Pacific hired Dave Smart as the coach to rebuild its program, athletic director Adam Tschuour said Wednesday. Smart served as an assistant coach at Texas Tech last season but was formerly a highly successful head coach in Canada, going 591-48 and winning 13 national championships in 19 seasons at Carleton University (1999-2015, 2016-19). Smart, 57, […]
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Scottie Scheffler apparently isn’t one for superstition. Scheffler was growing out a thick beard while he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and The Players Championship in consecutive weeks. But as he arrived at Memorial Park Golf Course for the Texas Children’s Houston Open, which begins Thursday, it was revealed to the golfing world that the
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Iowa forward Patrick McCaffery, son of coach Fran McCaffery, has entered the transfer portal, according to the school. Patrick McCaffery has one season of eligibility remaining after playing in 123 games for the Hawkeyes over the past four-plus seasons. McCaffery has career averages of 8.5 points and 3.1 rebounds while starting 60 games. This season,
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Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will miss Wednesday night’s game against the surging Houston Rockets with a quad injury. The NBA’s third-leading scorer (30.4 points per game) has been playing through the right quad contusion that occurred last Wednesday when he took a knee to the leg. The missed game will be just the
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The Philadelphia Flyers will try to firm their grip on third place in the Metropolitan Division when they visit the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday. The Flyers (36-27-10, 82 points) are coming off a 6-5 overtime loss to the New York Rangers on Tuesday, a contest in which they held a 2-0 lead before trailing by
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are finalizing a 10-year contract extension for catcher Will Smith worth $140 million, ESPN and MLB.com reported Wednesday. The deal will include deferred compensation, per MLB.com. Ten years would mark the longest contract for a catcher in MLB history and keep Smith in Dodger blue through the 2033 season. Smith and
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The Pittsburgh Penguins and visiting Columbus Blue Jackets, who open a home-and-home series Thursday, are focused on finding some consistency and feeling good about their performances with less than a month left in the season. The Penguins (31-30-10), whose playoff chances are extremely thin, and the Blue Jackets (23-37-12), who have been eliminated from postseason
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Mathew Barzal is giving the New York Islanders their money’s worth this season. Barzal, who signed an eight-year, $73.2 million contract extension in October 2022, leads the Islanders with 73 points in 70 games. On Thursday night, Barzal will try to add to those totals as the Islanders visit the Florida Panthers in Sunrise, Fla.
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St. Louis Blues forward Oskar Sundqvist will miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn ACL in his right knee, the team announced Wednesday. Sundqvist was injured after being checked into the boards by Vegas defenseman Brayden McNabb during the second period of Monday’s 2-1 overtime loss to the Golden Knights. Sundqvist needed
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