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MOUZ, SAW advance to IEM Cologne semifinals
MOUZ and SAW won their respective quarterfinal matches Friday to advance to the final four of the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne playoffs in Germany.,MOUZ swept G2 Esports 2-0 and SAW outlasted FaZe Clan 2-1 to move into the semifinals. MOUZ will meet Natus Vincere in the next round, while SAW draws ...

Aaron Judge, Gerrit Cole help Yankees tackle Tigers
Aaron Judge hit his 44th home run, Gerrit Cole pitched six strong innings and the visiting New York Yankees defeated the Detroit Tigers 3-0 on Friday night.,Judge, who hit his 300th career homer in the Yankees' previous game Wednesday against the Chicago White Sox, blasted a solo shot in the eighth....

Talor Gooch part of three-way lead at LIV Greenbrier
Talor Gooch holed out for an eagle during a bogey-free, 7-under-par 63 to share the first-round lead at LIV Greenbrier with Smash GC teammate Jason Kokrak and Colombia's Sebastian Munoz on Friday in White Sulphur Springs, W.V.,Gooch, Kokrak and Munoz hold a one-shot edge over Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm...

Scott Parel has putting breakthrough, shoots 63 to lead in Calgary
Scott Parel fired a 7-under-par 63 to grab the first-round lead at the Rogers Charity Classic on Friday in Calgary.,Parel's seven-birdie, zero-bogey outing put him one stroke ahead of Wes Short Jr., Scott McCarron and Mario Tiziani, who are tied for second. A large group tied two back at 5-under 65 ...

Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka advance after rain in Cincy
While top-seeded Iga Swiatek and No. 3 seed Aryna Sabalenka advanced to the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati Open on Friday, No. 5 seed Jasmine Paolini was eliminated in a third-round upset following morning rain.,Paolini of Italy was bounced from the tournament 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 by Mirra Andreeva of Rus...

Denny McCarthy, Hideki Matsuyama share lead at St. Jude
Denny McCarthy made 160 feet of putts on his way to a 7-under-par 63 that rocketed him into a tie for the second-round lead with Hideki Matsuyama of Japan at the FedEx St. Jude Championship on Friday in Memphis, Tenn.,In the first leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs at TPC Southwind, McCarthy and Matsuyam...

Megan Khang ties Minjee Lee for Women's Scottish Open lead
Megan Khang joined Australian Minjee Lee atop the 36-hole leaderboard at the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open on Friday as a handful of players began to break from the pack in Ayrshire, Scotland.,Khang shot her second straight round of 68 and Lee posted a 69 to get to 8-under 136. They have a two-st...

Cubs walk off vs. Blue Jays after blowing 3-run lead
Seiya Suzuki's single in the 10th inning scored automatic runner Ian Happ after Toronto tied the game with three runs in the ninth as the Chicago Cubs beat the visiting Blue Jays 6-5 on Friday afternoon.,With Happ on second, Michael Busch walked to start the 10th before Suzuki lined a single against...

Gael Monfils stuns Carlos Alcaraz at Cincinnati Open
France's Gael Monfils, at age 37, pulled off a major upset Friday by defeating World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz in a second-round match continued from Thursday at the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio.,The unseeded Monfils knocked off second-seeded Alcaraz 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 after rain suspended the match Thu...
Eight College Football Coaches Facing Most Pressure in 2024
These college football coaches are feeling the most pressure to win in 2024, whether it's lofty National Championship goals or eagerness to turn programs around....

OpTic wins opener at Esports World Cup's CoD MWIII event
OpTic Gaming, whose players captured the Call of Duty League Championship last month, opened play in the Call of Duty Modern Warfare III event at the Esports World Cup with a 3-1 win over OMiT Brooklyn on Thursday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,The $1.8 million tournament began with 16 teams divided into ...

Breanna Stewart powers Liberty to lopsided win vs. Sparks
Breanna Stewart scored 27 points to guide the New York Liberty to a 103-68 win over the host Los Angeles Sparks on Thursday.,New York has now topped Los Angeles in three straight meetings this season. The Liberty have also won eight in a row versus the Sparks since Aug. 2, 2022.,The Liberty came out...

Yulia Putintseva eliminates Coco Gauff in Cincinnati
Four of the top nine seeds, including defending champion and second-seeded Coco Gauff, were eliminated on Thursday on the second round of the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio.,Gauff fell to Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in just under two hours. Gauff, who had won their three previous ma...

Zach Eflin remains unbeaten for O's with win over Red Sox
Gunnar Henderson and Cedric Mullins homered and Zach Eflin continued his splendid work on the mound as the Baltimore Orioles beat the visiting Boston Red Sox 5-1 to open a four-game series Thursday night.,Colton Cowser and Henderson each had two hits for the Orioles, who won their second game in a r...

Twins take down Rangers in 9th
Carlos Santana hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and the visiting Minnesota Twins held on for a 3-2 win against the Texas Rangers in the opener of their four-game series on Thursday night in Arlington, Texas.,Willi Castro homered and Kyle Farmer had two hits and scored a run for Minnesota, whi...

Late TD, two-point conversion lift Eagles over Patriots
Kendall Milton ran for a 1-yard touchdown with 4:23 to play and the Philadelphia Eagles added a go-ahead two-point conversion to edge the New England Patriots 14-13 on Thursday in Foxborough, Mass.,Ainias Smith caught the decisive two-point pass from Tanner McKee.,The Patriots (1-1) had two more pos...

Fourth-quarter surge lifts Lynx over Mystics
Napheesa Collier scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, and the Minnesota Lynx surged in the fourth quarter for a 79-68 win over the Washington Mystics on Thursday night in Minneapolis.,Courtney Williams added 14 points for Minnesota (18-8), which won its first game following a monthlong break fo...

Kahleah Copper scores 29 as Mercury dominate Sky
Kahleah Copper played like gold as the Phoenix Mercury resumed WNBA play with a dominating 85-65 win over the host Chicago Sky on Thursday.,Copper, a star during Team USA's gold-medal run in Paris, scored a game-high 29 points, including 18 in the first half to lead the Mercury (14-12). The Sky (10-...

Ben Shelton faces down match point, advances at Cincinnati Open
Ben Shelton, the 12th seed, survived a match point and battled for nearly three hours to defeat Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-7 (6), 7-6 (7), 6-3 on Thursday to reach the third round at the Cincinnati Open in Mason, Ohio.,The unseeded Etcheverry of Argentina had match point on his serve at 7-6 in the se...

Rookie Weston Wilson hits for cycle as Phillies smash Nats
Rookie Weston Wilson hit for the cycle and Alec Bohm and Nick Castellanos belted back-to-back homers in the first inning, lifting the host Philadelphia Phillies to a convincing 13-3 victory over the Washington Nationals on Thursday.,Wilson struck out in the first inning, tripled and singled in the f...