LOS ANGELES — Fresh off of last Friday’s thrilling debut, the Angel City Football Club looked like an expansion team Sunday. It was a bad day from the start as Angel City (1-1, three points) allowed a goal within the first three minutes, struggled at times going forward and never got on track, eventually suffering…
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As Bam Adebayo exited practice Saturday, he offered the tired maxim of how a playoff series doesn’t begin until someone wins on the road. When it comes to Adebayo and the Miami Heat, the hope, in that case, may be that this series never begins. Because it well could take four home victories by the…
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A Dallas Mavericks fan was ejected from the American Airlines Center during Sunday’s Game 4 against the Phoenix Suns. After the game ended, Paul tweeted “Wanna fine players for saying stuff to the fans but the fans can put they hands on our families….f— that!!” ESPN’s Dave McMenamin reported soon after that Paul’s mother Robin…
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LOS ANGELES –– As the Kings navigated a minefield of a first-round series that had seen them get blown up for 14 goals in two mortifying losses, they sought an equilibrium between eagerness and impatience. In Games 2 and 3, they found themselves playing with the wrong sort of desperation. It wasn’t the determination, sacrifice…
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Let’s stay tethered to perspective: Philadelphia, as a comeback play, is a hot story. A trending story. Joel Embiid, out the first two games, returned to change this playoff series against the Miami Heat the last two games. James Harden was aging and fattening before our eyes before scoring 31 points in Philadelphia’s Game 4…
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GULF SHORES, Ala. — Top-seeded and No. 1-ranked USC beat fifth-seeded Florida State, 3-1, Sunday to win its second consecutive NCAA women’s beach volleyball championship and its fourth in the past six years. USC (37-1) made its fifth appearance in the NCAA championship and extended its winning streak to 36 consecutive matches – the second-longest…
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Makenzie Fischer scored four goals and Ryann Neushul added three more and Stanford pulled away over the final 3 minutes to beat USC 10-7 on Sunday to win the Cardinal’s eighth NCAA women’s water polo championship in program history. Stanford (25-2) won 11 straight to close the season and its only…
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LONG BEACH — Juaron Watts-Brown made history on Sunday, throwing the first complete game no-hitter in the history of the Long Beach State baseball program in a 4-0 victory over UC Riverside at Blair Field. The freshman right-hander also had 16 strikeouts, one short of the program record, in LBSU’s fifth shutout victory of the…
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Gleyber Torres took the high road. The Yankees second baseman laughed when told that Rangers manager Chris Woodward whined about his first-game walkoff home run. “I feel like both teams play in the same ballpark in the same dimensions,” Torres said. “I think I feel good to hit the walk-off homer in the little league…
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When left-hander Bruce Zimmermann takes the mound, just about everything besides the batter he’s facing falls out of his mind. So he knew to take care of the day’s most important assignment well before he toed the rubber during the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader for the Orioles. “I made sure to get [my mom]…
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