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Fast starts for 4 teams as Group Stage 2 opens at Austin Major
Four teams got off to 2-0 starts when Group Stage 2 began on Saturday at the BLAST.tv Austin Major in Texas.,FaZe Clan, paiN Gaming, Virtus.pro and Legacy won their first-round matches and Round 2 high matches.,The $1.25 million Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event, which began with 32 teams, feat...

Merab Dvalishvili stops Sean O'Malley in Round 3 at UFC 316
Merab Dvalishvili effortlessly defeated Sean O'Malley in the main event of UFC 316 on Saturday night in Newark, N.J., securing a third-round modified choke in their rematch to retain the bantamweight championship.,With President Donald Trump watching from cageside, Dvalishvili (20-4 MMA) emphaticall...

Orioles stay hot, power up to rally past Athletics
Ramon Laureano homered and had three hits and three RBIs and Colton Cowser launched a long blast to help the Baltimore Orioles post a 7-4 victory over the Athletics on Saturday night at West Sacramento, Calif.,Gunnar Henderson reached base four times on three singles and a hit-by-pitch for the Oriol...

Geekay, NTMR remain unbeaten at OWCS NA Stage 2
Geekay Esports and NTMR, tied atop the standings, remained unbeaten with sweeps on Saturday as Week 5 began in the Overwatch Champions Series 2025 -- North America Stage 2.,NTMR (6-0) downed DhillDucks (0-6), and Geekay Esports (6-0) reached the same outcome against Extinction (1-4).,The tournament,...

Joe Adell (2 HRs) powers Angels to comeback win vs. M's
Jo Adell had three hits, including a pair of tape-measure home runs, and drove in three as the Los Angeles Angels rallied from a four-run deficit to defeat the Seattle Mariners 8-6 on Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif., ,Chris Taylor homered and drove in two, Zach Neto went 2-for-5 with an RBI and a ...

Skylar Diggins leads way in Storm win over Mercury
Skylar Diggins had a season-high 26 points, Gabby Williams had a season-high 21 points and a career-high five 3-pointers, and the Seattle Storm pulled away from the host Phoenix Mercury for an 89-77 victory Saturday in the third meeting between the two this season.,Diggins had 22 of her 26 points in...

FlyQuest tops Cloud9 to reach grand final at 2025 Split 2
FlyQuest advanced to the grand final with a 3-2 victory over Cloud9 in the upper-bracket final on Saturday in the League of Legends LTA North 2025 Split 2 in Los Angeles.,Cloud9 moves on to the lower-bracket final on June 14 and will face the winner of Sunday's lower-bracket semifinal between Team L...

Caleb Durbin smacks walk-off HR in Brewers' win over Padres
Caleb Durbin hit the first pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning for a walk-off homer to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-3 victory over the visiting San Diego Padres on Saturday night.,The Padres erased a 3-1 deficit with two runs in the top of the ninth off closer Trevor Megill (1-2) who had conve...

Mets slug three homers in win over Rockies
Ronny Mauricio, Jared Young and Jeff McNeil each homered and Clay Holmes tossed six strong innings as the New York Mets beat the Colorado Rockies 8-1 on Saturday night in Denver.,Holmes (7-3) allowed one run on nine hits with no walks and six strikeouts for the Mets, who won for the 11th time in the...

Skylar Diggins leads the way in Storm win over Mercury
Skylar Diggins had a season-high 26 points, Gabby Williams had a season-high 21 points and a career-high five 3-pointers, and the Seattle Storm pulled away from the host Phoenix Mercury for an 89-77 victory Saturday in the third meeting between the two this season.,Diggins had 22 of her 26 points in...

Austin FC blank Rapids, halt lengthy winless streak
Mikkel Desler's first MLS goal and five saves by Brad Stuver helped Austin FC end an eight-match winless streak with a 2-0 victory over the Colorado Rapids in Commerce City, Colo., on Saturday.,Desler scored in the sixth minute and an own goal by Colorado's Rafael Navarro in the 66th doubled the sco...

Marlins halt skid with 11-10 win over Rays in extras
Heriberto Hernandez had a pinch-hit RBI single in the 10th inning to lift the visiting Miami Marlins to a wild 11-10 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday.,Miami bounced back from squandering a 10-6 lead and earned the advantage after Hernandez's base hit to shallow center field off Garrett Cl...

Adrian Houser shines again, pitches White Sox past Royals
Right-hander Adrian Houser gave up one run in six innings to lift the host Chicago White Sox to a 4-1 win over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday.,Dan Altavilla pitched the ninth for his second career save and first since 2020.,Houser (2-1) gave up six hits, one walk and had six strikeouts in 92 pit...

Trevor Story (5 RBIs), Red Sox storm past Yanks 10-7
Trevor Story keyed an early comeback with a bases-clearing double in a five-run third inning and added a two-run single in the ninth to lift the visiting Boston Red Sox over the New York Yankees 10-7 on Saturday night.,Rookie Kristian Campbell hit RBI singles in the second and third off New York sta...

Caleb Durbin smacks walk-off homer in Brewers win over Padres
Caleb Durbin hit the first pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning for a walk-off homer to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-3 victory over the visiting San Diego Padres on Saturday night.,The Padres erased a 3-1 deficit with two runs in the top of the ninth off closer Trevor Megill (1-2) who had conve...

Matt Chapman's walk-off homer vaults Giants past Braves
Matt Chapman belted a two-run, walk-off home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday afternoon, lifting the San Francisco Giants to a 3-2 victory over the visiting Atlanta Braves.,After Braves starter Bryce Elder struck out a career-high 12 in eight innings while allowing one ru...

Fever cruise to second blowout of Sky this season
Kelsey Mitchell scored a game-high 17 points and Natasha Howard chipped in 13 to lift the visiting Indiana Fever over the Chicago Sky 79-52 on Saturday in the first WNBA game played at United Center.,Indiana (4-4) forced Chicago (2-5) into 21 turnovers. The Fever led wire to wire and built a 30-poin...

Tom Barlow (hat trick), Fire crush D.C. United 7-1
Tom Barlow scored his first career MLS hat trick for his first three goals of the season and the Chicago Fire romped to a 7-1 victory over D.C. United on Saturday night.,Maren Haile-Selassie, Jonathan Bamba, Philip Zinckernagel and Brian Gutierrez also scored for Chicago (7-5-4, 25 points), which ha...

Anirban Lahiri up 2 entering final round at LIV Golf Virginia
Pursuing his first individual win with LIV Golf, Anirban Lahiri of India played a bogey-free second round at 7-under 64 on Saturday and holds a two-shot lead at LIV Golf Virginia on Saturday in Gainesville, Va.,A runner-up four times with LIV Golf, Lahiri sank seven birdies and made a 39-foot par pu...

Ilhee Lee leads in N.J.; Jennifer Kupcho among 4 one shot back
South Korea's Ilhee Lee, who shared the first-round lead, is alone in first place by one stroke after a second-round 3-under 68 on Saturday at the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Galloway, N.J.,Seeking her second LPGA Tour title in her 200th event, Lee birdied two of her first three holes while starting on...