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NASCAR notebook: Ross Chastain all smiles in Nashville
Last week's Coca-Cola 600 race winner Ross Chastain arrived for his Nashville Superspeedway press conference Saturday still wearing a smile -- and his winner's ring -- from last Sunday's victory at Charlotte Motor Speedway.,The 32-year-old Floridian turned in one of the most dramatic wins in recent ...
M's Cole Young plates winner in MLB debut vs. Twins
Cole Young drove in the winning run in the 11th inning of his major league debut as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Minnesota Twins 5-4 on Saturday.,Cal Raleigh continued his home run barrage and J.P. Crawford also went deep as the Mariners snapped a three-game skid and moved back atop th...
Cole Young plates game-winner in MLB debut as Mariners walk off Twins
Cole Young drove in the winning run in the 11th inning of his major league debut as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Minnesota Twins 5-4 on Saturday.,Cal Raleigh continued his home run barrage and J.P. Crawford also went deep as the Mariners snapped a three-game skid and moved back atop th...
Pascal Siakam, Pacers knock out Knicks in Eastern Conference finals
Pascal Siakam recorded 31 points and three blocked shots and the Indiana Pacers are headed to the NBA Finals for the first time since 2000 after notching a 125-108 victory over the visiting New York Knicks in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals on Saturday night at Indianapolis.,Siakam was voted...
Dejan Joveljic tallies twice to lead Sporting KC past Dynamo
Dejan Joveljic recorded a brace to lead Sporting Kansas City to a 3-1 victory over the host Houston Dynamo on Saturday night.,It was the second two-goal match of the season for Joveljic, who has nine goals in his first season with Sporting Kansas City after being acquired from the Los Angeles Galaxy...
Lionel Messi has hand in all 5 goals as Miami routs Crew
Lionel Messi had two goals and three assists and Inter Miami used a three-goal first half to rout the flailing Columbus Crew 5-1 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Saturday.,Messi chipped goals in the 15th and 24th minutes to augment a 13th-minute tally by Tadeo Allende for a 3-0 lead at the break. The Cr...
Texas Tech tops UCLA, advances to WCWS semifinals
OKLAHOMA CITY -- NiJaree Canady allowed just four hits and Hailey Toney hit a tiebreaking home run in the sixth to lift Texas Tech to a 3-1 win over UCLA in the Women's College World Series on Saturday.,The Red Raiders (52-12) advance to Monday's semifinals, where they'll play either Oklahoma or Ore...
Junior Caminero homers twice as Rays blow out Astros
Junior Caminero posted four extra-base hits and the Tampa Bay Rays pounded the Houston Astros' bullpen for the second time in three games en route to a 16-3 road win on Saturday.,After recording a career-high six RBIs in the opener of this four-game series on Thursday, Caminero went 4-for-5 with two...
Maja Stark up 1 entering final round at U.S. Women's Open
Sweden's Maja Stark continued her impressive play at the U.S. Women's Open on Saturday, shooting a 2-under 70 to take a one-shot lead entering the final round at Erin Hills in Erin, Wis.,Stark, who sits at 7-under 209 through three rounds, posted three birdies and one bogey as she moved up one spot ...
Scottie Scheffler emerges as leader at Memorial after Round 3
Even as the world's No. 1 golfer, Scottie Scheffler keeps finding ways to take pride in his accomplishments on a week-by-week basis.,Scheffler charged into the lead in the third round of the Memorial Tournament on Saturday, posting birdies on four of the final five holes for a 4-under-par 68 at Muir...
Miguel Angel Jimenez holds 2-shot lead in Des Moines
Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez carded a 6-under-66 on Saturday to maintain his lead through two rounds of the Principal Charity Classic at Des Moines, Iowa.,Jimenez is sitting at 15-under 129 and stands two shots ahead of Australia's Cameron Percy (67 on Saturday) and three strokes in front of Kevin S...
Junior Caminero homers twice, as Rays blowout Astros
Junior Caminero posted four extra-base hits, and the Tampa Bay Rays pounded the Houston Astros' bullpen for the second time in three games en route to a 16-3 road win on Saturday.,After recording a career-high six RBIs in the opener of this four-game series on Thursday, Caminero went 4-for-5 with tw...
Texas takes down Oklahoma to advance to WCWS semifinals
OKLAHOMA CITY - Kayden Henry broke a tie with a fifth-inning home run and Joley Mitchell blasted another in the sixth to help lift Texas to a 4-2 win over four-time defending champion Oklahoma in the Women's College World Series on Saturday.,The Longhorns will play in the semifinals Monday, needing ...
No. 14 Arthur Fils (back) hopes to return for Wimbledon
Arthur Fils withdrew from one major and could miss another due to a stress fracture in his lower back.,The 14th-ranked Fils bowed out of his third-round match against 17th-seeded Russian Andrey Rublev at the French Open, which was scheduled for Saturday. The Frenchman explained his reasoning, saying...
Astros DH Yordan Alvarez dealing with fracture in hand
Houston Astros designated Yordan Alvarez has a "very small fracture" in his right hand that is 60 percent healed, general manager Dana Brown announced on Saturday.,Brown said the fracture wasn't discovered in initial imaging on May 6 because there was too much inflammation and fluid.,"The immediate ...
PARIVISION advance to DreamLeague grand final
PARIVISION swept BetBoom Team on Saturday to reach the grand final at DreamLeague Season 26.,The $1 million Dota 2 tournament ends on Sunday with PARIVISION facing the winner of the lower-bracket final between BetBoom Team and Talon Esports. ,PARIVISION posted 36- and 28-minute wins against BetBoom ...
Guardians activate DH David Fry from 60-day IL
The Cleveland Guardians activated designated hitter David Fry from the 60-day injured list and added him to the roster prior to Saturday's game against the visiting Los Angeles Angels.,The Guardians also placed outfielder Lane Thomas on the 10-day injured list due to plantar fasciitis in his right f...
Mark Bowman, No. 1 TE in 2026 class, commits to USC
Mark Bowman, the No. 1 tight end in the 2026 recruiting class, committed to Southern California.,The 247Sports composite also ranks Bowman, who reclassified from the 2027 class, as the No. 16 overall prospect in the nation.,Bowman plays at powerhouse Mater Dei High School in nearby Santa Ana. His co...
Astros place OF Chas McCormick (oblique) on 10-day IL
The Houston Astros placed outfielder Chas McCormick on the 10-day injured list Saturday with a left oblique strain.,The move is retroactive to Friday for McCormick, who is batting .256 with two RBIs in 36 games this season.,McCormick, 30, is a career .250 hitter with 55 homers and 193 RBIs in 472 ca...
Orioles 1B Ryan Mountcastle (hamstring) lands on IL
The Baltimore Orioles placed first baseman Ryan Mountcastle on the 10-day injured list Saturday with a strained right hamstring.,The Orioles also promoted infielder Coby Mayo and outfielder Jordyn Adams from Triple-A Norfolk and designated catcher Chadwick Tromp for assignment.,Mountcastle, 28, is b...