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NWSL roundup: Denver Summit held to goalless draw with Spirit in front of record crowd
Denver Summit FC's home opener in the franchise's inaugural season came with plenty of fanfare but no goals in a scoreless draw with the Washington Spirit in front of an NWSL record crowd Saturday at Denver., ,A turnout of 63,004 spectators at Empower Field at Mile High never saw a goal. The teams c...

NBA roundup: Cavaliers pour in 149, demolish Heat
Max Strus scored 29 points and Jarrett Allen had 18 points and 10 rebounds in his return from a right knee injury as the Cleveland Cavaliers tied their franchise record for points in a regulation game in a 149-128 win over the visiting Miami Heat on Friday.,Evan Mobley had 23 points and 10 rebounds ...

Women's NCAA roundup: Duke upends LSU on 3 at buzzer
Ashlon Jackson's rim-circling 3-pointer as time expired gave third-seeded Duke an 87-85 win over second-seeded LSU in a roller-coaster Sweet 16 matchup on Friday in the Sacramento Region 2 nightcap.,The win sends Duke to the regional final on Sunday, when the Blue Devils will face top-seeded UCLA on...

NCAA Tournament roundup: Tennessee tops Iowa State, in 3rd straight Elite Eight
Nate Ament scored 18 points and Ja'Kobi Gillespie added 16 as sixth-seeded Tennessee defeated second-seeded Iowa State 76-62 on Friday night in an NCAA Tournament Midwest Region semifinal.,Tennessee (25-11) will meet top-seeded Michigan in Sunday's regional final, the Volunteers' third straight trip...

MLB roundup: Aaron Judge homers, Yanks blank Giants again
Cam Schlittler allowed one hit over 5 1/3 innings and Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton each homered, fueling the visiting New York Yankees to a 3-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday.,Schlittler (1-0), who struck out eight and did not walk a batter, yielded only Heliot Ramos' two-out d...

NHL roundup: Caps down Mammoth behind Alex Ovechkin's hat trick
Alex Ovechkin produced his 34th career hat trick and the Washington Capitals rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat the Utah Mammoth 7-4 on Thursday in Salt Lake City.,Ovechkin has 29 goals this season, including two hat tricks, and an NHL-record 926 for his career.,Ivan Miroshnichenko tallied his ...

MLB roundup: Jacob Misiorowski, Brewers fan 20 White Sox in opener
Sal Frelick and Jake Bauers homered and hard-throwing Jacob Misiorowski shook off a leadoff home run to strike out 11 over five innings as the Milwaukee Brewers routed the visiting Chicago White Sox 14-2 on Thursday in the season opener for both teams.,Misiorowski (1-0) gave up a homer to Chase Meid...

NCAA Tournament roundup: Purdue nips Texas in last second
Trey Kaufman-Renn tipped in a shot with 0.7 seconds left to give the second-seeded Boilermakers a 79-77 win over 11th-seeded Texas in the NCAA Tournament's West Region semifinals on Thursday night in San Jose.,Purdue's Braden Smith drove to the lane on the final possession, and his jumper bounced of...

NBA roundup: Hornets continue late surge, halt Knicks' streak
Kon Knueppel had 26 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists on Thursday to help the Charlotte Hornets earn a 114-103 victory over the visiting New York Knicks.,LaMelo Ball added 22 points and Brandon Miller scored 21 for Charlotte, which won its fifth straight game. Coby White and Miles Bridges chippe...

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...