They'll be going for an unprecedented ninth national championship after Breanna Stewart scored 18 points and the Huskies advanced to another title game with a 75-56 win against Stanford on Sunday night. It wasn't easy early, though the Huskies (39-0) did their part in setting up the highly anticipated championship showdown of undefeated teams. They will square off against Notre Dame, an 87-61 winner over Maryland, on Tuesday night in the title game....

During the second quarter of their contest against the Utah Jazz before the All-Star break, star forward Anthony Davis went down with a brutal ankle injury and was forced to the locker room. Here’s everything we know about the injury so far. NBA LEAGUE PASS: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) What is Anthony Davis’ injury? During the second quarter of the Lakers’ game against the Jazz on Wednesday, Feb....

With less than a minute to go in regulation and LA up double digits, Lakers guard Dennis Schroder drove into the paint against Suns star Devin Booker. As Schroder began to elevate toward the basket, Booker delivered a two-handed shove to Schroder, who hit the court hard and rolled out of bounds. MORE: Harrell seems to be enjoying Clippers’ playoff struggles After the officiating crew reviewed the play, Booker was given a Flagrant 2 foul and ejected from the game....

But the Timberwolves wouldn’t have been in that position if it wasn’t for the young star in Anthony Edwards. The 20-year-old exploded for 40 points, 14 of which came in the fourth quarter, which helped Minnesota win consecutive games in Portland for the first time since the 2004-05 season. He also stuffed the stat sheet with nine rebounds, three steals and three blocks but zero assists. This is the second 40-point game of his season and fourth of his career, tying him for the second-most games of 40 or more for players before turning 21 years....

Twenty-four members of the House of Representatives signed a letter to Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of NIH. The letter was prompted by the nonprofit group White Coat Waste which obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act that appear to show NIAID spent $1.68 million in taxpayer money for experiments on beagle puppies in a lab in Tunisia....

Fury took Wilder’s WBC title with a seventh-round knockout in Las Vegas in February. Rewatch classic fights on DAZN Joshua, who holds the WBA, IBF and WBO belts, felt his fellow Brit was able to take away the American’s only weapon. “We’ve seen in some of his fights, it’s been difficult for him and then he lands his punch and he’s been victorious, but I always believe that when you go to war, you can’t have one weapon in your arsenal, which was his right hand,” Joshua told Sky Sports....

He’s far from the reason the Nationals are inconsistent so far. It’s pretty much been the opposite — the reason they’ve had a chance to win nearly every day regardless of what shenanigans are taking place around him in the lineup, in the bullpen and in the dugout. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN Whether any of that has gotten Rendon closer to securing his future in Washington, however, is still up in the air....

Recently, however, a cast of reactionaries, fundamentalist zealots and conversion therapy hucksters rejected this consensus in the opposition to Aimee Stephens, a Michigan woman at the center of a landmark Supreme Court case. In 2013, Stephens was fired from her job at a funeral home after she came out as transgender and began presenting as a woman at work. In briefs submitted to the nine justices, activists and organizations on the fringes of American life are attempting to make a case about trans employment into a case about trans existence....

Garrison, who has published multiple anti-vaccine cartoons, and his wife, both of whom are in their 60s, have had COVID-19 for about two weeks, according to Gizmodo. The cartoonist told the outlet that it’s been “rough” and that he lost his sense of taste and smell, causing him to lose a desire to eat and drop 15 pounds. However, he has no plans to seek out a medical provider....

EVERY SCHOOLCHILD MUST BE FAMILIAR with the story of Alexander Fleming and the discovery of a bacteria-killing mold he called penicillin. What they probably don’t know is that having found the mold in 1928, he didn’t do anything much with it. It was not until 1938 that two Oxford University scientists, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, went back to Fleming’s mold, eventually found a way to produce penicillin and, by 1942, showed it could be used to treat infections....

Women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) are at risk for high blood pressure. Also known as vasopressin, ADH promotes smooth muscle contraction of the blood vessels and causes the body to retain water, helping to prevent dehydration. ADH secretion is activated when specialized cells in the brain or heart detect a change in the concentration of the blood or blood pressure. Once released, ADH travels to the kidneys where it signals specific cells to reabsorb water from the kidneys, preventing water from being lost through urination....

(UPDATE: The Buccaneers officially released Brown on Thursday afternoon.) However, removing the seven-time Pro Bowler from the locker room doesn’t eliminate the possibility of more Brown-related drama. Case in point: Brown decided that Thursday morning was a good time to fire off some social-media posts involving Arians, as well as Tom Brady and his longtime trainer, Alex Guerrero. MORE: Arians has “no regrets” about signing Brown In his first post on Instagram, Brown shared the rap song that he dropped after he abruptly left the Buccaneers’ Week 17 game against the Jets....

Brown returned after passing the NFL concussion protocol. Brown was hit by Darian Stewart in the first quarter after making a catch for an 18-yard gain. Brown got up slowly and was taken to the locker room to be examined for a possible concussion. He returned in the second quarter and aided a late drive that set up a field goal. Brown had five catches for 116 yards and a touchdown last Sunday in Pittsburgh’s 30-27 win over Cleveland....

The wide receiver’s unceremonious exit from the Buccaneers led to lots of finger-pointing, he-said-he-said dynamics and a cloud of doubt around both sides’ stories. Brown, though, isn’t done trying to prove he was in the right for his exit from the team. MORE: Did Brady’s relationship with Arians lead to announcement? The free agent wideout posted an MRI image of his injured ankle on a now-deleted Instagram post on Monday, with a caption that said the Buccaneers “intentionally” tried to injure him knowing he was playing banged up....

“Network TV is something we (boxing) really needed,” Tarver told Sporting News. “There wasn’t enough visibility for boxing. I think everything went to pay-per-view. Everybody wanted to do pay-per-view. There’s only a few pay-per-view type fighters. When your asking folks to dig into there pockets and get that money, it just wasn’t the time for it. I think when America fell on tough times, it was really hard for us then....

Blinken told ABC’s This Week on Sunday that President Joe Biden is hoping to turn the corner from the Israel-Palestine bloodshed by focusing on equal rights as part of a longer term shift in bilateral discussions. The secretary of state’s impending trip to the West Bank comes just days after a ceasefire was reached between Israelis and Palestinians. Doubling down on Biden’s commitment to a two-state solution, Blinken agreed that equal rights between the two groups will be the key in making these talks succeed where past discussions have failed....

The 58-year old New Yorker has been steeped in the foreign policy business ever since he was a Clinton administration staffer on the National Security Council. His previous stints include being the chief foreign policy adviser to then-Senator Joe Biden, the deputy national security adviser to former President Barack Obama and the deputy secretary of state during Obama’s second term. The Blinken family name is virtually synonymous with diplomacy: His father served as U....

With the sweatshirt’s hefty price tag of $58 a pop, many took to Twitter to ridicule the New York congresswoman. The sweatshirt was originally listed at $65 but has since been discounted. Purchases made on the site contribute to Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign. “At $58.00 for a sweatshirt, you’re not taxing the rich, you’re overcharging the stupid,” said Darryl K in a December 2 tweet replying to Ocasio-Cortez. “The ‘Tax the Rich’ sweatshirt cost 58 dollars....

Monday afternoon, the 31-year-old took to Twitter to ask her followers if anyone would want to play Among Us with her on Twitch to bring attention to voter registration and getting to the polls. The initial tweet was quickly followed-up asking who her followers would want to see play the game together. At the time of this writing, Ocasio-Cortez’s tweets have more than 11 thousand retweets and almost 10 thousand replies....

No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Ohio State and No. 4 Michigan were all tested by Tennessee-Chattanooga, Michigan State and Indiana, respectively. No. 3 Louisville, meanwhile, was shellacked on the road at unranked Houston, losing any hope of making the College Football Playoff. MORE: Top 25 rundown Other teams to go down Saturday include No. 10 West Virginia, to No. 8 Oklahoma, No. 11 Utah to Oregon and No. 16 LSU to No....