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NBA roundup: Thunder demolish Grizzlies in playoff opener
Aaron Wiggins scored 21 points off the bench and Jalen Williams added 20 as the Oklahoma City Thunder earned a 131-80 home rout of the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 1 of their Western Conference playoff series on Sunday.,The Thunder had plenty of blowout victories in the regular season, setting an NBA r...
MLB roundup: Reds post football score with 24 runs against Orioles
Austin Wynns piled up six hits and six RBIs while Noelvi Marte stroked a grand slam to highlight his five-hit, seven-RBI day as the Cincinnati Reds ripped the host Baltimore Orioles 24-2 on Sunday afternoon.,Wynns and Elly De La Cruz added homers while Austin Hays supplied four hits and four runs as...
WTA roundup: Final set in Germany, Elina Svitolina wins in France
Aryna Sabalenka, the World No. 1, will attempt to win her first Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in her fourth attempt on Monday in Stuttgart, Germany.,She reached the final for the fourth time in five years on Sunday with a 7-5, 6-4 semifinal win over No. 5 seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy in one hour, 35 mi...
NBA roundup: Jalen Brunson leads Knicks' 4th-quarter rally past Pistons
Jalen Brunson overcame a slow start to score 34 points as the New York Knicks dominated the fourth quarter in a 123-112 victory over the visiting Detroit Pistons in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals on Saturday.,Game 2 will be Monday in New York before the series shifts to Detroit on Th...
NWSL Roundup: Spirit's gift goal hands Pride first loss
Gift Monday scored in the 63rd minute off an Orlando blunder as the visiting Washington Spirit beat the previously undefeated Pride 1-0 on Saturday.,Orlando goalkeeper Anna Moorhouse failed to clear the ball and Monday had a point-blank open net for her first goal of the season.,Aubrey Kingsbury mad...
WTA roundup: Swiatek, Pegula and Gauff upset in Stuttgart
Unseeded Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia maintained her supremacy over Poland's Iga Swiatek by claiming a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 victory over the second seed during Porsche Tennis Grand Prix quarterfinal play Saturday in Stuttgart, Germany.,Ostapenko, who improved her lifetime mark to 6-0 against the five-time ma...
MLB roundup: Cubs earn wild 13-11 win over D-backs
Carson Kelly hit two homers, Kyle Tucker, Ian Happ and Seiya Suzuki also went deep, and the host Chicago Cubs blew a six-run lead against the Arizona Diamondbacks before recovering for a 13-11 victory on Friday.,Eugenio Suarez hit a grand slam and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had a three-run homer in a 10-ru...
NWSL roundup: Rookie lifts Reign over Thorns
Rookie Maddie Dahlien scored her first professional goal as the Seattle Reign defeated the visiting Portland Thorns 1-0 on Friday in the National Women's Soccer League.,Goalkeeper Claudia Dickey made four saves while posting the shutout for the Reign (2-2-1, 7 points). Bella Bixby made four stops in...
WTA roundup: Olga Danilovic wins marathon to reach Rouen semis
In a two-hour, 30-minute battle, No. 3 seed Olga Danilovic of Serbia defeated No. 5 seed Moyuka Uchijima of Japan 7-6 (9), 4-6, 6-1 in the quarterfinals of the Open Capfinances Rouen Metropole on Friday in Rouen, France.,Uchijima saved four set points in the first-set tiebreaker and served for the s...
ATP roundup: Alexander Zverev rallies to reach Munich semis
Home favorite Alexander Zverev rallied for a 6-7 (6), 7-6 (3), 6-4 quarterfinal win Friday against Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor at the BMW Open in Munich, Germany.,Griekspoor served for the match at 5-4 in the second set before the top-seeded Zverev dug deep to finish in 3 hours and 14 minutes. Closin...
MLB roundup: Kumar Rocker gets first career win for streaking Rangers
Kumar Rocker put together a solid outing to earn his first career win as the Texas Rangers downed the slumping Los Angeles Angels 5-3 to finish a three-game sweep in Arlington, Texas.,The former No. 3 overall draft pick allowed three runs on five hits over seven innings to improve to 1-2 on the seas...
NHL roundup: Sabres coach Lindy Ruff logs 900th win
Ryan McLeod collected a goal and two assists to help lift Buffalo to a 5-4 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday, giving Sabres coach Lindy Ruff his 900th career win. ,With the result in the regular-season finale for both teams, Ruff became the fifth NHL coach to achieve the mile...
WTA roundup: Ekaterina Alexandrova knocks off Mirra Andreeva in Stuttgart
Ekaterina Alexandrova upset fellow Russian and No. 6 seed Mirra Andreeva 6-3, 6-2 in 65 minutes to reach the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix quarterfinals on Thursday in Stuttgart, Germany.,Alexandrova, 30, recorded her fourth Top 10 win of the season. She had 19 winners and eight aces while the 17-year-o...
ATP roundup: Carlos Alcaraz reaches Barcelona quarterfinals
Top-seeded Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz defeated Serbia's Laslo Djere 6-2, 6-4 on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell in Spain.,Alcaraz, who won the tournament in 2022 and 2023, needed only 71 minutes to finish Djere and sets up a meeting with No. 5 seed Alex De Minaur...
MLB roundup: Twins blow lead, edge Mets in 10
Ty France led off the bottom of the 10th inning with a run-scoring single that lifted Minnesota to a 4-3 walk-off win over the New York Mets in Minneapolis on Wednesday, helping the Twins make up for blowing a three-run lead two innings earlier.,Minnesota picked up its second straight win, marking j...
NHL roundup: Canadiens claim last playoff berth
Kaiden Guhle scored twice for the Montreal Canadiens, who clinched the final berth in the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-2 win against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday.,Nick Suzuki had a goal and an assist and Sam Montembeault made 27 saves for the Canadiens (40-31-11, 91 points), who cl...
WTA roundup: Linda Noskova dodges upset with late rally
Linda Noskova avoided a round-of-16 upset at the hands of American Bernarda Pera on Wednesday, rallying for a 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 win to advance to the quarterfinals of the Open Capfinances Rouen Metropole in Rouen, France.,Noskova, the No. 2 seed from the Czech Republic, bounced back from a first-set...
ATP roundup: Holger Rune rallies, reaches Barcelona quarters
No. 6 seed Holger Rune of Denmark rebounded to put away unseeded Argentine Sebastian Baez 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell in Spain.,Rune, ranked No. 13 in the world, committed 15 unforced errors in the first set as he fell behind 2-0 and coul...
MLB roundup: Cubs end Padres' perfect home start
Nico Hoerner tripled in the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning on Tuesday and the visiting Chicago Cubs handed the San Diego Padres their first home loss, 2-1.,With Dansby Swanson placed at second base as the automatic runner, Hoerner lined a 2-0 fastball from Yuki Matsui (0-1) to the gap in...
NHL roundup: Blues, Wild clinch playoff berths
Pavel Buchnevich celebrated his 30th birthday two days early as his three-point performance helped the St. Louis Blues secure a playoff spot on Tuesday with a 6-1 win over the visiting Utah Hockey Club.,Buchnevich made sure the Blues (44-30-8, 96 points) would not miss out on the playoffs for a thir...