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With season winding down, Bruins and Blackhawks search for good feelings
The Stanley Cup playoffs are well out of reach for both the host Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks entering their Thursday night clash.,Both teams have won just two of their last 10 games and sit second-to-last in their respective conferences but could have had more opposite Tuesday results.,...
With 3 games left, Cavaliers and Pacers still have goals to reach
The red-hot Indiana Pacers are searching for their fifth consecutive win Thursday, hosting a Cleveland Cavaliers team that has been the dominant force in the Eastern Conference all season.,The Cavaliers (63-16) clinched the No. 1 seed in the East by beating the Chicago Bulls 135-113 on Tuesday. If C...
Senators weigh sitting F Brady Tkachuk ahead of playoffs
Having clinched a playoff berth for the first time since 2017 on Tuesday, the Ottawa Senators are considering holding out injured captain Brady Tkachuk for the final four regular-season games.,Tkachuk, 25, has missed the past five games with an upper-body injury sustained on a hit from Pittsburgh de...
Orioles place RHP Zach Eflin on 15-day IL
The Baltimore Orioles placed right-hander Zach Eflin on the 15-day injured list Wednesday with a low-grade right lat strain. ,The move is retroactive to Tuesday, one day after Eflin exited his start against the Arizona Diamondbacks after six innings with what was described as shoulder fatigue.,Eflin...
D-backs look to ride momentum of alert play into finale vs. Orioles
The Arizona Diamondbacks found a novel way to help end a three-game losing streak while keeping the Baltimore Orioles in a bit of a funk.,Corbin Carroll's fourth homer of the season, in the third inning, and Josh Naylor's two-run double in the fifth were the big blows in Arizona's 4-3 victory on Tue...
Tucker Minter pulls away for eNASCAR win at Rockingham
Tucker Minter earned an eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series win for the third year in a row, cruising to victory on Tuesday at a virtual Rockingham (N.C.) Speedway.,Minter, whose No. 97 Chevrolet led exactly half of the 200 laps, finished with a 3.769-second margin of victory over runner-up Zack Novak ...
Diamondbacks edge Orioles to end 3-game skid
Corbin Carroll hit his fourth homer, Josh Naylor had a tie-breaking two-run double and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Baltimore Orioles 4-3 in Phoenix to break a three-game losing streak Tuesday.,Carroll had two hits and scored twice and Merrill Kelly (2-1) gave up three runs and three hits in si...
Padres put Jackson Merrill on IL, see two others exit with injuries
The San Diego Padres, who began play Tuesday with the best record in the major leagues, will be without Jackson Merrill for at least 10 days after placing the center fielder on the injured list.,Merrill is sidelined due to a strained right hamstring. Oscar Gonzalez was recalled from Triple-A El Paso...
Padres place CF Jackson Merrill (hamstring) on IL
The San Diego Padres, who began play Tuesday with the best record in the major leagues, will be without Jackson Merrill for at least 10 days after placing the center fielder on the injured list.,Merrill is sidelined due to a strained right hamstring. Oscar Gonzalez was recalled from Triple-A El Paso...
Blue Jackets finally score, get win against Sens
The Columbus Blue Jackets ended a three-game losing streak and a lengthy goalless drought on Tuesday with a 5-2 victory over the visiting Ottawa Senators.,Mathieu Olivier and Justin Danforth tallied a goal and an assist apiece in the victory. Dmitri Voronkov, Sean Monahan and Adam Fantilli also scor...
Penguins demolish Blackhawks, earn home-and-home split
Tristan Jarry stopped all 26 shots he faced for his second shutout of the season as the host Pittsburgh Penguins bullied the Chicago Blackhawks 5-0 on Tuesday.,The Penguins' (32-35-12, 76 points) veterans carried the load offensively as Kevin Hayes tallied twice. Meanwhile, Sidney Crosby, Erik Karls...
Pacers require late scoring spree to down Wizards
Pascal Siakam scored four of his game-high 24 points to jump-start a late-game run that powered the Indiana Pacers past the Washington Wizards 104-98 on Tuesday in Indianapolis for their fifth win in a row.,A sluggish start left the Pacers (48-31) playing from behind much of the way against the last...
NASCAR slams judge's ruling for Michael Jordan's 23XI Racing
In response to the preliminary injunctions granted to 23XI Racing -- owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin -- and Front Row Motorsports, NASCAR filed a brief on Friday urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to reverse the decision. ,In the appeal, NASCAR contends that 23XI and F...
Diamondbacks' Ketel Marte (hamstring) to miss several weeks
Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte is to miss "a series of weeks" with a Grade 1 left hamstring strain, manager Torey Lovullo said Tuesday.,Marte, who signed a five-year, $116.5 million contract extension a week ago, suffered the injury while running out a double in the first inning of ...
Matteo Berrettini upsets No. 1 seed Alexander Zverev in Monte Carlo
Italy's Matteo Berrettini upset No. 1 seed Alexander Zverev 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 to advance to the third round at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters in Monaco on Tuesday.,It was the biggest win of his career in terms of victory over a ranked opponent. Zverev, of Germany, is ranked No. 2 in the world.,The win wa...
Ill Holger Rune retires in Monte Carlo match
An ill Holger Rune retired in the first round of the Monte-Carlo Masters in Monaco on Tuesday.,Playing Nuno Borges of Portugal, Rune lost the first set 6-2 and trailed 0-3 in the second when he ended the match.,The 10th-seeded Rune, of Denmark, reportedly had been sick before the start of the tourna...
O's look for more production from Gunnar Henderson vs. D-backs
Baltimore's much-needed victory came with Gunnar Henderson highlights but also included some sobering news.,First, the good stuff. Henderson had his most productive game since returning from the injured list to help the Orioles beat the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix on Monday.,Henderson had two hi...
Ryan O’Hearn-led Orioles hand Diamondbacks third straight setback
Ryan O'Hearn had two hits, including a homer, and Gunnar Henderson had two hits, two runs and two stolen bases when the Baltimore Orioles beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 in Phoenix on Monday.,Ryan Mountcastle had a two-run single and Zac Eflin (2-1) gave up one run in six innings in his third qual...
Sens visit Blue Jackets with chance to clinch first playoff berth since '17
The Ottawa Senators have a simple assignment Tuesday night. If they beat the Columbus Blue Jackets on the road, the franchise will clinch a playoff berth for the first time since 2017.,Carrying out that assignment may not be as easy, even though the Senators (42-29-6, 90 points) are riding a three-g...
Blackhawks gunning for home-and-home sweep of Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins eye revenge when they play host to the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday night.,Tuesday's meeting wraps up a home-and-home series that began Sunday with Chicago claiming a 3-1 home win.,Chicago (22-45-10, 54 points) had entered the contest on a five-game losing skid and with just...