| From Marisa Ingemi: When the confetti dropped after the final buzzer, the UCLA women's basketball team was dancing. |
| Lauren Betts and Charlisse Leger-Walker looked at each other as Tate McRae's "Just Keep Watching" played, then Gabriela Jaquez, from across the court, locked eyes and raced to join them in time. |
| It was time, once again, for the Bruins to celebrate by performing their dance routine. This time, No. 1 UCLA also answered a key question during its Final Four-clinching 70-58 win over No. 3 Duke. |
| Yes, the Bruins (35-1), barely challenged all season and always dancing and smiling, could actually deal with adversity after all. |
| UCLA earned its second straight Final Four berth despite trailing at halftime for the second time all season and coming from behind to win while down in the second half for the first time. |
| They will face the winner of Monday's game between No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Michigan. |
| "That was definitely adversity," said Gianna Kneepkens, who scored seven points. "We regrouped, and the way we were talking to each other gives me so much confidence." |
| UCLA trailed Duke 39-31 at the half after missing all four three-point attempts and committing 12 turnovers. |
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| UCLA-Duke box score |
| NCAA women's basketball bracket |
| Swanson: UCLA women prove they're tough enough to handle any Final Four test |
Bronny James proves he deserves to remain with Lakers |
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| Lakers guard Bronny James controls the ball during a win over the Brooklyn Nets on Friday. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) |
| From Mirjam Swanson: You used to root for Bronny James to come into games ironically. Or because you just wanted to see history. |
| But now I bet you want to see Bronny come into the game to hoop. |
| That's a pretty cool plot twist. |
| Especially because LeBron James' son has had to develop his game with the weight of a kingdom on his shoulders, the only expectation being that he would fail to amount to anything resembling an NBA player. |
| But over the past couple seasons, Bronny has developed into an NBA reserve who is worth rostering, whether or not his dad is part of the program. |
| Shocker, right? |
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Lakers rest up for final stretch |
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| Lakers star Luka Doncic will not play against the Wizards on Monday after being suspended by the NBA one game for technical fouls. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) |
| From Broderick Turner: Two days with no games allowed the Lakers to fully reset as they prepare for the final stretch of the regular season and a playoff run. |
| They have eight games left, starting with the NBA lottery-bound Washington Wizards at Crypto.com Arena on Monday. The Lakers will play without star guard Luka Doncic because he's serving his one-game suspension for reaching the league limit of 16 technical fouls. |
| The Lakers had an early practice Sunday and that gave them a chance to make adjustments with fresh bodies and minds. |
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Dodgers get their World Series rings |
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A detailed look at the top of the Dodgers' 2025 World Series championship ring. (The Champions Collective) |
| From Maddie Lee: Clayton Kershaw's 2025 teammates had already received their World Series rings in a pregame ceremony Friday at Dodger Stadium when the future Hall of Famer jogged out of the dugout wearing his No. 22 Dodgers jersey. |
| He took the ball from manager Dave Roberts on the mound and delivered the ceremonial first pitch. Then the team re-emerged to present Kershaw with his ring. |
| "For me it's just a great ending to my career," Kershaw said when asked what the new ring meant to him. "I couldn't have scripted it any better." |
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Connecticut wins in a thriller to advance to Final Four |
| From the Associated Press: Braylon Mullins sank a desperation three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left to give Connecticut an astonishing 73-72 victory over top-seeded Duke on Sunday, earning the Huskies a spot in the Final Four after they rallied from a 19-point first-half deficit. |
| The Blue Devils led by three before UConn's Silas Demary Jr. made one of two free throws with 10 seconds left. With Duke playing keep-away to prevent the Huskies from fouling, Cayden Boozer's pass near midcourt was deflected, and after UConn came up with the ball, Demary made a shot from well behind the three-point line. |
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| NCAA men's tournament bracket |
Clippers earn their fifth straight win |
| From the Associated Press: Bennedict Mathurin scored 28 points, John Collins had 22 and Kawhi Leonard finished with 20 as the Clippers got past the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks 127-113 on Sunday for their fifth consecutive win. |
| Darius Garland added 15 points and 11 assists and Derrick Jones Jr. 13 points for the Clippers, who made 45 of 77 shots (58.4%). |
| Gary Trent Jr. had a season-high 36 points to pace Milwaukee, which had only eight players available. Taurean Prince added 18 points and AJ Green scored 15 for the Bucks, who have lost 10 of their last 12 games. |
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| Clippers-Bucks box score |
| NBA scores |
| NBA standings |
Angels split season-opening series |
| From the Associated Press: Isaac Paredes hit a tiebreaking two-RBI double with two outs in the eighth inning to help the Houston Astros to a 9-7 win over the Angels on Sunday despite a disappointing major league debut from starter Tatsuya Imai. |
| There were two outs in the eighth when the Angels intentionally walked Yordan Alvarez to give Houston runners at first and third. Alvarez stole second before Paredes hit a line drive off Drew Pomeranz (0-1) to put Houston on top 8-6. |
| Jose Altuve followed with a double to push the lead to 9-6. |
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| Angels-Astros box score |
| MLB scores |
| MLB standings |
This day in sports history |
| 1940 — Indiana routs Kansas 60-42 for the NCAA basketball championship. |
| 1943 — Ken Sailors scores 16 points to lead Wyoming to a 56-43 victory over Georgetown in the NCAA basketball championship. |
| 1976 — Paul Silas of the Boston Celtics joins Bill Russell and Bill Bridges as the third player in NBA history to collect 10,000 career rebounds before scoring 10,000 career points. |
| 1979 — Robert Parish of Golden State becomes the first Warrior in 10 years (since Nate Thurmond) to get at least 30 points and 30 rebounds in a game. Parish scores 30 points and grabs 32 rebounds in a 114-98 win over the New York Knicks. |
| 1980 — San Antonio's Larry Kenon scores 51 points and George Gervin adds 37 to lead the Spurs to a 144-124 win over Detroit in the final game of the regular season. Gervin wins the scoring title with a 33.1 points per game and becomes the fifth player to win at least three consecutive scoring titles, joining George Mikan, Neil Johnston, Wilt Chamberlain and Bob McAdoo. |
| 1981 — Sophomore guard Isiah Thomas scores 23 points to lead Indiana to a 63-50 victory over North Carolina to win the NCAA basketball title. |
| 1987 — Keith Smart's 16-foot jump shot gives Indiana a 74-73 victory over Syracuse for the NCAA men's basketball championship. |
| 1990 — Jack Nicklaus makes his debut on the Senior PGA Tour with a 71 (-1) in the first round of The Tradition at Desert Mountain; wins event by 4 strokes over Gary Player. |
| 1995 — Maine beats Michigan 4-3 in triple overtime, the longest hockey game in NCAA tournament history, to advance to the NCAA title game. |
| 2001 — Michael Phelps becomes the youngest American swimmer to set a world record, winning the 200-meter butterfly in the USA Swimming Championships in 1 minute, 54.92 seconds. Phelps, 15, breaks the record of 1:55.18 set by Olympic gold medalist Tom Malchow in June. |
| 2007 — American Ryan Lochte pulls off a stunning upset in the 200-meter backstroke, beating the supposedly invincible Aaron Peirsol with a world-record time of 1:54.32. Lochte erases Peirsol's old mark of 1:54.44 to give Peirsol his first international loss in the 200 since the Sydney Olympics seven years ago. |
| 2007 — Kobe Bryant scores 53 points for his eighth 50-point performance of the season as the Los Angeles Lakers lost to Houston 107-104 in overtime. |
| 2008 — The Boston Celtics hold Miami to an NBA-record low 17 field goals, coasting to an 88-62 victory. The previous record for fewest field goals in a game came against Miami in April 1999, when Chicago managed only 18. |
| 2013 — Syracuse shuts down Marquette with a 55-39 win in the East regional final and reached the Final Four for the first time in a decade. The Golden Eagles' 39 points are a record low for a team in an NCAA tournament regional final since the shot clock was introduced in 1986. The 94 combined points was also a record low for a regional final. |
| 2014 — Aaron Harrison makes a 3-pointer from about 24 feet with 2.3 seconds left to lift Kentucky to a 75-72 win over Michigan and the program's 16th trip to the Final Four. Eighth-seeded Kentucky is the first all-freshman starting lineup to make the Final Four since the Fab Five at Michigan in 1992. |
| 2014 — Shabazz Napier scores 17 of his 25 points in the second half, and UConn beats Michigan State 60-54 to return to the Final Four a year after the Huskies were barred from the NCAA tournament. The Huskies rally from a nine-point second-half deficit to become the first No. 7 seed to reach the Final Four since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. |
| 2020 — International Olympic Committee announces postponed 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be held July 23-August 8 in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Compiled by the Associated Press |
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