Month: April 2019

9:05 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — The Tampa Bay Rays simply couldn’t touch Toronto reliever Thomas Pannone. Pannone became the 89th different pitcher in major league history to strike out the side on nine pitches, setting down the Rays in the fifth inning Sunday. The 24-year-old lefty fanned a swinging Avisail Garcia, then caught
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1:23 AM ET AUGUSTA, Ga. — Past winners of the Masters gathered upstairs in the champions’ locker room because they understood what they were watching and knew they needed to do something special for Eldrick Tiger Woods. Bernhard Langer, Bubba Watson, Zach Johnson, Adam Scott — they all realized they could not just close up
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8:27 PM ET PORTLAND, Ore. — When TNT’s cameras caught Oklahoma City Thunder coach Billy Donovan apparently saying “can’t play Kanter” about then-Thunder center Enes Kanter during Game 1 of the Thunder’s 2017 first-round series loss to the Houston Rockets, it captured popular sentiment about Kanter’s defensive limitations in the playoffs. In another Game 1
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8:09 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Snow and rain led to the postponement of Sunday’s finale of a three-game series between the Los Angeles Angels and Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. A makeup date was not immediately announced. A steady snow fell throughout the morning and a mix of snow and rain continued throughout
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8:19 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Just because he won’t be surrounded by 3,300-pound cars traveling at more than 200 mph doesn’t mean Jimmie Johnson will be able to relax when he runs the Boston Marathon on Monday. If the seven-time NASCAR champion isn’t thinking about his heart rate or his pace, he’ll be
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7:07 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — One of two brothers who say actor Jussie Smollett paid them to help him stage a racist, anti-gay attack against himself has won an amateur boxing title in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo became a Chicago Golden Gloves champion with a technical knockout Friday
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