Knicks Blow 14-Point Fourth-Quarter Lead in Loss to Cavaliers

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Allonzo Trier had 22 points for the Knicks, whose winning streak ended at two games.https://nyti.ms/2tJjWwA

James Harden Scores 58, the Most the Heat Have Given Up, in a Rockets Win

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Harden added 10 assists and 7 rebounds, helping Houston come back from a 21-point third-quarter deficit.https://nyti.ms/2Nze4Pm

At Honda Classic, Jhonattan Vegas Goes From Almost Worst to First

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Vegas, who made a total of seven birdies in the event last year, had six in the first round this time to take a two-shot lead over four others, including Zach Johnson and Ernie Els.https://nyti.ms/2C1zIat

Former Baylor Football Player Is Acquitted in Rape Trial

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports A jury found Shawn Oakman not guilty of sexual assault in the latest case linked to a scandal that led to the departure of several top university leaders.https://nyti.ms/2TqLwwI

The Clothing Brand Coogi Is Suing the Nets Over Notorious B.I.G.-Inspired Jerseys

By KEVIN DRAPER from NYT Sports Coogi has accused the Nets, Nike and the N.B.A. of violating its copyright on colorful striped design patterns affiliated with the ‘90s Brooklyn rapper.https://nyti.ms/2XwXZ15

Conmebol Rejects U.S. Soccer’s Offer for New Tournament

By ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports South America’s top soccer officials on Thursday rejected an invitation to take part in a proposed intercontinental tournament hosted and financed by U.S. Soccer in the summer of 2020.https://nyti.ms/2T9sgor

Jason Witten to Return to the Cowboys After a Year as a Broadcaster

By VICTOR MATHER and KEVIN DRAPER from NYT Sports The ironman tight end, who retired and had a maligned stint on “Monday Night Football” last year, will rejoin Dallas at 37.https://nyti.ms/2BZQzKG

Bryce Harper Signs With the Phillies for $330 Million

By TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports The deal, which will run through the 2032 season, reportedly does not include any opt-out clauses.https://nyti.ms/2GUB2jw

Robert Kraft Pleads Not Guilty to Prostitution Charges

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT Sports The plea on two first-degree misdemeanors came in writing to the Florida state attorney’s office.https://nyti.ms/2UdPTIP

Atlanta United’s Darren Eales on Buying High, Selling Higher and Staying on Top

By KEN BELSON from NYT Sports Darren Eales built Atlanta United into an M.L.S. champion. Now, after losing his coach and selling his best player, he has to try to do it all over again.https://nyti.ms/2UbTRSb

Take the Lakers. Add Rondo and James. What Could Go Wrong?

By SCOTT CACCIOLA from NYT Sports Rondo was supposed to be an invaluable presence for the Lakers. The road has been rougher than expected.https://nyti.ms/2ECSt5H

John Tavares, Returning as the Enemy, Will Face Jilted Islanders Fans

By ALLAN KREDA from NYT Sports Many fans have vowed to taunt Tavares, the leader of the Islanders for years, when he returns to Nassau Coliseum Thursday night for his first visit as a Toronto Maple Leaf.https://nyti.ms/2SxycT1

Beal, Wizards Roll to 125-116 Victory Over Nets

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Bradley Beal capped off the best month of his career with yet another 30-point night.https://nyti.ms/2tEGI8C

Tampa Bay and Calgary Keep Streaks Alive by Beating Rangers and Devils

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports The Rangers fell in overtime as the Lightning got a 10th straight win, and the Devils lost, 2-1, in the Flames’ seventh consecutive victory.https://nyti.ms/2T5WKY8

Warriors Host Survivors of the Parkland School Shooting

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Coach Steve Kerr invited some students — including ones from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, the school in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed in a massacre last year — to the team’s morning training session in Miami.https://nyti.ms/2SvNIPl

Johnny Manziel Barred from Canadian Football League

By DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports The C.F.L. ordered the Montreal Alouettes to cut Manziel, the former Heisman Trophy winner, and barred any of its other teams from offering him a contract.https://nyti.ms/2XoN7m2

Nolan Arenado Would Rather Lead the Rockies Than Test the Market

By TYLER KEPNER from NYT Sports Arenado said he “wasn’t afraid of free agency,” despite many players’ growing concerns, and a long-term extension with a club on the rise made more sense.https://nyti.ms/2NzBX9I

Kneeling During the Anthem at Ole Miss: ‘I Needed to Stand Up for My Rights’

By BILLY WITZ from NYT Sports A sophomore basketball player wondered how to show his distress about a pro-Confederate rally on campus last weekend. A call to his family led to a decision that drew in other members of the team.https://nyti.ms/2IIOXeb

Luka Doncic Is a Sore Loser. He Is Also a Sensation.

By MARC STEIN from NYT Sports The Mavericks rookie is drawing LeBron James comparisons and has “fast-forwarded” his team’s decision-making.https://nyti.ms/2Tjkw2b

After an Overhaul, U.S. Women Shift to Sweating the Small Stuff

By ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports With 100 days left until the Women’s World Cup, the United States says it has solved many of its big questions. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be more.https://nyti.ms/2H6IOpC

A Mexican Hockey Player Looks for a Place to Lace Up His Skates

By TAL PINCHEVSKY from NYT Sports After being deported from the United States as a collegian, Hector Majul has bounced around, most recently landing in Lithuania.https://nyti.ms/2SZstKC

Knicks Reserves Key 108-103 Win Over Magic

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports If the Knicks are supposed to be tanking, someone forgot to tell their back-ups.https://nyti.ms/2EAAkFU

Calgary Hands the Islanders Their Third Defeat in Four Games

By FIELD LEVEL MEDIA from NYT Sports With the loss, the Islanders fell into a tie for first place in the Metropolitan Division with the Washington Capitals.https://nyti.ms/2UacTbL

For Nolan Arenado, Winning Baseball’s Cash Race Meant Standing Still

By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN from NYT Sports Bryce Harper and Manny Machado presented themselves as rarities: top young baseball players hitting free agency. In an odd way, an extension for Arenado seems to support that point.https://nyti.ms/2Exu815

Kenny Anderson, the Former N.B.A. Star, Is Recovering After Stroke

By SCOTT CACCIOLA from NYT Sports Anderson, who set a New York scoring record in high school, was hospitalized over the weekend. His family has asked for privacy “as Kenny heals.”https://nyti.ms/2EycASu

Pete Alonso Needs More Than Power to Claim His Spot With the Mets

By KEVIN ARMSTRONG from NYT Sports Alonso, the Mets’ most intriguing prospect, has displayed rare ability at the plate, but his defense at first base may determine whether he makes the team.https://nyti.ms/2TdYwpF

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Puts Memorabilia Up for Auction

By FIELD LEVEL MEDIA from NYT Sports The auction includes four N.B.A. championship rings.https://nyti.ms/2ToxWu8

U.S. Soccer Invites South American Teams for New Tournament in 2020

By ANDREW DAS from NYT Sports The new event would resemble the 2016 Copa América Centenario, which featured all 10 teams from South America and six from North and Central America and the Caribbean.https://nyti.ms/2tE09OX

Taking Back ‘Hysterical’

By MAYA SALAM from NYT Sports Serena Williams’s new all-female Nike ad, “Dream Crazier,” hit on an issue almost as old as time: the “hysterical” woman.https://nyti.ms/2Nw0dJz

The Glamorous Existence of the World’s Greatest Shot-Putters

By LINDSAY CROUSE from NYT Sports Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs can heave a 16-pound ball farther than just about anyone else. Meanwhile, their lives have become track and field’s version of a buddy flick.https://nyti.ms/2Xr1syd

Mike Bibby, a Former N.B.A. Star, Is Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Teacher

By VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Bibby, best known as a former point guard for the Sacramento Kings, was accused of assaulting a teacher at a Phoenix high school where he coaches basketball.https://nyti.ms/2Vt9qW7

Trading an Expectant Father? We’ve Seen Stranger

By VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Someone was actually once traded for a bucket of baseballs.https://nyti.ms/2U8nKmp

Nets Stifle the Spurs, Holding Them to a Season Low in Points

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports A night after their defense was absent in a loss to the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, the Spurs went across town and could not get their offense going.https://nyti.ms/2tEXVyF

Radu Albot, Trained on Wooden Courts of Moldova, Earns His Country’s First Title

By CINDY SHMERLER from NYT Sports Albot, who is easily the highest-ranked Moldovan at No. 52, won at Delray Beach on Sunday.https://nyti.ms/2GN3jby

Karl-Anthony Towns Says He Had ‘5 Percent Chance’ of Surviving Car Accident

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Towns was involved in an accident when a semi truck slammed into the back of the car he was riding in last week and said he felt fortunate to be alive.https://nyti.ms/2NvEzVL

The Oscars Shine an Unwanted Spotlight on … Tanking in the N.B.A.?

By MARC STEIN from NYT Sports Like many Knicks fans these days, Spike Lee is openly rooting for his team to lose. The N.B.A. would probably prefer he didn’t say so at the Academy Awards.https://nyti.ms/2EamcBM

A Soccer Pro at 13? Olivia Moultrie Will Give It a Try

By ANDREW KEH from NYT Sports Moultrie, one of America’s brightest young soccer talents, said Monday that she had signed with an agent and with Nike, formally beginning her professional career at age 13.https://nyti.ms/2VlMIz2

N.F.L. Says Kraft Will Not Get Special Treatment

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT Sports With the New England Patriots owner facing charges of soliciting sex at a massage parlor, Commissioner Roger Goodell must decide how to treat a powerful owner.https://nyti.ms/2U72A8n

Rangers Trade Kevin Hayes to the Winnipeg Jets

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Hayes joins a Winnipeg team that is hoping to make a run to the Stanley Cup finals, while the Rangers continued their rebuilding effort.https://nyti.ms/2IC3lFd

Yankees Give Aaron Hicks a 7-Year, $70 Million Extension

By JAMES WAGNER from NYT Sports Hicks, 29, has blossomed in New York after arriving via a 2015 trade with the Minnesota Twins.https://nyti.ms/2U6QgVF

N.F.L. Says Kraft Will Not Get Special Treatment

By THE NEW YORK TIMES from NYT Sports With the New England Patriots owner facing charges of soliciting sex at a massage parlor, Commissioner Roger Goodell must decide how to treat a powerful owner.https://nyti.ms/2NsO8VD

The Knicks Get Razzed at the Oscars

By VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports The superfan Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson have an exchange during the ceremony, thrusting the woeful state of the team in the national spotlight.https://nyti.ms/2Udb5Pn

The Yankees Have a Tantalizing Young Core. Can They Keep It Intact?

By JAMES WAGNER from NYT Sports The team finally got their payroll below baseball’s luxury tax threshold last season. Now they have to figure out which young players to extend.https://nyti.ms/2E81MJE

Knicks End 18-Game Home Skid With Win Against Spurs

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Damyean Dotson scored 27 points for the Knicks, who won at Madison Square Garden for the first time since Dec. 1. The Spurs will visit the Nets on Monday.https://nyti.ms/2NvfdaU

Ja Rule Enters the Realm of Billy Goats, Campbell’s Soup and Lil B

By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN from NYT Sports The rapper was not pleased that the Minnesota Timberwolves mocked his performance in Milwaukee. He put a curse on the team.https://nyti.ms/2XlMNVi

Rory McIlroy Can’t Catch Dustin Johnson in Mexico Championship

By KAREN CROUSE from NYT Sports McIlroy, whose score would have won the tournament in previous years, continued a string of appearances in which he has made the final group only to come up short.https://nyti.ms/2GNxzn1

Kepa Arrizabalaga’s Substitution Protest Overshadows Manchester City’s E.F.L. Cup Win

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports In a bizarre scene at the end of extra time, the Chelseas goalkeeper refused to be taken off the field in what he later said was a miscommunication.https://nyti.ms/2E96vup

Amy Yang Wins L.P.G.A. Thailand for the Third Time

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports The South Korean broke away from a tie with Minjee Lee and Carlota Ciganda with a birdie from the fringe on No. 16, beating Lee by a shot.https://nyti.ms/2ThLR4U

Capitals Down Rangers and Pull Closer to Islanders

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports Evgeny Kuznetsov’s overtime goal gave the Capitals a win and put them within two points of the Islanders in the Metropolitan Division.https://nyti.ms/2EtydUa

Liverpool Draws at Manchester United and Lives to Fight Another Day

By RORY SMITH from NYT Sports Jürgen Klopp’s team missed a chance to solidify its lead in the Premier League, but failing to win doesn’t mean its objective has been lost.https://nyti.ms/2Tcn7ep