NBA NewsSaturday, Jan 17, 2026

The NBA Trade Deadline is still some weeks away, but fantasy basketball managers are already feeling the effects of the rumors.

Inter Milan will be full of confidence as the Champions League resumes after consolidating its lead at the top of the Serie A table with a 1-0 win at Udinese on Saturday. Lautaro Martínez scored in the first half as Inter moved six points clear of second-placed AC Milan and nine above defending champion Napoli, in third. Inter welcomes Arsenal in the Champions League on Tuesday.

With Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek and Madison Keys divvying up the four Grand Slam titles last season, women's tennis offers quite a bit more intrigue these days than the “ Sincaraz ” dominance in the men's game. No. 1-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, who plays his first-round match at Melbourne Park when action gets started Sunday, and two-time defending Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner, meanwhile, have combined to win the past eight men's Slam trophies.

The NFL will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by displaying “Choose Love” in the end zones and on helmet decals for all divisional round playoff games this weekend. Host teams will select the end zone stencils for the conference championship games. “Dr. King’s message continues to guide how we show up in meaningful moments across the league,” said Anna Isaacson, SVP of social responsibility for the NFL.

Groundhog Day as the Mavs and Jazz wrap a back-to-back set

Emre Can scored a penalty deep into stoppage time to give Borussia Dortmund a 3-2 win over St. Pauli in the Bundesliga on Saturday despite letting a two-goal lead slip earlier. The Dortmund crowd cheered the referee's announcement that video review showed St. Pauli's Ricky-Jade Jones had indeed fouled Maximilian Beier inside the penalty area, and was jubilant when Can converted the spot kick. Until then, Dortmund had been heading for a 2-2 draw which would have given Bayern Munich a chance to...

Nika Egadze of Georgia will head to next month's Winter Olympics as the European figure skating champion after a dominant win by nearly 17 points on Saturday. Skating last after rivals made mistakes, Egadze needed only to avoid glaring errors to secure gold but delivered a personal-best free skate, landing four high-scoring quadruple jumps and scoring 181.72 points for a total of 273. It was the second gold medal of the championships for the former Soviet nation of Georgia after Egadze's frie...

Once the legal wrangling over paying players finally got settled last summer, there was hope that college football might finally stumble into something resembling stability. Among the headlines over the past few months: lawsuits over eligibility, bickering about the transfer portal, stalled congressional legislation, fights about outside investment into conferences, the future of the College Football Playoff and, of course, the decades-old dilemma over coaches leaving programs for huge amount...

The best thing about the Sacramento Kings is that the Wizards can say, “At least we’re not the Sacramento Kings.” Yes, the Kings beat the Wizards, 128-115 last night. It was their 12th victory of the year — just two more than the Wizards. But Sacramento has been bad while also being the league’s third […]

Will the Jazz give Dallas another tanking masterclass?

Winger Wesley Saïd scored a brilliant goal to secure Lens' 10th consecutive win across all competitions and place atop the Ligue 1 standings on Saturday. Lens defeated Auxerre 1-0 after Saïd controlled with his chest Malang Sarr’s cross into the box and finished with a left-footed volley from the bounce. Lens, which claimed its only French title in 1998, stayed one point ahead of defending champion Paris Saint-Germain, which beat Lille on Friday.

Goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali saved two penalties including the first from Mohamed Salah for Nigeria to beat Egypt 4-2 in a penalty shootout for third place at the Africa Cup Nations on Saturday. Ademola Lookman scored the winning penalty. Salah and Omar Marmoush had their penalty kicks saved by Nwabali at the start of the shootout after the teams drew 0-0 in normal time.