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Aliyah Boston helps power Fever to comfortable win vs. Fire
In her first game back from a lower leg injury, Aliyah Boston scored 24 points to power the Indiana Fever to a 90-73 win over the visiting Portland Fire on Wednesday night in Indianapolis, Indiana.,Boston shot 8 of 11 from the floor and also collected eight rebounds, three assists, two steals and a ...

Sizzling Guardians score twice in 10th, hold off Tigers
Angel Martinez's triple drove in the go-ahead in the 10th and the red-hot Cleveland Guardians downed the host Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Wednesday.,Jose Ramirez supplied an RBI double in the inning as the Guardians won for the eighth time in nine games, including the first three games of the four-game se...

CJ Abrams' 3-run blast propels Nationals past Mets
CJ Abrams hit a three-run homer, Zack Littell pitched five solid innings and the Washington Nationals beat the visiting New York Mets 8-4 on Wednesday.,Jacob Young homered and doubled while Abrams added a single and scored twice for Washington, which has won two in a row after dropping the series op...

Braves crush Janson Junk, Marlins in runaway win
The visiting Atlanta Braves got three-run homers from Austin Riley and Dominic Smith to back up Chris Sale's strong pitching effort, defeating the Miami Marlins 9-1 on Wednesday.,Riley's home run, his eighth, came in the second inning and Smith's blast, his fifth, came on the 12th pitch of his at-ba...

Fever guard Caitlin Clark (back) out vs. Fire
Indiana Fever star guard Caitlin Clark is sitting out of Wednesday night's home game against the Portland Fire with a back injury.,Clark was not on the team injury report the day before the game. Fever coach Stephanie White said Clark was a bit stiff and sore when she woke up Wednesday morning after...

Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel highlight first-team All-Rookie squad
Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg, the NBA Rookie of the Year and No. 1 overall pick in last year's draft, highlighted the Kia NBA All-Rookie first team, which was announced Wednesday night after voting from a panel of 100 global media members.,Flagg was joined by Charlotte Hornets guard Kon Knu...

Overachieving Tempo seek 3-game win streak at Lynx
The Minnesota Lynx hope to get back to the basics Thursday evening.,Fortunately for them, they have a pair of players who can help them do just that.,Olivia Miles and Natasha Howard will look to build upon their emerging pick-and-roll chemistry when the Lynx (2-2) tip off against the Toronto Tempo (...

Knicks hold momentum, but Cavs no stranger to playoff comebacks
The New York Knicks are no strangers to playing with plenty of momentum during the NBA playoffs. Nor are the Cleveland Cavaliers unfamiliar with climbing back from discouraging losses.,But Game 1 of their Eastern Conference finals series on Tuesday might have provided the Knicks with their most mome...

Mariners hold on for contested win over White Sox to claim series
Jhonny Pereda and Randy Arozarena homered in a three-run seventh inning as the Seattle Mariners broke a tie and held on for a 5-4 victory against the visiting Chicago White Sox on Wednesday afternoon.,Seattle took two of three games against the White Sox to finish its six-game homestand with a 2-4 r...

Kentucky, Gonzaga agree to end hoops series early
Scheduled to face off for two more seasons, perennial basketball powers Kentucky and Gonzaga on Wednesday announced an agreement to end their series early. ,In a joint statement, the schools said the decision was made "to allow each program freedom to re-evaluate future scheduling priorities, includ...

Joe Burrow confident Bengals will win Super Bowl this season
Joe Burrow is so impressed with the Cincinnati Bengals' offseason roster upgrades that the star quarterback is predicting the team will be hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy in February in Inglewood, Calif.,After missing the playoffs the last three seasons and coming off a 6-11 campaign, the Bengals...

ATP roundup: Aleksander Kovacevic stuns top seed in Hamburg
Lucky loser Aleksandar Kovacevic rallied to stun No. 1 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 at the Hamburg Open on Wednesday in Germany.,Kovacevic trailed 4-1 in the deciding set before winning five straight games to beat the fifth-ranked player in the world and become the first Americ...

Josh Jung caps big day with game-winning hit as Rangers beat Rockies
Josh Jung's single in the top of the ninth capped a 3-for-4 day and plated the go-ahead run for the Texas Rangers, who scored twice in the top of the ninth to beat the Colorado Rockies, 5-4, on Wednesday afternoon in Denver.,Trailing by a run with just two outs to spare, the Rangers rallied unconven...

Liberty hoping to add star power in contest vs. Valkyries
The New York Liberty are hoping to get back two All-Stars -- point guard Sabrina Ionescu and power forward Satou Sabally -- on Thursday night when they host the Golden State Valkyries.,Ionescu missed New York's first four games due to a left foot injury. However, she returned to practice on Monday.,...

Geraldo Perdomo's double helps Diamondbacks complete sweep of Giants
Ketel Marte had three hits and scored three times, Geraldo Perdomo capped a three-run fifth inning with a two-run double and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-game home sweep of the San Francisco Giants with a 6-3 victory Wednesday afternoon.,Merrill Kelly pitched six effective innings and ...

NHLCA monitoring Vegas’ 'unprecedented' denial of Bruce Cassidy interviews
The NHL Coaches Association is speaking out against the Vegas Golden Knights' refusal to let former head coach Bruce Cassidy interview for other head coach positions.,Cassidy, who led the Golden Knights to the 2023 Stanley Cup championship, was fired near the end of his fourth season with Vegas on M...

Hurricanes brush off layoff, face speedy Canadiens in Game 1
The Carolina Hurricanes finally return to game action on Thursday.,Key word: Finally.,The Hurricanes have been awaiting their opposition for the Eastern Conference finals since May 9, and the respite ends when they take on Montreal Canadiens in Game 1 in Raleigh, N.C.,Carolina's 11-day layoff is the...

WTA roundup: Camila Osorio knocks off No. 1 seed Janice Tjen in Rabat
Yasmine Kabbaj continued her run through her home tournament with a 6-2, 6-4 upset of third-seeded German Tatjana Maria in the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem Round of 16 on Wednesday at Rabat, Morocco.,Kabbaj is just the second Moroccan to make a WTA quarterfinal in the Open Era, convertin...

Jim Furyk, Keegan Bradley named Presidents Cup assistants
Jim Furyk, who captained the U.S. to a Presidents Cup win in 2024, and Keegan Bradley, who also contributed to that victory, were added to team skipper Brandt Snedeker's staff as assistant captains for this fall's tournament.,The Americans will look to make it 11 straight Presidents Cup victories ag...

Switzerland's Rodriguez, Xhaka make fourth World Cup rosters
Defender Ricardo Rodriguez and midfielder Granit Xhaka will each take part in their fourth World Cup after being named to Switzerland manager Murat Yakin's 26-player roster.,The pair have each equaled Xherdan Shaqiri's Swiss record of 12 World Cup finals appearances.,On the other end of the experien...