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NaVi, Eternal Fire advance in BLAST Bounty Spring
Natus Vincere won two maps in overtime and emerged with a 2-1 victory over paiN Gaming in the quarterfinals of the BLAST Bounty Spring 2025 event on Friday in Copenhagen, Denmark.,In the day's other quarterfinal match, Eternal Fire swept Team Vitality 2-0.,The first S-tier Counter-Strike: Global Off...

UCLA holds on to beat skidding Washington
Aday Mara scored 12 points, grabbed seven rebounds and blocked five shots as UCLA outlasted Washington 65-60 on Friday in Seattle.,Skyy Clark also scored 12 and Kobe Johnson and Eric Dailey Jr. added 11 points apiece for the Bruins (14-6, 5-4 Big Ten), who won their third straight game. Johnson grab...

Capitals cruise into Vancouver riding 6-game win streak
The Washington Capitals look for their seventh straight win when they visit the scuffling Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night.,The Capitals shut out the host Seattle Kraken 3-0 on Thursday night, increasing their point streak to 12 games (9-0-3). Washington has won the first two games of its five-ga...

Amber Glenn wins second consecutive U.S. figure skating title
Thanks to a free-skate routine that featured a triple axel, Amber Glenn overtook Alysa Liu to successfully defend her women's title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at Wichita, Kan., on Friday.,Glenn, a 25-year-old Texan, earned a score of 145.88 on the free skate, giving her a total of 216....

76ers clip Cavaliers to end seven-game skid
Paul George scored 30 points and Tyrese Maxey added 29 as the Philadelphia 76ers snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 132-129 win over the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday.,In a game that featured 18 ties and 30 lead changes, Philadelphia placed all five starters in double figures, as wel...

Iowa edges Penn State despite late cold stretch
Drew Thelwell and Owen Freeman scored 16 points apiece to help Iowa nip visiting Penn State 76-75 on Friday night in Iowa City., ,Josh Dix supplied 11 points for the Hawkeyes (13-7, 4-5 Big Ten), while Payton Sandfort added 10 points. Iowa snapped a three-game losing streak despite not scoring a poi...

Power play propels Lightning to OT win over Blackhawks
Nikita Kucherov capped a three-point outing with a power-play goal 58 seconds into overtime, and the Tampa Bay Lightning rallied to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 on Friday.,Kucherov one-timed the winner from the right circle after earlier posting two assists. He stretched his point streak to 11 ga...

Cole Perfetti's first career hat trick propels Jets past Utah
Cole Perfetti notched his first career hat trick to lead the Winnipeg Jets past the visiting Utah Hockey Club 5-2 on Friday night.,Nikolaj Ehlers reached 500 career points with a goal and two assists for the Jets, who avenged Monday's 5-2 loss at Utah. Dylan DeMelo had two assists and Connor Hellebu...

Grizzlies run win streak to five by beating Pelicans
Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 29 points with seven assists and Luke Kennard added a season-high 27 as the host Memphis Grizzlies won their fifth straight with a 139-126 victory Friday over the New Orleans Pelicans.,The Pelicans had their season-best four-game win streak snapped.,Desmond Bane added 20 poi...

No. 11 Purdue uses dominant first half to crush No. 21 Michigan
Braden Smith had 24 points and 10 assists to lead No. 11 Purdue to a 91-64 rout of No. 21 Michigan in West Lafayette, Ind., on Friday in a Big Ten contest. ,Fletcher Loyer scored 18 points on 5-of-10 shooting from 3-point range, Trey Kaufman-Renn added 15 points and C.J. Cox chipped in 11 points for...

Jason Robertson keeps goals coming as Stars edge Golden Knights
Jason Robertson scored two goals and Jake Oettinger made 18 saves to lead the host Dallas Stars to a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday night.,It was Robertson's second multi-goal game of the season. Roope Hintz and Jamie Benn also scored goals and Matt Duchene, Wyatt Johnston and E...

First-period flurry carries Islanders past Flyers
Anthony Duclair and Bo Horvat scored the tying and go-ahead goals in a 55-second span late in the first period Friday night for the New York Islanders, who matched their season-best winning streak by beating the Philadelphia Flyers 3-1 in Elmont, N.Y.,Brock Nelson scored in the second period for the...

76ers clip Cavs to end seven-game skid
Paul George scored 30 points and Tyrese Maxey added 29 as the Philadelphia 76ers snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 132-129 win over the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday., ,In a game that featured 18 ties and 30 lead changes, Philadelphia placed all five starters in double figures, as w...

Anfernee Simons, Blazers pull away for win over Hornets
Anfernee Simons poured in 12 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter and the visiting Portland Trail Blazers overcame early rough stretches to beat the short-handed Charlotte Hornets 102-97 on Friday.,Jerami Grant cranked out 22 points, Deni Avdija had 18 points, reserve Shaedon Sharpe added 13 point...

Stevie Mitchell, No. 10 Marquette handle Villanova
Stevie Mitchell had 21 points and Chase Ross added 18 as No. 10 Marquette clamped down on the nation's top scorer en route to an 87-74 Big East victory over Villanova on Friday night in Milwaukee.,Villanova's Eric Dixon, who entered averaging 24.9 ppg, finished with 18 points, but 11 of those came i...

Harris English seizes slim lead at Farmers Insurance Open
Harris English shot a 6-under-par 66 on Friday to rise to the lead after three rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego.,English, who's at 9 under for the tournament, used birdies on the final three holes of the South Course to move ahead of Andrew Novak, who fin...

Hawks try to avoid two-game sweep to visiting Raptors
It hasn't exactly been "home sweet home" on the current homestand for the Atlanta Hawks, a trend they hope to reverse when they host the Toronto Raptors on Saturday for the latter game of their two-game series.,Atlanta has lost three in a row, including the first two of a three-game homestand, and i...

No. 2 South Carolina hands No. 5 LSU first loss of season
Joyce Edwards scored 14 points and No. 2 South Carolina put the clamps on No. 5 LSU, handing the visiting Tigers their first loss of the season with a 66-56 result Friday in Columbia, S.C.,South Carolina (19-1, 7-0 Southeastern Conference) held LSU (20-1, 5-1) to its fewest points of the season. The...

Goal-starved Senators host Atlantic Division-leading Leafs
The second leg of the Battle of Ontario will take place on Saturday when an Ottawa Senators team looking to get into playoff position hosts the Atlantic Division-leading Toronto Maple Leafs.,Ottawa enters the game having lost two straight on the road, both by shutout. Getting blanked has been a more...

Bills starting S Taylor Rapp (hip) ruled out vs. Chiefs
Buffalo Bills starting safety Taylor Rapp has been ruled out for the AFC Championship Game on Sunday against the host Kansas City Chiefs.,Head coach Sean McDermott announced Friday on WGR 550 radio in Buffalo that Rapp will miss the game because of a hip injury. Rapp has not participated in practice...