Yahoo Sports AM: The SEC is chasing history

Yahoo Sports AM is our daily newsletter that keeps you up to date on all things sports. Sign up here to get it every weekday morning. 🚨 Headlines 🏀 Automatic bids: Gonzaga, UNC Wilmington, Robert Morris and Saint Francis won their conference tournaments to punch their tickets to the NCAA men’s tournament, while Oregon State … Read more

3 Takeaways From The Canadiens’ Win Over The Canucks

By the time the puck dropped on Tuesday night’s game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Vancouver Canucks, Martin St-louis’s men were four points out of the playoffs and desperately needed a win. After putting together an impressive win streak after the 4 Nations Face-Off break, the Tricolore had lost its last two games and … Read more

Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal, at 17, might already be the best soccer player in the world

Lamine Yamal’s sample size of greatness just keeps getting bigger. His exploits in the Champions League on Tuesday were silly. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Lamine Yamal is 17 years old and sometimes — when he’s not scoring Champions League goals, or flooring defenders, or leading Barcelona to the top of La Liga — he looks it. … Read more

Celtics-Lakers draws 4.6M viewers, largest NBA audience for non-Christmas regular-season game in seven years

The Boston Celtics’ 111-101 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night drew the largest non-Christmas audience for an NBA regular-season game in seven years, according to the league. The game, which peaked at 5.3 million viewers, averaged 4.61 million viewers on ABC, topping the previous high of 4.64 million for a Celtics-Cleveland Cavaliers … Read more