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Sharp-shooting Gohlke lifts No. 14 Oakland over No. 3 UK

The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Jack Gohlke has no illusions of going to the NBA. Guys who spend five years in Division II before transferring to a small D-I program with one NCAA Tournament win in its history typically don’t head to the pros. Don’t mistake that practicality with a lack of belief in his abilities. Or those of his team. Gohlke and his Oakland teammates have felt all season they could hang with anybody on a given night. Any given night turned into Thursday, when the 6-foot-3 graduate transfer and the commuter school located 30 miles from downtown Detroit ...

Oregon’s Couisnard drops 40 to help beat his former team

The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Jermaine Couisnard swears it wasn’t personal and he wasn’t seeking revenge against South Carolina. He got some anyway. Couisnard scored a career-high 40 points — the most for an Oregon player in NCAA Tournament history — and he haunted his former team while leading the Ducks to an 87-73 victory in the first round of the Midwest Region on Thursday. Couisnard, who spent three years at South Carolina before transferring in part because of a coaching change following the 2022 season, made five 3-pointers, dropped all seven free throws and ...

Yamamoto chased after 1st inning of debut as Padres beat Dodgers 15-11

The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — After chasing Yoshinobu Yamamoto from his major league debut after one inning and scoring their most runs ever against the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego’s Xander Bogaerts was sad to leave the Gocheok Sky Dome. “We got to come here more,” he said. Jake Cronenworth tied a career high with four hits and had four RBIs as the Padres outlasted the Dodgers 15-11 on Thursday night after Los Angeles fired Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter following allegations of illegal gambling. Ippei Mizuhara was let go from the team Wednesday following ...

GOP makes last request for Biden to testify as House impeachment inquiry winds down

WASHINGTON—The House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is all but winding down, lacking the political appetite from within the Republican ranks to go forward with an actual impeachment, but facing political pressure to deliver after months of work. The chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Republican Rep. James Comer, made a last-ditch push at Wednesday’s hearing, announcing he will seek testimony from Biden himself, saying the Democratic president was either “complicit or incompetent” in his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings. It’s ...

In one Ukrainian city, ballet in a bomb shelter is an escape from the horrors, ugliness of war

KHARKIV, Ukraine—In a dance studio that doubles as a bomb shelter in northeast Ukraine, the little girls in pink tutus prance in like gusts of air. Timed to classical music, the 9-year olds jump and glide. Occasionally, they misbehave, prompting a curt rebuke from Marina Altukhova, their instructor. The Princess Ballet Studio is a spartan, windowless space under an apartment complex, but for an hour, the ballet class offers levity and escape from the daily horrors playing out above ground in the northeastern city of Kharkiv. Reminders of Russia’s war against Ukraine are ...

QB Williams works out in front of prominent Bears contingent

LOS ANGELES — The first person Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams greeted when he stepped onto the field for his pro day Wednesday was wide receiver Keenan Allen, newly acquired by the Chicago Bears. Allen wasn’t the only Bears representative in attendance, with head coach Matt Eberflus and general manager Ryan Poles also looking on. The Bears have the No. 1 overall pick in next month’s NFL draft and Williams gave them plenty of reasons he could be that selection over the course of a 25-minute session, throwing passes to former Trojans teammates before concluding ...