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Steelers, amid QB uncertainty, select Drew Allar in third round
With Aaron Rodgers yet to commit to extending his career into 2026, the Pittsburgh Steelers made a move to bolster the quarterback position, selecting Penn State's Drew Allar in the third round of the draft on Friday.,The Steelers used the 76th overall selection on Allar, who is coming off a broken ...

Josh Naylor homers as Mariners edge Cardinals to end 8-game road skid
Josh Naylor hit a tiebreaking home run and George Kirby won his third straight start as the Seattle Mariners defeated the host St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 Friday night in an interleague matchup.,The Mariners snapped a streak of eight consecutive road defeats.,Kirby (4-2) allowed two runs on five hits ov...

NFL Draft Rounds 2 & 3: Ohio State DT Kayden McDonald lands with Texans
Kayden McDonald was in Pittsburgh for the NFL draft on Thursday night, and the defensive tackle watched 15 of his peers make the walk from the backstage green room to the stage to be announced as first-round selections.,The only player left in that room when the 32-player round ended was McDonald.,M...

Jazz Chisholm Jr., Yanks crush Astros; Giancarlo Stanton injured
Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered and drove in four and the visiting New York Yankees ran their winning streak to seven by taking control early in their 12-4 victory over the Houston Astros on Friday night.,The Yankees lost Giancarlo Stanton to tightness in his lower right leg in the sixth. Stanton was pull...

Lakers pull out OT win over Rockets, move to verge of sweep
LeBron James and Marcus Smart recorded double-doubles as the Los Angeles Lakers took a stranglehold on their first-round playoff series against the host Houston Rockets with a 112-108 overtime victory in Game 3 on Friday.,After James (29 points, 13 rebounds) forced OT with a 3-pointer, Smart scored ...

Royals score 5 runs in 4th inning to beat Angels
Veteran Mike Trout set an Angels franchise record for most career games played at any one position with his 1,367th appearance in center field, but Los Angeles fell to the Kansas City Royals 6-3 on Friday night in the opening game of their series in Kansas City.,The Royals scored five runs in the bo...

Athletics' 5 home runs bury Rangers
Nick Kurtz, Carlos Cortes and Tyler Soderstrom each hit solo homers in the first inning as the Athletics opened a three-game series against the Texas Rangers with an 8-1 victory on Friday in Arlington.,Cortes also hit a three-run homer and Zack Gelof slugged a two-run shot among his two hits for the...

Jonathan Greenard, dealt from Vikings to Eagles, gets $100M extension
Pass rusher Jonathan Greenard, dealt by the Minnesota Vikings to Philadelphia on Friday, agreed to a big-money extension with the Eagles, multiple media outlets reported.,The Eagles received Greenard and a seventh-round pick in this year's draft in exchange for a third-round pick on Friday (No. 98 o...

In last home match till August, Whitecaps meet improved Rapids
The Vancouver Whitecaps play their last home match until August on Saturday night when they host the Colorado Rapids.,The Whitecaps (7-1-0, 21 points), who are second in the Western Conference and the league overall behind only San Jose (24 points), will play their next eight matches in a row on the...

White Sox edge Nats in back-and-forth series opener
Sam Antonacci delivered a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning and Munetaka Murakami homered as the host Chicago White Sox edged the Washington Nationals 5-4 on Friday.,Seranthony Dominguez worked around a Luis Garcia Jr. double in the ninth for his sixth save, sending the Nationals to the...

Lane Hutson notches OT winner to give Habs 2-1 series lead on Lightning
Lane Hutson scored 2:09 into overtime and the host Montreal Canadiens took Game 3 of their Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-2 on Friday, moving ahead 2-1 in the best-of-seven set.,While Hutson scored the game-winner and his second goal of the series, it was Montr...

Paul Skenes' perfect game bid ends in 7th, but Pirates one-hit Brewers
Paul Skenes took a perfect game bid into the seventh inning and Konnor Griffin celebrated his 20th birthday with his first career homer to pace the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates over the Milwaukee Brewers 6-0 on Friday in the opener of the three-game series., ,Skenes (4-1) retired the first 20 hitters...

Michael Harris comes off Braves bench for clutch hit, win vs. Phillies
Michael Harris delivered a pinch-hit double to drive in two runs and help the Atlanta Braves rally for a 5-3 win on Friday and hand the visiting Philadelphia Phillies their 10th straight loss.,The losing streak is the longest for Philadelphia since it dropped 11 in a row in 1999. The Braves have won...

Angel Martinez blasts pair of 2-run HRs as Guardians top Blue Jays
Angel Martinez launched a pair of two-run home runs Friday night and the visiting Cleveland Guardians held on to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-6.,Daniel Schneemann had a solo shot for the Guardians in the opener of a three-game series.,Jesus Sanchez and Kazuma Okamoto homered for the Blue Jays.,The...

Adley Rutschman hits 2 of Orioles' 6 homers in rout of Red Sox
Adley Rutschman hit the first of his two two-run homers in Baltimore's three-homer first inning and the Orioles went on to rip the visiting Boston Red Sox 10-3 on Friday.,Rutschman, who has three home runs in two games since being activated from the injury list earlier this week, finished with six R...

Spurs C Victor Wembanyama (concussion) out for Game 3 vs. Portland
Spurs star center Victor Wembanyama will miss Game 3 of San Antonio's first-round playoff series against the host Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night as he remains in concussion protocol.,Wembanyama sustained a concussion in the second quarter of Tuesday's second game of the series. He did not re...

Cowboys acquire 49ers starting LB Dee Winters for 5th-round pick
The Dallas Cowboys continued to bolster their defense on Friday, trading a fifth-round draft pick for San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dee Winters.,Winters, 25, started all 17 regular-season games last season and had team-high 101 tackles as well as eight tackles for loss, five passes defended and one...

Celtics eke out Game 3 win vs. Sixers, regain series lead
Jayson Tatum scored 11 of his 25 points in the fourth quarter as the visiting Boston Celtics defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 108-100 on Friday in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series., ,Jaylen Brown matched Tatum with 25 points, while Payton Pritchard added 15 points for the second-seeded Celt...

Junior Caminero, Jonathan Aranda each homer twice as Rays beat Twins
Junior Caminero hit a pair of tape-measure home runs and drove in three runs and Jonathan Aranda also homered twice to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 6-2 victory over the visiting Minnesota Twins in the opener of a three-game series on Friday night., ,It was the fifth career multi-homer game for Camin...

Michael Lorenzen, double plays help Rockies top Mets
Michael Lorenzen tossed a season-high seven innings and earned the win Friday night for the visiting Colorado Rockies, who beat the New York Mets 4-3 in the opener of a three-game series.,Jake McCarthy laced the tiebreaking RBI double in the sixth while Troy Johnston had what proved to be the decisi...