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MCC girls open golf season with a win

MT. LAKE — Lizzie Daniels and Rachael Huso tied for second as individuals in the Murray County Central girls golf team’s season-opening triangular on Thursday. The Rebels’ depth proved decisive in the meet, as MCC came away with a first-place team score of 214 to eke past Mountain Lake Area’s 218. Red Rock Central also competed but did not field a team score. Daniels and Huso each shot an 11-over 47 on the day, tying them with MLAC’s Reagan Pederson and trailing only Nevaeh Ott’s 45. Daniels finished her round with a pair of pars on holes 2 and 4, while Huso logged a ...

Ryan’s five scoreless innings not enough in Twins’ Opening Day loss

BALTIMORE (AP) — Trevor Rogers pitched seven shutout innings and Colton Cowser and Blaze Alexander had seventh-inning RBIs to give the Baltimore Orioles a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Twins on opening day Thursday. Following a stellar 2025 season in which he went 9-3 with a 1.81 ERA, Rogers ...

Wolves post largest recorded OT comeback to stun Rockets

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Timberwolves were missing five of their top seven players for most of their record-setting overtime rally to beat the Houston Rockets. They chose focus over frustration. With a game-closing 15-0 run, the Timberwolves came back from 13 points down for a ...

Gophers, UCLA collide again in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — There's a familiarity among the four teams playing in Sacramento Regional 2 as UCLA and Minnesota are Big Ten opponents while LSU and Duke faced off in December in the ACC-SEC Challenge. “It’s an interesting thing. You’ve got a couple matchups that way," UCLA ...

MCC track and field hosts Early Bird Invite

SLAYTON — The Murray County Central track and field team hosted Russell-Tyler-Ruthton, Adrian/Ellsworth and MACCRAY/Renville County West for its Early Bird Invitational on Thursday afternoon. RESULTS BOYS 100m: 1-Lucas Kuball (MCC) 12.00; 3-Brayden Gilb (MCC), 12.73; 5-Parker Olson (MCC), 12.84. 200m: Lucas Kuball (MCC), 24.50; 3-Alexander Betz (MCC), 25.99; 4-Brayden Gilb (MCC), 16.16. 5-Luke Iverson (MCC), 26.78. 400m: 1-Lucas Kuball (MCC), 55.09; 2-Alexander Betz (MCC), 55.69. 4-Beckett Stelter (MCC), 58.48; 5-Brayden Gilb (MCC), 1:00.33. 800m: 1-Alexander Betz (MCC) 2:10.99; ...

NBA owners approve expansion exploration for Vegas, Seattle

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has finally decided to consider expanding past its current 30-team footprint, with the league's owners voting Wednesday to start exploring the process of adding franchises in Las Vegas and Seattle. It was not a surprise move; expansion has been a consideration for years, and it's been clear for some time that those two cities — both with longstanding ties to the NBA — are the ones that are now a significant step closer toward joining the league. Las Vegas, the league's summer home for years and site of the first NBA Cup championship games, has been ...