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Avs' Mackenzie Blackwood expected to make season debut vs. Sharks
Mackenzie Blackwood likely will make his season debut for the Avalanche on Saturday when Colorado visits his former team, the San Jose Sharks.,The 28-year-old goaltender, returning from a lower-body injury, spent parts of two seasons with the Sharks before being dealt to the Avalanche on Dec. 9, 202...
Team Falcons stay alive in FISSURE Playground 2 event
Don't give up Team Falcons quite yet.,The top-seeded team coming out of group play, which then opened the playoffs with a 2-0 loss, bounced back with a pair of wins on Friday, advancing to the lower bracket semifinal of the FISSURE Playground 2 event in Belgrade, Serbia.,Team Liquid got the win in F...
Dodgers. Blue Jays. Game 7. 'What the hell else do you want?'
TORONTO -- As if there were not enough drama, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays will go at it again Saturday in Game 7 of the World Series.,The teams played an 18-inning Game 3 in Los Angeles, won 6-5 by the Dodgers on Freddie Freeman's walk-off home run.,Then came the ending of Game...
Clippers top Pelicans on Kawhi Leonard's last-second winner
Kawhi Leonard capped a 34-point performance with a tiebreaking 22-footer with four-tenths of a second left, James Harden recorded his third double-double of the season, and the Los Angeles Clippers opened their NBA Cup schedule with a 126-124 home win over the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night.,A...
Trail Blazers' furious last-minute comeback sinks Nuggets
Jerami Grant made two free throws with 1.4 seconds remaining and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied from a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit to record a 109-107 victory over the Denver Nuggets in NBA Cup play on Friday night.,Deni Avdija scored 23 points and Shaedon Sharpe added 19 for Portland, which...
Luka Doncic returns to carry Lakers past Grizzlies in NBA Cup
Luka Doncic returned after a three-game injury absence to lead the visiting Los Angeles Lakers to a 117-112 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies Friday during the first night of NBA Cup play. ,Doncic finished with 44 points, 12 rebounds and six assists in 39 minutes. Austin Reaves added 21 for the Lak...
Line-drive DP seals Dodgers' win, sends World Series to Game 7
TORONTO -- The Los Angeles Dodgers produced a three-run third inning on Friday, then held on thanks to a game-ending double play, forcing Game 7 in the World Series with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.,Mookie Betts keyed the third-inning rally with a two-run single to help the Dodgers main...
UNC shuts down Syracuse's offense, earns first ACC win
Gio Lopez threw for two touchdowns and North Carolina scored TDs on its first three possessions of the second half to collect the first Atlantic Coast Conference victory under first-year coach Bill Belichick, defeating host Syracuse 27-10 on Friday night.,North Carolina (3-5, 1-3 ACC) was dominant o...
Josh Giddey's career night keeps Bulls unbeaten vs. Knicks
Josh Giddey scored a career-high 32 points and Nikola Vucevic added 26 as the Chicago Bulls remained unbeaten with a 135-125 win over the visiting New York Knicks on Friday in the NBA Cup opener for both squads.,At 5-0, the Bulls are off to their best start since the 1996-97 campaign. Chicago is one...
No. 25 Memphis runs all over Rice in road rout
Frank Peasant tallied three of Memphis' five rushing scores, the defense held Rice to 212 yards, and the No. 25 Tigers kept their College Football Playoff hopes alive Friday with a 38-14 Halloween night rout of the Owls in Houston. ,Peasant, who entered with three total touchdowns on the year, found...
Balanced-scoring Raptors end skid with win over Cavaliers
Brandon Ingram collected 20 points, eight rebounds and five assists while RJ Barrett and Jamison Battle also had 20 points apiece as the visiting Toronto Raptors beat the short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers 112-101 in the NBA Cup opener for both teams on Friday.,Toronto trailed 92-90 midway through the...
Reports: LIV open to more newcomers from International Series
The climb from the Asian Tour's International Series to LIV Golf just became easier, according reports from multiple UK-based golf media outlets on Friday.,LIV Golf officials reportedly decided to guarantee spots on its tour to the top two 2025 International Series point-getters who are not already ...
West final between Lions, Stampeders marked by quarterbacks' history
Once the BC Lions decided Nathan Rourke would be their No. 1 quarterback, they decided to trade Vernon Adams Jr. to the division rival Calgary Stampeders.,Eleven months later, Adams is ready to guide his new team against his old one in a playoff setting when the Stampeders visit the Lions in the Wes...
Celtics keep rolling, hand 76ers first loss
Jaylen Brown scored 32 points as the Boston Celtics slipped past host Philadelphia 109-108 on Friday in an NBA Cup matchup, handing the 76ers their first loss of the season.,Anfernee Simons added 19 points for Boston, while Derrick White and Payton Pritchard each chipped in with 15 points. The Celti...
Islanders keep Alex Ovechkin at 899 goals in win over Caps
Bo Horvat scored the go-ahead goal 4:29 into the third period and Ilya Sorokin made 22 saves, lifting the visiting New York Islanders to a 3-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Friday.,New York's Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored a short-handed goal late in the second period, and Mathew Barzal found ...
Blazers' Matisse Thybulle out after thumb surgery
The Portland Trail Blazers will be without Matisse Thybulle for at least a month after the swingman underwent surgery Friday on his left thumb.,Thybulle got hurt in the first quarter of the Trail Blazers' game against the Utah Jazz on Wednesday in Salt Lake City, and he sat out the remainder of the ...
DP World Tour allows Sepp Straka to keep card in wake of family emergency
The DP World Tour made an exception to its rules to allow Austria's Sepp Straka to keep his tour card for next season in the wake of a family emergency.,Straka's wife Paige gave birth to their son, Thomas, prematurely in August, and the baby has remained in the hospital for the first two months of h...
Devils' defense suddenly a sieve as they visit Kings
The NHL regular season is a little more than three weeks old, but the New Jersey Devils and Los Angeles Kings are already well aware of how quickly momentum can change -- for the worse as well as for the better.,The Devils will endeavor to snap their first losing streak of the season on Saturday nig...
Martin Necas, Cale Maker power Avs to victory over Golden Knights
Martin Necas had a goal and two assists and Cale Makar added a goal and an assist to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 4-2 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday afternoon in Las Vegas.,Brock Nelson and Brent Burns also scored goals for Colorado, which moved into a tie with the Pittsburgh Pe...
Desperate for a win, slumping Wild host surging Canucks
Mired in a five-game winless drought, the Minnesota Wild are desperate for a victory.,The Wild will get a chance to snap their skid when they take on the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday evening in Saint Paul, Minn.,A sense of desperation is increasing in Minnesota, where the Wild are coming off a one-...