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The NBA game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors was postponed on Saturday afternoon following another fatal shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis.

Mike McCarthy is coming home. The Pittsburgh Steelers announced Saturday the club has reached a verbal agreement with McCarthy to replace Mike Tomlin as head coach.

Brandon Miller scored 21 points as the Charlotte Hornets beat Washington 119-115 Saturday, sending the Wizards to their ninth straight loss.

KJ Lewis scored 21 of his 26 points after halftime in Georgetown's 81-78 victory over Providence on Saturday to end the Hoyas' six-game losing streak.

Jeremy Fears had 17 points and a career-high 17 assists and Coen Carr scored 14 points while adding to his highlight reel of dunks, leading No. 10 Michigan State to a 91-48 win over Maryland on Saturday.

Two-time Ryder Cup player Ludvig Aberg withdrew from The American Express on Saturday with an illness, the fourth player to withdraw this week from the first PGA Tour stop on the mainland.

Alex Honnold put off plans to climb the 1,667-foot-tall Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan due to weather.

Naomi Osaka withdrew from the Australian Open before her scheduled third-round match against Australian qualifier Maddison Inglis on Saturday, ending a campaign noted strikingly for fashion and friction.

An NBA game, an NHL contest and dozens of college basketball games across a wide swath of the country have been reshuffled because of an approaching major winter storm.

The AFC divisional round game between the Houston Texans and New England Patriots had almost 38 million viewers, the most in ESPN history.