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NEW YORK (AP) — Sacha Baron Cohen's “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” was partly improvised and scripted by nine writers, but it still walked away Sunday night with one of the Writers Guild Awards' top honors, best adapted screenplay. At the guild's…

MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — Health care workers marched through Myanmar's second-biggest city Sunday as part of a broad civil disobedience movement against last month's coup. While their protest was left alone, security forces used violence elsewhere and shot dead at…

Davion Mitchell scored 16 points and spearheaded a dominant defensive first half, helping top-seeded Baylor to a 76-63 win over Wisconsin in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The 2021 bracket has been filled with surprises, the latest by lovable Loyola Chicago over Illinois. Not long after the Illini became the first No. 1 seed to bow out, the Bears looked every bit a Final Four favorite in the first half, smothering Wisconsin with the type of defensive pressure they played before a late-season COVID-19 pause.

Top-ranked UConn did just fine without coach Geno Auriemma as Paige Bueckers scored 24 points in a 102-59 win over women’s NCAA Tournament newcomer High Point in the first round. Auriemma is recovering from the coronavirus and missed the opener. Associated head coach Chris Dailey filled in for the Hall of Famer, who is also going to miss the second round game against Syracuse on Tuesday. Dailey has gone 11-0 filling in for Auriemma over their time together at UConn. The Huskies also were missing assistant coach Shea Ralph, who left San Antonio after one of her relatives contracted COVID-19.

Justin Smith had 20 points and played a key role in a final-play defensive stop, helping Arkansas beat Texas Tech 68-66 in the NCAA Tournament. That secured the program’s first trip to the Sweet 16 in a quarter-century. In the final seconds of a tense finish, Smith found himself defending Kyler Edwards beyond the 3-point arc. Edwards drove into the paint with Smith on his hip and missed a layup, with Arkansas grabbing the rebound and running out the clock. Terrence Shannon Jr. scored 20 points for the sixth-seeded Red Raiders.

Quentin Grimes scored 22 points to lead Houston on a frantic second-half comeback in a 63-60 win over Rutgers. Tramon Mark finished it off with soaring go-ahead tip-in that led to a three-point play with 24 seconds to go, leading the second-seeded seed Cougars on Sunday night into the Sweet 16. The game ended when Ron Harper Jr. missed a potential tying 3-pointer for the Scarlet Knights. Houston will play No. 11 seed Syracuse for a spot in the Midwest Region finals.

The Kansas City Royals have given six-time All-Star catcher Salvador Pérez the richest contract in club history, an $82 million, four-year deal that begins in 2022. The contract includes a club option worth an additional $13.5 million and has a $2 million buyout for 2026. The deal surpasses the four-year, $72 million contract the Royals gave to outfielder Alex Gordon in 2016. That deal wound up being a disappointment and Gordon retired after last season. Pérez is coming off a season in which he won his third Silver Slugger. He is also a five-time Gold Glove winner.

Oral Roberts became just the second No. 15 seed to advance to the round of 16 by stunning No. 7 seed Florida 81-78. Kevin Obanor and Max Abams carried the Golden Eagles to their second straight upset of the NCAA Tournament. Oral Roberts beat No. 2 seed Ohio State in the first round. Obanor scored 28 points and Abmas finished with 26 as the Golden Eagles overcame an 11-point deficit. Oral Roberts joins Florida Gulf Coast as the only No. 15 seeds to reach the round of 16. The Golden Eagles play No. 3 seed Arkansas next. 

Buddy Boeheim carried his father, Jim, to the Hall of Fame coach’s 20th Sweet 16 appearance, scoring 22 of his 25 points after halftime to lead 11th-seeded Syracuse past third-seeded West Virginia 75-72 in the NCAA Tournament. Jim Boeheim’s Orange got the better of another legend, Bob Huggins, in the second March Madness meeting between coaches with at least 900 Division I victories. Huggins won No. 900 when West Virginia beat Morehead State in the first round on Friday. Boeheim got his 982nd at Huggins’ expense. Syracuse advanced to face second-seeded Houston or 10th-seeded Rutgers in a Midwest Regional semifinal. Sean McNeil scored 23 points to lead the Mountaineers.

Ryan Blaney became the sixth driver to win in six races to start NASCAR’s Cup season, surging to the front with nine laps to go after Kyle Larson’s dominant performance at Atlanta Motor Speedway fell apart on a fading set of tires Sunday. Larson easily won the first two stages and led 269 of 325 laps on the 1.54-mile trioval. But Larson’s tires didn’t stand up to the punishing track after making his final pit stop with 56 laps to go. Blaney pulled away to win by 2.083 seconds in his No. 12 Team Penske Ford.

Max Scherzer will have the ball in his hands when he begins the final season of his seven-year, $210 million contract with the Washington Nationals. Scherzer will make his Nationals-record sixth opening day start April 1, facing the New York Mets in Washington. It’ll be a rematch of an exhibition mound matchup Sunday, when Scherzer allowed two homers and threw 90 pitches in five innings of a 6-2 loss to the Mets and starter Jacob deGrom in West Palm Beach, Florida. It’ll be quite a way to get things going for Major League Baseball as three-time Cy Young Award winner Scherzer faces two-time honoree deGrom.  

Manchester United now has only one route to ending a four-year trophy drought after losing 3-1 at Leicester in the FA Cup quarterfinals. That realistically leaves Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with only the Europa League to produce his first trophy as United manager. Leicester has the easier route to the FA Cup final after being drawn to play Southampton. The other semifinal will pit Manchester City against Chelsea which beat Sheffield United 2-0 on Sunday. In the Premier League West Ham threw away a 3-0 lead to draw 3-3 with Arsenal and Tottenham beat Aston Villa 2-0.

Matt Jones won the Honda Classic and is headed back to the Masters. Jones got his second career PGA Tour win Sunday, seven years after his first at the Houston Open. He finished the week at 12-under 268 and the five-shot margin over runner-up Brandon Hagy matched the Honda record. Jones started the week with a 9-under 61 that tied the course record at PGA National. He reclaimed the lead in the third round and kept it the whole way Sunday to finish off the win and secure his second Masters invitation.

Authorities are still investigating claims made by a man charged in a New Jersey slaying who has said he killed a total of 16 people in multiple states. A law enforcement official confirmed Sunday that Sean Lannon is the primary suspect in the killing of his ex-wife and three others found in a car in New Mexico. The official, who had direct knowledge of the probe, could not discuss the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The official says investigators are searching missing persons records and other police reports to try to identify any potential victims. 

The Houston Rockets lost their team-record 20th straight game, falling to the Oklahoma City Thunder 114-112 when John Wall missed two shots in the final 10 seconds. Houston's skid is tied for the ninth-worst in NBA history and the longest since Philadelphia’s record-setting 28-game losing streak across the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. The Thunder led 113-112 when Lu Dort blocked Wall’s layup from behind in the closing seconds. Wall then missed a deep 3-pointer at the buzzer. Dort scored 23 points. Christian Wood had 27 points for Houston, Wall added 24 and Victor Oladipo had 23.

LONDON (AP) — Sikh leader Balwinder Singh Basra rolled up his sleeve to get a COVID-19 vaccine Sunday at the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Luton, north of London. And he wanted everyone to know about it. Unlike most of the…

Sister Jean Delores Schmidt gave an inspirational pregame prayer to her Loyola Chicago team before the eighth-seeded Ramblers met top-seeded Illinois in the second round. The 101-year-old chaplain to the team said, “As we play the Fighting Illini, we ask for special help to overcome this team and get a great win. We hope to score early and make our opponents nervous. We have a great opportunity to convert rebounds as this team makes about 50% of layups and 30% of its 3 points. Our defense can take care of that.” Just past the midway point of the first half, that prayer was being answered. Loyola was up 33-24 at halftime of the Midwest Region game.

CAIRO (AP) — Nawal Saadawi, a renowned Egyptian feminist, psychiatrist and novelist, whose writings have stirred controversy for decades in an overwhelming conservative society, died of age-related health problems in Cairo on Sunday, officials said. She was 89. Egypt’s Culture…