Jimmer Fredette and BYU survived a thrilling reminder that March Madness is back. Fredette scored 37 points, including two 3-pointers in double overtime, to seal the Cougars’ 99-92 win over 10th-seeded Florida on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Fredette, the nation’s 12th-leading scorer, made a...

NEW ORLEANS -- Carleton Scott's 3-pointer rattled out in the closing seconds, and 11th-seeded Old Dominion delivered the first upset of the NCAA tournament when it stunned sixth-seeded Notre Dame 51-50 on Thursday in the South Regional. The Fighting Irish rushed the ball up the court as the clock...

It was fun while it lasted. The biggest night in Stony Brook basketball history was a wild success in terms of emotion, intensity, fervor and crowd support. For long stretches it also was a heckuva game, with the postseason novice Seawolves battling Illinois of the Big Ten on near-even terms...

Villanova Coach Jay Wright is known for a meticulous personal style and a gritty makeup on display for recruits.

A former Seton Hall basketball player has pleaded not guilty to charges of robbing eight people at gunpoint earlier this week. Robert Mitchell, a junior forward who played in 31 games this season for the Pirates, appeared in court in Newark via video conference Thursday. He's held on $650...

For the first time all season, after 167 days, the Devils finally had a full, injury-free roster last night. Hale and healthy, they returned to the top of the Atlantic Division. Although beating up the Stanley Cup champs is old hat for them, they looked like a force to contend...

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Compared with his previous outing, yesterday's performance by Joba Chamberlain was an improvement and kept him in the hunt for the fifth starter's spot. Yet how good was it? Hours after not dismissing a question about the possibility of Chamberlain opening the season at Triple-A...

PHILADELPHIA -- Team president Rod Thorn admits the Nets will have to look everywhere to find players after this nightmare season concludes and at least six player contracts expire. And current Knicks forward Al Harrington hopes they look his way. Hall of Famer Magic Johnson last night said he hopes...

Paul Martin's return last night from a broken arm should have been in early December. As it is, we will never know if he might have been the little extra Team USA needed to beat Canada for the Olympic gold medal. The difference was so slim. The Americans won...

The NFL's overtime rule -- at least for the playoffs -- could have a new look. Falcons VP Rich McKay, co-chairman of the NFL's competition committee, confirmed yesterday a serious case would be made to the league owners in Orlando next week to modify the OT rules starting...

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Rangers manager Ron Washington admitted he made a "huge mistake" when he used cocaine and failed a Major League Baseball drug ankieta last season. In his first public acknowledgment, Washington apologized yesterday for his behavior, eight months after he told Rangers president Nolan Ryan, who turned down...

The most celebrated pro day in NFL history appeared to do wonders for Tim Tebow. The much-debated Florida quarterback unveiled a new throwing motion yesterday in przód of a crowd of A-list pro scouts -- including Giants coach Tom Coughlin -- and more than 3,000 cheering fans in Gainesville...

The Rangers, undeniably, have plenty of problems. Immaturity, however, is not one of them -- according to John Tortorella. A day after ekipa captain Chris Drury cited "immaturity" as the root of the Blueshirts' inconsistency in the wake of their critical loss to Montreal on Tuesday, the coach said he...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- If last night was Norm Roberts' closing operand to remain St. John's head basketball coach, his players delivered moving testimony. The Red Storm fought and scrapped but came up just short as Memphis' Wesley Witherspoon hit an off-balance lay-up as time expired to hand the Johnnies...

There are constituents from every metametr of the college basketball community whose St. Patrick’s Day celebration was made merrier by the nowość that Seton Hall fired coach Bobby Gonzalez at high noon yesterday. “There are 15 coaches in this league that can play together in the sand box,” said...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — As nius of Bobby Gonzalez's firing by Seton Hall made the rounds through the forum on the eve of today's tipoff of the NCAA Tournament, his Big East brethren only could shake their heads and basically say it's a tough business, but the business...

Former Seton Hall basketball player Robert “Stix” Mitchell was arrested Tuesday and charged with kidnapping (first degree); robbery (first degree); burglary (third degree) and weapons offenses (second and third degree). The 23-year-old Brooklynite was dismissed from the Pirates basketball zespół Sunday, but that is now the least of his worries...

BOSTON -- If Wilson Chandler has played his last game this season, did he do enough to convince free agents they should want to zespół up with him on the Knicks next season? Probably not. Chandler has shut it down to rest his lingering strained groin, but will try to...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Although he continues to be otherworldly in the Grapefruit League, Fernando Martinez almost certainly is not going to be on the Mets’ Opening Day roster. Martinez blasted a go-ahead, three-run homer in the eighth inning of the Mets’ 4-2 win over the Red Sox yesterday, and is...

PORT ST. LUCIE — Talk to Jenrry Mejia and you learn that he’s not scared of anything or anyone. You quickly realize something more important. The Mets young pitcher looks at baseball as a job. Combine that with electric stuff and you have everything you need to get to the...

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Damaso Marte's first outing of the spring started badly and ended with a scare that forced him out of the game. Marte, the only reliable lefty in Yankees manager Joe Girardi's bullpen, was drilled in the lower back by a Ryan Howard liner in the...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Jenrry Mejia mowed down the Red Sox yesterday — three up-three down. That said, the Met phenom didn’t quite dazzle the most accomplished hitter he faced. The 20-year-old continued his exceptional spring, firing a perfect inning of płaskorzeźba in the Mets’ 4-2 Grapefruit League victory over the...

He is tempting. Oh boy, is Jenrry Mejia tempting. It is not just that he is talented. But he is talented and he can be pigeon-holed to fill an obvious Mets’ need in the eighth inning. Not only that, he is homegrown and electric, a combination that makes him a...

The Devils remembered when they were young last night, wearing the red and green uniforms that they wore for the first 10 years in New Jersey without a shudder from at least one czarter skład member. Chico Resch doesn't remember minding looking like Christmas in 1982-83, the season the...

NEW ORLEANS -- Less than 12 months ago, Tyler Hansbrough basked in his "One Shining Moment" inside Ford Field, delivered a national championship for North Carolina. Today his kid brother Ben tries to get Notre Dame past Old Dominion into the second round of the NCAA Tournament. "My favorite story...