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ATP roundup: Team World jumps ahead with unbeaten Laver Cup Day 2
Taylor Fritz stunned top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz 6-3, 6-2 as Team World swept Saturday's four matches to take a 9-3 lead over Team Europe at the Laver Cup in San Francisco,Fritz, ranked No. 5, beat Spain's Alcaraz for the first time in four ATP singles matches and defeated a reigning World No. 1 for a...
San Diego FC tie MLS expansion mark in draw at Atlanta
Anders Dreyer scored a goal and Carlos Dos Santos made four saves as Western Conference-leading San Diego FC tied the MLS record for points by an expansion team with a 1-1 draw at Atlanta United on Saturday afternoon.,The tie snapped a seven-game road winning streak for San Diego (17-8-6, 57 points)...
Ttwo-TD underdog San Diego State stuns Cal 34-0
Jordan Napier caught nine passes for 154 yards and a touchdown to help San Diego State to a surprising 34-0 victory against visiting California in a nonconference game on Saturday night.,Jayden Denegal completed 15 of 18 passes for 189 yards and a touchdown, and the defense contributed two scores fo...
QB Kaidon Salter's big game lifts Colorado past Wyoming
Kaidon Salter threw for 304 yards and three touchdowns Saturday night and Colorado's offense got going after a slow start to subdue visiting Wyoming 37-20 in Boulder.,Salter, a Liberty transfer who started the season's first two games but didn't play last week in a defeat at Houston, completed 18 of...
Top 25 roundup: No. 19 Indiana destroys No. 9 Illinois by 53
Fernando Mendoza threw for five touchdowns and No. 19 Indiana took ninth-ranked Illinois behind the woodshed for a 63-10 Big Ten spanking in Bloomington, Ind., on Saturday night.,Mendoza was nearly perfect, completing 21 of 23 passes for 267 yards as the Hoosiers (4-0, 1-0) rolled up 579 total yards...
MLB roundup: Tigers fall again to Braves as Guardians close within 1 game
Nacho Alvarez Jr. slugged the first two homers of his career and drove in three runs as the visiting Atlanta Braves rallied past Detroit 6-5 on Saturday afternoon, sending the Tigers to their fifth straight loss and reducing their lead in the American League Central to one game over Cleveland.,The s...
Shohei Ohtani's 53rd HR caps Dodgers' slugfest in win over Giants
Shohei Ohtani hit his league-leading 53rd home run, Max Muncy, Michael Conforto and Tommy Edman added homers of their own and the Los Angeles Dodgers made it three straight over the visiting San Francisco Giants with a 7-5 triumph Saturday night.,After rallying from a four-run deficit to win for the...
No. 20 Vanderbilt puts 70 points on Georgia State in rout
Quarterback Diego Pavia threw for 245 yards, ran for 86 yards and accounted for two touchdowns to lead No. 20 Vanderbilt to a 70-21 win over Georgia State on Saturday in Nashville.,Vanderbilt (4-0), motivated by the memory of last year's upset loss to Georgia State in Atlanta, showed no letdown afte...
Brewers reduce magic number to 1 with win over Cardinals
Brice Turang's decisive 10th-inning RBI single lifted the visiting Milwaukee Brewers past the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 Saturday -- and pushed them to the brink of another National League Central title.,The magic number for the Brewers (95-60) to win the division is now one. They have a seven-game lea...
Jesus Gomez's last-second FG lifts Arizona State over Baylor
Jesus Gomez drilled a 43-yard field goal as time expired, sending Arizona State to a 27-24 win over Baylor on Saturday night in Waco, Texas.,Arizona State's defense had three takeaways and kept one of the nation's most prolific passers, Baylor's Sawyer Robertson, relatively in check, but the game ca...
Dynamo tighten playoff race with narrow victory over Timbers
Ezequiel Ponce scored his 10th goal to lift the Houston Dynamo to what could be a crucial 1-0 victory over the visiting Portland Timbers on Saturday night.,Jonathan Bond made three stops to preserve his sixth clean sheet and Houston's ninth overall as the fight for a potential playoff spot continued...
Diamondbacks rally in the sixth to topple behemoth Phillies
Zac Gallen pitched seven strong innings, Ildemaro Vargas hit a tie-breaking single in a two-run sixth, and the Arizona Diamondbacks gained a game in the NL wild card race with a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies in Phoenix on Saturday., ,Gallen (13-14) gave up three runs on four hits, strik...
Chandler Morris aerial assault helps Virginia crush Stanford
Chandler Morris threw three first-quarter touchdown passes to Trell Harris to spark Virginia's 48-20 victory against Stanford in Atlantic Coast Conference action Saturday night in Charlottesville, Va.,Morris passed for a season-high 380 yards and four TDs and also ran for a score. Harris finished wi...
Fire dominate Minnesota United on the road
Chris Brady made four saves as the Chicago Fire put together a complete performance in a 3-0 shutout of Minnesota United FC on Saturday night in Saint Paul, Minn.,Chicago (13-11-6, 45 points) put the match away in the 70th minute when Philip Zinckernagel received a pass at the top of the 18-yard box...
Dallas swarms Rapids, makes ground in West standings
Petar Musa and Chris Cappis had first half goals as FC Dallas defeated the Colorado Rapids 3-1 on Saturday evening in a key Western Conference match in Frisco, Texas., ,Dallas (9-11-10, 37 points) moved from 11th to ninth place in the West and within a win of the Rapids (11-14-6, 39 points) with the...
Brewers reduce magic number to 1 with win vs. Cardinals
Brice Turang's decisive 10th-inning RBI single lifted the visiting Milwaukee Brewers past the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 Saturday -- and pushed them to the brink of another National League Central title.,The magic number for the Brewers (95-60) to win the division is now one. They have a seven-game lea...
Ryan O Hearn's double helps Padres rally past White Sox
Jackson Merrill homered and Ryan O'Hearn's three-run double gave San Diego the lead for good in the Padres' come-from-behind 7-3 win over the host Chicago White Sox on Saturday night.,The Padres (84-71), who are second in both the National League West and the NL wild-card race, had lost three of the...
Boston's big ninth rescues win from Tampa Bay
Trevor Story knocked in the go-ahead run in Boston's three-run ninth inning as the Red Sox crafted their eighth straight win over Tampa Bay, doubling the host Rays 6-3 on Saturday night., ,Tied three-all, Story put Boston ahead by singling in Ceddanne Rafaela, who reached on Junior Caminero's second...
Carlos Coronel-fueled shutout vs. Montreal helps NY Red Bulls stay in playoff hunt
Carlos Coronel made six saves for his 10th clean sheet of the season as the visiting New York Red Bulls kept their MLS Cup playoff hopes alive with a 2-0 victory at CF Montreal on Saturday night.,Tim Parker and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting each scored goals for New York (12-12-7, 43 points), which remai...
Duncan McGuire’s stoppage-time strike lifts Orlando City past Nashville
Duncan McGuire scored in stoppage time to give Orlando City a dramatic victory, 3-2, Saturday night over visiting Nashville SC.,Martin Ojeda scored two goals in a span of two minutes in the first half for Orlando (14-7-9, 51 points), which won its fifth straight at home.,The Lions moved a step close...