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Knicks' reserves lead comeback win over Nets
Landry Shamet came off the bench to score 29 points, and the short-handed New York Knicks rode a 17-0 third-quarter run to hold off the host Brooklyn Nets 113-105 in the regular-season finale for both teams Sunday.,New York (51-31), already locked into the Eastern Conference's No. 3 seed for the pla...
Team Falcons blanks G2 to win PGL Bucharest title
Team Falcons thrashed G2 Esports 3-0 to win the grand final at the PGL Bucharest 2025 event on Sunday in Romania.,Falcons, who squeaked into the grand final with 2-1 victories in the quarterfinals and semifinals, defeated G2 13-5 on Mirage, 13-7 on Nuke and 13-8 on Ancient. That earned the team a fi...
Bub Carrington beats the buzzer, Wizards top Heat to finish season
Bub Carrington made a heavily contested floater at the buzzer to lead the visiting Washington Wizards over the short-handed Miami Heat 119-118 on Sunday.,Down seven with four minutes remaining, the Heat went on an 11-0 run featuring an alley-oop finish and a game-tying and-one from Keshad Johnson. T...
Payton Pritchard helps Celtics end regular season with win vs. Hornets
Payton Pritchard tossed in a game-high 34 points to help the Boston Celtics defeat the visiting Charlotte Hornets 93-86 Sunday on the final day of the NBA's regular season.,Charlotte, which trailed by 21 early, tied the game 86-86 on a Moussa Diabate layup with 2:13 to play, but Boston regained cont...
Kevin Huerter helps Bulls roll past 76ers
Kevin Huerter scored 18 points as the visiting Chicago Bulls topped the Philadelphia 76ers 122-102 on Sunday in the regular-season finale for both teams., ,Talen Horton-Tucker chipped in 17 points and Jalen Smith had 12 points and 10 boards for Chicago (39-43), which matched its win total from last ...
Hawks beat Magic ahead of rematch in play-in round
Keaton Wallace had a triple-double with 15 points, 15 assists and 11 rebounds to lift the Atlanta Hawks to a 117-105 win over the visiting Orlando Magic on Sunday afternoon.,The two teams will meet again Tuesday in Orlando in the play-in tournament with the winner claiming the seventh seed and a fir...
Regnum Carya Esports win PUBG Mobile Global Open 2025
Regnum Carya Esports of Turkey recorded 106 points to capture first place in the PUBG Mobile Global Open 2025 on Sunday in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.,Mongolian Uuganbayar "DOK" Dulguun was named the MVP of the competition, helping Regnum Carya Esports capture the first prize sum of $100,000 in the 16-tea...
Oscar Piastri dominant in Bahrain Grand Prix win
Oscar Piastri won his second Formula One race of the season, riding the pole position into a victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix.,With his fourth career victory, Piastri moved into second place in the driver standings, three points behind his McLaren teammate, Lando Norris.,Piastri built his lead thro...
Carlos Alcaraz rallies to claim crown in Monaco
Carlos Alcaraz rallied for a 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 victory on Sunday against an ailing Lorenzo Musetti to win the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters in Monaco.,The second-seeded Spaniard claimed his sixth ATP Masters 1000 title and first since Indian Wells in March 2024. It was the 18th career title for the four-tim...
Capitals' Alex Ovechkin to return for rematch with Jackets
The Washington Capitals and Columbus Blue Jackets wrap up their season series on Sunday in the nation's capital one day after the Blue Jackets blanked the Capitals 7-0 at home.,The Blue Jackets (37-33-9, 83 points), who have won three straight, still have not been eliminated from Stanley Cup Playoff...
Against Leafs, Hurricanes look to set franchise home wins record
The Carolina Hurricanes will aim to set a team record for home wins on Sunday in their clash against the Atlantic Division-leading Toronto Maple Leafs at Raleigh, N.C.,The Hurricanes (47-27-5, 99 points) tied the team record of 31 home wins set in the 2005-06 season on Saturday afternoon when they e...
Team Spirit advances to grand final of ESL One Raleigh
Team Spirit rallied to defeat Tundra Esports 2-1 on Saturday in the upper-bracket final and advance to the grand final at the Dota 2 ESL One Raleigh event.,In Sunday's grand final, Team Spirit awaits the winner of the lower-bracket final featuring PARAVISION against Tundra Esports. PARAVISION came f...
Los Angeles Thieves, Miami Heretics unbeaten in CDL Stage 3 qualifying
The unbeaten Los Angeles Thieves made perhaps a bit of a statement while the Miami Heretics remained atop the standings through Saturday at the Call of Duty League stage 3 Major Qualifiers.,The Thieves (2-0) had the only sweep on Saturday, while the Heretics, Vegas Falcons and Boston Breach posted 3...
LYON, FlyQuest atop standings in 2nd week of North 2025 Split 2
LYON and FlyQuest remained unbeaten at 3-0 through Saturday's competition of the LTA North 2025 Split 2 to top the standings in the League of Legends tournament's Positioning Phase in Los Angeles.,Cloud9 and Team Liquid, each 2-1, also won as the second of three weeks of positioning play got underwa...
G2 Esports, Team Falcons in grand final at PGL Bucharest
G2 Esports and Team Falcons won their respective semifinal matches Saturday at the $625,000 PGL Bucharest 2025 event in Romania, setting up Sunday's grand final.,G2 swept Complexity 2-0 with a 13-8 win on Anubis and a 13-9 victory on Dust II. ,Falcons took down FaZe Clan 2-1, sandwiching a 13-4 win ...
Wild top Canucks in OT, inch closer to playoff spot
Mats Zuccarello scored the winning goal 2:47 into overtime as the Minnesota Wild continued their late playoff push by rallying to beat the host Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Saturday.,Zuccarello snuck behind the Vancouver defense and took a pass from Kirill Kaprizov then deked goaltender Kevin Lankinen a...
After wild 3rd period, Kraken upend Blues in shootout
Chandler Stephenson scored the shootout-winning goal to give the host Seattle Kraken a 4-3 comeback victory over the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.,Jaden Schwartz, Mikey Eyssimont and Shane Wright also scored for the Kraken (35-40-6, 76 points). Goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 20 saves through overti...
LAFC rides second-half scores to narrow win over Earthquakes
Sergi Palencia and Denis Bouanga each scored in the match's final 25 minutes Saturday night and LAFC made it stand up for a 2-1 win over the visiting San Jose Earthquakes.,LAFC (4-4-0, 12 points) was out-chanced for most of the match but cashed in its opportunities late. Bouanga was part of both goa...
Knights secure Pacific Division title with win over Preds
Noah Hanifin scored the game-winner with 1:55 remaining and the Vegas Golden Knights clinched the Pacific Division title with a 5-3 victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night in Las Vegas., ,Hanifin snapped a 15-game goalless drought when he blasted a slap shot from just inside the blue ...
Dynamo, Galaxy struggle offensively in draw
Diego Fagundez scored the tying goal while Los Angeles was a man down and the struggling Galaxy salvaged a 1-1 tie against the Houston Dynamo on Saturday night at Carson, Calif.,The Galaxy (0-5-3, 3 points) remain winless after winning last season's MLS Cup. Los Angeles has been outscored 15-6 this ...