U.S./World Sports category, Page 293

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Isaiah Tisdale said he had a dream East Tennessee State was going to win the Southern Conference Tournament. That dream was realized Monday night. Tisdale scored 24 points and was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player as top-seeded ETSU defeated upset-minded Wofford, 72-58, to win the SoCon...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The ACC on Monday named Duke guard Tre Jones as the league’s player of the year and its defensive player of the year and Leonard Hamilton of regular-season champion Florida State as coach of the year. Jones, a sophomore, is averaging 16.2 points and 6.4 assists for...

ROSEMONT, Ill. — Iowa center Luka Garza is the Big Ten Player of the Year after emerging as one of the nation’s best players this season, and Wisconsin’s Greg Gard took coach of the year honors in voting announced Monday. Garza leads the Big Ten in scoring and ranks fifth...

Florida State has accomplished several milestones in Leonard Hamilton’s nearly two decades with the Seminoles, from winning an ACC Tournament to getting within a game of the Final Four two seasons ago. Yet, his fourth-ranked Seminoles have never been in the position they are this week: entering the league tournament...

MIAMI — The NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer are closing access to locker rooms and clubhouses to all non-essential personnel in response to the coronavirus crisis, the leagues announced in a joint statement Monday night. The leagues said they made the decision “after consultation with infectious...

The BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, set to begin this week, has been postponed after a case of coronavirus was confirmed in the Coachella Valley. The Riverside County Public Health Department declared a public health emergency Sunday for the desert cities located 110 miles east of Los Angeles, including Indian...

LYNCHBURG, Va. — Liberty is headed to the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row, but there is a big difference between them making it last year and doing it again. Expectations. “Any time you have a target on your back or you’re the team that’s expected to...

AVONDALE, Ariz. — Joey Logano raced to his second NASCAR Cup Series win in three weeks, holding off Kevin Harvick over the final two laps after an overtime restart Sunday at Phoenix Raceway. Also the winner two weeks ago in Las Vegas for Team Penske, Logano has 25 career Cup...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Each member of the Maryland basketball team took turns gripping the trophy awarded to the Big Ten champions. They wore bright red hats boasting their accomplishment, and they proudly cut down the nets on each side of the court. It really didn’t matter to coach Mark...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Cassius Winston scored 27 points, and No. 16 Michigan State beat No. 19 Ohio State, 80-69, on Sunday to win a third straight Big Ten championship. The Spartans (22-9, 14-6 Big Ten) shared the conference title with No. 9 Maryland and No. 24 Wisconsin, and they...

Tyrrell Hatton went from losing his mind to winning the tournament. Bay Hill served up the most demanding test this side of a major, and Hatton kept it together down the stretch Sunday by playing bogey-free over the last seven holes for a 2-over-par 74 to win the Arnold Palmer...

ST. LOUIS — Darrell Brown scored 21 points, and Elijah Childs added 17 to lead fourth-seeded Bradley to its 10th NCAA Tournament with an 80-66 win over seventh-seeded Valparaiso in the Missouri Valley Conference championship game Sunday. Ja’Shon Henry scored 16 points for the fourth-seeded Braves, Nate Kennell chipped in...

ROCK HILL, S.C. — It took a freshman to bring Winthrop back to where it almost always used to go — the NCAA Tournament. DJ Burns scored 16 points, 12 of them in the second half, to lead the second-seeded Eagles to a 76-68 win over fifth-seeded Hampton on Sunday...

SAKHIR, Bahrain — Formula One’s Bahrain Grand Prix has been closed to spectators because of the global virus outbreak, but it won’t be postponed like the Chinese round of the championship. The Bahraini organizers’ decision comes as the wider sporting world battles turmoil caused by the new coronavirus. Soccer, golf,...

AVONDALE, Ariz. — NASCAR’s semifinal race in Phoenix last fall was a bit of a snooze. The racing wasn’t very compelling because it was so hard to pass, and it was a big reason the sport decided to shake up its rules package for short tracks in an effort to...

The women’s world hockey championships in Canada were canceled Saturday because of public health concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. The two-week tournament was set to open March 31, with venues in Halifax and Truro, Nova Scotia. René Fasel, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, said in a...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tyrrell Hatton lost his swing on his back nine without losing his head, a small victory. He battled through a tough test at Bay Hill on Friday and only was surprised by what he saw when he finished. His tidy short game was strong enough to carry...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Family vacations are a little different in Luka Garza’s family. Iowa’s star big man went to Bosnia to visit relatives last summer and did two-a-day basketball workouts with his uncle and cousin. Morning workouts focused on offense, evening workouts were for defense and rebounding. Then there...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The strongest field of the year at The Players Championship will be without the biggest draw in golf. Tiger Woods isn’t playing. Woods will miss The Players Championship for the first time when not recovering from any of his nine surgeries. His agent, Mark Steinberg at Excel...

BALTIMORE — In what was believed to be the first U.S. sports event held without fans because of the new coronavirus, Yeshiva beat Worcester Polytechnic Institute in a Division III men’s basketball NCAA Tournament game Friday in an empty gym at Johns Hopkins. Players on each team’s bench cheered and...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa’s top-ranked wrestling team made it through the regular season undefeated. Ten of the Hawkeyes’ 13 dual-meet wins came against nationally ranked teams, including a 13-day stretch in January in which they defeated Nebraska, Ohio State and Penn State — all teams that finished in the...

Shaquille O’Neal never has been one to shy away from making fun of himself. Tuesday night’s episode of “NBA on TNT” speaks volumes to that statement. Shaq “Diesel” apparently bet Dwyane Wade that the Milwaukee Bucks would beat Wade’s Miami Heat on Monday night, and Wade took the bet. Upon...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego State forward Yanni Wetzell said he could practically sense when the calendar turned to March. “I felt this little edge about me,” the big New Zealander said Tuesday before the No. 5 Aztecs held their first full practice for their Mountain West Conference Tournament opener...