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PGA Championship increases purse to $19M
The PGA of America announced Saturday that the purse for the PGA Championship has been raised to a record $19 million.,Last year's purse stood at $18.5 million, with champion Xander Schauffele taking home $3.33 million for the winner's share.,Whoever wins Sunday at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte wil...

WNBA vows to investigate hateful comments at Sky-Fever opener
The WNBA is investigating allegations of hateful, racial comments made by a fan at the combative season opener between the Chicago Sky and Indiana Fever on Saturday in Indianapolis.,"The WNBA strongly condemns racism, hate, and discrimination in all forms -- they have no place in our league or in so...

Freddy Peralta, Brewers end Twins' 13-game winning streak
Freddy Peralta allowed one run over five solid innings as the Milwaukee Brewers avoided a sweep with a 5-2 victory over visiting Minnesota on Sunday, snapping the Twins 13-game winning streak., ,Peralta (5-3) needed 90 pitches to navigate those innings, allowing one run. a solo homer, on three hits....

Royals avoid sweep with 2-1 win over red-hot Cardinals
Maikel Garcia delivered a tiebreaking RBI single in the seventh inning, while Michael Wacha and four Kansas City relievers helped strand 13 St. Louis runners as the Royals avoided being swept by the visiting Cardinals with Sunday's 2-1 victory.,Kansas City left seven men on against St. Louis starter...

Will Benson homers twice as Reds sweep Guardians
Will Benson remained red-hot Sunday afternoon, when he homered twice to lead the host Cincinnati Reds to a 3-1 win over the Cleveland Guardians and a sweep of the three-game interleague series.,The Reds have won four straight overall following a 2-9 stretch and are back to .500 on the season (24-24)...

Spencer Torkelson drives in all three Tigers runs in win over Jays
Spencer Torkelson had a double, a single and three RBIs and the visiting Detroit Tigers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Sunday afternoon.,Torkelson's RBI single in the seventh broke a 2-2 tie. Dillon Dingler had three hits and Riley Greene added two for the Tigers in the rubber match of the th...

Braves collect 16 hits as they club Red Sox in rubber match
Marcell Ozuna hit a two-run home run and had three RBIs to lead the visiting Atlanta Braves to a 10-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.,The Braves had 16 hits and drew seven walks in the win. Alex Verdugo and Austin Riley each collected three hits for Atlanta, which broke a 4-4 tie by scori...

Nationals mash five home runs, sweep hapless Orioles
CJ Abrams hit the game's first pitch for the first of his two home runs and the visiting Washington Nationals went on to beat the staggering Baltimore Orioles 10-4 on Sunday afternoon.,Luis Garcia Jr., Dylan Crews and Josh Bell also homered for the Nationals, who've won three games in a row followin...

Otto Lopez's blast helps Marlins dispatch Rays
Otto Lopez belted a three-run homer in just his second at-bat off the injured list and Cal Quantrill pitched an immaculate inning as the host Miami Marlins defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 5-1 on Sunday afternoon.,Miami took two of three games in this in-state-rivalry series. It's the first time since 20...

Isaac Paredes' go-ahead homer lets Astros split series with Rangers
Isaac Paredes' three-run eighth-inning home run was the difference as the Houston Astros roared from behind to beat the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Sunday afternoon in the finale of a four-game series in Arlington, Texas.,The Astros rallied to earn a split of the series between the Lone Star State rivals, ...

Phillies' Mick Abel bests Pirates' Paul Skenes in pitcher's duel
Mick Abel tied a franchise record with nine strikeouts over six innings in his Major League debut as the host Philadelphia Phillies completed a three-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 1-0 victory on Sunday afternoon.,Abel (1-0), a first round pick in the 2020 MLB Draft out of Jesuit High S...

Orioles release Kyle Gibson amid slew of changes
A day after the Orioles fired manager Brandon Hyde, Baltimore made more changes Sunday, including the release of pitcher Kyle Gibson.,The right-hander signed a one-year, $5.25 million contract in March, a return to Baltimore after a successful 2024 in St. Louis, but his start to this season had been...

Brittany Sykes helps Mystics rally to stun Sun
Brittany Sykes recorded 27 points and seven assists and the Washington Mystics again used a late rally to produce a come-from-behind 90-85 victory over the Connecticut Sun on Sunday afternoon at Uncasville, Conn.,For the second time in two games, Mystics used a definitive second-half run to produce ...

Team Spirit captures title at PGA Astana
Team Spirit topped Astralis in four maps Sunday to win $200,000 and first place at PGL Astana 2025 in Kazakhstan.,Team Spirit jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five grand final with a 13-5 win on Dust II and a 13-10 triumph on Nuke. But Astralis came back to win 13-5 on Mirage and get on the b...

Rory McIlroy exits PGA Championship over par and underspoken
CHARLOTTE -- Rory McIlroy left the PGA Championship without a single word to the media on Sunday, leaving the golf world none the wiser as to the details of the reported failure of his driver to pass a conforming test earlier in the week.,It was the first time veteran British and Irish reporters cou...

Carlos Alcaraz denies Jannik Sinner in Rome
World No. 1 Jannik Sinner was looking to become the first Italian to win the Internazionali BNL d'Italia since 1976 while simultaneously signaling his triumphant return from suspension on home soil.,Instead, newly elevated World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain downed Sinner 7-6 (5), 6-1, winning his 1...

Nuggets' Aaron Gordon available for Game 7 vs. Thunder
Denver forward Aaron Gordon was listed on the morning injury report as questionable for Sunday's Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, but early Sunday afternoon the Nuggets officially declared him available for the game.,ESPN had reported that Gordon was unl...

Poland's Magda Linette upsets Barbora Krejcikova in France
Poland's Magda Linette upset seventh-seeded Barbora Krejcikova of Czech Republic 6-3, 6-3, to highlight Sunday's first-round action on the clay at the Internationaux de Strasbourg in France.,Linette, whose serve was broken just once, advanced to face Slovakia's Rebecca Sramkova in Tuesday's play at ...

Otto Lopez rejoins Marlins, but Xavier Edwards (back) hits the IL
The Miami Marlins regained half of their starting keystone combo from the injured list on Sunday, but lost the other half to the same place.,The Marlins announced that second baseman Otto Lopez has been reactivated after missing two weeks with an injured ankle, but shortstop Xavier Edwards has been ...

Italy's Jasmine Paolini pulls off rare WTA double at Rome
Italy's Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani successfully defended their Italian Open women's doubles title on Sunday, which enabled Paolini to pull off a WTA feat last accomplished 16 years ago.,Third-seeded Paolini and Errani rallied from 4-0 deficits in both sets to claim a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Russi...