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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IRVINE — The UC Irvine baseball team came into the final game of its important Big West Conference series against UC Santa Barbara on Sunday afternoon riding the momentum of a stirring one-run win on Saturday night. Whatever momentum remained dissipated quickly. The Gauchos squashed the Anteaters’ hopes of a series win with a seven-run…
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CHICAGO – Type in promo code NLCENTRAL and collect your free gift. The Dodgers spent about 33 hours at Wrigley Field this weekend and collected three wins, completing a sweep of the Chicago Cubs with a 7-1 victory Sunday night. Add this weekend’s work to their four-game, 26-7 dismissal of the Cincinnati Reds, the lowest…
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This stretch was going to be a test. With two rainouts this weekend, the Yankees’ pitchers were going to be challenged as they tried to cover 23 games over 22 days. Nobody thought it was going to be the offense they had to worry about. The Yankees managed just four runs over 18 innings as…
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Think of it like motocross, but on the water – and instead of a dirt track, the course is the wild, wet ocean. The Huntington Beach Moto-Surf & Freeride event roared into Huntington Beach over the weekend for two days of competition that wrapped up Sunday, May 8, in wild waves, with spectators marveling at…
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