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Aaron Wise was leading by six shots at one point during the third round of The Honda Classic, looking well on his way to a runaway victory. By day’s end, he wasn’t even in the lead. That distinction goes to Matt Jones, the first-round leader who is now the leader going into the final round as well. Jones grinded out a 1-under 69 on Saturday to get to 10 under for the week. He leads Wise and J.B. Holmes by three shots.

David McCormack had 22 points and nine rebounds in his return from COVID-19 quarantine and helped No. 3 seed Kansas rally from a 10-point second-half hole and beat No. 14 seed Eastern Washington 93-84 in the NCAA Tournament. Ochai Agbaji scored 21 points, Marcus Garrett fought foul trouble to add 20 and Dajuan Harris Jr. had 13 as Kansas advanced to play sixth-seeded Southern California or No. 11 seed Drake for a spot in the Sweet 16. Tanner Groves scored a career-high 35 points and younger brother Jacob Groves had 23 for the Eagles.

Manchester City’s bid for an unprecedented quadruple of major trophies is still alive. Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin De Bruyne scored late goals in a 2-0 win over Everton in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup on Saturday. Pep Guardiola’s players are sweeping all before them this season. City leads the Premier League by 14 points. It has reached the final of the English League Cup and the quarterfinals of the Champions League. Southampton was already through to the last four as Nathan Redmond scored twice and set up another goal in a 3-0 win over fellow south-coast club Bournemouth.

LeBron James has left the court in visible frustration after injuring his right ankle during the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Atlanta Hawks. James left early in the second quarter Saturday. The 17-time All-Star got hurt when he rolled his right ankle and then made awkward contact on the perimeter with defender Solomon Hill. He fell to the court and screamed, briefly rolling around in obvious pain. James got up shortly afterward and initially walked it off during a timeout, but he called a timeout and took himself out of the game moments later. The team announced he would not return.

RaiQuan Gray scored 17 points and No. 4 seed Florida State began what it hopes is another deep NCAA Tournament run under coach Leonard Hamilton, holding off 13th-seeded UNC Greensboro 64-54 in the East Region. The Seminoles reached the Elite Eight and the Sweet 16 in the previous two tournaments. They allowed the Spartans to hang around deep into the second half thanks to an uneven offensive performance. Florida State went 0 for 9 from 3-point range, winning a game without a made 3 for the first time since February 2018. Isaiah Miller scored 17 points and Keyshaun Langley added 16 for Greensboro. 

Hundreds of people have gathered in a park across from the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta to demand justice for the victims of shootings at massage businesses days earlier. The diverse crowd gathered Saturday called for end to racism, xenophobia and misogyny. The hundreds of people gathered in Liberty Plaza waved signs and cheered for speakers, including U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff and Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen, the first Vietnamese American to serve in the Georgia House. Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man, is accused of killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage businesses Tuesday.

This year's women’s basketball NCAA Tournament may be one of the most wide-open in recent years with nearly a dozen teams having a good chance to win the championship. The uncertainty seems apropos after a pandemic-stressed season of stops, pauses and cancellations. The top seeds Stanford, South Carolina, N.C. State and UConn are definitely the favorites to win the title on April 4 at the Alamodome. The four No. 2s also are among the favorites to win it all with Louisville, Maryland, Baylor and Texas A&M all title contenders.

NASCAR is returning to its roots. Even as the good ol’ boys attempt to break with the uglier parts of their history, the sport has embraced a more traditional footprint with its 2021 schedule. That includes Atlanta Motor Speedway, which on Sunday is hosting the first of two Cup races. NASCAR will return to the track in July, the first time since 2010 that the tri-oval has staged a pair of events. The drivers are certainly pleased to be making a couple of visits to one of their favorite tracks, a treacherous, high-speed layout that produces plenty of thrills.

Britain said Saturday that half the country’s adults have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine as the government races to reach everyone over age 18 by the end of July. The National Health Service has put shots in the arms of 26.9 million people, or 51% of the adult population. The NHS passed the halfway point by delivering 589,689 first doses on Friday, the highest daily total since a mass vaccination program began in early December. The director of a London-based health policy think tank says while Britain should be proud of the success of its vaccination drive, it's time to start thinking about sharing surplus supplies with the rest of the world.

Police in central Germany have used water cannons, pepper spray and batons against people trying to break through barriers during a protest against coronavirus restrictions. Protests against government measures to rein in the pandemic also were reported in Britain, Austria, Finland, Romania and Switzerland on Saturday. German news agency dpa says more than 20,000 people participated in the protest in the central German city of Kassel and most didn’t comply with infection-control protocols such as wearing face masks. The news agency reported that some protesters attacked several journalists. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that the government has to reimpose some restrictions as COVID-19 cases are accelerating.

Sister Jean Delores Schmidt, fully vaccinated and eight months past her 101st birthday, is back at the NCAA Tournament. The chaplain for Loyola Chicago's basketball team was on hand to watch her beloved Ramblers put away Georgia Tech in the tourney's first full day of action after the pandemic forced cancellation of the event last year. The time away hardly blunted its reputation for producing upsets. Lower-seeded teams won six of the 16 games played in the South and Midwest Regions, highlighted by No. 15 Oral Roberts stunning Big Ten powerhouse and No. 2 seed Ohio State.    

U.S. relations with its two biggest geo-political rivals are facing severe tests as President Joe Biden tries to assert America's place in the world and distinguish himself from his predecessor. Airing myriad complaints, the Biden administration took an extraordinarily tough line with China and Russia tis past week. Public spats between the countries erupted as Biden characterized Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "killer” and his top national security aides excoriated China for a litany of issues. Moscow and Beijing both fired back, setting the stage for months, if not more, of escalating tensions. 

Prosecutors say a man who is accused in a New Jersey murder and is considered a person of interest in four New Mexico slayings told investigators he is responsible for a total of 16 slayings. NJ.com reports that assistant prosecutor Alec Gutierrez alleged Friday in court that 47-year-old Sean Lannon said he was responsible for the killings in New Jersey and New Mexico along with “11 other individuals.” Lannon was arrested Wednesday in St. Louis. Public defender Frank Unger challenged probable cause for the New Jersey murder charge and unsuccessfully argued for pretrial release of his client.

A deadly rampage at three Georgia massage businesses, where the employees were mostly of Asian descent, has prompted Asian American women to openly share stories of being sexually harassed or demeaned based on their race. They say dealing with men who cling to a perpetual narrative that Asian women are exotic and submissive is a frequent occurrence they’re forced to tolerate. While the suspect, a 21-year-old white man, hasn’t been charged with hate crimes, advocates and scholars say race is an inherent component in Tuesday's killings in the Atlanta area that points to a larger discussion on the deep history of fetishizing Asian women.

The Biden administration is facing growing questions about why it wasn't more prepared for an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. The administration is scrambling to build up capacity to care for 14,000 young undocumented migrants now in federal custody, and more are likely on the way. Immigration experts say the predicament was predictable. Biden administration officials blame the Trump administration for making a mess of the immigration system. Border patrol officials have encountered more than 29,000 unaccompanied minors since Oct. 1, nearly the same number of youths taken into custody for all of the previous budget year.

School counselors in many urban, high needs districts have been consumed with efforts to help students engage with their schoolwork since the pandemic hit. Counselors everywhere have played important roles in guiding students through the stress and uncertainty, but the burden has been especially heavy in poor districts that typically also have fewer counselors per student. Those demands highlight one way the pandemic is likely to worsen inequities in the education system as those with the most on their plates have the least amount of time to help students plan for the future.

Doubts linger more than a century later about the precise location of heroics that won American World War I Sergeant Alvin York a Medal of Honor. The life and heroism of the Tennessee native are the subject of a 2014 book by Doug Mastriano, now a Pennsylvania state senator. He claims to have pinpointed the location and he organized construction of a trail there. But a researcher is challenging the book’s accuracy and research methods, and others say they have archival and archaeological studies to show the correct location is probably south of Mastriano’s favored spot in northern France.

Residents of Myanmar’s second biggest city are helping striking railway workers move out of their state-supplied housing after the authorities said they would have to leave if they kept supporting the protest movement against last month’s military takeover. The state railway workers last month went on strike as key and early supporters of the civil disobedience movement against the Feb. 1 coup that toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Mandalay residents carried the workers’ furniture and other household items to trucks, van and pickup trucks Saturday. Anti-coup protests continued in cities and town across Myanmar despite a crackdown by security forces that has taken more than 200 lives.

While Italy is better managing its latest coronavirus surge, one thing that hasn't changed is that those who are dying are predominantly elderly. Promises to vaccinate all Italians over 80 by the end of March have fallen woefully short, amid well-documented interruptions of vaccine supplies and organizational shortfalls. Just one third of Italy’s 7.3 million vaccine doses administered so far have gone to those over 80, with more than half of them still waiting for the first jab. The new government of Premier Mario Draghi has pledged to accelerate the vaccination campaign. It is aiming to vaccinate 80% of the population by September.

Washington Nationals reliever Will Harris has a blood clot in his right arm and the team doesn’t expect him to be in the bullpen on opening day. Manager Dave Martinez says Harris is leaving spring training camp to be examined by a specialist. The Nationals open on April 1 at home against the New York Mets. Harris last pitched in an exhibition game on March 9, throwing one scoreless inning against the Houston Astros. The right-hander appeared in a “B game” on Saturday.