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Cards get pitching, clutch hits to continue Reds' skid
Nathan Church drove in two runs as the visiting St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Cincinnati Reds 4-2 on Saturday night.,Willson Contreras and Pedro Pages hit homers as the Cardinals won their third straight game.,Cardinals starter Michael McGreevy (6-2) allowed one run on five hits and two walks in ...
Napheesa Collier helps Lynx handle Sun
Napheesa Collier scored 11 of her 17 points in the second half and the Minnesota Lynx led most of the way in a 94-70 victory over the host Connecticut Sun on Saturday night in Uncasville, Conn.,The Lynx (31-8) clinched homecourt advantage in the first round of the postseason and set a team record fo...
John Mateer sets record for No. 18 Oklahoma in rout of Illinois State
John Mateer threw for 392 yards and three touchdowns and ran for another as No. 18 Oklahoma opened the season with a 35-3 win over Illinois State on Saturday in Norman, Okla.,Mateer's passing yardage was the most by a Sooners quarterback in an opener, topping Baker Mayfield's 388-yard performance to...
Trea Turner lifts Phillies over Braves in 10th inning
Trea Turner delivered a two-run single with his team down to its final strike, lifting the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2, 10-inning win over the visiting Atlanta Braves on Saturday.,Nacho Alvarez Jr. had the go-ahead base hit in the top of the 10th for Atlanta, which has lost the first three games ...
Rocco Becht dazzles as No. 22 Iowa State trounces South Dakota
Rocco Becht completed 19 of 20 passes for 278 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 22 Iowa State cruised to a 55-7 win over South Dakota on Saturday afternoon in Ames, Iowa.,Becht set a school record by completing 95 percent of his passes and established another school mark with a TD pass in 20 conse...
No. 1 Jannik Sinner gets pushed before finishing off Denis Shapovalov
No. 1 player in the world Jannik Sinner of Italy dropped his first set Saturday, but he rallied in familiar dominating fashion to down Canadian Denis Shapovalov 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 at the U.S. Open in New York.,Sinner, the defending champion, experienced little trouble in this tournament leading into...
Led by Connor Norby, Marlins beat Mets again
Connor Norby hit a tie-breaking sacrifice fly in the seventh inning for the Miami Marlins, who outlasted the host New York Mets 11-8 in a wild back-and-forth game Saturday.,The Marlins, who led 5-1 after one inning and 8-5 after three frames, have won two of the first three games in the four-game se...
Florida State displays ground dominance in upset of No. 8 Alabama
Florida State ran for 230 yards and four touchdowns, beginning its 2025 season with a shocking upset of No. 8 Alabama in Tallahassee, Fla. on Saturday.,The Seminoles, 2-10 a season ago after a 13-1 campaign in 2023, looked the part of a new-look team with two new coordinators and a new roster. The C...
Pirates score combined 8 runs in 5th, 6th innings to topple Red Sox
A combined eight-run onslaught across the fifth and sixth innings propelled the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates to a 10-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday.,All nine Pirates hit safely, and three had two RBIs in support of Johan Oviedo (2-0), who allowed two runs on three hits and struck out six a...
Gunner Stockton helps No. 5 Georgia trounce Marshall
ATHENS - Gunner Stockton completed 14 of 24 passes for 190 yards and two touchdowns, while also rushing for 73 yards and two scores on Saturday, helping lead No. 5 Georgia to a 45-7 victory over visiting Marshall in the season opener for both teams.,Dwight Phillips Jr. added 60 rushing yards and a s...
Dante Moore throws for 3 TDs as No. 7 Oregon routs Montana State
In his first start in nearly two years, Dante Moore had a near-perfect performance as No. 7 Oregon was all over Montana State Bobcats 59-13 in the opener for both teams Saturday afternoon in Eugene, Ore.,In just under three quarters of work, Moore went 18-for-23 with 213 yards and three touchdowns. ...
No. 2 Penn State gains easy win over Nevada
Nicholas Singleton rushed for two touchdowns and Dani Dennis-Sutton was a terror on defense as No. 2 Penn State rolled to an easy 46-11 victory over Nevada on Saturday in the season opener for both teams at University Park, Pa.,Drew Allar completed 22 of 26 passes for 217 yards and one touchdown as ...
Rocco Becht dazzles as Iowa State trounces South Dakota
Rocco Becht completed 19 of 20 passes for 278 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 22 Iowa State cruised to a 55-7 win over South Dakota on Saturday afternoon in Ames, Iowa.,Benjamin Brahmer caught seven passes for 47 yards and two touchdowns for Iowa State (2-0), which won its home opener one week a...
Isaac Brown, Caullin Lacy help Louisville maul Eastern Kentucky
Isaac Brown garnered 126 yards and two touchdowns on just six carries and Louisville amassed 543 yards of offense on Saturday and drubbed visiting Eastern Kentucky 51-17 in the season-opening game for both team.,Louisville held its FCS guests to just 150 yards, including just 38 in the first half. B...
Josh Lowe's 2 home runs lift Rays past Nationals
Josh Lowe homered twice and drove in four runs, Ryan Pepiot pitched five innings of scoreless ball and the visiting Tampa Bay Rays beat the Washington Nationals 4-1 on Saturday.,It was Lowe's third career multi-homer game and his first of the season.,Pepiot (10-10) allowed one hit and three walks wh...
No. 20 Indiana overcomes slow start to defeat Old Dominion
New quarterback Fernando Mendoza rushed for a touchdown, new running back Roman Hemby added 110 yards on the ground, and No. 20 Indiana shrugged off a sluggish start Saturday for a 27-14 win over Old Dominion in Bloomington, Ind.,Second-year coach Curt Cignetti saw his team win its opener for the se...
Brewers beat Blue Jays again in battle of division leaders
Jackson Chourio and Christian Yelich led off the ninth inning with back-to-back homers Saturday afternoon, and the visiting Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1.,The homers came on consecutive pitches from Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman (8-6) that brought boos from the crowd. The Brew...
Jahiem White scores 2 touchdowns as West Virginia blows out Robert Morris
Junior running back Jahiem White rushed for two touchdowns and quarterback Nicco Marchiol completed 17-of-20 passes for 224 yards and a TD to lead West Virginia to a 45-3 victory over Robert Morris on Saturday in Morgantown, West Virginia.,White ran for 93 yards on 18 carries. He scored both of his ...
Dylan Lonergan's 4 TD passes lead BC to rout of Fordham
Dylan Lonergan threw for 268 yards and four touchdowns in his Boston College debut, leading the Eagles to a season-opening, 66-10 win over FCS foe Fordham on Saturday afternoon at Chestnut Hill, Mass.,Lonergan (26-of-34 passing) found three different receivers for scores, including Jaedn Skeete twic...
Jelena Ostapenko apologizes for some of her Taylor Townsend comments
Jelena Ostapenko issued an apology Saturday for some of her comments stemming from a tense exchange with Taylor Townsend after she lost to the American in a second-round match at the U.S. Open on Wednesday.,Ostapenko, who is from Latvia, clarified what she meant when she told Townsend she had "no ed...