FOXBOROUGH, Mass. The McCourty twins are back together. The Cleveland Browns traded cornerback Jason McCourty to the New England Patriots on Thursday, reuniting him with his brother Devin. The Browns also sent a seventh-round pick to the Patriots to get a sixth-rounder in return. “Cleveland it’s been real!” Jason McCourty wrote on the Twitter account […]

DALLAS Donte Ingram hit a 3- pointer from the March Madness logo just before the buzzer, lifting Loyola-Chicago over Miami 64-62 in its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1985. Ingram’s long shot came from well above the key. The 11th-seeded Ramblers (29-5) matched the school record for wins from their 1963 national championship team. Loyola […]

ORONO The University of Maine women’s basketball team will face the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, in the first round of the NCAA tournament at 6 p.m. Saturday. The 23-9 Black Bears, winners of 14 of their last 15 and six in a row, earned their first NCAA berth since 2004 by beating Hartford […]

CLERMONT, Fla. The Bowdoin College softball team opened the 2018 season with a pair of victories over Smith College and UMass-Boston on Wednesday afternoon. The Polar Bears pinned a 3- 1 setback on the Pioneers ( 1- 7). Bowdoin finished off the Beacons (2-6) in five innings with a 10-2 win. The Pioneers struck first […]

BRUNSWICK The Brunswick Parks and Recreation Department hosted the 13-team Mid-Winter Boys Eighth-Grade Basketball Classic recently, with area teams from Brunswick, Bath, Philip W. Sugg in Lisbon and Mt. Ararat competing. In the title game, Lewiston defeated rival Auburn, 66-52. Lewiston’s David Omasanbo had 19 points, followed by Blue Demons Ali Abdullahi with 13, and Donavon […]

HOUSTON James Harden scored 24 points, Eric Gordon added 23 and the Houston Rockets outlasted the Los Angeles Clippers for a 101-96 victory on Thursday night. The Clippers scored six straight points, with four from Austin Rivers, to cut the lead to a basket with less than a minute left. But on the next possession, […]

FORT MYERS, Fla. David Price made his delayed spring-training debut for Boston, allowing one hit over four scoreless innings in a 7-5 win over Toronto on Thursday. Price struck out five and walked one. An elbow injury limited to a career-low 11 starts last season. “Felt good,” Price said. “I had really good fastball command […]