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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It was a rough start for the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round of the NHL playoffs. Coach Rick Tocchet knows his team has to adjust quickly against the Carolina Hurricanes as the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Aaron Hardie’s brilliant all-round performance led Peshawar Zalmi to its first Pakistan Super League cricket title since 2017 with a five-wicket win over newcomer Hyderabad Kingsmen in the final on Sunday.
BERLIN (AP) — Wolfsburg made ground in its bid for Bundesliga survival on Sunday with a 1-1 draw at Freiburg.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Andrew Morris pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings in relief of starter Joe Ryan, who exited with elbow soreness, and the Minnesota Twins held on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 on Sunday to split a four-game series.
MADRID (AP) — Top-ranked Jannik Sinner cruised past Alexander Zverev in the final of the Madrid Open to win the tournament for the first time and become the first man to win five consecutive Masters 1000 events.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Joel Embiid wants Philadelphia fans at the Philadelphia games.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nasim Nuñez had a pair of run-scoring singles, CJ Abrams had two hits and scored twice, and the Washington Nationals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 on Sunday to avoid a three-game sweep.
AMAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles placed left-hander Yusei Kikuchi on the 15-day injured list Sunday with shoulder inflammation and purchased the contract of lefty Tayler Saucedo from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Minneapolis (AP) — Minnesota Twins right-hander Joe Ryan left Sunday's start against the Toronto Blue Jays with right elbow soreness after facing just two batters.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Oneil Cruz hit a tie-breaking single in the bottom of the eighth inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates completed a sweep of Cincinnati with a 1-0 win on Sunday.
The New York Mets placed infielder Ronny Mauricio on the 10-day injured list Sunday with a left thumb fracture and selected the contract of infielder Vidal Brujan from Triple-A Syracuse. To make room for Brujan on the 40-man roster, infielder Eric Wagaman was designated for assignment. Mauricio was injured in Saturday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels when he dived into first base in the seventh inning while beating out an infield single. Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said Mauricio could be out as long as two months, with the club set to get more details on the injury.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Call it the man disadvantage in Buffalo.
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Nelly Korda delivered an early knockout punch Sunday and stretched her lead to as many as seven shots before cruising to the finish line with a 3-under 69 and a four-shot victory in the Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba for her third win of the young season.
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Indian Premier League leader Punjab Kings lost its second straight game in a four-wicket defeat to Gujarat Titans on Sunday.
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — NBA top rookie Cooper Flagg got a fast ride on the track Sunday before the NASCAR race in Texas with another 19-year-old, Cup Series rookie Connor Zilisch.
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Red Sox starter Ranger Suárez left Sunday’s game against the Houston Astros after the fourth inning with right hamstring tightness.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Soon after Cherie DeVaux's wait-and-see answer Sunday morning about her Kentucky Derby winner's next stop on the Triple Crown trail, an official from the Preakness called to congratulate the history-making trainer and invite Golden Tempo to the series' middle jewel in …
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees first baseman Ben Rice left Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles with a bruised left hand after fielding a pickoff throw by Max Fried.
MARICA, Brazil (AP) — When Sávio Conrado Mura left his Indigenous village of stilt houses located deep in the Amazon rainforest in early April, he departed with the hopes of representing his people as a professional soccer player and, maybe, one day playing for the Brazilian national team at…
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh is out of the lineup for the second straight day with a sore side, manager Dan Wilson announced Sunday.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona is looking to city rival Espanyol for a favor to celebrate another Spanish league title.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Kimi Antonelli wins the Miami Grand Prix for his third straight F1 victory.
Kimi Antonelli has won the Miami Grand Prix for his third consecutive Formula 1 victory as the 19-year-old Mercedes drivers continued to show he’s a legitimate championship contender. Antonelli started from the pole Sunday but had a slick start on a damp surface of the Miami International Autodrome. Threats of heavy rain led F1 to move up the start of the race by three hours, and there was an early morning heavy thunderstorm with lightning strikes directly over the Hard Rock Stadium, but it had cleared by the time the event began.
DENVER (AP) — The Minnesota Wild will be without forward Joel Eriksson Ek and defenseman Jonas Brodin for the first two games of their second-round series against the Colorado Avalanche because of lower-body injuries.
AC Milan and Juventus risk losing Champions League spots with Inter poised to seal the Serie A title
MILAN (AP) — AC Milan and Juventus risk losing their Champions League places as city rival Inter Milan closes in on the Serie A title
Sally Perez and Maggie Boyd won the clincher as UCLA swept top-seeded Stanford 3-0 to win the Bruins’ third NCAA beach volleyball championship. Perez and Boyd wrapped up the Bruins’ first championship since winning back-to-back titles in 2018-19, beating the Cardinal’s Kelly Belardi and Avery Jackson 21-11, 21-19. Kaley Mathews and Ensley Alden got third-seeded UCLA (33-6) off and running with a 21-16, 21-11 victory over Brooke Rockwell and Ruby Sorra. Ava Williamson and Jesse Dueck gave the Bruins a 2-0 lead in the closest match of the day, beating Indigo Clarke and Clara Stowell 21-17, 25-23.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United great Alex Ferguson was taken to the hospital after feeling unwell ahead of his former team's Premier League game against Liverpool on Sunday.
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Finally finished with Boston, a trip to New York came quickly for the Philadelphia 76ers. So did the memories.
DENVER (AP) — The Atlanta Braves placed star right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. on the 10-day injured list because of a strained left hamstring on Sunday.
PARIS (AP) — Lille dropped points in the race for a Champions League place when it drew 1-1 at home to lowly Le Havre on Sunday.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Cubs closer Daniel Palencia was activated from the 15-day injured list on Sunday after being sidelined by a left oblique strain.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Aitana Bonmatí returned from a five-month injury layoff as Barcelona reached the Women’s Champions League final for the sixth straight year with a 4-2 win over Bayern Munich on Sunday.
The NBA's conference semifinal round starts Monday. In the West, it's Minnesota vs. San Antonio and the Los Angeles Lakers vs. defending champion Oklahoma City. In the East, it's Philadelphia vs. New York and the second semifinal matchup is still pending depending on Sunday's results.
Rudy Gobert knew long before the rest of the world.
THUN, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss soccer finally got its surprise champion Sunday in unheralded Thun, sealing a title to compare with Leicester’s long-shot Premier League win in 2016.
LEYSIN, Switzerland (AP) — Cycling superstar Tadej Pogačar showed Sunday he will be just as hard to beat in stage races as one-day classics this season.
SEATTLE (AP) — Sonia Raman's coaching career has its roots in an unfortunate accident that sidelined her as a young player.
After debuting in Game 4 following appendectomy surgery last month, Joel Embiid played some of the best playoff basketball of his career over the final four games of the series to lead the 76ers to a 109-100 Game 7 victory over a Celtics team that had looked like a potential NBA title contender. The No. 7 seed’s reward is an Eastern Conference semifinals matchup with the No. 3 seed New York Knicks. The 76ers will need everything Embiid gave and more to compete with a Knicks team that plays much more physical game than Boston.
Down 3-1 to the Boston Celtics in their Eastern Conference first-round series, the Philadelphia 76ers looked doomed.
ELVERSBERG, Germany (AP) — Schalke became Germany’s second division champion, a day after it clinched promotion back to the Bundesliga, thanks to other results in the league on Sunday.
PRAGUE (AP) — Berehanu Wendemu Tsegu of Ethiopia won the 31st edition of the Prague International Marathon on Sunday while Millicent Jelimo won the women’s race.
David Benavidez became the first boxer to win championships at 168, 175 and 200 pounds, pounding his former sparring partner Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez, knocking him out at 2:59 of the sixth round to win the WBA and WBO cruiserweight titles on Saturday night. Benavidez not only remained undefeated, but showed why he was a -600 favorite in twice sending Ramirez to the canvass. In the co-main event, WBA super middleweight championship fight, Jaime Munguía upset title holder Armando Reséndiz by winning a resounding unanimous decision.
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh was a late scratch from the lineup Saturday night before a 3-2, 10-inning loss to Kansas City with what manager Dan Wilson termed “general soreness.”
SEATTLE (AP) — Michael Massey scored on Maikel Garcia's sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, and the Kansas City Royals overcame a dominant 14-strikeout performance from Seattle starter Emerson Hancock to beat the Mariners 3-2 on Saturday night.
Oswald Peraza hit a two-out RBI single in the 10th inning and the Los Angeles Angels snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the New York Mets. Jorge Soler drew a leadoff walk from Austin Warren to open the 10th and Jo Adell singled to load the bases with no outs. Warren got Josh Lowe and Vaughn Grissom on flyouts and was one strike away from escaping the jam when Peraza, who singled in the fourth and doubled in the sixth, dunked an 0-2 curve into left-center field for the winning hit. Sam Bachman struck out three in 1 2/3 innings and Ryan Zeferjahn threw a scoreless ninth and 10th for the win.
Mathias Laborda scored in the 82nd minute for the Vancouver Whitecaps in a 1-1 tie with the LA Galaxy. The Whitecaps (8-1-1), who were only the second MLS team in the post-shootout era (since 2000) to win eight of their first nine games to begin a season, had their club regular-season record four-game win streak snapped. Sebastian Berhalter played a free kick from the left side to the back post and Laborda headed home the finish from point-blank range to cap the scoring. The Whitecaps had 58% possession and outshot LA 19-7, 5-2 on target. Joseph Paintsil opened the scoring in the 46th minute.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Philadelphia forward Owen Tippett sat out the Flyers’ 3-0 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night in Game 1 of the second-round playoff series.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Logan Stankoven scored twice to continue his postseason tear and the Carolina Hurricanes smothered the Philadelphia Flyers in a 3-0 victory Saturday night to open the second-round series.
DENVER (AP) — Drake Baldwin homered and drove in four runs, Chris Sale allowed one run in seven innings and the Atlanta Braves rolled past the Colorado Rockies 9-1 on Saturday night.
Sofia Cantore scored two goals, Trinity Rodman added a goal and two assists, and the Washington Spirit won their fourth straight with a 4-2 victory over the Orlando Pride on Saturday. In other National Women’s Soccer League matches, the Utah Royals beat Angel City FC 1-0 on the road and the Kansas City Current took down the hosts North Carolina Courage 2-1. The game in Orlando was delayed by 90 minutes because of weather. The Pride's Barbra Banda also scored a pair of goals.

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