College Sports

During a brief ceremonial event on Monday, Jan. 9, local boy Eli Sanchez, who was injured in a car crash and left paralyzed from the neck down, signed with the Embry-Riddle Eagles baseball team through an effort by Team IMPACT.

Houston is back at No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the second time this season, while Kansas State continued its unexpectedly strong start by leaping from unranked to the verge of the top 10.

After the best semifinal day in the nine-year history of the College Football Playoff, the title game will match the defending national champion against the closest thing the sport has had in years to a Cinderella team.

Warren Washington scored 16 of his 18 points in the first half and Arizona State turned back Washington State 77-71 on Thursday night.

Arizona has been an offensive juggernaut in two seasons under coach Tommy Lloyd while reeling off one of the nation's longest home winning streaks.

The NCAA Division I transformation committee is recommending more sport-by-sport governance, enhanced expectations for DI schools to create a more uniform experience for athletes and allowing 25% of teams in certain sports to compete in championship events.

Tulane tight end Alex Bauman caught a 6-yard touchdown from Michael Pratt with 9 seconds left to finish off a frantic finish by the 14th-ranked Green Wave in a 46-45 win over No. 8 Southern California in the Cotton Bowl.

When the shots weren't falling, coach Tara VanDerveer's Stanford team turned it up on the defensive end to stymie high-scoring Arizona.

Purdue solidified its No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll following UConn's first loss of the season, while No. 23 Charleston moved into the rankings for the first time in 20 years.

Kirby Smart will ask his Georgia players to execute better when the Bulldogs play for second straight national championship next week, but the coach knows he can't ask his players to be more resilient.

TCU's defense, built for speed, turned off Michigan's power in a dominating first half.

Stanford's appreciative guards love how they can draw their offensive players into the paint and leave the rest to their opportunistic posts to help out whenever needed.

Steven Stamkos scored his 498th goal and the Tampa Bay Lightning rallied to beat the Arizona Coyotes 5-3 on Saturday.

Azuolas Tubelis scored 21 points, Oumar Ballo had 12 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 5 Arizona withstood a second-half comeback by Arizona State for a 69-60 victory Saturday.

Bryce Young passed for 321 yards and five touchdowns in a game that other top NFL prospects might have skipped, and No. 5 Alabama responded to an early two-score deficit with 35 straight points to defeat 11th-ranked Kansas State 45-20 in the Sugar Bowl on Saturday.

They are titans of the college gridiron, a pair of perennial powerhouses that, amazingly enough, have faced each other only once in their long histories.

No. 2 Michigan and its powerful running game faces surprising No. 3 TCU in the College Football Playoff semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl.

Joe Milton has started three games for Tennessee. Cade Klubnik hasn’t started any for Clemson.

Wisconsin had a new coach on the sideline, with the interim coach still calling the shots. The Badgers had several new players in key positions, including quarterback.

Jaddan Simmons, the third-leading scorer on the ASU women’s basketball team last season, could have decided to leave the program in the offseason in the midst of a coaching change and losing both the team’s leading scorer and its leading rebounder.

Azuolas Tubelis dribbled the ball around a defender in transition, kept his stride on the other side and threw down a one-handed dunk.

Khalil Shabazz scored 26 points and fast-starting San Francisco routed No. 25 Arizona State 97-60 on Wednesday night to end the Sun Devils' nine-game winning streak.

Montana State rotated a defender down to take away Arizona's high-low game and packed the post with double-teams, all but daring the Wildcats to shoot from the 3-point arc.

Arizona got pushed around, unable to score at its usual pace. The shots didn't fall with the same regularity, the opportunities to get out on the break limited.

Sophomore midfielder Mia Torres of the Yavapai College women’s soccer team has earned United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-America honors, the association announced Thursday afternoon, Dec. 15.