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From staff reports

TAMPA, Fla. – After such a long, winding climb to the top, what a luxury it is to spread your arms, take a breath and enjoy the view unburdened. As her college career was coming to a close, Paige Bueckers played with a demon’s ferocity, hurtling through three straight 30-point performances in the NCAA tournament to ensure her team did not miss out on the chance to end Connecticut’s nine-year championship drought in Sunday’s title game. But when she finally got there, the pressure seemed to release a bit. All she had to do was right there in front of her: win a basketball game.

SEATTLE – Mariners right fielder Victor Robles was placed on the injured list Monday afternoon, a day after he was carted off the field with a dislocated left shoulder suffered when he crashed into the netting to make a superhuman catch in San Francisco.

AUGUSTA, Ga. – It’s Masters Week.

SEATTLE – When the details of Geno Smith’s contract with the Raiders were revealed last week it raised a question — why couldn’t he have agreed to the same deal in Seattle?

The only way for blue bloods to receive transformative revenue from media partners would be to keep the circle tight. The networks won't pay big dollars for the likes of Minnesota, South Carolina or Syracuse. It would be the 18-20 obvious schools, then a second tier.

It happened as quickly as the rules allow, yet, for a lot of people, likely still felt overdue. Sue Bird’s name has long been surrounded by accolades — four-time WNBA champion, all-time league assist leader, four-time Olympic gold medalist — but will soon attain the ultimate honor.

The final month of Ben Gregg’s unique Gonzaga career was packed with many of the twists and turns that marked his 4½ years in the program. In that span, Gregg juggled the emotions of Senior Night, posted arguably his best big-game performance of the season against San Francisco, lost his starting job and wore his No. 33 uniform for the last time against Houston in an NCAA Tournament loss.

Projecting success seven months before the start of the regular season was difficult enough before the transfer portal and immediate eligibility for multi-time transfers collided last spring. In the current environment, accuracy is effectively impossible.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • When life hands you about a dozen lemons, what should you do? Put together a notebook of course. And squeeze every fact you can into the space you have.

Former Gonzaga forward Michael Ajayi is moving east to the Big East Conference after spending his first four collegiate seasons on the West Coast.

SAN FRANCISCO – They lost the game Sunday, 5-4, and they lost the series, three games to none, to the red-hot Giants.

LAS VEGAS -- Tyson Degenhart could've easily chased the money.

TAMPA, Fla. – The drought is over.

Washington’s wolf numbers shrank slightly last year for the first time in 16 years.

SAN ANTONIO – Like his team, Kelvin Sampson would not stop. He kept talking, sentences on sentences on sentences, answering questions that hadn’t been asked, delivering a most lucid ramble to explain an epic comeback.

The start of the 2025 Northwest League season hasn’t gone exactly as planned on the field for the Spokane Indians. Despite opening the season at Avista Stadium on Friday, the Indians were edged that night and then blanked on two hits Saturday.