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LSU wins 1st NCAA title, Mulkey's 4th, beating Clark, Iowa

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — Kim Mulkey returned home to Louisiana wanting to bring LSU its first basketball championship. The Hall of Fame coach did just that in only her second year at the school.Her Tigers used a record offensive performance to beat Caitlin Clark and Iowa 102-85 on Sunday and win the first basketball title, men's or women's, in school history.“I turn around and look at the Final Four banners (in the home arena), nowhere did it say national champion,” Mulkey said. “That’s what I came home to do.”The victory made Mulkey the first women's coach to win national titles at two different schools. She won three at Baylor before leaving for LSU two years ago.“Coaches coach a lifetime and this is the fourth time I’ve been blessed," Mulkey said. “Never in the history of LSU basketball, men or women, has (anybody) ever played for a championship.”The feisty and flamboyantly dressed Mulkey, who wore a sparkly, golden, tiger-striped outfit, now has the third-most national titles behind Geno A...

Jurickson Profar joins Rockies, thanks to Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

SAN DIEGO — Jurickson Profar, the Rockies’ new left fielder and leadoff hitter, took his place in the lineup for the first time Sunday in a 3-1 loss to the Padres.Profar, who went 0 for 3 with a walk, might have never signed his one-year, $7.75 million deal with Colorado had it not been for new Colorado hitting coach Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens. The two have known each other since Profar was a talented 11-year-old player in his native Curacao.“He really wanted me to come here, so I listened,” said Profar, who got some exhibition games under his belt in Arizona before joining the Rockies. A delay in obtaining his visa after he played for the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic stalled his Rockies debut.Meulens heads two youth baseball foundations in Curacao and he first heard of Profar when he was a budding Little League talent. Profar played for Curacao in the Little League World Series in 2004 — the year Curacao won it — and also in 2005.“He ...

Former TCU center Eddie Lampkin Jr. set to join CU Buffs men’s basketball

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

The search for a new center already is over for the Colorado men’s basketball team.On Sunday, former TCU center Eddie Lampkin Jr. announced via his social media accounts that he is joining the Buffaloes through the transfer portal.Lampkin appeared in 24 games (19 starts) for the Horned Frogs this past season, averaging 6.3 points and 5.9 rebounds for a team that reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament before losing to Gonzaga.A 6-foot-11, 263-pound post player, Lampkin shot 55.2% from the floor. Thanks to the extra year of eligibility granted by the NCAA for the COVID season, Lampkin still has two years of eligibility remaining. He left TCU under a swirl of headlines ahead of the Big 12 Conference tournament, alleging racially insensitive remarks from TCU head coach Jamie DixonAs a second-year freshman in the 2021-22 season, Lampkin, a native of Houston, played in 33 games (32 starts) while averaging 6.8 points and 6.2 rebounds with a 60.2% mark from the field.Lampkin’s comm...

Homicide detectives investigating after man found shot to death in San Bernardino County

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

A homicide investigation is underway after a man was found dead Sunday in Chino, authorities announced.  The discovery came after officers with the Chino Police Department responded to calls of a possible dead body in the 5400 block of Philadelphia Avenue just after 2 a.m., a Chino PD news release stated. When police arrived at the scene, they located a man who had been the victim of a shooting. He was pronounced dead at the scene and investigators determined that the man had been the victim of a homicide.  No further information about the victim’s identity or age was provided, nor was there any mention of how many suspects may have been involved in the shooting.  While authorities say there is no immediate threat to the public, they are asking anyone with information about this incident to contact Chino Police Department detectives at 909-334-3307.  

Athletics fall victim to gargantuan blasts by Angels’ Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

OAKLAND — There were youth baseball and softball players from 25 organizations throughout Northern California that went home from the Coliseum with a story to tell Sunday.They probably already knew the names of Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. As for Ken Waldichuk, he’ll be lost in the tale of the time they watched two of the biggest stars in Major League Baseball flex their muscles on consecutive pitches in the fifth inning during a 6-0 loss by the Athletics against the Los Angeles Angels before a crowd of 14,638.Trout and Ohtani hit tape-measure blasts in the fifth inning as the Angels took two of three from the A’s on the opening series of the season. With Taylor Ward aboard with a single, Trout hammered a 1-1 pitch from Waldichuk off the camera bank in dead center field, a distance measured at 434 feet and with an exit velocity of 111.9 miles per hour.On the very next pitch, Ohtani crushed one 447 feet to right center at a speed of 110.8, a tad farther than Trout&...

NASA to announce first crew to the Moon in over 50 Years on Monday

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

The planet Earth as seen from the surface of the moon during the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission, December 1972. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)On Monday morning, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Canadian Space Agency will announce the four astronauts who will be next to “venture around the moon.”In a March 10 news release, NASA said the event will take place at 11 a.m. EDT (10 a.m. CDT) on Monday, at the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston, Texas.More Science NewsThe Space PlaceThe four astronauts, who will be announced at the event, will travel to the moon aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission.According to NASA, “the mission will be the first crewed flight test on the agency’s path to establishing a long-term scientific and human presence on the lunar surface.”This will be the first crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17 in December 1972.The event will air on NASA Television, the...

Iowa’s Catlin Clark had memorable season, March Madness run

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — Caitlin Clark had several memorable moments during her run to the women’s NCAA championship game, capturing national attention with 40-point games, triple doubles and her long-range shooting.Iowa came up short Sunday against LSU, losing 102-85 in the Hawkeyes’ quest for their first national title. The Associated Press women’s basketball Player of the Year went down shooting, scoring 30 points with eight 3-pointers. It was Clark’s 100th game with the Hawkeyes. She has put up some impressive numbers during her career, averaging 27.2 points, 7.0 rebounds and 8.0 assists per contest. She has 11 career triple-doubles, a Big Ten record and tied for the second-most in NCAA history.This season Clark became the first player in Division I women’s history to record more than 1,000 points and 300 assists in a single year. She already is the only Division I player, woman or man, with at least 2,700 points, 700 rebounds and 700 assists in a career.Her streak of 90 ...

Martinook ends goal drought as Hurricanes nip Islanders, 2-1

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jordan Martinook scored for the first time in more than two months to break a third-period tie as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New York Islanders 2-1 on Sunday night.Jesperi Kotkaniemi also scored and Frederik Andersen made 21 saves for the Hurricanes, who’ve won back-to-back games following a stretch of four losses in five games to maintain first place in the Metropolitan Division.Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored first for the Islanders, who’ve lost two games in a row and three of their last five. New York is in playoff position, but only has four games remaining in a tight competition with multiple teams for the final two spots in the Eastern Conference.Ilya Sorokin stopped 33 shots for New York, which was outshot for only the second time in its last nine games.Andersen won for the first time in his last four games (1-2-1), though he has a team-leading 20 wins.Martinook, who has played in all 76 games, gave Carolina its first lead when he skated in from the blue...

McDermott scores 30 to lead Spurs past Kings 142-134

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Doug McDermott scored 22 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter and overtime, and the San Antonio Spurs denied Sacramento a chance at clinching the Pacific Division with a 142-134 win over the Kings on Sunday.After clinching their first playoff berth since 2006 on Wednesday night on the road, the Kings were hoping to wrap up their first division title in 20 years in front of their home fans but fell short against the struggling Spurs.McDermott hit three free throws in overtime after being fouled on a 3-pointer by Keegan Murray to give the Spurs a five-point lead, then made back-to-back baskets to keep San Antonio ahead and help snap a six-game losing streak.Julian Champagnie added a career-high 26 points and Tre Jones had 17 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds for San Antonio.De’Aaron Fox scored 28 points and Domantas Sabonis added 26 for the Kings, who remain two games behind Memphis in the race for second place in the Western Conference.Fox hit a tyi...

Clark tech, foul count put focus on officials in title game

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:29:20 GMT

DALLAS (AP) — Iowa star Caitlin Clark was whistled for a technical foul late in the third quarter with her team trailing LSU by nine points in the NCAA championship game.The bigger problem for the Hawkeyes was the call meant a fourth personal foul for the junior scoring sensation, moments after front court leader Monika Czinano had picked up her fourth.Clark never fouled out, while Czinano and fellow senior McKenna Warnock did as Iowa never made a serious run in the fourth quarter of a 102-85 loss to the Tigers on Sunday.The second and third fouls against Clark were both for push-offs about three minutes apart in the second quarter, when The Associated Press Player of the Year was trying to dribble around defenders.The latter sent her to the bench for the final 3:26 of the first half with the Hawkeyes down 11, and she left the game again after the technical with 1:04 remaining in the third.“I thought they called it very, very tight,” said Clark, who scored 30 points. “I don’t know a...