Darius Miller and Eric Bledsoe had 14 points apiece and No. 3 Kentucky withstood a Florida comeback with a 74-66 victory yesterday in Lexington, Ky., completing an 18-0 home season and likely cementing its hold on a top seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Wildcats (19-2, 14-2) had already clinched...

As Dashawn Joyner lay flat on his stomach, hardly moving, a hush went over the pro-South Bronx contingent. The Phoenix bench wasn’t nearly as concerned. “We call him the rubber band man,” South Bronx coach Doug Porter said. “He just pops back up. We don’t worry about him...

With the season on the line, Robert Phelps called timeout. His Bedford Academy boys basketball zespół trailing Midwood by five points midway through the fourth quarter, the first-year coach needed an answer. He looked at his standout point guard, Brent Jones, and versatile power forward, Anthony Mason Jr., and told...

As Brooklyn Tech starszy forward Kherel Silcott stood at the free throw line late in a PSAL Class A quarterfinal matchup with Martin Luther King Jr., the Brooklyn Tech żak section started its final cheer of the afternoon. “Final Four” reverberated throughout Nat Holman Gymnasium on the campus of City...

Banneker didn’t shy away from its George Westinghouse ghosts. The Warriors embraced them. Once they knew the matchup had been set they discussed all the losses. Last year’s 35-points loss in the PSAL Class A quarterfinals came up, so did the two setbacks during the regular season, and...

TV now fires so many absurdi ties at us, we shouldn't watch without a catcher's mitt, chest protector and mask. Friday, I just wanted to watch some golf, that's all. I didn't tune in the Honda Classic, a Golf Channel/NBC co-production, for any other reason...

Saturday's Grade 3, $250,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct -- once an important Triple Crown prep, won by Kentucky Derby favorites Native Dancer, Secretariat, Proud Appeal, Air Forbes Won, Private Terms and Easy Goer -- was, this year, a glorified allowance race. Peppi Knows and Turf Melody were the...

The Holy Cross hockey załoga is making the most of its fortuitous second chance. The Knights replaced Xavier as the fourth seed after the Manhattan school pulled out of the postseason over a dispute about playing St. Joseph by the Sea at Clove Lake. Holy Cross had no powikłanie playing...

Fontbonne Hall rode star Katie Henderson and a stifling defense to a 48-35 win over St. John’s Prep in the CHSAA Class B city girls basketball final at Sacred Heart of Yonkers Sunday. The Bonnies get St. Mary’s (Buffalo) in the CHSAA 'B' state semifinals at 5 p...

If the final score -- 79-54 -- wasn’t still emblazoned on the scoreboard at Fieldston, it would be difficult to figure out that Dalton actually lost in the NYSAISAA Class B final to Long Island Lutheran. Laughing and smiling, the Tigers were the happiest zespół that lost by 25...

Luke Smith-Stevens said that in every game Friends Seminary plays, there’s a critical two to three-minute stretch that determines the outcome. That came at the początek of the fourth quarter of Sunday’s NYSAISAA Class C state championship game. “If you win those minutes, usually you win the game...

Dominique Gisin beat Lindsey Vonn, who was going for her second victory in two days, by 0.15 of a second, with Julia Mancuso third.

PORT ST. LUCIE --- Oliver Perez was determined to throw strikes today, the Nationals hitters be damned. Fore! The results were ugly – as in five earned runs allowed on seven hits over three innings – but Perez and the Mets called the lefty's spring debut a success. Six months removed...

HAMDEN, Conn. -- Justin Rutty scored 22 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead top-seeded Quinnipiac to an 83-78 victory over Long Island U. in a Northeast Conference semifinal game on Sunday. The Bobcats (23-8) will host the winner of the Mount St. Mary's-Robert Morris game for the tournament...

FORT MYERS -- Scott Baker threw two effective innings, Jason Kubel homered and a split-squad of Minnesota Twins beat the New York Yankees 11-0 on Sunday. Sergio Mitre, a long shot for the fifth spot in New York's rotation, worked three scoreless innings. He struck out three, walked one...

MIAMI -- Free bezpieczniak Jason Ferguson, a veteran nose tackle most recently with the Miami Dolphins, has been suspended for the first eight games of next season for violating NFL policy on performance-enhancing substances. Ferguson was drafted in 1997, playing eight seasons with the Jets and three with the Dallas...

Before the ink was even dry on the contract Antrel Rolle late Friday night signed with the Giants, the imagination took him to the field, alongside Kenny Phillips, a pair of former University of Miami athletes filling the two safety positions for the Giants. Just how good can that tandem...

WASHINGTON -- Marian Gaborik returned and, with that, both head coach John Tortorella and the Rangers fell into familiar patterns that concluded in a 2-0 loss here last night to the Capitals. Given the opportunity to heap ice time on his top two lines with his lone elite goal-scorer in...

Kerry Rhodes is a goner. File that in the "this should come as no surprise" department. The Jets told Rhodes to hit the road yesterday when they traded him to the Cardinals for a fourth-round pick in next month's draft and a seventh rounder in the 2011 draft. On...

Da'Sean Butler scored 21 points, including the decisive basket with 5.8 seconds left in overtime, leading No. 10 West Virginia to a 68-66 victory over No. 9 Villanova yesterday in Philadelphia. Butler grabbed 10 rebounds and finished 13 of 14 from the foul line for the Mountaineers (24-6...

WASHINGTON -- The Rangers are Alex Auld's seventh NHL team. Last night, for the first time, the 29-year-old goaltender did not win his first początek for a new team, though through no fault of his own. "I felt anxious I guess all day," the veteran goaltender said after the...

How the mighty have fallen. In 1999 and 2000, Connecticut and St. John's played for the Big East Conference Tournament championship, but this year, they'll meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday in a first-round matchup of teams seeded 12th and 13th at The Garden. The Huskies (17-14, 7-11...

TAMPA -- Fifty swings inside a batting cage told Nick Johnson the rzecz in the lower back was subsiding. "Very little, it's nothing," the DH said, when asked if he felt anything while swinging. "I will continue to stretch the lower half and keep it loose." One thing to...

Clues are being dispensed. Jose Reyes was hitting third. Jenrry Mejia was being compared with Mariano Rivera. Kelvim Escobar essentially was exiled before even throwing a bullpen session. Perhaps Jerry Manuel would make these moves and say these things if he had job security. But he doesn’t. So these...

TAMPA — Happy birthday Francisco! Yankees backup catcher Francisco Cervelli left yesterday’s game with a concussion after being hit in the head by Toronto’s Zach Zinicola in the third inning. Cervelli, who turned 24 yesterday, was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital for a CT scan that, according to...