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ATP roundup: Aleksandar Vukic pulls upset in Adelaide
Australian qualifier Aleksandar Vukic thrilled the home crowd Tuesday with a 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5) upset of No. 7 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in the first round of the Adelaide International.,Vukic withstood 13 aces in a match with no service breaks by controlling the tiebreaks, building a 4-2 lead...
WTA roundup: Venus Williams falls in Aussie Open tuneup
Sixth-seeded Tatjana Maria recorded a 6-4, 6-3 win over Venus Williams in the first round at the Hobart International in Australia on Tuesday.,Maria, 38, took advantage of five double faults by Williams, 45, to win the match in 87 minutes. The match featured the highest combined age (83) of a single...
NBA roundup: Pascal Siakam, Pacers sink Jaylen Brown-less Celtics
Pascal Siakam scored a go-ahead basket with 6.8 seconds left on Monday night, propelling the Indiana Pacers to a 98-96 victory over the Boston Celtics in Indianapolis.,After Siakam's clutch floater off the glass, Boston's Derrick White missed a 3-point attempt as time expired.,Siakam produced 21 poi...
NHL roundup: In OT, Leafs halt Avs' home win streak at 17
William Nylander scored at 3:59 of overtime and the Toronto Maple Leafs ended Colorado's 17-game home winning streak with a 4-3 win in Denver on Monday night.,It was the first home loss for Colorado since Oct. 23. The Avalanche remain unbeaten at home in regulation (17-0-3) but missed out on a chanc...
NHL roundup: Lightning rout Flyers as win streak hits 10
Nikita Kucherov registered multiple points for the ninth straight game and the Tampa Bay Lightning extended their winning streak to 10 games with a 5-1 road victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday., ,It was a successful trip to the City of Brotherly Love for the Lightning, who posted a 7-2 wi...
WTA roundup: McCartney Kessler stunned in Hobart
Serbia's Olga Danilovic stunned defending champion McCartney Kessler 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the first round on Monday at the Hobart International in Australia.,Danilovic trailed 4-3 in the deciding set, then collected a crucial break in the ninth game to pull ahead and served out the match in two hours an...
ATP roundup: Action underway in Adelaide, Auckland
Thanasi Kokkinakis thrilled the home fans in Australia on Monday with a first-round comeback to beat Sebastian Korda at the Adelaide International.,Kokkinakis finished the 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory in two hours and 26 minutes, tallying 15 aces and saving six of nine break points. His second-round op...
NBA roundup: Raptors' Scottie Barnes sinks game-winning free throw, 76ers in OT
Scottie Barnes made the game-winning free throw in the final second of overtime to help the Toronto Raptors defeat visiting the Philadelphia 76ers 116-115 on Sunday in the first game of a back-to-back between the teams.,The 76ers took a four-point lead in overtime before the Raptors rallied with a 7...
NFL wild-card roundup: 49ers oust defending champ Eagles on late TD
Brock Purdy threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Christian McCaffrey with 2:54 left and the San Francisco 49ers ended the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles' season with a 23-19 win in Sunday's wild-card playoff game in Philadelphia.,Purdy passed for 262 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions...
NHL roundup: Tomas Hertl's career night spurs Knights' rout of Sharks
Tomas Hertl collected two goals and three assists, Jack Eichel also scored twice, and the visiting Vegas Golden Knights completed a sweep of their season series with the San Jose Sharks for the third straight season with a 7-2 victory on Sunday night.,It was a career-best five-point game for Hertl a...
WTA roundup: Aryna Sabalenka repeats in Brisbane
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka defended her Brisbane International title with a straight-sets victory against Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk on Sunday in Australia.,The top-seeded Belarusian defeated the No. 16 seed 6-4, 6-3 in 78 minutes to claim her 22nd career WTA Tour title, third among active players beh...
NHL roundup: Two Bruins combine for 7 goals in 10-2 rout of Rangers
Marat Khusnutdinov netted four goals and an assist, Pavel Zacha registered his first career hat trick, and David Pastrnak tied a Boston franchise record with six assists, helping the Bruins roll past the visiting New York Rangers 10-2 on Saturday afternoon.,Khusnutdinov and Zacha became the first Br...
NBA roundup: Hornets lead by as many as 57 points, crush Jazz
LaMelo Ball scored 17 points and made five 3-pointers as the Charlotte Hornets led by as many as 57 points in routing the Utah Jazz 150-95 on Saturday night in Salt Lake City.,The Hornets made 24 3-pointers while shooting 41% from 3-point range. They led wire-to-wire in recording the second-largest ...
WTA roundup: Top seeds surge into finals in Brisbane, Auckland
No. 1 seed Aryna Sabalenka needed just 89 minutes to defeat Czech Karolina Muchova 6-3, 6-4 and reach her third consecutive Brisbane International final on Saturday.,Muchova had defeated Sabalenka, of Belarus, in their past three meetings. But in Brisbane, Sabalenka was in control, staving off four ...
NBA roundup: Down 21, Thunder storm past Grizzlies
Jalen Williams scored a season-high 26 points, Ajay Mitchell added 23 and Kenrich Williams also posted a season high with 21 off the bench as the Oklahoma City Thunder rallied from 21 points down in the second half to stun the host Memphis Grizzlies 117-116 on Friday night.,The Thunder outscored the...
NHL roundup: Jets rout Kings, halt winless streak at 11
Mark Scheifele scored two goals to help the Winnipeg Jets end an 11-game winless streak with a 5-1 win against the visiting Los Angeles Kings on Friday night.,It was the longest winless streak for the Jets since they moved to Winnipeg from Atlanta in 2011. Before Friday, they had not won since defea...
WTA roundup: Semifinals set in Brisbane, Auckland
No. 11 seed Karolina Muchova halted No. 3 seed Elena Rybakina's 13-match win streak and reached the Brisbane International semifinals with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 win Friday in Australia.,Muchova took advantage of seven double faults by Kazakhstan's Rybakina and earned the match's decisive service break in ...
Top 25 roundup: Graham Ike nets 34 as No. 8 Gonzaga tops Santa Clara
Graham Ike scored a season-high 34 points on 13-of-17 shooting and collected 11 rebounds to lead No. 8 Gonzaga to an 89-77 victory over Santa Clara on Thursday night in West Coast Conference play at Spokane, Wash.,Emmanuel Innocenti scored 13 points as the Bulldogs (17-1, 5-0 WCC) notched their 10th...
NHL roundup: Patrick Kane scores 500th goal in Wings' win over Canucks
Patrick Kane became the 50th player in NHL history to score 500 goals as he tallied twice in Detroit's 5-1 victory over visiting Vancouver on Thursday night.,Kane scored in the first period, then notched his milestone goal with an empty-netter with 3:53 remaining. He has the sixth-most goals among a...
NBA roundup: Pacers snap 13-game losing streak with win over Hornets
Pascal Siakam scored 18 of his 30 points in the first half and hit the winning shot as the Indiana Pacers snapped a 13-game losing streak and gave coach Rick Carlisle his 1,000th career coaching victory in a 114-112 triumph against the host Charlotte Hornets Thursday night.,Collin Sexton's potential...