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LEEDS, England (AP) — Aston Villa handed Leeds a sixth straight Premier League loss as Steven Gerrard’s impressive side won 3-0 Thursday at Elland Road. Philippe Coutinho’s deflected effort gave Villa a halftime lead and the visitors added further second-half goals through Matty Cash and Calum Chambers. It was Villa’s third straight Premier League win,

WOLVERHAMPTON, England (AP) — Watford’s dwindling hopes of avoiding Premier League relegation suffered another blow with a 4-0 loss to Wolverhampton on Thursday. The result leaves Watford with just one win from its last 16 Premier League games, with Roy Hodgson’s side three points from safety with 10 games remaining. Wolves jumped into a 3-0

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Four-time Paralympian Jasmin Bambur watches the news out of Ukraine and the flashbacks arrive. How, as a kid, Bambur and his family escaped the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He made it from Bosnia to Serbia and eventually to the United States, where he was working on his degree

BOISE, Idaho — Xavier Bishop had 14 points to lead five Montana State players in double figures as the Bobcats romped past Sacramento State 83-61 in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Conference tourney. Great Osobor added 13 points for the Bobcats on Thursday. Abdul Mohamed chipped in 11, Jubrile Belo scored 11 and RaeQuan

CLEVELAND — Ali Ali had 19 points and Greg Tribble made two free throws with 3.2 seconds left and fourth-seeded Akron edged fifth-seeded Buffalo 70-68 in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference tourney on Thursday. Buffalo missed a 3-pointer with 22 seconds to go. Tribble was fouled as he drove to the basket. Jeenathan Williams

TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without No. 1 goaltender Jack Campbell for at least the next two weeks because of a rib injury. Head coach Sheldon Keefe says the 30-year-old Campbell “tweaked something” a while ago and then aggravated the issue during a 26-save performance in Tuesday night’s 6-4 victory over

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball’s acrimonious lockout ended when a divided players’ association voted to accept management’s offer to salvage a 162-game season that will start April 7. Owners approved the five-year labor contract with a 30-0 vote. MLB was expected to lift the lockout around 7

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — West Virginia coach Bob Huggins was ejected from the Mountaineers’ quarterfinal game against No. 6 Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament after he was given two technical fouls in quick succession by referee Doug Sirmons. The Mountaineers were trailing 19-4 and had missed 16 of their first 17 shots when

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — TCU coach Jamie Dixon and Texas counterpart Chris Beard delivered the exact same message at halftime of their Big 12 quarterfinal: Even though the Longhorns had built an 18-point lead, the game wasn’t over. Their teams took it in wildly different directions. The Horned

By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press Munir has scored the winning goal for Sevilla to lead the six-time Europa League champions 1-0 over West Ham in the first leg of the round of 16 of the European second-tier competition. In a game played at Sevilla’s Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium that will host the final, the hosts

FORT WORTH, Texas — David DeJulius had 22 points as Cincinnati beat East Carolina 74-63 in the American Athletic Conference tournament first round. Tristen Newton led the Pirates on Thursday with 26 points, nine rebounds and six assists.

By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Al Durham drained a go-ahead 3-pointer with 41 seconds left for his first basket of the game, and No. 11 Providence barely got past pesky Butler 65-61 in the Big East Tournament quarterfinals. Nate Watson scored a season-high 26 points for the top-seeded Friars, who

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The largest soccer-specific stadium in the United States and Canada will be named GEODIS Park in a naming rights deal between the Nashville Soccer Club and the supply chain operator. Specific terms of the deal were not announced Thursday, though GEODIS also will be the presenting partner for a new soccer

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Premier English League team Chelsea doesn’t have much to celebrate on its 117th birthday. The British government froze the assets of seven wealthy Russians on Thursday, including those of team owner and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. Under the sanctions, Chelsea is being allowed to continue

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Paris Saint-Germain President Nasser Al-Khelaifi over heated incidents after the team’s Champions League loss at Real Madrid. The disciplinary case, which also includes sporting director Leonardo, followed reports that Al-Khelaifi went in search of the match officials to protest refereeing decisions on Wednesday night. PSG

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Juwan Howard was on his best behavior. Sure he worked the officials. And yes he spent most of Thursday’s game barking out instructions to Michigan’s players. But after serving a five-game, league-imposed suspension for taking a swing at Wisconsin assistant coach Joe Krabbenhoft, the Wolverines coach

By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and its locked-out players gained momentum toward an agreement after the bickering sides agreed to negotiate on an international amateur draft and management made a new counteroffer. MLB told players if an agreement was reached by 3 p.m. Thursday and ratified later