6:27 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Running the biggest race of a brief career, Flightline left no doubt about this year’s top thoroughbred. The unbeaten colt posted another dominant run, overtaking Life Is Good entering the top of the stretch and pulling away to an 8¼-length victory in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup
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9:33 PM ET Associated Press AVONDALE, Ariz. — Ty Gibbs took the lead with 21 laps left and held off rival Noah Gragson for his first NASCAR Xfinity Series championship at Phoenix Raceway on Saturday night. The only non-JR Motorsports driver in the winner-take-all finale, Gibbs started on the pole at the 1-mile oval and
9:00 PM ET Alex Ovechkin has reached the point where he’s setting records he didn’t even realize he was chasing. He reached his latest milestone when he scored career goal No. 787, setting an NHL record for most goals scored by one player with a single franchise. Gordie Howe held that mark since 1971, scoring
7:37 PM ET ATHENS, Ga. — Defending national champion Georgia might not have been No. 1 in the first College Football Playoff rankings earlier this week, but the Bulldogs left little doubt Saturday who belongs in that top spot. Their 27-13 beatdown of No. 1 Tennessee before a deafening crowd at Sanford Stadium was about
7:07 PM ET Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert has entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols and will miss the team’s Saturday night game against the Houston Rockets. In his first season with the Wolves, Gobert is averaging 12.6 points and a league-best 13.9 rebounds. A three-time All-Star and three-time Defensive Player of the Year,
8:32 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Caroline Garcia claimed the last spot in the semifinals of the season-ending WTA Finals with a 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(5) round-robin victory over Daria Kasatkina on Saturday. The sixth-ranked Frenchwoman became the first in 30 matches this season to beat Kasatkina after losing the first set to
8:03 PM ET Associated Press PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico — Russell Henley rolled in a 25-foot birdie putt on his first hole and never really let up Saturday until he had a 6-under 65 and doubled the size of his lead to six shots in the World Wide Technology at Mayakoba. This is the sixth
8:49 PM BST Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Untested since their second pool match against France, England had had it much their own way throughout the tournament and expected to have it much the same in their semifinal, but their opponents Canada refused to make it easy, forcing them to work until the final minute in
7:18 PM ET LOS ANGELES — LAFC won its first-ever MLS Cup title, beating the Philadelphia Union 3-0 on penalty kicks after a thrilling, roller-coaster final at Banc of California Stadium on Saturday finished 3-3 after extra time. Substitute goalkeeper John McCarthy, in just his second appearance for the club, was LAFC’s hero, coming off
7:36 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Dmitry Bivol retained his WBA light heavyweight title in lopsided fashion with a unanimous decision over Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The win — via scores of 118-110, 117-111 and 117-111 — comes after Bivol broke through in May with an upset victory over
6:52 PM ET Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Bernhard Langer beat his age by two shots Saturday with a 9-under 63, giving him a one-shot lead over Paul Goydos in the TimberTech Championship and a chance to move closer to the PGA Tour Champions record for career wins. Langer opened with three straight birdies,
Nov 5, 2022 Associated Press Dow Finsterwald earned a place in golf history as the first player to win the PGA Championship in stroke play and the last U.S. captain of a Ryder Cup before continental Europe was invited to join. More than a major champion and Ryder Cup player, he devoted his life to
2:07 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens defensive end Calais Campbell was sidelined for last week’s 27-22 win at Tampa Bay after being listed with an illness on the injury report. But it was more than a cold that knocked out the six-time Pro Bowl player, who missed his first game of the
3:10 PM ET Associated Press PARIS — Novak Djokovic beat Stefanos Tsitsipas for the eighth straight time, edging an entertaining semifinal 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (4) to stay on track for a record-extending seventh Paris Masters title Saturday. The 21-time Grand Slam champion next faces unseeded Danish teenager Holger Rune, who has never been in a
7:15 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — The baseball gods wasted no time in giving Philadelphia Phillies boss Rob Thomson his first big managerial moment in the Fall Classic. Five months after taking over from the fired Joe Girardi, Thomson had already navigated the Phillies’ underwhelming end to the regular season and three challenging rounds of the
South Africa vs Netherlands, T20 WC Live: SA look to seal semis spot© AFP South Africa vs Netherlands, T20 World Cup, Super 12 Live Updates: Temba Bavuma-led South Africa will look to seal their semi-final spot when they take the field against the Netherlands on Sunday. The Proteas currently have five points in the Super
12:49 PM ET Associated Press Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz will miss the rest of the season after suffering an abdominal muscle tear while playing at the Paris Masters. The Spanish teenager pulled out during a second-set tiebreaker against fellow 19-year-old Holger Rune in their quarterfinal on Friday. Following medical exams, the US Open champion posted details
9:49 AM ET Associated Press Shannon Boxx, a three-time Olympic gold medalist with the United States and member of their 2015 World Cup team, has been appointed vice chair of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s participant safety task force. Maryland State Youth Soccer Association executive director Greg Smith was also picked as a vice chair. –