Basketball NewsWednesday, Jan 21, 2026

Publisher:Yahoo Sports NBAOutlet infoJan 21, 12:23 AM ET

Lakers center Deandre Ayton suffered an injury to his left eye against the Nuggets and was unable to finish the game.

Publisher:Yahoo Sports NBAOutlet infoJan 21, 2:44 AM ET

Liverpool and Barcelona are leaving it late to secure automatic qualification to the Champions League round of 16. With just two rounds remaining, the defending champions of England and Spain currently sit outside of the top eight spots that will advance automatically. Teams placed from nine to 24 enter a two-legged playoff to go through to the round of 16.

Publisher:Yahoo Sports NBAOutlet infoJan 21, 12:41 AM ET

The Wolves drop their third straight game, this time to the tanking Jazz in Utah.

Publisher:Yahoo Sports NBAOutlet infoJan 21, 5:02 AM ET

Carlos Alcaraz says he got together with Roger Federer for a round of golf before the Australian Open, and it went just as the 22-year-old Spaniard expected. Federer's swing, he said, is “as beautiful as the tennis.” “Everything he does, he does in style,” Alcaraz said.

Publisher:Yahoo Sports NBAOutlet infoJan 21, 5:47 AM ET

Rory McIlroy believes the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have grown “too far apart” to form an alliance and bring a splintered sport back together. “I just don’t see a world where it can happen at this point,” McIlroy said Wednesday at the Dubai Desert Classic on the European tour. Brooks Koepka’s return to the PGA Tour from LIV has brought into sharper focus the fading hopes of any form of deal being struck by top officials on the two circuits.

Publisher:Yahoo Sports NBAOutlet infoJan 21, 5:45 AM ET

The best figure skater of his generation may just go down as the best of any generation. All that Ilia Malinin must do now is deliver on the Olympic stage. The 20-year-old American phenom has waited four long years for the Milan Cortina Games, after he was controversially left off the U.S. team for the Beijing Olympics.