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Shakira Austin's season-best effort leads Mystics past Wings
Shakira Austin scored 19 of her season-high 28 points in the first half, Kiki Iriafen added 22 points, and the host Washington Mystics held off a late Dallas surge for an 81-75 victory over the Wings on Friday.,Sonia Citron scored 16 points and made four free throws in the final 24 seconds for the M...
Angel Reese, Dream stay hot by fending off slumping Storm
Angel Reese had 21 points and 13 rebounds on Friday to help lead the Atlanta Dream to a 98-89 victory over the Seattle Storm in College Park, Ga.,Naz Hillmon added 18 points and Allisha Gray scored 16 for the Dream (18-10), who won their fifth straight game. Brionna Jones had 14 points off the bench...
Bryce Elder's effective outing steers Braves to win over Nationals
Matt Olson and Michael Harris II hit home runs and Bryce Elder pitched six strong innings, lifting the Atlanta Braves to a 6-2 win over the visiting Washington Nationals on Friday.,Atlanta has won both games in the four-game series and holds a 6-3 lead over the Nationals in the season series. The Br...
Luis Urias comes up clutch, Blue Jays top Cardinals
Pinch hitter Luis Urias snapped a tie with a two-run single in the eighth inning Friday night and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting St. Louis Cardinals 3-1.,Brandon Valenzuela was 3-for-4 for the Blue Jays in the opener of a three-game series.,Jeff Hoffman (6-7) threw a perfect eighth with...
Portland looks to send Jack Cassidy off on winning note vs. Seattle
Portland Timbers interim coach Jack Cassidy hopes to conclude his tenure the way he began it -- with a Cascadia Cup victory against the Seattle Sounders.,Cassidy has gone 2-0-1 in three matches in charge of the Timbers (6-8-3, 21 points) since Phil Neville was relieved of his duties heading into the...
Nicolas Fernandez extends goal streak, but NYCFC draw vs. Toronto
Nicolas Fernandez scored for the fourth straight game early in the first half, but New York City FC lost the lead late in stoppage time before halftime and settled for a 1-1 draw with visiting Toronto FC on Friday night.,NYCFC (7-6-5, 26 points) was unable to win three straight for the second time t...
White Sox use four homers to top Rays in opener
Miguel Vargas, Andrew Benintendi and Munetaka Murakami homered in the first three innings as the Chicago White Sox began a six-game road trip by pounding the Tampa Bay Rays 6-1 on Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.,Murakami went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBIs, and Benintendi totaled two hits a...
Austin eyes first road win vs. offensively challenged Rapids
The lone MLS team without a road victory, Austin FC, plans to change that Saturday against the Colorado Rapids in Commerce City, Colo.,The Rapids (6-10-1, 19 points) have fallen to 13th in the Western Conference, five points below the playoff line with only Austin (4-8-5, 17 points) and Sporting KC ...
Sal Stewart (4 RBIs), Reds rally late to knock off Pirates
Nathaniel Lowe's fielder's choice scored Sal Stewart in the eighth inning to lift the host Cincinnati Reds to an 8-7 comeback victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night. ,Stewart went 2-for-5 with a two-run homer, four RBIs and two runs and JJ Bleday added a solo shot. Lowe collected two hi...
Revitalized St. Louis City aim to extend hot streak vs. RSL
Less than three months ago, St. Louis City were all but buried.,The club won just one of its first 10 games (1-6-3) and scored more than one goal just twice across that stretch.,Ahead of their match against visiting Real Salt Lake on Saturday night, the dreadful start is nothing more than a distant ...
Surging Dynamo out to avoid letdown vs. last-place Sporting KC
The Houston Dynamo look to continue their rise up the Western Conference standings when they face Sporting Kansas City on Saturday in Kansas City, Kan.,The Dynamo (8-6-2, 26 points) rolled to a 3-0 home victory over Austin FC last Saturday and are tied for the fourth-most points in the conference wi...
Winless since May 2, Minnesota eyes revenge on San Diego
Minnesota United will try to snap a six-match winless streak against the team that knocked them out of the Western Conference playoffs last season when they host San Diego FC on Saturday night in Saint Paul, Minn.,The Loons (6-6-5, 23 points) enter the contest in ninth place, three points ahead of S...
Chiefs legendary S Bobby Hunt dies at 85
Former Kansas City Chiefs safety Bobby Hunt, who started in Super Bowl I, has died at age 85, the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame & Museum announced this week.,Neither the cause of Hunt's death nor the date have been released.,Hunt recorded a career-best 10 interceptions in 1966, a season that concluded...
Charlotte looks to keep rolling, add to Fire's recent woes
The Chicago Fire will search for their first win since the World Cup break when they host Charlotte FC on Saturday.,Chicago (8-6-2, 26 points) dropped consecutive road games to Inter Miami and New York City FC despite the arrival of legendary forward Robert Lewandowski. Lewandowski, replacing league...
West's best clash north of border as LAFC take on Whitecaps
The Vancouver Whitecaps will be in a battle to keep hold of the top spot in the Western Conference when they host Los Angeles FC on Saturday night.,The Whitecaps (10-3-3, 33 points) hold matches in hand over LAFC and the San Jose Earthquakes immediately below them, but have returned from the World C...
Gianni Infantino nixes unpopular proposal to sell stakes in World Cup
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has scrapped his controversial plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors.,Facing backlash throughout the sport, a World Cup boycott from Europe and criticism from high-ranking officials inside FIFA itself, Infantino said the proposed FIFA Forward Enter...
Giants RB Cam Skattebo on bungled backflip: ‘We live and we learn’
New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo said he is "99.9% OK" following a gruesome leg and ankle injury last season.,That's in spite of an ill-advised backflip that was caught on camera a few weeks back.,Skattebo owned up to what he called a "dumb" decision to perform a backflip while attending Fa...
Union out to avenge loss to Atlanta, extend win streak to 3
The Philadelphia Union strive for their third straight win when they face Atlanta United on Saturday night in Chester, Pa.,The Union, winners of back-to-back matches for the first time this season, announced Thursday that they had transferred defender Olwethu Makhanya to Scottish top-flight club Ran...
Mariners SS J.P. Crawford (wrist) hits IL for third time this season
The Seattle Mariners placed shortstop J.P. Crawford on the 10-day injured list on Friday and recalled infielder Leo Rivas from Triple-A Tacoma.,Crawford is dealing with left wrist inflammation. The move is retroactive to Thursday.,This marks Crawford's third IL stint of the season. He began the seas...
Cameron Young posts 61, joins 3-way lead at Rocket Classic
It was Cameron Young's turn to fire a 9-under-par 61 at the Rocket Classic, and the World No. 3 ended the day tied for the lead with Patrick Cantlay and Patrick Fishburn on Friday at Detroit Golf Club.,After Peter Malnati kicked off the tournament with a 61 on Thursday, Young began the second round ...