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This date in sports history: Oct. 9Video
1943 — Bob Hoernschemeyer throws six touchdown passes, an NCAA record for a freshman, as Indiana beats Nebraska, 54-13. 1965 — The United States wins the Ryder Cup, 19½-12½, at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Arnold Palmer clinches the title, beating Peter Butler 2-up. It’s the 13th...
This day in sports history: Oct. 8Video
1933 — Cliff Battles of the Boston Redskins becomes the first NFL player to gain more than 200 yards rushing with 215 yards in a 21-20 win over the New York Giants. 1949 — Walt Pastuszak has five of Brown’s 11 interceptions in a 46-0 rout of Rhode Island. 1950...
LeBron James, Lakers win away from closing out Heat in NBA FinalsVideo
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The trophy ceremony plans are getting finalized. Boxes are being shipped out of the NBA bubble in advance of the looming shutdown. Hotel rooms, sometime in the next few days, will be filled again by regular people looking for their long-awaited Disney fix. For LeBron...
Sofia Kenin, 21, will face unseeded Iga Swiatek, 19, in French Open finalVideo
PARIS — Sofia Kenin entered 2020 with an 11-11 record in Grand Slam action. She never had made the quarterfinals at any clay-court tournament until this trip to Roland Garros — and lost her only tuneup match on the surface 6-0, 6-0 last month. Iga Swiatek is just 19. She...
Riverhounds prepare for slugfest with Louisville City in first-round playoff matchup
When the Pittsburgh Riverhounds travel to Louisville for their first-round USL Championship playoff match with Louisville City FC at Lynn Family Stadium, some might remember a similar contest at this time last year. The Riverhounds had just won the Eastern Conference and were building a buzz in Western Pennsylvania. LouCity...
New NASCAR team lands Daniel Suarez as driverVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former driver Justin Marks started a new NASCAR team that will field a car in 2021 for Daniel Suarez. The team announced Wednesday is called Trackhouse Racing and will field the No. 99 Chevrolet for Suarez, who will drive for his fourth team in four years. The...
Riverhounds goalkeeper Danny Vitiello wins USL Championship Golden Gloves award
At the beginning of the season, Riverhounds goalie Danny Vitiello was sitting on Pittsburgh’s bench. But Wednesday afternoon, Vitiello was named the USL Championship Golden Gloves award winner, which honors the league goalkeeper with the lowest goals-against average during the regular season. It is Vitiello’s first USL Championship season. Hands...
ACC QBs throwing interceptions at alarming rateVideo
The touchdown passes to interceptions ratio is raising eyebrows around the ACC, and some coaches point to the coronavirus as the culprit. Unlike last season, when not one ACC team threw as many interceptions as touchdowns, three — No. 5 Notre Dame, No. 8 North Carolina and Syracuse — are...
Lakers top Heat, take 3-1 lead in NBA Finals
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Anthony Davis punched his chest in celebration. LeBron James let out a huge scream. The Los Angeles Lakers are on the cusp of what they want most — the franchise’s first championship in 10 years. Davis’ 3-pointer with 39.5 seconds left was the backbreaker, James...
Breanna Stewart leads Seattle to 2nd WNBA title in 3 years
BRADENTON, Fla. — Breanna Stewart scored 26 points, and the Seattle Storm won their second WNBA championship in three seasons, sweeping the Las Vegas Aces with a 92-59 rout Tuesday night. It’s the fourth title in franchise history for the Storm, who also won in 2004, ’10 and ’18. Seattle...
On the Fringe: Surprise major champs no longer a surprise on LPGAVideo
Sophia Popov winning the Women’s British Open was a surprise in many ways. Except for one. First-time major champions — even those not among the top 50 in the world — are nothing new on the LPGA Tour. A month after Popov won at Royal Troon as the No. 304...
Schwartzman tops Thiem in 5 sets lasting 5 hours, 8 minutes at French OpenVideo
PARIS — Diego Schwartzman played through the wind and rain and into the dark of night against Dominic Thiem at the French Open, contesting a total of 376 points spread out across five sets and 5 hours, 8 minutes, knowing all the while he never had won a match of...
Alex Bowman promoted to the No. 48 to replace Jimmie JohnsonVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The most coveted seat in NASCAR belongs to Alex Bowman in a Hendrick Motorsports lineup shuffle to replace seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson in the iconic No. 48 Chevrolet. Bowman and crew chief Greg Ives, who won five championships with Johnson as his engineer, will move from the...
The date in sports history: Oct. 5Video
1900 — Britain’s Harry Vardon wins the U.S. Open golf title, beating J.H. Taylor with a 313 total at the Chicago Golf Club. 1985 — Eddie Robinson becomes college football’s winningest coach as Grambling beats Prairie View A&M, 27-7. It’s Robinson’s 324th career victory, one more than Paul “Bear” Bryant...
Jimmy Butler’s triple-double helps Heat cut into Lakers’ NBA Finals series leadVideo
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Jimmy Butler is not ready to go home. A triple-double later, he joined NBA Finals lore — and the short-handed Miami Heat might have made this title matchup a series after all. Butler finished with 40 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists, and the Heat...
Riverhounds set to begin 2020 USL Championship playoffs on the road
At this point in the season, all the Pittsburgh Riverhounds can do is focus on what they can control. Their postseason position wasn’t theirs to decide, but Saturday night they wanted to put themselves in the best position they could. In their last game of the regular season, they came...
Heat rule Goran Dragic, Bam Adebayo out of Game 3 of NBA FinalsVideo
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Bam Adebayo headed out to the court a couple hours before Game 3 of the NBA Finals, getting some shots up in his typical pregame routine. That would be the only basketball he played Sunday night. The Heat remained depleted for Game 3 of the...
Sergio Garcia birdies final hole to win in MississippiVideo
JACKSON, Miss. — Sergio Garcia delivered two key shots on the back nine, the last one an 8-iron to 30 inches on the final hole for birdie and a one-shot victory in the Sanderson Farms Championship. Garcia closed with a 5-under-par 67 to win for the 10th consecutive year worldwide...
Hamlin wins longest NASCAR race in Talladega history
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Denny Hamlin finally got a playoff win in a messy wreck-fest that took three overtimes Sunday, the longest race in Talladega Superspeedway history. Hamlin made the winning pass on the 200th lap — 12 more or nearly 32 miles longer than scheduled — with a three-wide sweep...
Sergino Dest becomes 1st American to play for Barcelona in league matchVideo
BARCELONA, Spain — Sergino Dest made his debut for Barcelona on Sunday, becoming the first American to play in a Spanish league match for the club. The defender went on in the 75th minute of Sunday’s game against Sevilla at Camp Nou with the score tied 1-1. He replaced left...
Years after anorexia, hiatus, Italian qualifier Trevisan reaches French Open quartersVideo
PARIS — Martina Trevisan has been doing video chats from her hotel room with her mental coach every day along the way to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, a run the 159th-ranked qualifier acknowledged is “a little” shocking, just not as much to her as to everyone else. So after...
This Date in Sports History: Oct. 4
1895 — Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open. Rawlins beats Willie Dunn with 36-hole total of 173 at the Newport Golf Club in Newport, R.I. 1927 — John Longden rides the first official winner of his career, named Hugo K. Asher, in Salt Lake City. 1940 — Fritzie Zivic...
Winning filly: Swiss Skydiver beats Authentic in Preakness
BALTIMORE — Filly Swiss Skydiver added another memorable moment to cap off a topsy-turvy Triple Crown season. Jockey Robby Albarado made a power move to pass favored Authentic around the far turn, and Swiss Skydiver went head to head and beat him by a neck after a stretch duel in...
NASCAR focused on playoffs upon return to TalladegaVideo
TALLADEGA, Ala — NASCAR’s last visit to Talladega Superspeedway, when a noose was found in driver Bubba Wallace’s garage stall, marked a pivotal moment in its evolving approach to social justice issues. The series found itself at the forefront of the national civil rights push when Wallace began using his...
Black singer of regional Mexican music sparks buzz, emotion
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Before clicking the Instagram video, the sight intrigued most. Sarah Palafox, a Black woman, held an iPhone while standing in front of mariachis. When users turned on the volume, they heard a woman belting out a heartbreak interpretation of Jenni Rivera’s “Que Me Vas A Dar”...
