LAS VEGAS — The odds indicate the true NBA Finals will be a potential Western Conference showdown between the defending champion Thunder and a Spurs team that has had its way with Oklahoma City this season. But the numbers also say as the NBA postseason begins not to count out the Celtics, ...
NEW YORK — The party isn’t over for UCLA’s national champions. The Bruins had another big celebration at the WNBA draft. Lauren Betts, Gabriela Jaquez and Kiki Rice were taken with picks Nos. 4-6 on Monday night, barely a week after helping the Bruins win their first NCAA championship. UCLA became the first team to have five first-round selections, and the first with six players selected in one draft. In a whirlwind stretch where the Bruins were feted from coast to coast, the good times hit their peak at the draft, where the best team this season took its place among the best of ...
HOUSTON — Former Pittsburgh Pirate Phil Garner, a three-time All-Star infielder who went on to manage the Houston Astros to their first World Series appearance, died. He was 76. Garner’s family issued a statement Sunday saying Garner died Saturday after a two-plus-year battle with ...
WASHINGTON — Logan Thompson stopped 24 shots, and the Washington Capitals kept their slim playoff hopes alive by beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0 Sunday in perhaps the final home game of Alex Ovechkin’s brilliant career. To reach the postseason, the Capitals must defeat Columbus in the ...
MONACO — Jannik Sinner beat defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (5), 6-3 on Sunday to win the Monte Carlo Masters for the first time and reclaim the No. 1 ranking from his biggest tennis rival. “The result is amazing,” Sinner said. “Getting back to No. 1 means a lot for me.” Four-time Grand Slam champion Sinner met seven-time major winner Alcaraz in their ninth final in what is often called the “Sincaraz” rivalry. Kings bringing back Christie Doug Christie will return for a second full season as coach of the Sacramento Kings despite the team having one of the worst ...
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tyrell Hatton can’t wait to see his soon-to-be born daughter in white Masters coveralls next year at Augusta National. That possibility became a reality on Sunday after Hatton was one of several players to receive an automatic invitation to next year’s Masters for ...
