The NBA suspended Houston Rockets guard James Harden for one game Monday as punishment for Harden kicking Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James in the groin.
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Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski did not comment during a Monday news conference on allegations he knew that Rasheed Sulaimon, who was dismissed from the team in January, was alleged to have sexually assaulted two women during the 2013-14 academic year.
SAN DIEGO — After three conference games, Boise State hadn’t won. Since then, the Broncos have lost only once.
With its seemingly insurmountable lead fading away and its star player having already fouled out of the game Saturday night, Agassi Prep’s boys basketball team needed someone to save its perfect season.
It has become a common theme around UNLV’s basketball team, this game-by-game analysis by others of Chris Wood. Of his production and attitude and effort and whether that eating motion he makes after sinking a 3-pointer is really necessary or, well, just another level of self-serving folly.
This was one of those games when you saw the future up, close and personal in an extremely impressive manner. Patrick McCaw gave his mother the best birthday present imaginable, scoring a team-high 21 with her in attendance.
White Pine girls basketball coach Krystal Smith hung up the phone after receiving a congratulatory phone call and then milled around the Orleans Arena court with her players for a couple of minutes.
Clark didn’t run a set play during the second half Saturday at Orleans Arena.
Kayla Harris led Spring Valley in scoring during its one-loss regular season.
Kayla Woodward scored 23 points, Kaitlyn Mileto 21 and Marquelle Dent 20 to help Wyoming end UNLV’s five-game win streak with a 99-68 rout Saturday in a Mountain West women’s basketball game in Laramie, Wyo.
Pahranagat Valley guard Jamie Hansen didn’t see the court much in the second half of the Division IV girls state basketball final because of foul trouble.
Spring Mountain’s boys basketball players wanted to win a championship for their retiring coach, who just wanted his players to have something to be proud of.
The Rebels host Wyoming today at the Thomas & Mack Center. Tip is at 5:00 p.m.
Longtime NBA player Anthony Mason, who helped the New York Knicks reach the 1994 NBA Finals, died early Saturday morning at the age of 48.
There is something magical about a small town. Something perfectly dreadful and yet charmingly nostalgic. The people of it understand each other, seemingly always straddling a line between love and hate, acceptance and resentment. Until heartache arrives. Then a small town unites.
