ap Page 811 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Rangers flatten Flyers, run points streak to 10 games
Igor Shesterkin made 35 saves and six different players scored for the surging New York Rangers, who erased an early deficit and pulled away for a 6-1 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night.,Braden Schneider and Adam Edstrom scored 84 seconds apart in the opening period as t...
Joonas Korpisalo stops 29 shots as Bruins blank Senators
Morgan Geekie scored the game-winning goal and Joonas Korpisalo recorded a 29-save shutout as the Boston Bruins beat the visiting Ottawa Senators 2-0 on Thursday night.,Geekie tallied at 2:06 of the second period, his second goal in as many games and fourth in a six-game span.,David Pastrnak dished ...
Franz Wagner returns, but Blazers stymie Magic
The Portland Trail Blazers used a stifling defensive effort to spoil Orlando Magic star Franz Wagner's return and scored their second three-game winning streak of the season with a 101-79 road rout on Thursday. ,Wagner, who missed 20 games with an oblique injury, scored a team-high 20 points on 9-of...
Dylan Larkin tallies two points as Red Wings handle Habs
Dylan Larkin notched a power-play goal and an assist in his 700th career game as the host Detroit Red Wings downed the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 on Thursday night.,Andrew Copp supplied a short-handed goal for the Red Wings, who ended a three-game losing streak (0-2-1). Detroit's Jonatan Berggren and Al...
PJ Haggerty nets 22 points as No. 24 Memphis beats Wichita State
PJ Haggerty scored a game-high 22 points Thursday night and No. 24 Memphis finished with a 12-2 run that allowed it to avoid an upset against visiting Wichita State with a 61-53 American Athletic Conference win.,Tyrese Hunter added 16 for the Tigers (15-4, 5-1 AAC), who survived sloppy play. They co...
Ludvig Aberg, Lanto Griffin tied for lead at Farmers Insurance Open
Ludvig Aberg of Sweden finished off a 3-over-par 75 after sunset Thursday in San Diego but still shares the lead at the Farmers Insurance Open with Lanto Griffin.,The second round of the tournament was suspended for an hour and 26 minutes in the afternoon due to high winds. It resumed at 3:31 p.m. l...
Victor Wembanyama shines as Spurs throttle Pacers in Paris
Victor Wembanyama collected 30 points and 11 rebounds as part of a successful homecoming, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 140-110 drubbing of the Indiana Pacers on Thursday afternoon in Paris.,Wembanyama, a Frenchman who also got to play in his native country this past summer at the Paris Olympic...
G2, Team Spirit move to semifinals of BLAST Bounty Spring event
G2 Esports and Team Spirit advanced to the semifinals of the BLAST Bounty Spring 2025 event on Tuesday in Copenhagen, Denmark.,G2 swept BetBoom Team 2-0 and Team Spirit did the same to HEROIC to reach the round of four. Their next opponents won't be determined until Friday, as the teams will be re-s...
No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, Madison Keys set for Australian Open final
American Madison Keys shocked No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek to crash the Australian Open women's final, where top-seeded, two-time defending champ Aryna Sabalenka awaits on Saturday.,Keys dropped the opening set 7-5 before rolling off 6-1 and 7-6 (8) wins to eliminate the five-time major champion in the se...
Hawks hope to reverse course in first of two games vs. Raptors
Losers of two straight games, the Atlanta Hawks will look to get back on track and improve their standing in the Eastern Conference on Thursday night when they host the Toronto Raptors.,The Hawks, who hold the seventh seed in the conference, will host Toronto in back-to-back games as the teams wrap ...
Fancy, JonBeast roll into Madden playoff semifinals
Top-seeded Jacob "Fancy" Worthington and second-seeded Jonathan "JonBeast" Marquez charged into the semifinals of the $1 million Madden Championship Series playoffs with one-sided wins on Wednesday.,Fancy, a Frisco, Texas, resident who owns two MCS championship belts, produced a 34-21 victory over e...
Arkansas gets first SEC win in wild finish vs. Georgia
Adou Thiero split a pair of free throws with 1.6 seconds left, then scored a layup at the buzzer after rebounding his missed second attempt, giving Arkansas a 68-65 win over visiting Georgia in Fayetteville, Ark., on Wednesday in Southeastern Conference play.,With the score tied at 63, Thiero's jump...
No. 5 Florida gets only lead when it counts, edges South Carolina
Will Richard capped a 22-point showing by hitting the go-ahead layup with five seconds left as fifth-ranked Florida executed down the stretch and rallied for a 70-69 victory over South Carolina on Wednesday night in Columbia, S.C.,The Gators (17-2, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) trailed 58-45 with 8:4...
Maxime Raynaud, Stanford overwhelm Miami
Maxime Raynaud's 28 points and 12 rebounds led host Stanford to an 88-51 blowout win over Miami in an Atlantic Coast Conference game in Northern California on Wednesday night.,Raynaud made 4 of 6 3-pointers, part of the 11 that the Cardinals (13-6, 5-3) made for the game. It was Raynaud's 12th 20-po...
Celtics need overtime to slip past Clippers
Jaylen Brown scored 25 points and Jayson Tatum added 24 as the visiting Boston Celtics pulled out a 117-113 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday at Inglewood, Calif., on a night when key players were missing from both sides.,While the Celtics won without Jrue Holiday (shoulder...
Kings race past Warriors with fourth-quarter surge
De'Aaron Fox saved eight of his 14 points for a game-ending flurry, DeMar DeRozan scored 32 points and the Sacramento Kings overcame an big deficit to beat the visiting Golden State Warriors 123-117 on Wednesday night.,Seeking to rebound from a 40-point home loss to Boston on Monday, the Warriors us...
Big night from deep not enough for Warriors against Kings
De'Aaron Fox saved eight of his 14 points for a game-ending flurry, DeMar DeRozan had 32 points and the Sacramento Kings overcame an 18-point deficit to beat the visiting Golden State Warriors 123-117 on Wednesday night.,Seeking to rebound from a 40-point home loss to Boston on Monday, the Warriors ...
Kings score twice in third period, overtake Panthers
Adrian Kempe continued his hot streak by netting the game-winner as the host Los Angeles Kings cued up a third-period comeback to claim a 2-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Wednesday.,Samuel Helenius scored his first NHL goal and Darcy Kuemper made 27 saves for the Kings, who snapped a two-gam...
Jets win in OT, topple Avalanche once again
Neal Pionk scored 17 seconds into overtime and Connor Hellebuyck made 25 saves as the Winnipeg Jets beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 in Denver on Wednesday night.,Morgan Barron and Gabriel Vilardi also scored and Josh Morrissey and Vladislav Namestnikov had two assists each for Winnipeg, which won th...
Arkansas gets first SEC win on wild fiinish
Adou Thiero split a pair of free throws with 1.6 seconds left, then scored a layup at the buzzer after rebounding his missed second attempt, giving Arkansas a 68-65 win over visiting Georgia in Fayetteville on Wednesday in Southeastern Conference play.,With the score tied at 63, Thiero's jumper gave...