Month: April 2022

By DAVE HOGG Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Gerrit Cole lasted a career-low 1 2/3 innings, and Clarke Schmidt combined with four relievers to pitch three-hit shutout ball and lead the New York Yankees over the Detroit Tigers 4-2 in a series opener. Cole matched his career high of five walks and allowed two runs

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cooper Kupp led the NFL in every major receiving category and won the Super Bowl MVP award last year. Anybody would deserve a raise after such a spectacular season, and the defending champion Los Angeles Rams say they want to give it to their star

By STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Charlie McAvoy scored 48 seconds into overtime to lift the Boston Bruins to a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues. Jake DeBrusk and Taylor Hall also scored for Boston, which won its second straight after a season-high three-game losing streak. Robert Thomas and Pavel Buchnevich

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — Corbin Burnes struck out 10 and allowed two runs in seven innings to earn his first win of the season as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2. The Brewers won their third straight despite getting held to a season-low three hits. The Pirates had

MONTREAL (AP) — Cam Talbot had his third shutout of the season to help the Minnesota Wild to a 2-0 win over the Montreal Canadiens. Talbot made 26 saves as Minnesota (48-21-7) swept the season series between the teams. Kevin Fiala scored and assisted on Matt Boldy’s goal in the third period. In his second

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer MIAMI (AP) — Jimmy Butler scored a playoff career-high 45 points, including a personal 7-0 run in the final moments, and the Miami Heat held off the Atlanta Hawks 115-105 in Game 2 of their Eastern Conference first-round series Tuesday night. Tyler Herro scored 15 for Miami, while Max

TORONTO (AP) — William Nylander scored his career-high 32nd goal of the season and Jack Campbell made 36 saves in his 30th win of the year as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 5-2. Timothy Liljegren, Jason Spezza and David Kampf scored, and Ilya Mikheyev added an empty-net goal for Toronto. Nylander and

MIAMI (AP) — Albert Pujols had two hits and scored twice as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Miami Marlins 5-1. Adam Wainwright threw 5 2/3 effective innings, allowing one run on five hits with six strikeouts and two walks. Tommy Edman tripled, singled and drove in two runs, and Paul Goldschmidt also had two

By ERIK ERLENDSSON Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jakub Vrana had two goals, including the tiebreaking score in the third period, to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Red Wings beat Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy for the first time in 14 career games. Lucas Raymond

By The Associated Press Shohei Ohtani is scheduled to pitch Wednesday night for the Los Angeles Angels in Houston, and the two-way superstar is off to a much better start at the plate than on the mound this season. Ohtani is 0-2 with a 7.56 ERA after two outings. He has 14 strikeouts, but he’s

By ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer The United States will play Mexico, Jamaica and Haiti in Group A at the CONCACAF W Championship this summer, which will determine qualifiers for the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Canada, Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago are in Group B of the North and Central American and

By ALLAN KREDA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ryan Strome scored twice, Adam Fox added a goal and Igor Shesterkin made 31 saves as the New York Rangers recorded a third-straight shutout and their 50th win of the season, 3-0 over the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night.  Eric Comrie made 31 saves for the

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina won’t have defensive end Tomari Fox this season after he lost an NCAA appeal of his punishment for consuming a banned substance. Coach Mack Brown announced that Fox is ineligible. The player drank a non-approved over-the-counter pre-workout drink last year in what Brown described as an inadvertent mistake.

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners placed catcher Luis Torrens on the COVID-19 injured list. Torrens is the second Seattle player to land on the virus list in recent days. Outfielder Mitch Hangier was placed on the COVID-19 list on Saturday after he tested positive. Torrens was placed on the list with Seattle coming off

LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA guard Jules Bernard has declared for the NBA draft. The senior won’t hire an agent to preserve his eligibility. He announced his plans on his Instagram account. Bernard has one year of eligibility remaining after the NCAA allowed an extra year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He averaged 12.8 points,

NEW YORK (AP) — Minor league games averaged 2 hours, 39 minutes in the first three days with a pitch clock, down 20 minutes from the prior average this season. Major League Baseball says the 132 games with a clock averaged 5.11 runs and 15.9 hits, close to the average of 5.13 runs and 16.1

By JAKE SEINER AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Max Scherzer pitched no-hit ball into the sixth inning of his anticipated home debut and the New York Mets rode their $130 million ace to a 3-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants for a doubleheader sweep. Francisco Lindor was the hero in the opener,

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon was back to a full field and back in the spring for the first time since 2019, and fans along the course threw a coming-out party for a region recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Six months after its delayed, then canceled, then delayed

By MUTWIRI MUTUOTA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police say that another female runner has been killed in the high-altitude training town of Iten and a search is on for the athlete’s partner. Damaris Muthee Mutua was found dead at the home of her boyfriend. He was identified as Ethiopian runner Koki Fai

By GENE CHAMBERLAIN Associated Press LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Since Matt Eberflus took over as coach of the Chicago Bears, second-year quarterback Justin Fields and his teammates are adjusting to a new way of doing things. Working at a three-day minicamp on Tuesday, Fields is changing his footwork and getting the ball out faster

SEATTLE (AP) — Three-time All-Star reliever Greg Holland has been designated for assignment by the Texas Rangers. The 36-year-old right-hander allowed three home runs in his 4 2/3 innings pitched. The move before Tuesday night’s game in Seattle cleared a roster spot for No. 1 starter Jon Gray to be activated from the injured list

STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — American Coco Gauff has been knocked out in the first round of the Stuttgart Open after a 6-4, 6-2 loss to Daria Kasatkina. The 18-year-old Gauff seemed in control when she was 4-0 up in the opening set but Kasatkina recovered to win the next six games, then only dropped two

By TALES AZZONI AP Sports Writer MADRID (AP) — Real Betis has missed a chance to move closer to the Champions League places after a 1-0 loss at home to Elche in the Spanish league. The defeat came in Betis’ last match before the Copa del Rey final against Valencia on Saturday in Seville. Valencia

By GERALD IMRAY AP Sports Writer CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Mohamed Salah is set to face Liverpool teammate Naby Keita in qualifying for next year’s African Cup of Nations after Egypt was drawn in the same group as Guinea. Malawi and Ethiopia make up Group D but the meetings of Egypt and Guinea

By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — Lautaro Martínez scored twice to send Inter Milan into the Italian Cup final with a 3-0 second-leg win over city rival AC Milan. Both of Martínez’s goals came in the first half in a clinical performance that also gave Inter a 3-0 aggregate victory. Robin Gosens

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks have re-signed quarterback Geno Smith as the team begins its offseason program. Smith’s one-year deal became official on the first day players were back in the building for Seattle’s offseason program. Smith started three games last season for Seattle while Russell Wilson was recovering from finger surgery. It

By ROB HARRIS AP Global Soccer Writer LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah scored twice to help Liverpool overwhelm Manchester United 4-0 and move to the top of the Premier League above Manchester City for 24 hours at least. United slipped to sixth place and to know why there is such a deficit in quality

DENVER (AP) — Pitcher Kyle Freeland and his hometown Colorado Rockies have agreed to a $64.5 million, five-year contract, avoiding a salary arbitration hearing that had been scheduled for late May. Freeland gets $7 million this season, $10.5 million in 2023, $15 million in 2024 and $16 million each in 2025 and 2026. Freeland is