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Dylan Holloway lifts Blues past Predators for 8th straight win
Dylan Holloway scored twice, including the tiebreaker with 7:41 left, as the visiting St. Louis Blues extended their winning streak to eight games with a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Thursday.,St. Louis (39-28-7, 85 points) tied it at 2-2 with 8:03 remaining, when a wide-open Cam Fowl...
Sharks blow last-minute lead, still beat Leafs in SO
Macklin Celebrini scored the shootout winner as the San Jose Sharks topped the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs 6-5 on Thursday night.,Toronto scored twice in the final minute of the third period to force overtime.,Tyler Toffoli tallied twice in regulation and added an assist while William Eklund had a ...
Kraken use 5 second-period goals to tromp Oilers
Jaden Schwartz scored twice as the host Seattle Kraken collected five goals in the second period en route to a 6-1 trouncing of the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.,Jani Nyman and Andrei Burakovsky both collected one goal and one assist, while Matty Beniers and Jared McCann each added a score for the Kr...
Mackenzie Blackwood, Avalanche post shutout of Kings
Martin Necas and Logan O'Connor scored 92 seconds apart in a three-goal second period and Mackenzie Blackwood turned away 22 shots as the surging Colorado Avalanche beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-0 in Denver on Thursday night.,Necas finished with two goals and an assist and Jonathan Drouin had a goal ...
Jorge Polanco's late homer carries Mariners past A's
Jorge Polanco went 3-for-3, including a tiebreaking two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Athletics 4-2 in the season opener Thursday night.,Randy Arozarena also went deep for the Mariners and Tyler Soderstrom hit a pair of solo ...
Zach LaVine-led Kings defeat Blazers to end 4-game skid
Zach LaVine scored 29 points on 13-of-18 shooting to help the Sacramento Kings break a four-game losing streak with a solid 128-107 victory over the visiting Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday night.,Domantas Sabonis recorded 22 points, 19 rebounds and six assists and DeMar DeRozan had 21 points and...
Stars stop Flames, pull closer to West-leading Jets
Roope Hintz, Mikko Rantanen and Matt Duchene each collected one goal and one assist to lead the visiting Dallas Stars to a 5-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday.,Wyatt Johnston and Mikael Granlund also scored for the Stars (47-21-4, 98 points), who are riding a four-game winning streak and...
Josh Giddey hits miracle shot at buzzer as Bulls edge Lakers
Josh Giddey buried a miracle shot from beyond halfcourt at the final buzzer as the Chicago Bulls overturned an 18-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 119-117 on Thursday night.,The Bulls (33-40) trailed 115-110 with 12.6 seconds remaining before delivering down the stretch wi...
Florida pulls away from Maryland to move into Elite Eight
SAN FRANCISCO -- The message was simple inside the Florida locker room midway through the Gators' NCAA Midwest Region Sweet 16 contest against Maryland on Friday.,The top-seeded Gators (33-4) were clinging to a two-point lead, had turned over the ball 13 times and were missing forward Alex Condon, w...
Dylan Holloway beats Blues as Predators win eighth straight
Dylan Holloway scored twice, including the tiebreaker with 7:41 left, as the visiting St. Louis Blues extended their winning streak to eight games with a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Predators on Thursday.,St. Louis (39-28-7, 85 points) tied it at 2-2 with 8:03 remaining, when a wide-open Cam Fowl...
Charley Hull charges to lead at Ford Championship
England's Charley Hull produced a career-low, 9-under-par 63 on Thursday to take the opening-round lead at the Ford Championship in Chandler, Ariz.,Following her bogey-free round at Whirlwind Golf Club's Cattail Course, Hull sits one stroke ahead of Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen.,Amanda Doherty, Ta...
Thunder take down Grizzlies, run win streak to 8
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 37 points to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 125-104 win over the visiting Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday.,Gilgeous-Alexander added six assists and three steals and didn't have a turnover in more than 33 minutes.,The Thunder have won eight consecutive games, their s...
Frederick Gaudreau scores twice as Wild down Capitals
Frederick Gaudreau scored a pair of goals, and the Minnesota Wild pulled away for a 4-2 win over the Washington Capitals on Thursday night in Saint Paul, Minn.,Matt Boldy finished with a goal and an assist for Minnesota (41-27-5, 87 points), which snapped a two-game skid. Jon Merrill added a goal.,M...
No. 1 Florida pulls away from No. 4 Maryland to move into Elite Eight
SAN FRANCISCO -- Will Richard scored 15 points to pace six players in double figures, and the top-seeded Florida Gators defeated No. 4-seed Maryland 87-71 in an NCAA Tournament West Regional Sweet 16 game at Chase Center on Thursday night.,Alijah Martin added 14 points, Walter Clayton Jr. and Thomas...
Flyers snap 6-game skid in 6-4 win over Canadiens
Hours after firing their head coach, the Philadelphia Flyers received two goals apiece from Sean Couturier and Matvei Michkov in a 6-4 home victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday., ,With the team riding a six-game losing streak (0-5-1) and likely to once again miss the playoffs, the Flyers ...
Balanced attack helps Cavaliers hold off Spurs
Jarrett Allen scored 29 points and grabbed 15 rebounds and Darius Garland produced five key points in the final 1:16 as the host Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the San Antonio Spurs 124-116 on Thursday.,The Cavaliers (59-14) led by five points at halftime and by three after three quarters. San Antonio...
Mark Sears, Alabama sink BYU with 3-point bombardment
NEWARK, N.J. -- Mark Sears led a historic 3-point barrage with 10-of-16 shooting from deep, racking up 34 points to power No. 2 Alabama to a 113-88 victory over No. 6 BYU in the Sweet 16 on Thursday.,Alabama (28-8) made 25 3-pointers on 51 attempts, breaking NCAA Tournament records with both marks. ...
No. 1 Houston tunes out 'home' advantage of underdog Purdue
INDIANAPOLIS -- Kelvin Sampson and Houston are tuning out nostalgia and naysayers with a goal of tunnel vision when the top-seeded Cougars take the court against Purdue at Lucas Oil Stadium on Friday night in a semifinal matchup in the Midwest Region.,A late-night game Friday (10:07 p.m. ET schedule...
Four-way tie as first-round play suspended at Houston Open
Four golfers were bunched atop the leaderboard at 5-under-par 65 when play was suspended due to darkness Thursday in the first round of the Texas Children's Houston Open.,Ryan Gerard, Keith Mitchell, Canada's Taylor Pendrith and Argentina's Alejandro Tosti share a one-stroke lead at Memorial Park Go...
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka cruises into first Miami final
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus never lost her serve en route to a 6-2, 6-2 win over No. 6 seed Jasmina Paolini of Italy on Thursday, securing her first trip to the Miami Open final.,Reaching her 12th career WTA 1000 final, Sabalenka - a three-time Grand Slam champion - never trailed against ...