Ucla Men Pull Off Big Upset Of No. 9 Nebraska

UCLA routs No. 9 Nebraska

From Steve Galluzzo: The UCLA men’s hoops squad made Senior Night 1 to savor Tuesday, dominating No. 9 Nebraska 72-52 astatine Pauley Pavilion for its 20th triumph of nan play and 3rd complete a top-10 classed opponent.

The Bruins improved to 20-10 wide and 12-7 successful nan Big Ten pinch 1 regular play crippled remaining, Saturday astatine crosstown rival USC.

Trent Perry scored 20 points, Eric Dailey Jr. had 14 and 3 players — Tyler Bilodeau, Skyy Clark and Xavier Booker — each added 8 points.

“Nebraska’s sewage a awesome team,” UCLA coach Mick Cronin said. “This is nan champion we’ve played each twelvemonth — they brought retired nan champion successful us. We went from our worst protect effort to our best. They outhustle everyone they play, but not us. Tonight we were great, but I emotion nan measurement they play. If we had their cognition we’d person their record.”

Eric Freeny had 4 points, 5 rebounds and 3 steals successful 18 minutes for UCLA, which sewage 26 points successful nan overgarment and 17 second-chance points.

“Effort is what it takes to triumph successful March,” Freeny said. “It was our past location game. Coach keeps connected pushing maine to beryllium amended everyday.”

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Big Ten standings

Lakers conclusion Pelicans

From Broderick Turner: The Lakers were looking to stack wins and are not successful position to judge an force by its win-loss record.

So, erstwhile nan Lakers encountered a Pelicans squad that arrived astatine Crypto.com Arena connected Tuesday nighttime pinch a 19-43 record, they knew they couldn’t spend to place New Orleans. Especially since nan Pelicans had won 4 of their past 5 and because they person a talented halfway of young talent that includes Zion Williamson, Herbert Jones, Trey Murphy III and Dejounte Murray.

It took each 5 starters scoring successful double figures and it took a beardown protect effort successful nan 4th fourth for nan Lakers (37-24) to propulsion retired a 110-101 win complete a stubborn Pelicans team.

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NBA standings

Roki Sasaki struggles, past shines

From Jack Vita: Roki Sasaki’s struggles from his first Cactus League commencement carried complete into Tuesday’s crippled against nan Cleveland Guardians astatine Goodyear Ballpark.

The Dodgers right-hander gave up 3 walks and 2 hits, including a expansive slam to Guardians slugger Kyle Manzardo, earlier he was lifted aft 23 pitches. He displayed nary command, missing limb broadside many times and throwing only 8 strikes. None of nan 5 batters he faced successful nan first inning saw a first-pitch strike.

But then, he flashed nan tantalizing imaginable that nan Dodgers saw erstwhile they signed him earlier past season.

Re-inserted into nan crippled to commencement nan 2nd inning, which is allowed successful outpouring training, nan 24-year-old settled down and retired each six batters he faced successful his past 2 innings of activity while throwing 22 pitches — 13 for strikes — successful nan Dodgers’ 5-4 win.

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Shaikin: Will Klein isn’t amazed he saved nan Dodgers’ World Series dynasty

From Ryan Kartje: When 32 freshman shot players revenge excitedly into nan gathering room astatine John McKay Center successful January for their first charismatic gathering astatine USC, each caller Trojan from nan nation’s No. 1 recruiting class successful 2026 was asked to guidelines up, stock their name, number, position and an absorbing truth astir them.

This was beautiful modular fare, arsenic acold arsenic ice-breakers go. Albeit pinch 1 notable quality from past years.

“It was abnormally agelong [this year,] for sure,” elder violative lineman Tobias Raymond said, pinch a laugh.

As USC opened outpouring believe connected Tuesday, a cursory glimpse done its outpouring roster would show you conscionable really overmuch nan Trojans will request those freshmen to find their footing — and accelerated — successful a play apt to beryllium defined by their development. Nearly half of nan players successful attendance for Tuesday’s first time (46 of 103) were either freshmen aliases redshirt freshmen. That’s almost triple nan existent size of USC’s inferior aliases elder classes (16).

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Rams activity to bolster team

From Gary Klein: No squad has won 2 Super Bowls successful its location stadium.

The Rams purpose to beryllium nan first.

With free agency group to statesman adjacent week, wide head Les Snead and coach Sean McVay are ramping up their effort to fortify a roster that is expected to make nan Rams 1 of nan favorites to play successful Super Bowl LXI astatine SoFi Stadium successful February 2027.

The Rams did it before. In 2021, erstwhile nan squad traded for backmost Matthew Stafford successful January, re-signed separator rusher Leonard Floyd, and bolstered nan squad precocious successful nan play by signing receiver Odell Beckham Jr. and trading for separator rusher Von Miller.

The result: A triumph complete nan Cincinnati Bengals successful Super Bowl LVI.

The Rams will downplay nan communicative that they are erstwhile again going all-in for a chance to triumph a Super Bowl astatine home. But pinch Stafford and prima receiver Davante Adams successful nan last years of their contracts location is an urgency to repetition nan feat of 2021.

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From Kevin Baxter: John Parker believes he has solved nan riddle.

For years we’ve been told shot is nan athletics of nan early successful nan U.S. It’s nan fastest-growing, has nan astir charismatic demographics, skews younger, is nan astir cosmopolitan, blah, blah, blah.

Yet nan athletics has struggled to find a broadcast audience, particularly among nan bequest media. NBC, ESPN and others, aft failing to find viewers connected cablegram TV, moved overmuch of their shot contented to streaming platforms. Apple TV+, which is a streaming platform, has go truthful hopeless for an assemblage for its MLS contented that it removed its paywall. And astir awesome newspapers, including this one, person dramatically rolled backmost regular sum of nan adjacent awesome American athletics for want of readers.

Parker, co-founder and main executive of Kickback Soccer Media, said his thought isn’t intended to win wherever others person failed. It’s intended to win because it hasn’t been tried before.

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Ducks winning streak ends

Cale Makar had a extremity and 2 assists, Nathan MacKinnon secured his 4th consecutive 100-point play pinch a third-period assist, and nan NHL-leading Colorado Avalanche ended nan Ducks’ five-game winning streak pinch a 5-1 victory Tuesday nighttime astatine Honda Center.

Parker Kelly scored 2 goals and Scott Wedgewood made 27 saves for nan Avalanche, who person won 3 consecutive and 4 of 5 since nan Olympic break. Martin Necas sewage his 27th extremity and Gabriel Landeskog besides scored to complete Colorado’s back-to-back expanse of nan Southern California clubs.

Cutter Gauthier scored his 29th extremity and Lukas Dostal stopped 21 shots for the Ducks, whose eight-game location winning streak since Jan. 2 besides ended.

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Ducks summary

NHL standings

This time successful sports history

1960 — Phil Latrielle of Middlebury scores an NCAA-record 10 goals successful a 13-2 triumph complete Colgate. Latrielle, a 3 clip All-American, would people a grounds 250 goals successful nan 85 games of his collegiate crystal lucky career.

1962 — Wilt Chamberlain of nan Philadelphia Warriors registers his 5th consecutive 50-point crippled pinch 58 against nan New York Knicks and sets a play scoring grounds pinch 3,921 points.

1968 — Joe Frazier wins nan vacant New York world heavyweight title pinch an 11th-round TKO of Buster Mathis astatine Madison Square Garden.

1981 — Guy LaFleur of nan Montreal Canadiens scores his 1,000th constituent pinch a extremity successful a 9-3 rout complete nan Winnipeg Jets.

1990 — Hank Gathers, 1 of 2 Division I players to lead nan federation successful scoring and rebounding successful nan aforesaid season, dies aft collapsing during Loyola Marymount’s West Coast Conference tourney crippled against Portland. He was 23.

2004 — Mianne Bagger makes sports history astatine nan Women’s Australian Open arsenic nan first transsexual to play successful a pro play tournament.

2006 — Rafael Nadal ends top-ranked Roger Federer’s 56-match hardcourt winning streak pinch a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 triumph successful nan last of nan Dubai Open.

2011 — Miikka Kiprusoff becomes nan first goalie successful 25 years to extremity 2 punishment shots successful a crippled and finishes pinch 37 saves, starring Calgary past Columbus 4-3.

2013 — Gonzaga, nan mini Northwest schoolhouse that has delivered large NCAA tourney wins, is connected apical of The Associated Press’ Top 25 for nan first time. Riding nan champion grounds successful Division I astatine 29-2, nan Bulldogs go nan 57th schoolhouse to beryllium classed No. 1 since nan AP canvass began successful January 1949.

2013 — Brittney Griner scores a Big 12 single-game grounds 50 points successful her last regular-season crippled astatine Baylor and leads nan Bears to a 98-50 triumph complete Kansas State.

2015 — Russell Westbrook becomes nan first subordinate since Michael Jordan successful 1989 to person 4 consecutive triple-doubles and nan first since Jordan that twelvemonth to person back-to-back triple-doubles pinch astatine slightest 40 points. Westbrook sets profession highs pinch 49 points and 16 rebounds, and adds 10 assists, helping nan Oklahoma City Thunder hit nan Philadelphia 76ers 123-118 successful overtime.

2017 — Marit Bjoergen wins world title golden successful nan 30-kilometer classical title arsenic Norway completes a expanse of women’s cross-country skis titles astatine nan world championships successful Lahti, Finland. Bjoergen takes her grounds 18th profession golden badge and 4th of nan championships. No state had won each women’s cross-country golden medals astatine a azygous world championships since Russia successful 1997, erstwhile location were only 5 events, alternatively than nan existent six.

2017 — Austrian Marcel Hirscher stuns nan world of Alpine skiing by locking up an unprecedented sixth consecutive wide World Cup He becomes nan first antheral skier to triumph six wide titles. Hirscher’s 44th profession triumph besides secures him nan elephantine slalom title.

2017 — Napheesa Collier scores 24 points and top-ranked UConn routed Tulsa 105-57 successful nan American Athletic Conference quarterfinals. The Huskies (30-0) widen their NCAA-record winning streak to 105 games and scope nan 30-victory people for nan 12th consecutive season.

Compiled by nan Associated Press

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