CLEVELAND— James Harden hit three clutch shots in the final two minutes, Donovan Mitchell scored 35 points and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat Detroit 116-109 on Saturday to cut the Pistons' lead to 2-1 in the Eastern Conference semifinal series. Harden bounced back from two mistake-marred ...
NEWARK, N.J. — Sean Strickland won UFC’s 185-pound championship for the second time in his career on Saturday night, defeating Khamzat Chimaev via split decision in a bout that never rose to the level of vitriol and threats of violence outside the cage both fighters engaged in ahead of the ...
ATLANTA — Bobby Cox, the folksy manager of the Atlanta Braves whose teams ruled the National League during the 1990s and gave the city its first major title as well as World Series trips that fell short, died Saturday. He was 84. Cox died in Marietta, Georgia, according to the Atlanta ...
Arsenal stayed in control of the Premier League title race by beating relegation-threatened West Ham 1-0 thanks to an 83rd-minute goal by Leandro Trossard and a dramatic late VAR call on Sunday. Arsenal restored its five-point lead over second-place Manchester City and will clinch its first league title since 2004 by winning its final two games, at home to Burnley and away to Crystal Palace. Trossard scored off a shot that took a couple of slight deflections and found the bottom corner. Callum Wilson thought he’d equalized for West Ham following a corner in the fifth minute of ...
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Shane van Gisbergen insists his NASCAR road-course dominance is harder than it looks, and that he feels “a lot of pressure” to beat the best in stock-car racing. But the Trackhouse Racing driver was in another league Sunday, schooling the stars of the Cup Series at ...
The Carolina Hurricanes have secured their long-sought shot at breaking through a familiar roadblock in the Eastern Conference final. Now the Hurricanes — the only undefeated team left in the NHL playoffs — are set for another a lengthy wait to get started in the third round. Carolina beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 in overtime on Saturday night, becoming the first team to sweep through the first two rounds since the league went to best-of-seven series in all four rounds in 1987. That has them back in the conference final for the third time in four seasons and fourth time in the ...
