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Unbeaten Team Falcons take top spot in Group A
Team Falcons downed Team Spirit 2-1 on Saturday in a battle for first place in Group A at the DreamLeague Season 29 event.,Now the only unbeaten team, Team Falcons is 6-0 going into the final day of the group stage as Team Spirit fell to 5-1.,Stanislav "Malr1ne" Potorak of Russia led Team Falcons wi...

Shopify Rebellion earns LCS Spring playoff spot with Disguised defeat
Cloud9 closed out an undefeated regular season while Shopify Rebellion clinched a playoff spot with a win on Sunday at the LCS Spring event in Los Angeles.,Cloud9 improved to 7-0 with a sweep of Team Liquid, while Shopify Rebellion swept Disguised, which was in the final playoff spot but will now fi...

Natus Vincere, GamerLegion advance to IEM Atlanta grand final
Natus Vincere and GamerLegion advanced to the grand final of the Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta event Saturday with semifinal victories.,Natus Vincere swept BetBoom Team 2-0, while GamerLegion survived with a 2-1 triumph over Legacy. They'll play in Sunday's grand final after the semifinal losers fac...

Ronda Rousey re-retires after 17-second submission defeat of Gina Carano
Netflix's MMA debut was capped off with a high-stakes women's legacy fight, as inaugural UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey made her return to the sport opposite Gina Carano - with Rousey winning with her signature armbar only 17 seconds into the featherweight fight at Inglewood, Calif., at Most...

Guilherme scores in final minutes as Houston stuns 10-man Vancouver
Guilherme scored in the sixth minute of second-half stoppage to give the host Houston Dynamo a stunning 1-0 victory over the high-flying Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday night.,Guilherme had some operating room and took a few dribbles before slamming a right-footed shot that ricocheted off Whitecaps ...

Lottie Woad seizes 3-shot lead at Queen City Championship
England's Lottie Woad fired a 5-under-par 65 on Saturday to secure a 3-shot lead over Amanda Doherty through three rounds of the Kroger Queen City Championship in Cincinnati.,Woad delivered four birdies on the back nine to move to 11-under 199 going into Sunday's final round. The 22-year-old Woad an...

Giants place OF Heliot Ramos (quad) on 10-day IL
The San Francisco Giants placed left fielder Heliot Ramos on the 10-day injured list Saturday due to a right quadriceps strain.,Ramos was injured during Friday night's 6-2 loss to the Athletics in West Sacramento, Calif. He underwent an MRI exam on Saturday.,"It will be at least a couple weeks and p...
Cavaliers Facing Elimination Again in Game 7 Against Pistons
The Cavaliers face massive pressure heading into Game 7 against the Pistons after a blowout loss in Detroit shifted the series momentum....

Rockies square series with D-backs in rare homer-less game
Mickey Moniak drove in two runs and the host Colorado Rockies held on to defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2 on Saturday afternoon.,Jake McCarthy was 2-for-3 with an RBI, Brenton Doyle went 2-for-4 with two runs and Willi Castro added two hits and one run for the Rockies, who evened the three-game s...

PGA is widest-open major in years: ‘Never seen anything like it’
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. -- Jon Rahm studied the leaderboard on the digital screen inside the player interview tent at Aronimink Golf Club. Once before he began his first answer, then again when answering a question in Spanish.,"Can we move this? How many of them are at 3 under?" Rahm asked a PGA of Amer...

Massive pack chasing Alex Smalley at PGA Championship
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. -- The PGA of America may have opened up the setup at Aronimink Golf Club, but that did not open up the crammed PGA Championship leaderboard Saturday.,Alex Smalley rallied on the back nine to shoot a 2-under-par 68 and build a two-shot lead, but nearly two dozen golfers are in st...

Rockies square series with Diamondbacks in rare homer-less game
Mickey Moniak drove in two runs and the host Colorado Rockies held on to defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2 on Saturday afternoon.,Jake McCarthy was 2-for-3 with an RBI, Brenton Doyle 2-for-4 with two runs scored and Willi Castro 2-for-4 with a run scored for the Rockies, who evened the three-game ...

Pistons look to close out Donovan Mitchell, Cavaliers in Game 7
Donovan Mitchell and Ausar Thompson will battle for the last word in their individual rivalry when the Cleveland Cavaliers visit the Detroit Pistons for a win-or-go-on-vacation Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals on Sunday night.,Each team has prevailed once on the opponent's court since the...

Elina Svitolina defeats Coco Gauff in 3 sets for Italian Open title
Elina Svitolina recovered from a second-set tie-breaker loss and went on to defeat Coco Gauff, 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-2 on Saturday to win her third Italian Open championship in Rome.,The 31-year-old Ukrainian became the second woman age 30-plus to take the WTA 1000 title in the Italian capital. Serena Wil...

Mets place RHP Clay Holmes on IL with fibula fracture
The New York Mets placed right-hander Clay Holmes on the 15-day injured list Saturday after he fractured his right fibula when he was hit by a comebacker in Friday's game against the New York Yankees.,In a corresponding move, right-hander Joey Gerber was recalled from Triple-A Syracuse.,Holmes was h...

Denny Hamlin tops Dover All-Star grid after late qualifying charge
DOVER, Del. - Denny Hamlin has claimed pole position for Sunday's NASCAR All-Star Race (1 p.m. ET, FS1, FOX Deportes, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) in a late qualifying session effort, unseating owner-driver Brad Keselowski in the final minutes of Saturday's unique three-lap bid to set the field at Do...

A's DFA 2B Michael Stefanic, acquire 2B Alika Williams from Pirates
The Athletics designated second baseman Michael Stefanic for assignment Saturday and acquired minor league infielder Alika Williams from the Pittsburgh Pirates.,Stefanic, 30, was added to the A's roster Tuesday and was 2-for-5 with a run scored in two games following a 34-game stint at Triple-A Las ...

Chargers OC Mike McDaniel in NFL accelerator program
Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel and Kansas City Chiefs OC Eric Bieniemy are two of 34 coaches and executives scheduled to participate in the NFL's revamped accelerator program, ESPN reported on Saturday.,The NFL began holding accelerator events at its spring meetings startin...

Offensively inconsistent Storm to meet defensively challenged Fever
The Seattle Storm are having troubles on the offensive end, with a chance to find the bottom of the net more often when they face the Indiana Fever on Sunday night in Indianapolis.,The Fever continue to be concerned about their defense.,"We've got to be able to defend all the time," Fever guard Cait...

Yankees place LHP Max Fried on IL, recall RHP Elmer Rodriguez
The New York Yankees placed left-hander Max Fried on the 15-day injured list Saturday and recalled right-handed pitching prospect Elmer Rodriguez from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.,The move involving Fried is retroactive to Thursday and was made after an MRI exam and CT scan revealed a left elbow ...