The Line: Titans -1.5, Total: 44.5 Line movement and notes: The Titans opened as 2-point home favorites at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook on Sunday and fell to -1.5 early Wednesday before rising to -2.5 later in the day when news broke that Locker practiced and did not feel any pain in his injured wrist. The total opened 45 at the SuperBook and has come down slightly to 44.5. For updated spreads and totals from around Las Vegas, visit our live odds page....

Literally. The baseline sections at Auburn Arena are students-only, as is the entire sideline opposite the team benches. When Pearl took over as Auburn’s coach last spring, he immediately made filling every single one of those seats a top priority. MORE: DeCourcy: Syracuse’s postseason ban is a disgrace | Field of 68 | Can ‘zombie’ teams resurrect tournament hopes? That’s why, within a couple weeks of his first day as the Tigers’ new head coach, he was sitting in a dunk tank at a Pi Kappa Phi fraternity fundraiser....

MORE: Islanders place Grabovski on IR | Rangers Skapski wins in debut | Renaming NHL stats Miller has been battling a right shoulder injury for the majority of the season and reinjured it during Monday’s 4-3 overtime loss to the Flames. Miller dislocated his right shoulder in a fight with Sabres forward Nicolas Deslauriers on Oct. 18. The injury kept him out for a month. After missing 12 games, Miller returned to the lineup on Nov....

On the second night of back-to-back games, the Leafs suffered their first road loss of the season, falling to the Bruins 5-1 in Boston. Toronto is now 6-1-0 away from Scotiabank Arena. The line of David Pastrnak, Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron continued to dominate. The trio was involved in four of the five Bruins goals, with three of them coming off Pastrnak’s stick. After Bergeron scored in the first period, he fed the 22-year-old right winger for a one-timer past Leafs goalie Garret Sparks, who was making his first start since Oct....

Seidenberg suffered the injury when he got crossed up with Senators foward Coray Conacher behind the Boston net. He immediately had to leave the game and did not return. The recovery is expected to take anywhere from six to eight months, and the Bruins will place Seidenberg on season-ending IR in order to call up replacements to the roster. Early in the season, Seidenberg signed a four-year $16 million dollar contract that will keep him in a Boston uniform through the end of the 2017-2018 season....

For years, the Hyundai Elantra that Kohberger was driving was registered in Pennsylvania, according to a Newsweek review of Carfax documents. Kohberger was pulled over in August by officers with the Latah County Sheriff’s Office in Idaho, and the citation shows that the 2015 Hyundai Elantra had a Pennsylvania license plate, but that was changed on November 18, five days after the students were killed. Kohberger’s former attorney Jason LaBar, who represented him only in his extradition case, has said that his former client “is eager to be exonerated” of the murder charges against him....

Tom Arntz told KXLY-TV that his son and daughter grew up with Kohberger and went to school with him in Pennsylvania. “Quite a few times, Kohberger was actually in my house,” he said. “It’s a pretty frightening thing to know.” Arntz said some things were “a little odd” with Kohberger. “He had to be the number one person in the room,” he said. As the years went on, Arntz said he kids noticed changes in Kohberger after a significant weight loss....

In a probable cause affidavit released on Thursday, an investigator with the Moscow Police Department explained an interview he conducted with the victims’ roommates, identified as D.M. and known widely as Dylan Mortensen. In the interview, Mortensen explained that she was awoken at around 4 a.m. local time on November 13 to what sounded like Kaylee Goncalves playing with her dog. “A short time later, D.M. said she heard who she thought was Goncalves say something to the effect of ’there’s someone here,’” the affidavit said....

During the third period, Little was skating around the net with just over 12 minutes remaining when his teammate Nikolaj Ehlers stepped into the puck sending his rising slapshot high and wide and hitting Little near his left ear. He was seen bleeding from his head but was able to skate off under his own power. Winnipeg stated that he was transported to the hospital after the game and “received 25-30 stitches to close a laceration” and was moved to the neurological unit for observation....

On Sunday, already with one homer on the day, he launched a three-run tater off Joaquin Benoit on a two-out, full-count pitch with the Nationals trailing by one, giving Washington a 6-4 victory over Philadelphia. MORE: Braves organist plays ‘Stranger Things’ theme for Padres’ Wil Myers walk-up The homer by Harper is his fourth of the season, and it was a no-doubter: Harper is scorching hot to start the season, hitting ....

The Nationals star surprised his wife Kayla with a custom jacket ahead of the Nationals’ first NLDS game against the Cubs on Friday. MORE: Yankees use LeBron James to troll Indians on Twitter A post shared by Bryce Harper (@bharper3407) on Oct 4, 2017 at 11:25am PDT The jacket features several meaningful patches that are covered in Swarovski crystals and pearls. In an Instagram post about the jacket, Harper thanked its creator, Leah Paulovich Miller (@thediamondduchess)....

TikTok user BrendanCohen8 posted his clip of the big hit at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia as the Phillies took a 2-1 lead in the World Series against the Houston Astros. Speaking to the camera as Harper got ready to take the pitch, Brendan told his followers that the ball was going out of the park for a home run. With him turning the camera back on to the action, there were wild celebrations when Harper duly provided, with Brendan screaming “goodbye,” as the ball headed into the crowd....

Petty says he’s feeling confident heading into his second season thanks to — at least in part — the way he’s playing the Madden video game. MORE: 18 impact rookies | Worst to first in 2016? “I played Madden the other day, and it’s not just picking run plays anymore. It’s like, ‘Oh, they’ve got an under front (on defense).’ You start picking up things differently,” Petty said via NJ....

Wallace made headlines on Sunday, when NASCAR received reports a noose had been found in his garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama. The organization immediately launched an investigation into the issue, which ended on Tuesday with the FBI concluding that a pull rope shaped like an old-fashioned noose had indeed been on a garage since early October. “The FBI report concludes, and photographic evidence confirms, that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall,” NASCAR said in its statement....

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They wonder, for example, why Tebow would change sports. NFL teams liked Tebow as a player; they just didn’t want to use him as a quarterback. A position change could have helped the former Heisman Trophy winner stay in the NFL, yet he refused. MORE: Tebow’s 10 greatest NFL moments Mark Dominik, who was the Buccaneers’ general manager from 2009-13, tweeted Tuesday that he “begged” Tebow to play running back....

Winston became the first NFL player to throw for at least 30 touchdowns and 30 interceptions in a season as Tampa Bay ended its campaign with a 28-22 overtime loss to the Falcons on Sunday. Atlanta won the game on a walk-off pick-six of Winston — the passer’s NFL record seventh pick-six of the year. “[If] we can win with this one, we can definitely win with another one too,” Arians told reporters on Monday....

“I figured out, like, the mindset to have, that when you focus on the past, that’s your ego,” Antetokounmpo said. “‘I did this. We were able to beat this team 4-0. I did this in the past. I won that in the past.’ And when I focus on the future, it’s my pride. Like, ‘Yeah, next game, Game 5, I do this and this and this. I’m going to dominate....

Parker underwent an MRI Monday morning to address discomfort in his right foot and underwent additional testing later. The initial scan revealed a mid-foot (talonavicular joint) sprain. MORE: All-time best Milwaukee Bucks Parker made his season debut Nov. 4 after missing the final 57 games of the 2014-15 season and the first four games of this season while recovering from a torn ACL in his left knee. He has averaged 7....

Kawhi Leonard had a quiet first half with only eight points and appeared to be running out of steam as the third quarter was drawing to a close, but the superstar caught a second wind and finished the quarter with a flurry, scoring or assisting on Toronto’s final 10 points. Leonard finished with 27 points, seven assists and a career-high 17 rebounds. MORE: Warriors vs. Raptors predictions, picks, TV schedule for NBA Finals...