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Cooper Flagg has seized the spotlight all year.

He's the biggest star heading into March Madness Duke freshman Cooper Flagg enters the NCAA Tournament as the biggest star heading into March Madness.

He's also hobbled by a sprained left ankle suffered in the Blue Devils' run to the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament title.

The 6-foot-9, 205-pound Flagg is a versatile player who leads the East Region's No.

1 seed in scoring, rebounding, assists, blocks and steals.

Flagg missed the last two games of the ACC Tournament.

But coach Jon Scheyer has expressed optimism that Flagg could be ready to play by Friday's first-round game against the American-Mount St.

Mary's winner.

Players' group founded by Novak Djokovic files an antitrust suit against tennis organizers MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

(AP) The players association co-founded by Novak Djokovic has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the womens and mens professional tours, the International Tennis Federation and the sports integrity agency.

Tuesday's filing in federal court in New York calls the groups in charge of tennis a cartel.

The filing on behalf of the Professional Tennis Players Association says the organizations that run the sport hold complete control over the players pay and working conditions and their setup constitutes textbook violations of state and federal law that immunize professional tennis from ordinary market forces and deny professional tennis players and other industry participants their right to fair competition.

Trump and Putin discuss a US-Russia hockey series during their call, the Kremlin says U.S.

President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed a series of hockey games between players from their respective countries during their lengthy call Tuesday, according to the Kremlin.

Moscow said Trump supported Putin's idea to organize games in the U.S.

and Russia involving players from the NHL and the KHL, the top Russian league.

The NHL said it was not party to those discussions and it would be inappropriate to comment.

A message sent to USA Hockey seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Indiana hires Darian DeVries away from West Virginia as new head coach The Indiana Hoosiers have hired Darian DeVries as their new head coach.

DeVries spent this past season as West Virginia's head coach.

He spent the previous six at Drake.

DeVries replaces former Indiana star Mike Woodson, who announced last month he would be stepping down at the end of his fourth season in charge of the Hoosiers.

Indiana and West Virginia were both teams left out of the 68-team NCAA Tournament field.

School officials plan to introduce DeVries at a news conference Wednesday morning.

March Madness: Rick Pitino has No.

2 seed St.

John's back in NCAAs after latest coaching revival NEW YORK (AP) Standing in the middle of a sold-out Madison Square Garden, confetti sticking to his suit, Rick Pitino was asked about his remarkable basketball odyssey and latest Big East championship.

The 72-year-old Hall of Fame coach said he saved the best for last, bringing a March Madness roar from thousands of St.

Johns fans hanging on his every word.

In that merry moment of pride and joy, at the center of a nationally televised New York City coronation, it was almost easy to forget that five years ago Pitino was coaching in Greece exiled from college athletics following multiple scandals at Louisville.

Pitino takes his record sixth school into the NCAA Tournament when the second-seeded Red Storm play No.

15 seed Omaha on Thursday night.

With extensions signed, Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins ready to resume title chase with Bengals CINCINNATI (AP) Cincinnati Bengals wide receivers JaMarr Chase and Tee Higgins officially inked four-year extensions on Tuesday that keep them in Cincinnati for their primes along with quarterback Joe Burrow.

With Burrow under contract through the 2029 season, two solid starting offensive tackles and a standout young running back in Chase Brown, the Bengals should continue to have one of the best offenses in the NFL.

The final steps toward keeping this core on offense together was finalizing the contracts with Higgins and Chase.

Chases $161 million contract makes him the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL, and Higgins $115 million deal will make him one of the leagues top 10 highest-paid receivers.

FIFA report highlights the inequities in women's soccer Despite the growing attention on womens soccer globally, the vast majority of players and teams still struggle for resources and investment.

FIFA on Monday released its annual report on the womens game, highlighting the inequities across the sport.

Soccers world governing body expanded the fourth edition's scope from 34 leagues to 86 leagues and some 669 teams, providing a more accurate picture of the state of the game.

In March Madness, the women still have more stars and perhaps more people watching too The two biggest names in college basketball these days will be playing in the womens tournament when March Madness gets into full swing.

Whether the presence of Juju Watkins of USC and Paige Bueckers of UConn will overcome the games loss of Caitlin Clark and drive a repeat of last years history-making surge in viewership is among the questions over the next three weeks.

One big factor to consider is that the men's Final Four will be aired on CBS this year.

Last year, when it was on cable, the women's final outdrew the men for the first time in history.

Johni Broome of Auburn, Cooper Flagg of Duke unanimous picks to lead the AP All-America team Johni Broome of Auburn and Cooper Flagg of Duke are unanimous first-team selections for The Associated Press men's college basketball All-America team.

Broome and Flagg were joined on the first team by Alabama star Mark Sears, Purdues Braden Smith and Walter Clayton Jr.

of Florida.

Broome is the first Auburn player to be a first-team All-American, while Flagg is the 19th player from Duke to earn such recognition.

JT Toppin, Kam Jones, John Tonje, PJ Haggerty and RJ Luis Jr.

were second-team picks, and Ryan Kalkbrenner, Zakai Zeigler, Eric Dixon, LJ Cryer and Hunter Dickinson were third-team selections.

Shohei Ohtani, Japan's other baseball stars shook their nerves and delivered in MLB's Tokyo opener TOKYO (AP) Yoshinobu Yamamoto had a little extra zip on his fastball.

Shohei Ohtani even admitted to some nerves.

There was little doubt this was no ordinary baseball game.

But the Japanese players who were playing in front of their home country at the Tokyo Dome on Tuesday night handled any jitters they had quite well, delivering in clutch moments as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 in Major League Baseballs season opener.

Ohtani finished with two hits and scored two runs in the Dodgers' win while Yamamoto threw five excellent innings.

Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga also threw four scoreless innings, facing Yamamoto in the first all-Japanese starting pitching duel on opening day in MLB history..

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