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By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Oklahoma captured its fifth NCAA women’s gymnastics title, rallying from last after the first rotation to the top spot at the end behind a stellar performance from junior Ragan Smith. The Sooners posted a team score of 198.200, just ahead of Florida at 198.075.

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — A spectacular overhead kick from Álvaro Morata led to a stoppage-time score for Juventus to draw with nine-man Bologna 1-1 in Serie A. Morata’s acrobatic effort was going wide until Dušan Vlahović met it with a header at the far post that found the target to

By BARBARA SURK Associated Press MONACO (AP) — Defending champion Stefanos Tsitispas has breezed into the Monte Carlo Masters final after dispatching second-seeded Alexander Zverev 6-4, 6-2. Tsitsipas lined up the first big final of the clay-court season against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina. The Spaniard knocked out Novak Djokovic in the second round. Davidovich Fokina reached

LONDON (AP) — Poland has reached the Billie Jean King Cup Finals for the first time after top-ranked Iga Swiatek overpowered Andreea Prisacariu of Romania 6-0, 6-0. Poland ultimately beat Romania 4-0. Italy and Kazakhstan also made it to their first finals. Italy knocked out 2019 champion France 3-1 in Sardinia. The Kazakhs upset Germany

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Regular-season successes were nice but meant little to the Miami Heat in the grand scheme of things. The Heat aren’t shy about saying what matters to them is the postseason and the pursuit of a championship. That quest truly starts Sunday when the top-seeded Heat begin

WATFORD, England (AP) — Watford’s already-slim hopes of staying in the English Premier League are hit further by Pontus Jansson securing a 2-1 victory for Brentford with a goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time. The Hornets remain six points from safety with six games remaining. But they have now played two more than

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LONDON (AP) — Quadruple-chasing Liverpool reached a first FA Cup final in a decade helped by Manchester City goalkeeper Zack Steffen’s blunder. Liverpool beat the English Premier League leader 3-2 at Wembley. Liverpool was already leading through Ibrahima Konate’s header when Steffen’s failure to clear a back pass

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo has capped his hat trick with a stunning free kick in the 76th minute to give Manchester United a 3-2 win over Norwich and boost the team’s hopes of securing a Champions League spot. United moved past Arsenal into fifth place, three points behind Tottenham in the English Premier

By The Associated Press American forward Haji Wright scored his third goal in two games, helping Antalyaspor to a 3-1 victory at Alanyaspor in the Turkish league. Wright scored the game’s first goal in the 17th minute with a left-footed shot from inside the 6-yard box after a corner kick was directed in front. Wright

BERLIN (AP) — Striker Erling Haaland scored twice as Borussia Dortmund routed Wolfsburg 6-1 to maintain its slim chances of winning the German league. Dortmund is six points behind Bayern Munich with only a mathematical chance of the title. Bayern plays on Sunday. Hungary winger Roland Sallai scored twice as fifth-placed Freiburg beat mid-table Bochum

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Luka Doncic won’t play for the Dallas Mavericks in Game 1 of their playoff series against Utah because of the left calf strain the All-Star guard suffered in the regular-season finale. Mavericks coach Jason Kidd said before Saturday’s game that Doncic is day to day, but

By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — NASCAR will race on Easter Sunday for just the 11th time in history and the first time the Cup Series was deliberately scheduled to run on the holiday. The first 10 Easter races were because of a weather-related rescheduling. But NASCAR executive Ben Kennedy

LONDON (AP) — Leandro Trossard’s 90th-minute goal has given Brighton a 1-0 victory at Tottenham to halt the north London club’s resurgence and push for Champions League qualification. Tottenham had won five out of its last six matches to move into fourth place in the Premier League, helped by Brighton beating Arsenal last weekend. Mid-table