistons. The 123-115 victory was fueled by James Harden’s 50-point night. The number represented the most points the…

Michael Astorino recently walked into his favorite campus smoothie shop with two things in mind: an order and an offer. He cued up his laptop and gave the owner a pitch deck presentation, which was meant to benefit his Wesleyan University basketball teammates while also helping drum up business for the store. The deal: If…

For Kimberley Bos of the Netherlands, the collection of the biggest skeleton medals is complete. Bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2022, silver at the world championships two years ago and now, finally, she has gold. Bos is the new world champion of her sport, turning in the fastest times in Friday’s final two runs…

UCLA’s Lauren Betts, center, powers her way to the basket against Nebraska’s Jessica Petrie (12) and Alexis Markowski (40) during the second half Friday. (AJ Mast / Associated Press) Four days after revealing to each other what they could do better during a players-only film session, the UCLA Bruins found a few more talking points….

Pete Carroll moved from Seattle to Las Vegas, and Geno Smith is moving with him, too. The Seahawks have traded the veteran quarterback to the Raiders in exchange for a 2025 third-round pick, according to CBS Sports NFL insider Jonathan Jones.  Money was reportedly one of the mains reasons why the Seahawks dealt Smith. The…

The slumping Kings headed into Friday’s NHL trade deadline needing a significant move to jumpstart their postseason push and improve their chances of advancing past the first round of the playoffs for the first time since the Stanley Cup spring of 2014. What they got instead may prove to be little more than a minor…