Sports

The Milwaukee Brewers got finalists for Cy Young and Manager of the Year, as expected. But also MVP and Reliever of the Year.

(AP) — Dior Johnson scored 41 points, including 10 in overtime, and UCF outlasted Florida Gulf Coast 96-95 on Monday night in the season opener for both teams.Johnson's 3-pointer with 3 1/2 minutes remaining in overtime gave the Knights an 89-82 lead.

Cooper Flagg doesn’t seem to be suffering any sort of sophomore slump. Through five games, he’s averaging 26.8 points on 55.7% shooting, 6.0 rebounds, 6.6 assists, and 2.6 steals. Talking heads like Kendrick Perkins are already anointing the Mavericks forward as a top-10 player in the league. One of the few areas where Flagg has seemingly not shown […] The post Mavericks’ Dusty May hints Cooper Flagg is ‘close to breaking out’ on key area appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Missouri women's basketball avoided an upset loss with a remarkable turnaround in its season-opening game against Howard.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Davis Fogle scored 22 points and No. 15 Gonzaga opened the season by defeating Purdue for the first time, winning 78-72 in the Hall of Fame Series on Monday night.

Last week I wrote that Nebraska would be a much stiffer test than Iowa, and that an offensive collapse in Lincoln could put bowl eligibility out of reach again. For 56 minutes, that’s exactly what it looked like. Then Washington scored 14 points in the dying moments and won 17-10, improving to 5-3 overall. Nebraska […]

All we know so far about Jeremiyah Love's latest injury is that it is not a reaggravation of a previous one.

(AP) — Myles Blackley had 15 points in New Hampshire’s 59-55 win against Brown in a season opener on Monday.Blackley also contributed seven rebounds for the Wildcats (1-0).

Jayden Reid became a scoring, shot-making dynamo for Memphis basketball in the closing moments of the team's 80-76 upset win over Iowa State.

After falling behind double digits, Purdue had the ball in a two-point game late, but couldn't rally in a season-opening loss to Gonzaga.

The Houston Astros’ managerial search has sparked speculation about Albert Pujols, whose connection to new general manager Randy Flores adds intrigue to the opening. Flores’ arrival gives Houston a new decision-maker as it searches for a manager following Joe Espada’s departure. Foul Territory posted a clip Monday on X, formerly Twitter, in which […] The post Astros rumors: Ex-player reacts to idea of Albert Pujols managing Houston appeared first on ClutchPoints.

First-year IU guard Prince-Alexander Moody showed up on crutches, and coach Darian DeVries explained why.

A new-look Penn State hoops squad took the floor tonight, one which featured only a couple of familiar faces (Ivan Jurić and Josh Reed) from last season’s squad, which head coach Mike Rhoades described as the softest he had coached in his 30-plus years of coaching. Granted, it was only one game against a KenPom-ranked […]

BOSTON – The Boston Bruins (11-4-1) swept their two-game homestand with a 3-2 shootout win over the Vegas Golden Knights […]

The No. 3 USC women’s basketball got the job done in its first test of the 2026-27 season, which also marked its first game with JuJu Watkins back in action after a long recovery from a serious knee injury. The Trojans trounced the unranked UNLV Lady Rebels in a Hall of Fame Series game on Monday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to the tune of a […] The post USC women’s basketball news: Trojans pull off extremely rare feat in JuJu Watkins’ return appeared first on ClutchPoints.

Good start to the season…

Illini record record-setting win over FDU to start the regular season.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a season-high 43 points and made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 32.6 seconds remaining as the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 117-112 on Monday night in the first of a two-game set.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba caught a 43-yard touchdown with 30 seconds left in the half to draw Seattle closer.

LAS VEGAS — USC defeats UNLV 100-68 in Las Vegas at T-Mobile Arena on November 2, 2026 and Kalin Sipes was there to capture the following TST Images.