WASHINGTON ( AP) — Doc Rivers was enjoying his team’s win so much that he didn’t realize Rajon Rondo had achieved his eighth regular- season triple-double. Rondo had 18 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds while Kevin Garnett had 24 points and nine rebounds to lead the Boston Celtics over the winless Washington Wizards 94-86 […]

RICHMOND — The Richmond High School boys basketball team won for the second straight time Friday with a 52-30 East-West Conference victory over Seacoast Christian. The Bobcats improved to 2- 3 and are scheduled to visit Old Orchard Beach on Tuesday. Richmond posted quarterly leads of 14-6, 27-15 and 37-21 as Ben Carver scored 15, […]

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — The Cal-Lutheran women’s basketball team used a late 6-0 run and held off a Bowdoin rally to edge the Polar Bears 56- 55 in the finale of the Posada Royale Holiday Classic late Saturday evening. Bowdoin had its four-game winning streak snapped and fell to 7-3. Polar Bear guard Kaitlin Donahoe […]

BRUNSWICK — Becky Champagne scored all 11 of her points in the first half, including nine in a pivotal second quarter, as the Brunswick High School girls basketball team ran past Lewiston 50-34 in Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference play on Friday. Leading 8-6 after a quarter, the 3- 4 Dragons outscored Lewiston (0-6) 24-10 for […]

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Kris Joseph scored 22 points and No. 1 Syracuse used its defense and depth to rout DePaul 87-68 on Sunday, the unbeaten Orange’s 15th straight victory. C.J. Fair added 16 points, Dion Waiters had 13 and Fab Melo scored 12 points to go with six blocks for the Orange (15-0, 2-0 […]

Two rematches of regular-season games will highlight the wild-card round, which was set up when Cincinnati grabbed the final AFC spot Sunday and Atlanta moved ahead of Detroit in the NFC. The Bengals got into the postseason despite losing 24-16 to Baltimore, winning a tiebreaker at 9-7 over Tennessee. Cincinnati visits Houston to open the […]