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Facundo Torres (2 goals), Orlando City stay hot vs. Revs
Facundo Torres' brace led Orlando City to a 3-1 victory over the New England Revolution on Saturday night in Foxborough, Mass., ,With the victory, Orlando (8-9-6, 30 points) has won three straight matches and is 4-1-1 over its last six., ,Ramiro Enrique also scored for the Lions, who won for the fir...

Cole Custer earns first win of 2024 season at Pocono Raceway
Reigning NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Cole Custer claimed his first win of the 2024 season Saturday, beating his closest championship challenger Justin Allgaier to the Explore the Pocono Mountains 225 checkered flag and giving Ford its first series win of the year.,Custer's No. 00 Stewart-Haas Rac...

Bryan Reynolds (4 hits, 4 RBIs) propels Pirates past White Sox
Bryan Reynolds rapped four hits, including a tiebreaking two-run single in the seventh inning, as the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates earned a 6-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday afternoon.,Reynolds entered hitless in his previous 10 at-bats and in a 3-for-17 slump in his previous four ga...

USWNT edges Mexico in tuneup for Paris Olympics
The U.S. women's national team has one friendly left before getting down to business at the Paris Olympics.,After taking care of Mexico 1-0 in Harrison, N.J., on Saturday with all 20 members of the U.S. team that won the 1999 World Cup team in attendance, the Americans will have their send-off match...

Bryan Reynolds (4 hits, 4 RBIs) leads Pirates past White Sox
Bryan Reynolds rapped four hits, including a tiebreaking two-run single in the seventh inning, as the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates earned a 6-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday afternoon.,Reynolds entered hitless in his previous 10 at-bats and in a 3-for-17 slump in his previous four ga...

Fever's Caitlin Clark set sights on taking down Lynx
Caitlin Clark made a brief confession after she joined the Indiana Fever this year. ,"I grew up loving the Minnesota Lynx," Clark said during her introductory news conference. "I probably shouldn't say that anymore." ,On Sunday afternoon, Clark will face the team she grew up supporting. ,The Fever (...
Five NFL Players Who Could Be Really Disappointing in 2024
Maybe it's a player on the back nine of their career, or a player with lofty expectations, but these five NFL players could be really disappointing in 2024....

Pirates look to take advantage of cellar-dwelling White Sox
Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Luis L. Ortiz has shuttled back and forth between the bullpen and rotation this season.,He hasn't lost his diplomacy along the way.,Ortiz is set to make his second straight start Saturday when the Pirates try to secure a road series win against the Chicago White Sox. ...

Tundra keep rolling at Dota's Riyadh Masters
Tundra Esports won their lone match on Friday to remain the only undefeated team in Group B at the Dota 2 Riyadh Masters in Saudi Arabia.,In Group A, both OG and Team Spirit tied both of their Friday matches to stay unbeaten.,Tundra topped WBG.XG 2-0, prevailing in 34 minutes on green and in 55 minu...

Pitchers back from IL propel Pirates past White Sox
Ke'Bryan Hayes had two hits and an RBI and Marco Gonzales pitched five strong innings in his return from injury to lift the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-1 win against the Chicago White Sox on Friday.,Making his first appearance since mid-April, Gonzales (1-0) allowed one run and seven hits wit...

St. Louis City aim for revenge on Whitecaps
St. Louis City will try to brush off a heavy road defeat when they host the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday.,A 4-1 loss to the Colorado Rapids on Sunday was the latest bump in the road for St. Louis (4-8-10, 22 points), which finished atop the Western Conference standings in its inaugural season in ...

Loons trying to break 6-match skid with visit to Dynamo
Minnesota United will try to snap a team-record six-match losing streak when they travel to Houston to take on the Dynamo on Saturday night.,Minnesota (8-9-5, 29 points) hasn't won since defeating visiting Sporting Kansas City 3-1 on June 1. The Loons, who were third in the Western Conference, have ...

Fire try not to miss another opportunity vs. NYCFC
The Chicago Fire are at the point in the season where they need to go on a sustained run.,Coming off a humbling setback, Chicago will attempt to get moving in the right direction when it hosts New York City FC on Saturday night.,The Fire (5-11-6, 21 points) are in a tie for 13th in the Eastern Confe...

Orlando City aim to end longstanding struggles at Revolution
Orlando City SC will attempt to make it three wins in a row when they travel to face the New England Revolution on Saturday in Foxborough, Mass.,Orlando is coming off a dominant 5-0 win over D.C. United last weekend and has allowed just one goal against over its previous two matches. The Lions (7-9-...

Atlanta, still adjusting without Thiago Almada, visits CF Montreal
Atlanta United will see if they can figure out life after Thiago Almada on Saturday when they visit CF Montreal.,On July 6, Atlanta United announced a record transfer of the star midfielder to Botafogo in Brazil. A move out of Atlanta was expected for the young Argentinian phenom. ,In the two matche...

D.C. United, amid 11-match winless stretch, face Nashville SC
D.C. United and Nashville SC both will look to rebound from lopsided defeats when they meet on Saturday night in the nation's capital.,D.C. United (4-11-8, 20 points) are winless in their last 11, an 0-8-3 slide that has taken the Black and Red from the top half of the Eastern Conference table to th...

Phillies release Whit Merrifield, recall IF/OF Weston Wilson
The Philadelphia Phillies released three-time All-Star Whit Merrifield on Friday.,Merrifield, 35, signed with Philadelphia as a free agent in February and appeared in 53 games for the Phillies. He split his time between left field (20 starts), second base (12) and third base (8).,Merrifield hit thre...

IOC launches esports Olympics in Saudi Arabia
The International Olympic Committee is launching the Olympic Esports Games 2025, with the competition to be held in Saudi Arabia.,The IOC made the announcement Friday in conjunction with the National Olympic Committee of Saudi Arabia.,It is the latest foray into sports for Saudi Arabia, which funds ...

Immaculate or sloppy, White Sox just want another win
Immaculate, by definition, is a far cry from sloppy.,Not so for Chicago White Sox closer Michael Kopech, whose immaculate inning Wednesday was the club's first since Hollis "Sloppy" Thurston on Aug. 23, 1923.,Kopech delivered the majors' first immaculate inning of 2024 -- striking out three batters ...

Lightning D J.J. Moser signs 2-year deal, avoids arbitration
New Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman J.J. Moser signed a two-year, $6.75 million contract on Thursday as the sides avoided arbitration.,The Lightning acquired Moser and forward Conor Geekie from the Utah Hockey Club last month in a deal that sent defenseman Mikhail Sergachev to Utah.,Moser, 24, spent ...