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Matty Beniers tallies 2 goals as Kraken take down Predators
Matty Beniers tallied twice and goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves as the Seattle Kraken defeated the visiting Nashville Predators 4-1 Thursday night.,Jamie Oleksiak and Jared McCann also scored for Seattle, which extended its point streak to six games (5-0-1).,Roman Josi got the lone goal fo...
Derrick White's 4th-quarter surge sends Celtics past Kings
Jaylen Brown recorded 29 points and 10 rebounds before fouling out and Derrick White scored 14 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter as the Boston Celtics notched a 120-106 victory over the host Sacramento Kings on Thursday night.,Payton Pritchard added 16 points and six assists, Sam Hauser scored ...
Indiana, Miami open as CFP semifinal favorites
Indiana emerged as the lone team with a bye to win in the College Football Playoff semifinals, and the Hoosiers are now the clear favorite to win the national title.,Following a 38-3 dismantling of ninth-seeded Alabama, top-seeded Indiana was installed as a consensus 4.0-point favorite to beat Orego...
Last-minute field goal lifts Ole Miss past Georgia, into CFP semis
Lucas Carneiro drilled a tiebreaking 47-yard field goal with six seconds left, propelling No. 6 Ole Miss to a 39-34 victory over No. 3 Georgia in the College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Sugar Bowl on Thursday in New Orleans.,Trinidad Chambliss threw a 40-yard pass to De'Zhaun Stribling on t...
NHL roundup: Auston Matthews' hat trick leads Leafs past Jets
Auston Matthews registered three goals and an assist Thursday night as the Toronto Maple Leafs overcame a three-goal deficit to defeat the visiting Winnipeg Jets 6-5.,Matthews completed his hat trick by knocking in a loose puck at 15:38 of the third period to snap a 5-5 tie, sending the Jets to thei...
NBA roundup: Heat top East-leading Pistons in 4th straight win
Norman Powell hit seven 3-pointers and scored 36 points as the visiting Miami Heat won their fourth straight game, defeating the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons 118-112 on Thursday night.,Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored 19 points off the bench while Andrew Wiggins had 17 points and eight rebounds...
Nuggets C Jonas Valanciunas (calf) to miss at least month
The Denver Nuggets already were without star center Nikola Jokic for a minimum of a month, and now his backup will be sidelined for the same period.,Jonas Valanciunas strained his right calf on Wednesday, and the team announced a day later that he would be re-evaluated in four weeks.,In Denver's fir...
Blackhawks build 3-goal lead, extend Stars' skid to 4
Ilya Mikheyev scored twice for the Chicago Blackhawks, who held on for a 4-3 win against the visiting Dallas Stars on Thursday.,Artyom Levshunov and Teuvo Teravainen each scored a power-play goal and Andre Burakovsky and Ryan Donato had two assists apiece for the Blackhawks, who won for just the sec...
Tyrese Maxey's 34 points carry Sixers past Mavericks
Tyrese Maxey scored 34 points against his hometown team, lifting the Philadelphia 76ers to a 123-108 road win over the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday.,Maxey added 10 assists while receiving plenty of support from VJ Edgecombe (23 points), Joel Embiid (22) and Quentin Grimes (19). Grimes was 5-of-7 fro...
Women's Top 25 roundup: No. 11 Kentucky hands No. 5 LSU first loss at buzzer
Tonie Morgan's 3-pointer at the buzzer capped her 24-point performance as No. 11 Kentucky handed No. 5 LSU its first loss of the season, 80-78, on Thursday in Baton Rouge, La. ,Morgan methodically dribbled along the left wing, seeking an opening with Kentucky (14-1, 1-0 SEC) trailing by one in the c...
Alabama QB Ty Simpson sustained cracked rib in Rose Bowl loss
Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson said he cracked a rib in the first half of the Crimson Tide's 38-3 College Football Playoff quarterfinal loss to Indiana in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday.,The hit came when Simpson was drilled by Indiana's D'Angelo Ponds while scrambling for a first do...
Kris Letang's OT tally lifts Penguins past Red Wings
Kris Letang scored 58 seconds into overtime for the Pittsburgh Penguins, who persevered to beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 on Thursday.,Letang tallied his third goal of the season in his 1,200th career game. Sidney Crosby scored twice and assisted on the game-winner.,Pittsburgh's Blake Lizotte got hi...
Canadiens rally past Canes, spoil Sebastian Aho's big game
Cole Caufield and Josh Anderson scored 23 seconds apart in the second period as the Montreal Canadiens came back from a two-goal deficit to defeat the Carolina Hurricanes 7-5 on Thursday night in Raleigh, N.C.,Lane Hutson, Sammy Blais and Juraj Slafkovsky each had a goal and an assist, while Nick Su...
Lightning win 6th straight with late comeback vs. Kings
Anthony Cirelli, Gage Goncalves and Nikita Kucherov scored in the final four minutes to lift the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning to a 5-3 come-from-behind win against the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday.,Cirelli was the first to a loose puck and chipped it into the top of the net to tie it at 3 at 16:41....
Canadiens rally past Hurricanes to spoil Sebastian Aho's big game
Cole Caufield and Josh Anderson scored 23 seconds apart in the second period as the Montreal Canadiens came back from a two-goal deficit to defeat the Carolina Hurricanes 7-5 on Thursday night in Raleigh, N.C.,Lane Hutson, Sammy Blais and Juraj Slafkovsky each had a goal and an assist, while Nick Su...
Pistons' rally falls short as Heat win 4th straight
Norman Powell poured in 36 points as the visiting Miami Heat downed the Detroit Pistons 118-112 on Thursday night.,Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored 19 points off the bench while Andrew Wiggins had 17 points and seven rebounds in the Heat's fourth straight victory. Bam Adebayo supplied 15 points and grabbed 1...
Auston Matthews' hat trick sparks Leafs' comeback vs. Jets
Auston Matthews registered three goals and an assist Thursday night as the Toronto Maple Leafs overcame a three-goal deficit to defeat the visiting Winnipeg Jets 6-5.,Matthews completed his hat trick by knocking in a loose puck at 15:38 of the third period to snap a 5-5 tie, sending the Jets to thei...
Rockets' win streak at 4 with wire-to-wire triumph vs. Nets
Kevin Durant totaled 22 points and 11 assists against one of his former teams as the Houston Rockets pulled away in the third quarter for a 120-96 wire-to-wire victory over the short-handed Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night in New York.,Amen Thompson made 10 of 12 shots and led Houston's potent offens...
Notre Dame bids to replicate defensive effort at Cal
Notre Dame seeks to complete a sweep of the Atlantic Coast Conference's West Coast schools when the Fighting Irish visit Cal on Friday night in Berkeley, Calif.,Each team's second ACC contest of the season will be a rematch of last year's final regular-season game, when Notre Dame won an epic 112-11...
Vikings' J.J. McCarthy (hand) resumes full practice activity
Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy was a full participant at practice on Thursday, giving him a strong chance of starting Sunday against the Green Bay Packers.,McCarthy began the week of practice limited thanks to a hairline fracture in his throwing hand he sustained in Week 16 against the ...