Victor Conte, the architect of a scheme to provide undetectable performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes, including baseball stars Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Olympic track champion Marion Jones decades ago, died Monday. He was 75.
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Don’t expect Jake Paul vs. Gervonta Davis to get rebooked any time soon. In a scathing message Monday night, Paul went scorched earth on the WBA lightweight champion, trashing “Tank” as “an actual walking human piece of garbage” and stating that Paul “didn’t want to give this woman abuser a platform” following the cancelation of their expected Nov. 14 exhibition boxing match on Netflix.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Right away, the chemistry was obvious.
Ta’Niya Latson drove inside, then dished it back to Raven Johnson for a wide-open 3-pointer that the veteran guard swished. On South Carolina’s next possession, it was Johnson repaying the favor, grabbing a defensive rebound and tossing it up the court for Latson for an easy transition layup.
“She makes things easier. My instinct is to go her way,” Johnson said of Latson. “It’s like that. She brings out the best in me, honestly. She makes me play harder.”
Johnson’s impulse to find Latson was developed years ago.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Kuol Atak led with 18 points on 7-of-11 shooting off the bench, three Sooners scored 16 points, and Oklahoma opened its campaign with a 102-66 rout over St. Francis on Monday night.
Xzayvier Brown, Nijel Pack, and Mohamed Wague each scored their 16 points on 50 percent or better shooting marks. Tae Davis was just behind with 14 points. Wague added 10 rebounds, and Jeff Nwankwo hauled in nine.
Oklahoma was an efficient 55.7 percent from the field and 36.7 percent from beyond the arc, and held St. Francis to 40.9 percent and 29.4 percent marks, respectively.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tyler Nickel had 20 points, Tyler Tanner had 18, and five different players had double-digit scoring totals for Vanderbilt in a 105-61 rout of Lipscomb in a season opener for both teams.
Vanderbilt opened the game on a 12-0 run, and took a 56-26 lead into the half.
The Commodores were ruthless from 3-point range, going 17-for-31 as a team. Nickel was 6-of-9 from distance, while Tanner was 4 for 5. AK Okereke (16 points), Tyler Harris (15 points) and Duke Miles (10 points) all had a pair of 3-pointers.
Devin McGlockton led all players with 12 rebounds.
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Michigan State basketball is a finalist for a five-star prospect in the 2026 class.
Maximo Adams of Chatsworth, Calif. is down to four schools, and Michigan State is one of them. On3 recruiting insider Joe Tipton reported on Monday that Adams has cut his schools in consideration to four, which includes Michigan State, North Carolina, Kentucky and Texas.
Adams is a five-star small forward prospect in the 2026 class. He holds a recruiting rating of 99.10 in 247Sports’ composite system, and is ranked as the No. 22 overall prospect in the class. He is also listed as the No.
HOUSTON (AP) — Amen Thompson scored a season-high 27 points, Alperen Sengun added 26 points and 11 rebounds and the Houston Rockets outlasted the Dallas Mavericks for a 110-102 victory on Monday night.
Houston has won four straight after dropping its first two games of the season.
The Rockets led by one when Sengun drove into the lane and spun around a defender before sinking a shot to make it 105-102 with about 90 seconds left. P.J. Washington missed a 3-pointer before Josh Okogie scored his first points of the game with two free throws that pushed the lead to 107-102 with a minute to go.
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