AN ANTONIO -- Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle found plenty of positives in his team's performance against San Antonio. His counterpart, Gregg Popovich, could not stomach the Spurs' "awful" and "pathetic" play. Oh, by the way, San Antonio won. Kawhi Leonard had 24 points and nine rebounds,...
LOS ANGELES -- Even when Dwyane Wade takes a night off to rest, Jimmy Butler gets the benefit of his new Chicago Bulls teammate's veteran experience. Not that Butler needed a whole lot of help while he carved up the Los Angeles Lakers. Butler scored a season-high...
VIJAYAWADA, India (CMC) — Captain Stafanie Taylor returned to form and West Indies Women to their winning ways, as they rolled over India Women by six wickets in the opening Twenty20 International of the three-match series, to claim their first win of an otherwise dismal...
Toronto Raptors coach Dwane Casey had tried to make light of his team’s impossibly tough two-game stretch. "The computer that spit out the schedule, I’m going to find it and break it," Casey had joked. Facing last year’s NBA finalists on back-to-back nights indeed proved too tough...
NEW YORK -- The New York Knicks spent $72 million to make Joakim Noah the anchor of their defense. On Monday, they sat him down and turned around a game. Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis each scored 24 points, and the Knicks rolled after a halftime lineup...