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Utah Hockey Club’s Logan Cooley (92) celebrates after his goal against the Vancouver Canucks with teammates during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
Utah Hockey Club’s Logan Cooley (92) celebrates after his goal against the Vancouver Canucks with teammates during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, March 16, 2025.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Reaching the NHL playoffs is a long shot for the Utah Hockey Club in its inaugural season in Salt Lake City.
Beyond Year 1, though, things are trending upward for the franchise.
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Joel Eriksson Ek scored a career-high four goals in his return from a lower-body injury, Kirill Kaprizov had his second of the game in overtime in his first game back and the Minnesota Wild outlasted the San Jose Sharks 8-7 on Wednesday night. Minnesota began the night two points behind St. Louis for the second wild card in the Western Conference, with the Blues playing a late game at Edmonton. Eriksson Ek missed the previous 21 games. Kaprizov also returned from a lower-body injury after missing the last 28 games and 40 of the 43. He had surgery in late January. Kaprizov — who also had an assist — scored his 25th goal of the season at 1:01 of overtime.
Eetu Luostarinen scored about a minute into the third period, and the Florida Panthers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 on Tuesday night and helping the reigning Stanley Cup champions snap a five-game losing streak. Gustav Forsling also scored for Florida, which got 17 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky. Carter Verhaeghe sealed it with an empty-net goal with 46.9 seconds left. John Tavares scored his 37th goal of the season for Toronto, which saw its four-game winning streak snapped.
After going an entire month without a regulation win, losing 11 of 12 games to fall out of playoff contention, and seeing John Tortorella fired on March 27, the Philadelphia Flyers could have easily mailed it in for the final nine games of the season.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek weren’t supposed to carry the Wild in their return to action after being sidelined for six weeks injured, even longer in Kaprizov’s case.
DALLAS — The right side of Jennifer Jolly-Peoples’ homemade T-shirt was crafted with a Dallas Mavericks City Edition shirt bearing Luka Doncic’s name and number. The left side used a cut-up Los Angeles Lakers T-shirt with the letters and digits to match.
The Chicago White Sox were hoping 2025 would be better after they lost 121 games last year, a major league record since 1900. Instead, their pain is continuing in new ways. Chicago’s 3-2 loss to Cleveland on Wednesday night was its seventh straight. The South Siders are 2-9, the same record they had after 11 games last season. The White Sox were on the verge of tying the score in the ninth inning when Mike Tauchman appeared to get injured while rounding third base after an RBI single by Miguel Vargas. Chicago held the Guardians to three hits for the second straight day, but still lost. It’s the first time in the 125-year history of the franchise the team has dropped consecutive games with three or fewer hits allowed.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Franz Wagner scored 23 points, Cole Anthony came off the bench with 18 points and the Orlando Magic beat the Boston Celtics 96-76 on Wednesday night to clinch seventh place in the Eastern Conference and the top spot in the play-in tournament.
Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are headed to the CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinals and it took a dramatic three-goal comeback to get there. Messi scored twice, including a penalty kick in the 84th minute, to lift Inter Miami past LAFC 3-1 on Wednesday night. It was good enough for a 3-2 aggregate win in the two-leg series. The Herons needed three unanswered goals to win the series and ensure they wouldn’t lose a tiebreaker.
Josh Giddey dominated with 28 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists and the Chicago Bulls beat the Miami Heat 119-111 in a game with heavy seeding implications. Giddey extended a career high with his seventh triple-double as the ninth-place Bulls moved a game ahead of Miami in the Eastern Conference. They also pulled within a half-game of Atlanta for the eighth seed. The ninth-place team gets a home game against the 10th seed in the play-in tournament. The winner then visits the loser of the game between the seventh and eighth seeds. Kevin Huerter scored 22. Nikola Vucevic added 20 points and 11 rebounds. Coby White scored 18 and Matas Buzelis finished with 17 points. Miami’s Tyler Herro scored 30.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Knies scored a game-winning goal in overtime to record his second hat trick of the season, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Wednesday night.
CHICAGO – For their efforts Wednesday night at the United Center, the Miami Heat earned a likely return trip next Wednesday to the United Center.
DALLAS — Luka Doncic’s dramatic return to American Airlines Center for the first time as a member of the opposing team went how anyone in Dallas who’s followed the Mavericks’ former cornerstone would imagine.
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Joe Ryan continued his mastery over Kansas City, giving up just two hits over seven scoreless innings in the Minnesota Twins’ 4-0 victory over the Royals. Ryan (1-1), who struck out four and did not give up a walk, is now 7-0 in nine career starts against the Royals with a 1.30 ERA in 55 1/3 innings. Seth Lugo (1-1) threw 109 pitches for the Royals, allowing two runs on five hits in 5 2/3 innings. The Twins got a run in the fourth on Edouard Julien’s RBI single to right. France’s two-out single in the sixth drove in Correa for a 2-0 lead. The Twins got home runs in the eighth and ninth.
Matthew Knies scored a game-winning goal in overtime to record his second hat trick of the season, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3. Toronto opened up a three-point lead on Tampa Bay for first place in the Atlantic Division with four games left for each team. Knies finished off his hat trick with 1:04 left in the overtime. Mitch Marner had a goal and three points and Auston Matthews had three assists. Anthony Stolarz finished with 25 saves. Oliver Bjorkstrand, Victor Hedman and Nick Perbix scored for the Lightning, which moved three points ahead of Florida for second place in the division. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 27 saves. Toronto scored twice in the opening 3:33, with Marner scoring his 25th of the season at 1:13.
Jonathan Mogbo had 17 points, a career-high 11 assists and 10 rebounds for the first triple-double by a rookie in the NBA this season, helping the Toronto Raptors beat the short-handed Charlotte Hornets 126-96 on Wednesday night. Jared Rhoden scored 23 points in the Raptors’ ninth straight home victory over the Hornets. Scottie Barnes added 17 points and 11 rebounds as the Raptors finished 18-23 at home. AJ Lawson scored 14 points and the Raptors matched their biggest margin of victory this season. Toronto also had a 30-point win at Brooklyn on March 26. Nick Smith Jr. had 28 points and 10 rebounds and Jusuf Nurkic added 26 points for Charlotte. The Hornets have lost five straight and seven in a row in the road.
José Caballero slugged his first career grand slam and the Tampa Bay Rays held on for a 5-4 win over the Los Angeles Angels to snap a five-game losing streak. Caballero gave the Rays a 4-0 lead in the first inning before the Angels hit solo homers in the second, fourth and fifth to cut the margin to one. Yandy Díaz added a solo homer in the seventh for a two-run cushion before Los Angeles’ Kyren Paris hit his second solo shot of the game in the eighth. Ryan Pepiot went five innings for the win. Pete Fairbanks earned his second save.
TAMPA, Fla. — The Rays accomplished their first goal Wednesday, grabbing an early lead for the first time in more than a week on Jose Caballero’s first-inning grand slam.
Bo Bichette’s sacrifice fly in the 11th inning scored Ernie Clement and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. celebrated his contract extension with three hits as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 2-1. Guerrero and the Blue Jays finalized a $500 million, 14-year contract that starts in 2026, a deal with a record $325 million signing bonus. Later, the slugger went 3 for 5 and scored the team’s first run. Toronto’s Kevin Gausman worked eight innings, allowing one unearned run on four hits with 10 strikeouts and no walks.
Jeff Dowtin Jr. scored a career-high 30 points and the Philadelphia 76ers snapped a 12-game losing streak with a 122-103 victory over the Washington Wizards. Lonnie Walker IV had 24 points for the 76ers. Dowtin, a Washington, D.C.-area native on a two-way contract for Philadelphia, played for the 76ers for the first time this month. He went 11 of 15 from the field and made four 3-pointers, surpassing his previous career high of 24 points from March 14 against Indiana. Tristan Vukcevic led Washington with a career-high 24 points.
BOSTON — No matter how many chances they got, the Red Sox just couldn’t get the big hit they needed.
Franz Wagner scored 23 points, Cole Anthony came off the bench with 18 points and the Orlando Magic beat the Boston Celtics 96-76 to clinch seventh place in the Eastern Conference and the top spot in the play-in tournament. Baylor Scheierman and Payton Pritchard scored 15 points each to lead the Celtics, who did not use their top six players and made 7 of 40 3-point shots. Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Kristaps Porzingis, Derrick White, Jrue Holiday and Al Horford did not play for the Celtics. Paolo Banchero had 15 points and six assists for the Magic.
Denver Nuggets interim coach David Adelman emphasized the need to stick together and stay focused on the postseason during his first meeting with the players since Mike Malone was fired a day earlier. Adelman spoke to the team Wednesday before their game in Sacramento against the Kings and reminded the Nuggets that they’re still in the mix of a crowded playoff race in the Western Conference. Two seasons after guiding the Nuggets to their only NBA championship, Malone was fired Tuesday as the Nuggets try to pull themselves out of a tailspin that dropped Denver from No. 2 in the West to a five-way tie for fourth heading into Wednesday’s game against the Kings.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — No player has won the Par 3 Contest and Masters Tournament in the same year.
Chicago Bulls guard Lonzo Ball got to meet the family of the man who donated the knee cartilage he received in a transplant two years ago. Ball signed jerseys and took pictures with the mother, father, an older and a younger brother and soon-to-be sister-in-law of the late Alex Reinhardt of Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, who died at age 20 in February 2023, prior to Wednesday’s game against the Miami Heat. The meeting near the Bulls’ bench was an emotional moment for Angie Reinhardt, Alex’s mother.
Carlos Santana homered and the Cleveland Guardians held off the Chicago White Sox 3-2 in a game that ended on a bizarre play. The White Sox had the bases loaded with two outs in the ninth inning when Miguel Vargas singled through the hole at shortstop. Jacob Amaya scored and it seemed Mike Tauchman was going to tie the game before he appeared to injure himself while rounding third base. Tauchman, who just came off the injured list after a right hamstring strain, was tagged out by catcher Austin Hedges for the final out after the throw from left fielder Steven Kwan.
NEW YORK — During his four seasons in the NFL, Justin Fields hasn’t been in the best of situations.
Randy Arozarena hit a grand slam in the eighth and drew the game-winning walk in the ninth as the Seattle Mariners rallied for seven runs over the final two innings to beat the Houston Astros 7-6. Arozarena’s slam trimmed Seattle’s deficit to one before the Astros made it 6-4 when Jeremy Peña scored on a wild pitch by Casey Lawrence in the top of the ninth. Julio Rodríguez delivered a two-run double in the bottom half to tie it, and a walk to Mitch Garver loaded the bases. Houston got a forceout at home before Bryan Abreu walked Arozarena on a full count.
Arizona has hired Buffalo’s Becky Burke as its women’s basketball coach. Burke replaces Adia Barnes, who left to become SMU’s coach last week. Burke spent the past three seasons at Buffalo, leading the Bulls to a program-record 30 wins and the WNIT title in 2024-25. She led Buffalo to the Mid-American Conference tournament championship game after being picked to finish fourth in the league. Burke previously spent two seasons as USC Upstate’s coach and two a Division II University of Charleston.
The Peralta brothers have taken full advantage of the chance to catch up in a three-game series between Freddy’s Milwaukee Brewers and Luis’ Colorado Rockies. Although the pitchers chat every day, there’s nothing like face-to-face time. While mom and dad couldn’t make it to Coors Field this week, the family is planning a reunion when Colorado plays at Milwaukee in late June. The brothers certainly had plenty to talk about Tuesday night after Freddy went five solid innings and allowed one run to pick up his first win of the season.
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ eight-game winning streak to start the season — their first since 1955, when the franchise was in Brooklyn — didn’t hint a choppy stretch could soon arrive. A week after heading to the East Coast for the first time this year, the Dodgers return home after dropping four of their first five games on a trip to Philadelphia and Washington before rallying for a 6-5 victory over the Nationals. Los Angeles avoided getting swept by Washington for the first time since August 2008 and joined San Diego as the first two teams to reach 10 victories this season.
Luka Doncic entered the court with the Los Angeles Lakers for his first game back in Dallas to cheers in an arena where draped over every seat was a T-shirt with the Slovenian phrase for thank you for everything. Then came the tribute. A more than two-minute highlight video of Doncic’s time with the Mavericks was shown after the rest of the Lakers starting lineup had been introduced. It was an emotional night for the 26-year-old Doncic and the Mavericks fans. He spent the first 5 1/2 seasons of his career in Dallas before the seismic trade two months ago.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Padres had just enough on an afternoon in which they played without so much.
PHOENIX — If it wasn’t already clear, the Orioles are officially off to a slow start.
The commissioners of the NCAA’s Power Four conferences and dozens of athletic directors from the SEC, ACC, Big Ten and Big 12, and coaches and players lobbied lawmakers on Capitol Hill for legislation to standardize name, image and likeness rules and other elements of the college sports landscape. College Sports Day on the Hill comes as a federal judge decides whether to approve a landmark $2.8 billion settlement. Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said he was very optimistic about Congress figuring out a solution that would create a sustainable situation in the ever-changing times of NIL and fluid player movement through the transfer portal.
WASHINGTON — Dave Roberts had a feeling as he walked around the clubhouse on Wednesday afternoon.
Denver and Boston University bring the championship pedigree to the Frozen Four semifinals being played in St. Louis on Thursday. And the field is rounded out by two first-timers in Western Michigan and Penn State. Denver is the defending champion and faces NCHC conference rival Western Michigan, the last remaining No. 1 seed still playing. Boston University will play Penn State, which only launched its hockey program in 2011-12. Denver is seeking to win its third tournament in four years, and NCAA-leading 11th overall. BU lost in the semifinal round in each of the past two years, and won its fifth title in 2009.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays have finalized their $500 million, 14-year contract that starts in 2026. Toronto scheduled a news conference for Monday at the Rogers Centre ahead of its next home game. Guerrero agreed in January to a $28.5 million, one-year contract that avoided arbitration, and the four-time All-Star first baseman had said he wouldn’t negotiate after he reported to spring training in mid-February. Guerrero got the third-largest contract in total dollars behind Juan Soto’s $765 million, 15-year contract with the New York Mets and two-way star Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million, 10-year agreement with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Teoscar Hernández homered and drove in three, including the go-ahead run in the seventh inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Washington Nationals 6-5 to avoid a three-game sweep. Los Angeles designated hitter Shohei Ohtani went 2 for 4 with singles in the first and seventh and a walk in the second. He scored two runs. The Dodgers went 2-4 on their trip to Philadelphia and Washington. The Nationals’ four-game winning streak ended. Los Angeles’ Andy Pages homered in the seventh to tie it at 5, and Ohtani followed with a single. Tommy Edman walked two batters later, and Hernández floated a single to right field that scored Ohtani.
Mike Yastrzemski hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning, Jung Hoo Lee had three hits including a triple and a double, and the San Francisco Giants rallied from a five-run deficit for an 8-6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Yastrzemski homered off Emilio Pagán (0-1) with automatic runner Matt Chapman at third. Elly De La Cruz had a two-run double and Gavin Lux singled in two for Cincinnati in a five-run third inning. Giants starter Justin Verlander struck out nine and gave up six runs on five hits and three walks in 5 2/3 innings. Erik Miller (1-0) pitched a perfect 10th inning for the win.
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