VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Abby Boreen scored 1:26 into overtime and the Vancouver Goldeneyes beat the Seattle Torrent 4-3 on Friday night to get the first win in franchise history. It was the initial game for the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s first two expansion teams in front of an enthusiastic sellout crowd of 14,958 … Read more
First Test, day two, Perth Smith given out caught behind down leg side after lengthy review Starc bowls Root and dismisses Stokes as England crumble after lunch Boland nicks off Duckett,Pope and Brook in quick succession Starc takes wonderful return catch to dismiss Crawley for duck in first over again England take lead of 40 … Read more
The OKC Thunder continued its dominant start to the season with a 144-112 road win over the Utah Jazz on Friday. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led OKC with 31 points and eight assists in 30 minutes. He went 9 for 14 from the field (3 for 3 from deep). Advertisement OKC improved to 16-1 on the season … Read more
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Formula 1’s title contenders mastered the wet and slick Las Vegas Strip in a rainy Friday night qualifying session that saw championship leader Lando Norris take pole. Norris of McLaren took the top starting spot at the Las Vegas Grand Prix at the line after four-time reigning world champion Max Verstappen … Read more
NASSAU, Bahamas — Purdue men’s basketball rattled and romped over a top-15 opponent with Friday’s 86-56 victory over Texas Tech in the finals of the Baha Mar Championship. The No. 1 Boilermakers led by as much as 32 while containing All-American JT Toppin. Purdue won its fifth consecutive multi-team event and 12th straight game in … Read more
DALLAS (AP) — Cooper Flagg scored a career-high 29 points, Naji Marshall hit the go-ahead 3-pointer against his former team with 30.7 seconds left and the Dallas Mavericks beat the New Orleans Pelicans 118-115 on Friday night in NBA Cup play. The 3-pointer by Marshall, who played four seasons with New Orleans before signing with … Read more
Cooper Flagg soared through the air for a furious dunk that gave the Dallas Mavericks their second lead of the game late in the third quarter. The American Airlines Center erupted. When the Pelicans reclaimed the lead early in the fourth, Max Christie responded in similar fashion. His driving dunk put Dallas back in front … Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — Kel’el Ware had 20 points and 14 rebounds, Norman Powell scored 19 points and the Miami Heat rolled past the Chicago Bulls 143-107 on Friday night. Bam Adebayo scored 18 points, while Pelle Larsson and Davion Mitchell each scored 16 for Miami, which topped the 140-point mark for the fourth time this … Read more
TORONTO (AP) — Brandon Ingram and RJ Barrett each scored 24 points, Scottie Barnes had 23 and the Toronto Raptors became the first team to reach the NBA Cup quarterfinals by beating the Washington Wizards 140-110 on Friday night. Toronto secured first place in Group A with the victory and Indiana’s loss at Cleveland. Advertisement … Read more
Christian Johnson says he’s completed seven 50k runs on all seven continents. The Madera native, who trained on his family’s pistachio farm, finished his weeklong journey Friday morning in Miami, Florida. Johnson called the runs “Project 5077” as a way to bring awareness to Parkinson’s disease, something his grandfather has been fighting for the last … Read more