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    Connecticut jumped to No. 1 in this week's AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll. It marks the Huskies' first appearance at No. 1 since the 2008-09 season. The reigning national champions replaced Purdue after the Boilermakers lost to Nebraska to fall to second. Kansas, North Carolina and Houston rounded out the top five.

    Kam Jones scored 22 points, Tyler Kolek had 21 points and 11 assists and No. 17 Marquette pulled away in the second half to snap a two-game skid with an 87-74 victory over Villanova. Oso Ighodaro added 18 points, seven rebounds, five assists and three steals as Marquette continually worked the ball inside. 

    Connecticut jumped to No. 1 in this week's AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll. It marks the Huskies' first appearance at No. 1 since the 2008-09 season. The reigning national champions replaced Purdue after the Boilermakers lost to Nebraska to fall to second. Kansas, North Carolina and Houston rounded out the top five.

    The more Deion Sanders saw himself as Nick Saban, the more Saban saw himself on the golf course. College football history was written, hammer and chisel, by control freaks, America’s most beloved dictators. The tails wag all the dogs now, and that’s gotta drive Saban cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. ESPN, which used to hide behind giant curtains like the great and powerful Oz, pulling levers and ...

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    Baker Mayfield threw for 337 yards and three touchdowns to lead the resurgent Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 32-9 wild-card playoff victory over Jalen Hurts and the defending NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles. The Bucs won for the sixth time in seven games to advance to a NFC divisional round matchup on the road next Sunday against the Detroit Lions.

    Josh Allen threw three touchdown passes and scored on a franchise playoff-record 52-yard touchdown run, and the Buffalo Bills beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-17 in an AFC wild-card playoff game that was postponed a day because of a lake-effect blizzard. Allen threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Khalil Shakir with 6:27 remaining that restored a two-touchdown lead for Buffalo.

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