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Team Liquid, Geekay Esports win as regional playoffs open in OWCS NA Stage 2
Geekay Esports and Team Liquid won matches in the upper bracket semifinals as regional playoffs opened Saturday in the Overwatch Champions Series 2025 -- North America Stage 2.,The regional playoffs are a double-elimination bracket from June 21-29 and feature the top six teams from the regular seaso...
Nationals mash 5 homers to topple Dodgers
Nathaniel Lowe hit two home runs, James Wood and Luis Garcia Jr. hit back-to-back long balls in the fourth inning and the visiting Washington Nationals turned five total homers into a 7-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday.,CJ Abrams added a home run for the second consecutive night as...
Gold Cup: Honduras tops El Salvador to tighten up Group B
Romell Quioto scored in the 33rd minute and Dixon Ramirez iced the game with a second-half stoppage-time goal as Honduras beat El Salvador 1-0 in CONCACAF Gold Cup play in Houston on Saturday night.,Paired with Curacao's 1-1 draw with Canada earlier in the day, Honduras' win really jammed up the Gro...
Logan O'Hoppe powers Angels in rout of Astros
Logan O'Hoppe hit two home runs and drove in four runs and Luis Rengifo also homered as the Los Angeles Angels cruised to a 9-1 victory over the Houston Astros on Saturday night in Anaheim, Calif.,It was the fourth multi-homer game of O'Hoppe's career and the second this season. Zach Neto doubled tw...
Gladiators, Tidebound open with sweeps at Wallachia Season 5 group stage
Team Tidebound and the Gaimin Gladiators swept to victory on the first day of the group stage on Saturday in PGL Wallachia Season 5 in Bucharest, Romania.,The group stage runs through Wednesday and features 16 teams in a modified Swiss system. All matches are best of three. Eight teams will advance ...
Eugenio Suarez, Ketel Marte lead surging D-backs past Rockies
Eugenio Suarez homered for the third straight game, Ketel Marte had four hits and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies 5-3 on Saturday night in Denver.,Suarez drove in two runs and leads the majors with 67 RBIs.,Geraldo Perdomo also went deep and added a single for Arizona, which has w...
River Plate keep pace in Group E with draw in FIFA Club World Cup
River Plate moved to a tie atop the Group E standings Saturday after playing to a 0-0 draw against CF Monterrey in Pasadena, Calif., in the FIFA Club World Cup.,River Plate (1-0-1, 4 points) had multiple shots at taking the lead late in the match, including a corner in the 84th minute, but the Argen...
Liberty All-Star center Jonquel Jones (ankle sprain) out 4-6 weeks
New York Liberty All-Star center Jonquel Jones will be sidelined four to six weeks because of a sprained right ankle, the team announced on Saturday night.,Jones, 31, injured the ankle in the second quarter of an 89-81 loss Thursday night to the Phoenix Mercury. She sprained the same ankle on June 5...
Reports: Bucks' Pat Connaughton picks up $9.4M player option
Milwaukee Bucks wing Pat Connaughton has picked up his player option for the 2025-26 season worth $9.4 million, according to multiple reports on Saturday.,Connaughton, 32, had until Tuesday to exercise the option for the final season of a three-year, $28.5 million extension he signed in 2022, per th...
Minnesota flips commitment of QB Furian Inferrera from Boston College
The Minnesota Golden Gophers received a commitment Saturday from quarterback Furian Inferrera, who had been committed to the Boston College Eagles since February.,The 2027 signal-caller confirmed the news on X, tweeting in part, "All Glory to God.",<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir=...
UFC's Dana White: Jon Jones retires, Tom Aspinall undisputed champ
Jon Jones, a legend in mixed martial arts, has retired and interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall has been elevated to the undisputed title holder, UFC president and CEO Dana White said Saturday.,"Jon Jones called us last night and retired," White said during a press conference in Azerbaijan, whe...
Blue Jays' homers back strong pitching in win over White Sox
Jose Berrios pitched into the eighth inning, Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Chicago White Sox 7-1 on Saturday afternoon.,Berrios (3-3) allowed one unearned run, two hits and three walks while striking out five in 7 2/3 innings.,Davis Sch...
Sun, Valkyries enter matchup heading in opposite directions
The Connecticut Sun and host Golden State Valkyries come into their meeting on Sunday in San Francisco on much different trajectories.,The expansion Valkyries (6-6) responded to a sluggish first month of the season, rebounding from a 2-5 start to win four of their last five. In its most recent outin...
Wings look to keep momentum going in visit to Mystics
After a demoralizing 1-11 start, the Dallas Wings have sparked hope ahead of Sunday's afternoon road game against the Washington Mystics.,Dallas has tripled its win total by claiming its last two games, including a June 17 win over the Golden State Valkyries and a victory in Connecticut on Friday. T...
Blue Jays homers back up strong pitching in win over White Sox
Jose Berrios pitched into the eighth inning, Bo Bichette and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Chicago White Sox 7-1 on Saturday afternoon.,Berrios (3-3) allowed one unearned run, two hits and three walks while striking out five in 7 2/3 innings.,Davis Sch...
Red Sox pause RHP Kutter Crawford's rehab due to wrist concerns
The Red Sox have pressed pause on the rehabilitation efforts of right-handed pitcher Kutter Crawford over concerns about a worsening wrist injury, Boston manager Alex Cora told reporters Saturday.,Crawford hasn't pitched in a game this season as he's dealt with discomfort in the patellar tendon in h...
Inter Milan rally past Urawa on stoppage-time goal at CWC
Valentin Carboni scored in the second minute of second-half stoppage time to complete Inter Milan's rally to a 2-1 victory over Urawa Red Diamonds in Saturday's Group E encounter at the Club World Cup in Seattle.,Carboni's strike rescued all three points for Inter (1-0-1, 4 points) 14 minutes after ...
Xavier Lucas' attorney denies alleged meeting with Miami amid Wisconsin lawsuit
The attorney for the player at the center of a first-of-its-kind transfer tampering lawsuit by the University of Wisconsin denied the allegations of a December meeting between the player and representatives of the University of Miami, On3 reported Saturday.,"Wisconsin's allegations that my client, X...
Denny Hamlin grabs pole at Pocono after welcoming son
Perhaps not too surprisingly, Pocono (Pa.) Raceway's all-time winningest driver, Denny Hamlin, was fastest in the field Saturday to earn pole position for Sunday's The Great American Getaway 400 (2 p.m. ET on Amazon Prime, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).,Hamlin's Joe Gibbs Racing No. 11 Toyota will tak...
WTA roundup: Marketa Vondrousova, Xinyu Wang to face off for first Berlin title
The Berlin Open will crown a first-time winner after Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic and China's Xinyu Wang won their semifinal matches on Saturday.,Despite dealing with shoulder injuries, Vondrousova took down World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka who, for the second straight day, attempted a late-...