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NBA roundup: Celtics end Thunder's 12-game winning streak
Jaylen Brown had 31 points, eight rebounds and eight assists to help the Boston Celtics end the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder's 12-game winning streak with a 119-109 victory Wednesday in a game that featured the last two NBA champions.,Jayson Tatum added 19 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists for...
NWSL roundup: Denver Summit knock off defending champ Gotham for 1st win
Denver Summit FC won their first match in club history in dramatic fashion, stunning defending champion and host Gotham FC 2-0 on Wednesday in Harrison, N.J.,Melissa Kossler became the second player in league history to score in team's first three regular-season matches in its inaugural season.,Koss...
NBA roundup: Nikola Jokic's triple-double, late shot lift Nuggets
Nikola Jokic scored 23 points in his second consecutive triple-double, and his jumper with 11.5 seconds remaining broke a tie and pushed the Denver Nuggets to a 125-123 victory over the host Phoenix Suns on Tuesday.,Jokic added 17 rebounds and tied a season high with 17 assists for his 29th triple-d...
NHL roundup: Connor McDavid hits 400-goal milestone in Oilers' win
Connor McDavid scored his 400th and 401st career goals, the first of which gave the Edmonton Oilers the lead for good in a 5-2 win against the Utah Mammoth on Tuesday in Salt Lake City.,Eight seconds after Utah's Lawson Crouse tied the game 2-2 at 11:59 of the second period, McDavid caught a break o...
NBA roundup: Hornets sink 26 treys, pummel Kings
Charlotte matched a franchise record by making 26 3-pointers, including Coby White's 6-for-8 performance off the bench, and the red-hot Hornets blasted the visiting Sacramento Kings 134-90 on Tuesday.,The Hornets earned its fourth consecutive win -- all of which have come by double digits -- and the...
Spring training roundup: Gerrit Cole passes another test as Yankees rout Cubs
New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole passed another test against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday in his second start of the spring as he continued his return from Tommy John surgery last March.,Cole racked up three strikeouts in the first inning -- fanning Cubs regulars Pete Crow-Armstrong, Michael Busch an...
Spring training roundup: Ranger Suarez rocked as Twins rout Red Sox
Ranger Suarez completed a rocky spring training with his new squad, allowing eight earned runs over 4 1/3 innings on Tuesday as the Minnesota Twins routed the Boston Red Sox 15-6 in Fort Myers, Fla.,Suarez, who signed a five-year, $130 million contract in January, gave up a pair of home runs among n...
NBA roundup: Pistons halt Lakers' 9-game winning streak
Daniss Jenkins poured in a career-high 30 points, including four in the final 25 seconds, and the host Detroit Pistons ended the Los Angeles Lakers' nine-game winning streak with a 113-110 victory on Monday.,Jenkins added eight assists while Jalen Duren contributed 20 points and 11 rebounds in Detro...
Women's NCAA roundup: No. 10 Virginia topples No. 2 Iowa in 2OT
Kymora Johnson scored 28 points and forced both the first and second overtime period for No. 10 seed Virginia as it buried No. 2 Iowa 83-75 in the biggest upset of the women's NCAA Tournament thus far on Monday in Iowa City.,Paris Clark put up 20 points, seven rebounds and four assists for the Caval...
Spring training roundup: Rays' Steven Matz finishes strong spring vs. Phillies
Southpaw Steven Matz put a punctuation mark on his excellent spring training by tossing five scoreless innings Monday as the Tampa Bay Rays blanked the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-0, in Clearwater, Fla.,Matz, 34, who is transitioning back to the starting rotation after spending the last two seasons in ...
Louisville outlasts Alabama, advances to Sweet 16
Elif Istanbulluoglu and Tajianna Roberts had 18 points apiece and third-seeded Louisville survived sixth-seeded Alabama for a 69-68 win to advance to the Sweet 16 from Regional 3 in Louisville on Monday.,Trailing by four, Alabama's Karly Weathers scored with 9.4 seconds left and Louisville's Imari B...
NHL roundup: Islanders blank Jackets to move into wild-card position
Ilya Sorokin stopped all 26 shots he faced and made Bo Horvat's goal on the first shot of the game stand up Sunday night for the New York Islanders, who edged the Columbus Blue Jackets 1-0 in a game with Eastern Conference playoff implications in Elmont, N.Y.,The Islanders (40-26-5, 85 points) snapp...
NCAA Tournament roundup: Iowa edges defending champ Florida in thriller
Alvaro Folgueiras drained a wide-open 3-pointer from the right corner with 4.5 seconds left to give Iowa a dramatic 73-72 victory over defending national champion Florida in a South Region second-round game at Tampa, Fla.,The top-seeded Gators' Xaivian Lee (17 points) was unable to get a shot off in...
NBA roundup: Timberwolves earn rare victory in Boston
Bones Hyland scored 23 points and Jaden McDaniels finished with 19 to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 102-92 win over the host Boston Celtics on Sunday night.,Rudy Gobert added nine points and 14 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who won in Boston for the first time since 2005. Minnesota also rece...
NHL roundup: Wild best Central rival Stars in OT thriller
Vladimir Tarasenko scored the winning goal 3:06 into overtime to lift the Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 win over the Dallas Stars on Saturday afternoon in Saint Paul, Minn.,Bobby Brink also scored for Minnesota, which won in overtime for the second time in its past three games. Brink also picked up an ass...
NCAA Tournament roundup: Nebraska tops Vanderbilt for 1st Sweet 16 spot
Braden Frager drove for the winning layup with 2.2 seconds left Saturday night and fourth-seeded Nebraska rallied for a 74-72 win over fifth-seeded Vanderbilt in the second round of the NCAA Tournament's South Region in Oklahoma City.,The result wasn't secured until the Commodores' Tyler Tanner, who...
NBA roundup: Rockets' Kevin Durant becomes 5th on all-time scoring list
Amen Thompson tipped in a Kevin Durant missed jumper at the buzzer, and the Houston Rockets escaped with a wild 123-122 victory over the visiting Miami Heat on Saturday night.,Durant passed Michael Jordan's career 32,292 points for fifth on the NBA's scoring list with a corner 3-pointer at the 3:35 ...
Women's NCAA Sacramento 2 roundup: Top seed UCLA crushes Cal Baptist
Lauren Betts led five UCLA players in double figures as the top-seeded Bruins ran away with a 96-43 win over No. 16 seed Cal Baptist with a dominating second half in Sacramento Region 2 first-round action Saturday in Los Angeles.,The Bruins (32-1) led just 44-34 at halftime before outscoring the Lan...
NWSL roundup: Kiki Van Zanten's brace leads Houston to rout of Boston
Kiki Van Zanten scored a brace for the Houston Dash in an impressive 3-0 victory against the visiting Boston Legacy on Saturday.,Van Zanten scored in the 43rd and 59th minutes to give the Dash a commanding lead and match her scoring total in 17 NWSL matches last season for Houston.,Katherine Ann Rad...
Achol Akot stars as Oklahoma State beats Princeton (Sacramento 2)
Achol Akot poured in a season-high 28 points on 12-for-15 shooting and grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds as eighth-seeded Oklahoma State rolled past ninth-seeded Princeton, 82-68, at Los Angeles.,Oklahoma State (24-9) will face the California Baptist-UCLA winner in Monday's second round after shooting...