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76ers finish sweep of Nets without Embiid in 96-88 win
NEW YORK — Tobias Harris had 25 points and 12 rebounds, and the Philadelphia 76ers overcame the absence of Joel Embiid to beat the Brooklyn Nets 96-88 on Saturday, completing a sweep that made them the first team to reach the second round of the playoffs. James Harden added 17...
NBA playoff favorites taking opposite approaches: Best Bets for April 22
BY ZACH EWING | Home Field Sports Each day, one of our experts will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. Here are...
Wrexham and Ryan Reynolds looking for Hollywood ending
WREXHAM, Wales — Spoiler alert! Season 2 of “Welcome to Wrexham” is set to get the Hollywood ending the first one failed to deliver. This being Wrexham, however, a last-minute plot twist isn’t out of the question. It’s hard to imagine that even the Welsh soccer team’s A-list owners, Ryan...
NCAA rules panel approves keeping clock running on 1st downsVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved rules changes that are expected to reduce the number of plays in football games, notably one that will keep the clock running when a team makes a first down except in the last two minutes of a half. The panel on...
Former WWE wrestler Ted DiBiase Jr. charged in Mississippi welfare fraud case
JACKSON, Miss. — Companies run by a former professional wrestler received “sham contracts” in Mississippi and misspent millions of dollars of welfare money that was supposed to help some of the neediest people in the U.S., according to a new federal indictment. The indictment of former wrestler Ted “Teddy” DiBiase...
House passes trans athlete ban for girls and women’s teams
WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House passed a bill Thursday that would bar federally supported schools and colleges from allowing transgender athletes whose biological sex assigned at birth was male to compete on girls or women’s sports teams. The legislation approved by a 219-203 vote is unlikely to advance further because...
Will Ja Morant play and does it matter in Lakers-Grizzlies? Best Bets for April 19
BY JIM DERRY | Home Field Sports Each day, one of our experts will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. Here are...
Column: IndyCar decries online abuse directed at drivers
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Callum Ilott and Agustín Canapino are teammates. Ilott is British, Canapino is Argentine and through their first three months working together, everything seemed just fine as tiny Juncos Hollinger Racing showed decent on-track progress. But when a sequence of ill-timed events caused Canapino to crash while...
Boston Marathon sweep for Kenya, but not favorite Kipchoge
BOSTON — Defending champion Evans Chebet won the Boston Marathon again on Monday, surging to the front at Heartbreak Hill to spoil the much-anticipated debut of world record holder Eliud Kipchoge and win in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 54 seconds. Hellen Obiri, a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the 5,000...
Hilary Knight scores 3 in USA hockey gold-medal 6-3 win over CanadaVideo
BRAMPTON, Ontario — Hilary Knight scored three times, including the go-ahead goal with 3 minutes, 10 seconds left in regulation, and the Americans won their 10th women’s world hockey championships gold medal and first in four years with a 6-3 win over cross-border rival Canada on Sunday night. Caroline Harvey...
Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo exits game with lower back bruise
MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo drove to the basket and took a hard fall. And just like that, the championship aspirations of the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks got quite a bit more precarious. Antetokounmpo landed hard on his backside after getting fouled in the first quarter and left the Bucks’ Eastern Conference...
Matt Fitzpatrick wins RBC Heritage on 3rd extra holeVideo
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Matt Fitzpatrick defeated defending champion Jordan Spieth on the third playoff hole at the RBC Heritage on Sunday, stuffing his approach in close on the par-4 18th at Harbour Town to secure his first victory since the U.S. Open last June. Fitzpatrick hit a 9-iron...
Kyle Larson pulls away from Joey Logano to win at Martinsville
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Kyle Larson passed Joey Logano with 29 laps to go and went on to win his second Cup Series race of the season Sunday at Martinsville Speedway on a day when NASCAR welcomed back Chase Elliott. Logano, who was forced to begin the race in the back...
Oklahoma women win 2nd straight NCAA gymnastics title
FORT WORTH, Texas — Trinity Thomas of Florida tied the NCAA record with her 28th career perfect 10 and Oklahoma won its second consecutive team title Saturday at the NCAA women’s gymnastics championships. It’s the top-ranked Sooners’ sixth title in nine years. They finished with 198.3875 points, 0.15 ahead of...
Elliott makes return at Martinsville after breaking legVideo
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Chase Elliott makes his return to racing this weekend at Martinsville Speedway with one thing on his mind: winning. And that approach won’t change the rest of the season. Elliott has missed the last six Cup Series races after breaking his leg during a freak snowboarding accident...
What to know entering the NBA playoffs, which start Saturday
Here’s a rarity: All five teams from one division are going to the NBA playoffs. And they pulled that off in a year where a division champion almost didn’t get there. All five teams from the Pacific Division — Sacramento, Phoenix, the Los Angeles Clippers, Golden State and the Los...
Former NBA star Shawn Kemp charged in parking lot shootingVideo
SEATTLE — Prosecutors in Washington state charged former NBA star Shawn Kemp on Friday with first-degree assault in a parking lot shooting last month over a stolen cellphone, saying that in a text message just before the shooting, Kemp wrote, “I’m about to shoot this (expletive).” Kemp was arrested after...
Masters champ Jon Rahm rebounds as Jimmy Walker leads RBC HeritageVideo
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Jimmy Walker was feeling like his old self after his second straight 6-under-par 65 on Friday — and so was Masters champion Jon Rahm halfway through the RBC Heritage. Walker had his third straight round in the 60s overall to post a two-day total of...
Rory McIlroy to forfeit $3 million by skipping RBC HeritageVideo
Rory McIlroy withdrawing from the RBC Heritage this week means he will forfeit $3 million from his Player Impact Program bonus. The PGA Tour confirmed Friday that McIlroy, who received $9 million of his potential $12 million bonus in January, will not be getting the balance. The PIP, which began...
Hovland leads RBC Heritage; Masters champ Rahm strugglesVideo
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Viktor Hovland’s round of 7-under-par 64 at the rain-delayed RBC Heritage on Thursday gave him a first-round lead for a second straight week and left Masters champion Jon Rahm eight shots behind and with plenty of work ahead to get into contention after his major...
The losing is done, NBA teams now await 7-foot-3 WembanyamaVideo
Gregg Popovich placed his left thumb on the inside of his right wrist, paused for a couple of moments and then confirmed that, yes, he has a pulse. It was also an indication when asked that, yes, he is thinking about Victor Wembanyama. There are very specific rules that teams...
Chase Elliott vows to continue snowboarding after accidentVideo
Chase Elliott won’t stop snowboarding or any of the other off-track activities he enjoys, even after an accident in Colorado sidelined NASCAR’s most popular driver with a broken leg. Elliott will return this weekend at Martinsville Speedway after missing six Cup races with a broken left tibia that he suffered...
Women’s tennis tour ends Peng Shuai-inspired China boycott
The women’s professional tennis tour will bring its events back to China later this year, announcing on Thursday the end of a boycott instituted in late 2021 over concerns about the safety of former player Peng Shuai after she accused a high-ranking government official there of sexual assault. WTA Chairman...
What’s our prediction for Pelicans-Thunder play-in game? Best Bets for April 12
BY JIM DERRY | Home Field Sports Each day, one of our experts will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. Here are...
Column: PGA and LIV produced a Masters just like any otherVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Masters had eight major champions finish among the top 10 and ties, and where they made a living became a mere footnote when Jon Rahm slipped into the green jacket. For the most part, it was a Masters just like any other. That includes the final...
