PHOENIX — Luka Doncic scored 35 points, Spencer Dinwiddie added 30 and the Dallas Mavericks stunned the top-seeded Phoenix Suns with a 123-90 Game 7 blowout Sunday night, advancing to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2011. Dallas broke through on the road after the home team won the first six games … Read more
The resiliency, the no-quit fire and the insatiable desire to be a winning club has been at the heart of the Rangers all season long. And that is why this Rangers team was able to rally from a 3-1 series deficit, stave off elimination twice and then force overtime in Game 7 Sunday night before … Read more
CHICAGO — Joey Gallo said it was “weird” to look at the scoreboard after Sunday’s 5-1 win over the White Sox and see only two hits. “It felt like we had way more hits than that,’’ Gallo said. They won a game with just two hits for the first time since 2018, when they beat … Read more
Arike Ogunbowale scored 18 of her 21 points in the second half and the Dallas Wings beat the New York Liberty 81-71 on Sunday at Barclays Center. Dallas (2-1) had a two-point lead at halftime before Ogunbowale got going. She had 12 points in the third quarter, including a 3-pointer that made it 62-52 with … Read more
Carlos Carrasco didn’t have a key weapon Sunday. “I couldn’t control my slider,” Carrasco said after the Mets’ 8-7 loss to the Mariners at Citi Field. The right-hander had been sharp in his previous two starts, combining to allow two earned runs over 14 ²/₃ innings in wins over the Braves and Nationals. But on … Read more
CHICAGO — With the Yankees up by two runs in the top of the ninth on Sunday, Clay Holmes was warming up. The right-hander would have been used in a save situation if Joey Gallo hadn’t hit a two-run shot in the ninth to give the Yankees some breathing room, as the team looks to … Read more
There were 38,476 people inside Citi Field on a picture-perfect afternoon and they knew — they just knew — how this was going to end. The Mets had entered the bottom of the ninth down 8-5 to the Mariners. It was now 8-7. There was one out. The tying and winning runs were in scoring … Read more
TULSA, Okla. — Shortly before 2:30 p.m. local time on Sunday, Tiger Woods made his presence at the PGA Championship official when he showed up on the driving range and readied himself for a nine-hole practice round at Southern Hills. When we last saw Woods on the golf course, he was showing the effects of … Read more
Jeff Kelly still isn’t certain how Cor’Dale Flott was getting into Saraland High School’s football stadium. During the summer of 2018, Kelly arrived every day at about 6:30 a.m. to outline the schedule for his team’s 9 a.m. practices. Kelly unlocked the gate as the sun rose in Alabama, walked to his coach’s office overlooking … Read more
The mere mention of pingpong balls elicits images of Alexis Lafreniere and Kaapo Kakko these days, the Rangers famously coming out of the 2020 and 2019 draft lotteries with the respective first and second overall choices. These are happy images for fans of the Blueshirts, made all the more so by the performances of Lafreniere … Read more