The Best of the West offers fans a candid assessment of the top teams in the western third of the country — a collection that ...

These days, the team sending me into wistful aunt mode most often is No. 1 UCLA, whom I last blogged two seasons ago, back when I was still figuring out how to cover regular-season college basketball ...

An amendment to hold a national inquiry into the grooming gangs was rejected by MPs in a vote in the House of Commons. MPs ...

Angel Reese may be preparing for the inaugural season of Unrivaled, but she hasn't stopped thinking of the Chicago Sky.

Grandview High's Lauren Betts is No. 1 — among individual players and in the national rankings. Betts, the former Colorado ...

The national player-of-the-year race is heating up as teams transition to conference play and voting panels whittle down ...

If 2024 was the year of women in sports, 2025 is the year to grow on. The year will be filled with plenty of opportunities to ...

The Lakers lose to the very shorthanded Dallas Mavericks, who were missing a few key players because of injury.

UCLA women's basketball coach Cori Close bonds with Purdue women's basketball coach Katie Gearlds through program rebuild.

Lauren Betts has 17 points and Timea Gardiner adds 16 off the bench as the Bruins (16-0) give their starters plenty of rest ...

Lauren Betts posted 17 points and seven rebounds to guide No. 1 UCLA to an easy 83-49 win over host Purdue on Tuesday in West ...

UCLA scored the first 13 points and kept the Boilermakers at arm's length the rest of the night at a venue that features a ...