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No. 7 Michigan stifles San Diego State in 40-point win
Six players scored in double figures and No. 7 Michigan held San Diego State to 27.4% shooting from the field in a 94-54 blowout win Monday night in the opening round of the Players Era men's championship in Las Vegas.,Yexel Lendeborg scored 15 points, grabbed six rebounds and dished out four assist...

Stephen Curry, Warriors put on 3-point show to sink Jazz
Stephen Curry topped 30 points for the seventh time this season with a game-high 31 as the Golden State Warriors snapped a three-game losing streak with a 134-117 triumph over the Utah Jazz on Monday night in San Francisco.,Moses Moody, who led a second-quarter attack from long range, finished with ...

Expansion SDFC blank Minnesota United, reach West final
Anders Dreyer scored his fourth goal of the MLS Cup playoffs midway through the second half, lifting San Diego FC to a 1-0 victory over visiting Minnesota United in a Western Conference semifinal match on Monday.,Dreyer's 23rd goal in all competitions helped No. 1 seed San Diego become the first exp...

Brandt Clarke scores winner as Kings edge Senators
Brandt Clarke scored a tie-breaking power-play goal with 6:10 left in the third period and the Los Angeles Kings held on for a 2-1 win against the visiting Ottawa Senators on Monday night.,Warren Foegele also scored and Darcy Kuemper made 27 saves for the Kings, who improved to 2-4-3 at home this se...

Logan Cooley (4 goals) powers Mammoth past Knights
Logan Cooley scored a career-high four goals and also had an assist to lead the Utah Mammoth to a 5-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday night in Salt Lake City., ,It was the first four-goal game in Mammoth history and the first four-goal game in the NHL this season., ,Dylan Guenther ha...

Capitals defensemen score 4 in convincing win over Blue Jackets
Jakob Chychrun scored twice while Tom Wilson and John Carlson each had a goal with an assist as the Washington Capitals rolled to a 5-1 home victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday night.,Justin Sourdif added two assists, Martin Fehervary also scored and Logan Thompson stopped 22 of 23 shot...

Zion Williamson (29), Pelicans top Bulls to end 9-game skid
Zion Williamson scored a team-high 29 points on Monday to help lead the New Orleans Pelicans to a rare 143-130 victory over the visiting Chicago Bulls.,Saddiq Bey totaled 20 points and 13 rebounds, while Trey Murphy III also chipped in 20 points for the Pelicans, who snapped a nine-game losing strea...

49ers overcome Brock Purdy's picks, shut down Panthers
Christian McCaffrey ran for 89 yards and a touchdown and the San Francisco 49ers overcame a horrible first-half stretch from quarterback Brock Purdy to beat the Carolina Panthers 20-9 on Monday night in Santa Clara, Calif.,The 49ers (8-4) did the job on defense to register back-to-back wins for the ...

Zion Williamson's 29 points help Pelicans beat Bulls to end 9-game skid
Zion Williamson scored a team-high 29 points on Monday to help lead the New Orleans Pelicans to a rare 143-130 victory over the visiting Chicago Bulls.,Saddiq Bey totaled 20 points and 13 rebounds, while Trey Murphy III also chipped in 20 points for the Pelicans, who snapped a nine-game losing strea...

Nuggets on fire from 3-point range, fend off Grizzlies
Jamal Murray scored 29 points, Peyton Watson chipped in 27 and Nikola Jokic added 17 points, 16 assists and 10 rebounds as the visiting Denver Nuggets snapped the Memphis Grizzlies' two-game winning streak with a 125-115 victory Monday night.,The Nuggets made a season-high 22 3-pointers (22-of-43, 5...

Shohei Ohtani set to play for champion Japan again in WBC
Shohei Ohtani, a two-time World Series champion, will attempt to add a second World Baseball Classic title to his haul when he competes for the defending champion Japanese team again next year.,The 31-year-old two-way superstar made the announcement Monday on social media that he would again partici...

Jerami Grant (35), Blazers hand Bucks 5th straight loss
Jerami Grant scored 35 points to lead the short-handed Portland Trail Blazers to a 115-103 victory over the Bucks in Milwaukee on Monday night., ,Deni Avdija added 22 for a Portland team without former Buck Jrue Holiday (calf), Scoot Henderson (hamstring) and Shaedon Sharpe (calf). Donovan Clingan a...

Tyler Herro makes season debut in style, nets 24 as Heat edge Mavs
Tyler Herro scored 24 points in his season debut and Kel'el Ware paired 20 points with 18 rebounds as the Miami Heat defeated the visiting Dallas Mavericks 106-102 on Monday.,Herro missed his first four shots in his first game back from left ankle surgery, before hitting 12 of his next 14.,Ware also...

Amier Ali's trey late in OT win rescues Mississippi State vs. UNO
Amier Ali banked in a tiebreaking 3-pointer from with 1.9 seconds remaining in overtime as Mississippi State came back for an 81-78 win over New Orleans on Monday in Starkville, Miss.,Josh Hubbard scored 24 of his 28 points in the second half and overtime for the Bulldogs, who needed a 15-2 run in t...

Karl Anthony-Towns leads Knicks to 12th straight win over Nets
Karl Anthony-Towns collected 37 points and 12 rebounds as the New York Knicks pulled away in the third quarter for a 113-100 victory over the Brooklyn Nets Monday night.,The Knicks improved to 2-5 on the road and bounced back from Saturday's 12-point loss in Orlando. New York also beat the Nets for ...

Pistons top Pacers, tie franchise mark with 13th straight win
Caris LeVert had a season-high 19 points, including a pair of clutch free throws in the final seconds, as the visiting Detroit Pistons tied a franchise record with their 13th straight victory, 122-117 over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night.,Detroit never trailed after the second quarter, but had to...

No. 13 Illinois dominates the paint, surges past plucky UTRGV
Andrej Stojakovic scored 24 points to lead five players in double figures as No. 13 Illinois fought off gallant UT Rio Grande Valley for an 87-74 nonconference win on Monday night in Champaign, Ill.,Mihailo Petrovic contributed 12 points off the bench while Zvonimir Ivisic, David Mirkovic and Tomisl...

Devils fend off Red Wings, halt 3-game skid
Jacob Markstrom made 32 saves as the New Jersey Devils held on for a 4-3 win over the visiting Detroit Red Wings on Monday.,The Devils are 8-0-1 at home this season, joining the league-leading Colorado Avalanche (8-0-2) as the only teams without a regulation loss on home ice. Monday's victory ended ...

Andrei Vasilevskiy claims 41st shutout as Lightning blank Flyers
Andrei Vasilevskiy made 20 saves for his first shutout this season, Brandon Hagel notched two goals and an assist and the Tampa Bay Lightning blanked the visiting Philadelphia Flyers 3-0 on Monday night.,The 31-year-old Russian goaltender crafted his 41st career shutout and sixth against the Flyers....

Red-hot Raptors beat depleted Cavs for 8th straight win
Brandon Ingram scored a season-high 37 points and the Toronto Raptors defeated the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers 110-99 on Monday to extend their winning streak to eight.,Scottie Barnes added 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Raptors, who shot 48.9% from the field and swept the three-game season seri...