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Houston, Kansas tops AP men's hoop poll; FAU in for first time
Houston and Kansas remained firmly atop The Associated Press men's college basketball poll Monday after a record weekend of Top 25 losses, while Florida Atlantic took advantage of the chaos to crack the ranking for the first time in school history.

Top-5
No.1: Kansas (17-1)
No.2: Houston (16-1)
No.3: Purdue (16-1)
No.4: Alabama (15-2)
No.5: UCLA (16-2)
 

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Baylor out of women's AP Top 25 for the first time since 2004
The Bears had been ranked for 365 consecutive polls before falling out Monday after losing twice last week. Only Tennessee (565) and UConn (556) have had longer streaks in the 46-year history of the poll.

Top-5
No.1: South Carolina (16-0)
No.2: Ohio State (18-0)
No.3: LSU (18-0)
No.4: Stanford (17-2)
No.5: UConn (15-2)
 

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LIV Golf secures TV, streaming deal with the CW network


LIV Golf has reached a multiyear U.S. broadcast television and streaming agreement with the CW network to air its live tournaments, tour officials announced Thursday. According to the news release, the CW network will boutroadcast each of LIV Golf's 14 global events this coming season over the air and on the CW app. "This is a momentous day for LIV Golf as this partnership is about more than just media rights," LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman said in a statement. "The CW will provide accessibility for our fans and maximum exposure for our athletes and partners as their reach includes more than 120 million households across the United States. We're very proud to note how consequential it is that a league that has only existed for one year has secured a full broadcast deal in its debut full league season."

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Liam Smith drubs rival Chris Eubank Jr. in 4th-round stoppage


Liam Smith settled his differences with Chris Eubank Jr. in emphatic fashion, stopping his English middleweight rival in four rounds on Saturday. Smith floored Eubank twice, shattering his hopes of facing 40-year-old veteran Gennadiy Golovkin, the WBA and IBF world champion. Eubank went into the fight as ESPN's No. 5-ranked middleweight, but this crushing loss casts doubt on whether he can win a world title like his father, Chris, a champion at middleweight and super middleweight in the 1990s.

Smith (33-3-1, 20 KOs), 34, from Liverpool, has had a roller-coaster career. He made two defenses as WBO welterweight champion in 2015-16 and also suffered a knockout loss to Canelo Alvarez in 2016. After his win over Eubank, he can look forward to another elite-level fight.

Eubank (33-3, 23 KOs), 33, from Brighton, who had four-weight world champion Roy Jones Jr. in his corner as trainer, had not fought for nearly a year after his fight against Conor Benn was cancelled due to his opponent testing positive for a banned substance at late notice last year. But despite the ring layoff, Eubank still went into this encounter as a big betting favorite.


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Purdue returns to No. 1 in AP men's hoop poll; Alabama No. 2
The Boilermakers received 39 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel after a volatile week in which just two teams kept the same spot from a week ago.

Top-5
No.1: Purdue (19-1)
No.2: Alabama (17-2)
No.3: Houston (18-2)
No.4: Tennessee (16-3)
No.5: Kansas State (16-2)
 

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In a first, women's basketball AP Top 25 has no Texas team
The Texas Longhorns fell out of Monday's poll, ending a 835-week run that had at least one team from the Lone Star State in the rankings.[/url]

Top-5
No.1: South Carolina (20-0)
No.2: Ohio State (19-0)
No.3: Stanford (19-2)
No.4: LSU (19-0)
No.5: UConn (17-2)
 

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Purdue unanimous No. 1, in men's AP Top 25; Tennessee up to No. 2
The Boilermakers (21-1) have won eight straight since a one-point loss to Rutgers on Jan. 2. The Volunteers climbed to their highest perch since reaching No. 1 for four weeks during the 2018-19 season.

Top-5
No.1: Purdue (21-1)
No.2: Tennessee (18-3)
No.3: Houston (20-2)
No.4: Alabama (18-3)
No.5: Arizona (19-3)
 

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South Carolina still tops; Ohio State falls In women's AP poll
South Carolina remained No. 1 for the 32nd consecutive week. The previously unbeaten Buckeyes fell from second to 10th in The Associated Press women's basketball poll released Monday.

Top-5
No.1: South Carolina (21-0)
No.2: Stanford (21-2)
No.3: LSU (20-0)
No.4: Indiana (20-1)
No.5: UConn (20-2)
 

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Artur Beterbiev stops Anthony Yarde for 19th straight knockout


Artur Beterbiev maintained his 100% knockout record as a professional by stopping Anthony Yarde in eight thrilling rounds to defend his three world light heavyweight titles Saturday. Few things in sport are certainties, but Beterbiev has delivered a KO performance in each of his 19 professional fights over a decade now. Beterbiev (19-0, 19 KOs), who is based in Montreal but originally from Chechnya, Russia, registered a seventh world title defense in a brutal fight that he finished in style two minutes and one second into the eighth round.

Yarde (23-3, 22 KOs) was stopped for the second time in his career by a big-hitting Russian. Yarde was well into the fight, but Beterbiev showed the quality of his finishing in the eighth round when he landed a straight right hand that sent Yarde spinning, before another cuffing right deposited him onto the canvas.


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OU, Texas to join SEC in '25 as exit talks stall, sources say


The negotiations for Oklahoma and Texas to leave the Big 12 a year early and join the SEC in 2024 have stalled and a deal is not expected to come to fruition, sources told ESPN on Friday morning. After weeks of negotiations, Texas and Oklahoma are still slated to join the SEC in 2025. Sources said the parties couldn't come to terms amid a complex negotiation involving two schools, two networks (ESPN and Fox) and the Big 12. Sources said the sides couldn't agree on how to create equitable value for what Fox would lose in 2024 -- the equivalent of seven football games featuring Oklahoma and Texas that command premium advertising. Instead, Oklahoma and Texas are slated to play out the final seasons of their contracts with the Big 12.

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Purdue stays No. 1 in AP top 25; NC States in at No. 22
The Boilermakers earned 38 of 62 first-place votes in the poll released Monday. NC State earned its first AP Top 25 ranking in four years.

AP Top-5 Men's Basketball Rankings
No.1: Purdue (22-2)
No.2: Houston (22-2)
No.3: Alabama (20-3)
No.4: Arizona (21-3)
No.5: Texas (19-4)
 

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Indiana reaches No. 2 in women's AP Top 25 for first time
While South Carolina has had a stranglehold on No. 1 for more than a year, Indiana is making its first appearance ever at No. 2 after Stanford lost to Washington.

AP Top-5 Women's Basketball Rankings
No.1: South Carolina (23-0)
No.2: Indiana (22-1)
No.3: LSU (23-0)
No.4: UConn (21-3)
No.5: Iowa (19-4)
 

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LIV Golf League lawyers say 2022 revenue was 'virtually zero'


As the LIV Golf League prepares to start its second season in Mexico later this month, the circuit being financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is generating virtually no revenue, according to federal court documents. The LIV Golf League's attorneys made that admission in a motion filed with the U.S. District Court for Northern California on Monday. LIV Golf asked U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman to deny the PGA Tour's motion for leave to add the Public Investment Fund and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, as plaintiffs in the tour's countersuit against LIV Golf, in which it alleges LIV Golf interfered with its contract with players.

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No. 4 UConn losses back-to-back games for the first time in 30 years
The No. 4 Huskies lost to No. 1 South Carolina 81-77 on Sunday in Hartford, Connecticut. The program's last consecutive losses came in 1993, when the Huskies lost to the Providence Friars in the Big East tournament on March 7 and then to the Louisville Cardinals in the NCAA tournament on March 17.
 

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OU, Texas to join SEC in '25 as exit talks stall, sources say


The negotiations for Oklahoma and Texas to leave the Big 12 a year early and join the SEC in 2024 have stalled and a deal is not expected to come to fruition, sources told ESPN on Friday morning. After weeks of negotiations, Texas and Oklahoma are still slated to join the SEC in 2025. Sources said the parties couldn't come to terms amid a complex negotiation involving two schools, two networks (ESPN and Fox) and the Big 12. Sources said the sides couldn't agree on how to create equitable value for what Fox would lose in 2024 -- the equivalent of seven football games featuring Oklahoma and Texas that command premium advertising. Instead, Oklahoma and Texas are slated to play out the final seasons of their contracts with the Big 12.

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Oklahoma, Texas agree to exit Big 12 Conference after 2023-24 season
On July 1, the Big 12 will officially add BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston to the conference, and it will compete as a 14-team league for the upcoming season.


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Oklahoma and Texas have agreed in principle to pay the Big 12 conference a total of $100 million to join the SEC in 2024, a year earlier than they had originally intended,
 

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