GAME RECAP: Rush Sweep Tahoe with Another 6-3 Victory
February 14, 2026
Rapid City has won seven straight against Knight Monsters
Rapid City has won seven straight against Knight Monsters
Led by Jed Miller’s 19 points, the Montana State Bobcats defeated the Montana Grizzlies 82-71 on Saturday. The Bobcats improved to 15-11 with the victory and the Grizzlies fell to 14-12.
JT Toppin scored eight of his 31 points in a dominant overtime performance and No. 16 Texas Tech sent No. 1 Arizona to its second straight loss, shocking the Wildcats 78-75 on Saturday. Texas Tech (19-6, 9-3 Big 12) beat the No. 1 team for the third time in school history. The Wildcats (23-2, 10-2) were 23-0 before losing to No. 9 Kansas 82-78 on Monday. Arizona had a 64-57 lead with 3:29 left in regulation, but Texas Tech rallied. Arizona’s Ivan Kharchenkov tied it at 66 with two free throws and Christian Anderson couldn’t hit a contested jumper as time expired.Anderson added 19 points, hitting six 3-pointers. Arizona’s Tobe Awaka had 16 points and 12 rebounds. Freshman Brayden Burries also scored 16 points.
Akshay Bhatia goes into the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am with a two-shot lead. He shot a 68 on Saturday with a big run of birdies on the scoring holes early. That gave him enough of a cushion to hold on when the cold wind arrived. Bhatia is up two over Jake Knapp, Collin Morikawa and Sepp Straka. The final hour was a prelude to Sunday. The wind was whipping and golf balls were wobbling on the greens. Wind and rain are in the forecast and tee times have been moved up by an hour.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has called on the WNBA and its players’ association to increase their urgency to get a labor deal done in time for the new season to begin as scheduled in early May. Silver didn’t propose a deadline for a WNBA collective bargaining agreement in his annual address during NBA All-Star weekend, but he urged both sides to pick up the pace. The league and the players are still not close on the main issue of revenue sharing. The players want roughly 30% of the gross revenue, while the league has offered over 70% of net revenue.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver believes teams are tanking more aggressively this season than the league has ever seen before, and he is considering many possible remedies to ensure real competition, from taking away draft picks to making wholesale changes to the draft and the lottery. Silver immediately addressed the hottest topic in NBA circles Saturday in his annual address during All-Star weekend at Intuit Dome, making it clear that the NBA will do almost anything to make sure its teams earnestly compete. He also said the NBA still expects to make decisions on expansion this year, starting with discussion at the Board of Governors meeting next month.
The seven Western states that depend on the Colorado River have missed a deadline for the second time to agree on a plan addressing record drought and water shortages. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo released a joint statement Saturday calling on Upper Basin states to offer more concessions. Those states include Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The governors say their states have already stepped up to make concessions. Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper encouraged the states to come together before the federal government steps in. These negotiations have been going on for over two years. The states previously missed a November deadline set by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The NBA is trying its fourth All-Star Game format in four years this weekend as it tries again to answer one of the bigger existential questions in professional basketball. How do you get both the players and their fans to care about this midseason showcase? The newest scheme appears to be the most promising yet, at least according to people like Victor Wembanyama who still believe this game should matter. A team of veteran All-Star Americans, a team of younger U.S. players and a third team representing the rest of the world will play in a round-robin tournament Sunday, setting up a final.
Six players were ejected from Saturday’s game between No. 17 St. John’s and Providence after a fracas resulting from a hard foul by Friars forward Duncan Powell on Bryce Hopkins sent the Red Storm star crashing to the ground. St. John’s coach Rick Pitino, who led Providence to the 1987 Final Four, was in the middle of it, trying to hold back his players. But several entered the fray as it drifted toward the Red Storm bench. The game was delayed by nearly 20 minutes while the referees sorted out the punishments: Four St. John’s players were booted and two from Providence.
The International Space Station is back to full strength with the arrival of four new astronauts. SpaceX delivered the U.S., French and Russian astronauts to the orbiting lab on Saturday, a day after launching them. They are replacing a crew that bailed early last month because of health concerns. It was NASA’s first medical evacuation in 65 years of human spaceflight. The orbiting lab is now back to seven residents, allowing spacewalks to proceed and research to pick back up. They’re expected to remain on board for eight to nine months.
Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, is selling his eponymous talent agency in the wake of the release of emails between himself and Ghislaine Maxwell. Wasserman’s emails with Maxwell were revealed by his appearance in recently released government files on Jeffrey Epstein. Wasserman, whose agency represents some of the top pop music artists in the world, has not been accused of any wrongdoing. The recently released documents revealed that in 2003 he swapped flirtatious emails with Maxwell, who would years later be accused of helping Epstein recruit and sexually abuse his victims. Olympics organizers have said Wasserman is still leading the Los Angeles games.
The NBA is bringing back the Shooting Stars contest for All-Star Saturday night. Four three-player teams shoot through timed stations at Intuit Dome, home of the Los Angeles Clippers. The format replaces the skills competition this year. Teams include a Knicks group led by Allan Houston and a Harper family team with Ron Harper Sr. and his sons. The slam dunk contest will have a new champion because three-time winner Mac McClung is skipping it. The 3-point contest features past winners Damian Lillard and Devin Booker, as well as Donovan Mitchell and rookie Kon Knueppel. Tyler Herro and Stephen Curry are sitting out.
The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing whales. The rules protect the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers less than 400. The giant animals are protected by a vessel speed rule that requires large ships to slow down at certain times to avoid collisions. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a Thursday statement to The Associated Press that it plans to soon announce proposed new rules designed to modernize the whale protections that will focus on deregulation. The move is prompting criticism from environmental groups who cite the recent death of an endangered whale.
STURGIS, S.D. – The Sturgis Scooper girls and boys basketball teams celebrated senior night with big wins over Hot Springs
The U.S. military is reporting a series of strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria. The strikes were carried out in retaliation of the December ambush that killed two U.S. soldiers and one American civilian interpreter. U.S. Central Command says American aircraft conducted 10 strikes against more than 30 IS targets between Feb. 3 and Thursday. The strikes were on weapons storage facilities and other infrastructure. Central Command says at least 50 members of IS have been killed or captured, while more than 100 IS targets have been struck since the United States began its strikes after the Dec. 13 ambush.
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Jimmie Johnson plans to end his illustrious Cup Series career at the 2027 Daytona 500. The seven-time NASCAR champion who starts 31st in the season opener Sunday says he will enter one additional Daytona 500 before calling it a career. He wants to continue racing in other series, maybe even in other NASCAR events, but won’t return to stock car’s premier level again. He has won the Daytona 500 twice and finished third last year. The 50-year-old Johnson is the majority owner of Legacy Motor Club, which fields full-time Cup rides for Erik Jones and John Hunter Nemechek.
Rising coffee prices are changing how some Americans get their caffeine. Government data shows coffee prices were up nearly 20 percent in December from a year earlier and up almost 50 percent over five years. Though coffee is such an ingrained part of many java lovers’ days, some consumers are cutting back on café visits, switching to cheaper brews or giving it up altogether. Chandra Donelson of Washington, D.C. is one of them. After years of daily visits to Starbucks, she has traded drinks that cost $7 or more apiece for home-brewed tea she says costs her pennies. Donelson says “the math just makes sense.”
The South Dakota Senate meets on Feb. 11, 2026, at the Capitol in Pierre. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
Seven people with ties to the group known as Zizians remain jailed in three states, but so far none of their criminal cases have gone to trial. Trial for three of them in Maryland on trespassing, gun and drug charges was supposed to get underway this week, but at the last minute a county judge delayed that trial until June. Prosecuting members of the group has proven to be a slow process, marked by delayed trials in multiple cases and little to no action in others. There have been six violent deaths linked to the group across three states — U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland, the parents of Zizian Michelle Zajko, a landlord and two Zizians.
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Voters say they’re worried about the cost of living, and affordability is a leading issue in 2026 campaigns. The three Senate candidates competing in Michigan for the Democratic nomination are making different pitches about how to address rising costs. Their success or failure will help determine the party’s fortunes in the November midterms, when control of Congress is at stake. Democrat Gary Peters is retiring and the party’s chances of regaining Senate control will be harder if that seat is lost. Running in the August primary are Haley Stevens, who’s a congresswoman, as well as state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and physician Abdul El-Sayed. The likely Republican nominee is Mike Rogers, a former congressman.