General Sports 3d Briefing
×College Basketball
The final AP poll before Selection Sunday has a new top 5 -- though Duke, Arizona and Michigan stay top. Men's AP Top 25 poll reaction espn.com shows Florida and Houston climbing into the upper echelon. In women's basketball, No. 2 UCLA picked up three first-place votes from top-ranked UConn in this week's Associated Press women's basketball Top 25 poll, while Texas jumped South Carolina to move into the No. 3 spot. UCLA closing gap on UConn espn.com
March Madness & Conference Tournaments
This week's rankings were shaken up after underwhelming performances from top teams. Week 4: Top 25 rankings espn.com highlights the volatility as teams jockey for position. A week before Selection Sunday, which teams should be worried (Tennessee) or encouraged (Notre ? Champ Week takeaways espn.com examines the bubble and seeding questions. The five teams at the top. The players to watch. The narratives likely to shape the conference and NCAA tournaments. Your guide to men's basketball this March espn.com
International Sports
Ukraine's Maksym Murashkovskyi says he has Chat GPT to thank for helping him win Para-biathlon silver at the Winter Paralympics. Ukraine biathlete credits ChatGPT bbc.com marks an unusual technological assist in elite competition. Meanwhile, Para-alpine skier Varvara Voronchikhina wins Russia's first medal of the Milan-Cortina Winter Paralympics with downhill bronze. Russia win their first gold medal bbc.com Former world 100m champion Fred Kerley is banned for two years for an anti-doping whereabouts violation. Former 100m world champion Kerley banned bbc.com
Horse Racing & Cheltenham
Sean Bowen has achieved most of what there is to achieve as a jockey but there is one glaring omission on his impressive CV - a Cheltenham Festival win. Bowen aiming for first Cheltenham Festival victory bbc.com Trainer Jeremy Scott believes Golden Ace can successfully defend her Champion Hurdle title at the Cheltenham Festival. Golden Ace chasing more Cheltenham glory bbc.com Fifty years since historic Cheltenham race, Gillian Fortescue-Thomas remembers the 1976 Cheltenham Festival where she became the first female rider to complete a race. Everything was groundbreaking bbc.com
Rugby Union
Scotland deliver arguably their best performance in almost 40 years to give themselves unlikely shot at Six Nations title. Fantastic French made to look ordinary bbc.com Ireland keep alive their slim hopes of reclaiming the Six Nations title with a bonus-point victory over spirited Wales in Dublin. Ireland deny spirited Wales bbc.com England's defeat by Italy has turned the spotlight on England's leadership, both on and off the pitch. Does Rome defeat mark beginning of end bbc.com Ireland head coach Andy Farrell says his side will benefit from the pressure of having to secure a win in Saturday's game against Scotland to secure the Triple Crown. Triple Crown decider type of pressure bbc.com
Motorsport
Four-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar solos to victory as he wins the Strade Bianche for a record fourth time. Pogacar wins Strade Bianche bbc.com Racing Bulls' rookie Arvid Lindblad says he "showed people a bit of what I am here to do" after finishing eighth on his F1 debut at the Australian Grand Prix. British rookie Lindblad living dream bbc.com After a wild, often polarising Australian Grand Prix weekend, ESPN looks at some of the sweeping generalisations being made about Formula. Australian GP overreactions espn.com
Combat Sports
Ex-UFC, PFL heavyweight champ Francis Nganyama will return to action on May 16 as part of Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions' inaugural MMA fight card headlined by Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano. Ngannou to return on MVP's inaugural MMA card espn.com Charles Oliveira dominates Max Holloway from start to finish to win the BMF title by unanimous decision at UFC 326 in Las Vegas. Oliveira dominates Holloway bbc.com The BMF legacy is used to a certain type of fight that Holloway vs. Oliveira just didn't bring. UFC 326 takeaways espn.com
Other Sports
Britain's Sky Brown becomes a skateboarding world champion for the second time after winning gold in a rain-disrupted park event in Brazil. GB's Brown becomes world champion bbc.com Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo regains the world half-marathon record as he claimed victory in Lisbon on Sunday. Kiplimo regains world half-marathon record bbc.com Akshay Bhatia beats fellow American Daniel Berger on the first sudden death play-off hole to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Orlando. Bhatia beats Berger in play-off bbc.com