LAS VEGAS -- Before 3-on-3 basketball debuts in the Olympics, USA Basketball took it to Las Vegas. The men's and women's national championships went full-blown show time in looking for the four best athletes who hope to represent the U.S. in the 2020 ...
SAN JOSE -- Joe Pavelski appeared with 12:29 left in the third period of Game 5 of the Western Conference Second Round at SAP Center on Saturday. No one had seen the San Jose Sharks forward in public since 9:13 remained in the third period of Game 7 ...
HOUSTON -- Long after the game ended in overtime, a solitary player in the visiting locker room was still wearing his full uniform and working overtime. While his teammates dressed quickly and left both the room and a bitter memory behind them, he stayed ...
DALLAS -- If the doubters figured Jason Spezza was an irrelevant piece to the Stanley Cup aspirations of the Dallas Stars, they'd better think again. The forward started the Stanley Cup Playoffs as a healthy scratch for the first two games of the Western ...
DETROIT (AP) — In eight games with the Kansas City Royals, Kelvin Gutierrez has already made a nice impression. Gutierrez had four hits and a stolen base Saturday, and the Royals routed the Detroit Tigers 15-3. Kansas City scored four runs in the first ...
Members of the Long Beach men's volleyball team hoist the NCAA national championship trophy after defeating Hawaii at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach on May 4, 2019. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times). The historically talented seniors on the Long ...
I remain unsure how the 2013 Yankees won 85 games. They played in a division in which three other clubs had at least that many victories, and the Yanks got there despite consistently fielding lineups with Travis Hafner, Jayson Nix, Lyle Overbay, Chris ...
Boston Red Sox's Michael Chavis, right, celebrates with Rafael Devers after hitting a solo home run against the Chicago White Sox during the third inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Nam Y. Huh AP Photo. MILWAUKEE.
Canelo Alvarez poses after his win against Daniel Jacobs in a middleweight title match on May 4, 2019, in Las Vegas. (John Locher / Associated Press). Canelo Alvarez wanted to move on. He tried to move on. Advertisement. He couldn't. In case it wasn't ...
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — For the first half-hour of Saturday's game, it looked like a continuation of what transpired a day earlier for the A's: Their bats were alive, and they couldn't stop hitting. Then, all of a sudden, the spigot shut off. After scoring three runs on five ...
Coach Bob Bradley preached patience as the Los Angeles Football Club sought to stay perfect at home.On Saturday night it was a message that the team needed to hear. Facing a Chicago Fire squad that had given up a goal apiece in its last two matches ...
CINCINNATI — A leaping Kevin Pillar couldn't completely save a laboring Dereck Rodriguez. Not that it really mattered in a game in which the Giants were crushed 9-2 by the Reds, but Pillar made a catch Saturday night that might make him a candidate for ...
NEW YORK — The Yankees gave starting pitcher J.A. Happ $34 million this offseason because they thought they could trust him. They can't. They started Miguel Andujar, fresh off the injured list, at third base on Saturday because they thought he was ready.
WOLVERHAMPTON, England — Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Fulham 1-0 to virtually clinch a seventh-place finish in the English Premier League on Saturday, potentially earning the club a spot in next season's Europa League. Belgium midfielder ...
DOVER, Del. – Christopher Bell won the battle that counted by a few feet—and that small victory launched him to his third NASCAR Xfinity Series triumph of the season in the Allied Steel Buildings 200 at Dover International Speedway. Bell's No. 20 Joe Gibbs ...
BOSTON (AP) — David Pastrnak took control of the game, and then he took over the postgame news conference from linemate and Game 5 co-star Brad Marchand. After scoring twice, including the tiebreaking goal with 1:28 left, Pastrnak noticed that the man ...
In April of 2014, the FSU football team was just a couple months off their third national title in program history – completing what was arguably one of the best seasons in the history of college football – when they announced a new look for the program, from ...
Donn McClean looks ahead to the QIPCO 1000 Guineas and fancies the O'Brien family to be toasting more Classic success. When Aidan O'Brien sent out Virginia Waters to win the QIPCO 1000 Guineas in 2005, he became the first Irish trainer to win the race ...
As Hurricanes coach John Plumtree pointed out, he's coached a lot of Super Rugby. So he knows better than to wring his hands and get too wound up by his side's alarming swing against the Rebels in a bizarre contest at Wellington's Westpac Stadium on ...
Kodi Nikorima is determined to establish his own identity at the Warriors as he shrugged off comparisons to Shaun Johnson. Nikorima was on deck at Mt Smart Stadium to watch his new club take on the Knights on Sunday after a whirlwind week that saw him ...
Jurgen Klopp says his Liverpool players are "ambitious like hell" to win the Premier League, backing them to bounce back from their thumping at Barcelona and keep the title race alive against Newcastle. Liverpool travel to face the St James' Park side ...
The blockbuster Sunday for cricket fans is here as the last two matches of the league stage will be played today. With SRH losing Saturday's crucial match, the fourth spot in the playoffs is still open. However, chances of Kings XI Punjab making it even if they ...
Sol Campbell, standing on the pitch with a grin on his face, was in no mood to underplay the scale of Macclesfield Town's achievement. "I'm not saying it's like Pele in Escape to Victory, but not many teams around the world have got out of a scenario like that," ...
Divock Origi headed Liverpool back to the top of the Premier League despite losing Mohamed Salah to a head injury in a thrilling 3-2 win at Newcastle, while nine-man Tottenham lost once more on the road 1-0 at Bournemouth on Saturday.
Cape Town - Craig Martin scored six minutes from time as Cape Town City held log leaders Orlando Pirates to 2-2 draw in a pulsating Absa Premiership clash at the Athlone Stadium on Saturday. The point means that winning PSL trophy is now out of Pirates' ...
Celtic secured an eighth consecutive Scottish Premiership title with a convincing 3-0 victory over Aberdeen at Pittodrie Stadium on Saturday (Sunday AEST). Striker James Wilson missed two early opportunities to put Aberdeen ahead before Neil Lennon's ...
Cape Town - Mamelodi Sundowns bowed out of the CAF Champions League in the semi-finals after an aggregate 2-1 defeat to Wydad Casablanca on Saturday afternoon in Pretoria. The opening half was devoid of clear chances as Wydad sat back deeper in ...
The New Zealand Under 20 side has slumped to a 24-0 defeat to Australia in the final of the Oceania Championship on the Gold Coast. The defeat will be concerning for New Zealand, who plagued by inaccuracy and dominated at the set piece, ahead of ...