PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Phillies are keeping Don Mattingly as manager, removing his interim tag and giving him a two-year deal even after a late-season collapse nearly cost the team a playoff spot. Team president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski announced the move Wednesday. ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Duke was picked to win its third straight Atlantic Coast Conference championship and 25th overall, while Virginia sophomore forward Thijs De Ridder was tabbed as the conference’s preseason player of the year on Tuesday. The Blue Devils received 45 of the possible 48 ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Duke women’s basketball team was selected to win its third straight Atlantic Coast Conference championship, while Notre Dame senior guard Hannah Hidalgo was named the conference’s preseason player of the year on Tuesday. Duke received 49 of the possible 76 ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis men’s basketball coach Penny Hardaway says he’s willing to pay up to $2.6 million this year toward the program’s revenue-sharing total in order to field a competitive team. The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee, initially reported on Monday that Hardaway ...
By the looks of it, Bob Chesney is well on his way to fixing the fixer-upper he acquired when UCLA hired him. The No. 12 Bruins have their highest ranking in four years, reached midseason as one of nine unbeaten Football Bowl Subdivision teams and are tied with No. 4 Ohio State and No. 5 ...
BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders has turned the page on a playbook that was reportedly lost and dismissed any kind of bearing it could have had on a loss to Texas Tech. The Colorado coach minimized the incident in which pages of his team’s game plan were supposedly left behind at the hotel ...
