NEW YORK – Little has been easy for the Miami Heat lately and little will be easy for the remaining two games of this trip, on Friday night against the Boston Celtics and Sunday night against the New York Knicks. So if there was a moment for Erik Spoelstra’s team to make things right, to snap a season-worst five-game losing streak, this assuredly was it, …
NEW YORK – Observations and other notes of interest from Thursday night’s 106-95 victory over the Brooklyn Nets: – Even with a needed win, the math problem continues. – The Heat simply don’t take enough 3-pointers. – With the other part of the equation is they don’t have many to make 3-pointers. – This time 9 of 28. – Nine. – With Tyler …
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Dec. 18—PULLMAN — Washington State won't have its starting running back for the upcoming bowl game. Third-year sophomore tailback Kirby Vorhees is set to enter the transfer portal, a source told The Spokesman-Review Thursday, and he isn't expected to play in Monday's Idaho Potato Bowl against Utah State. The transfer portal doesn't open …
Linus Ullmark made 24 saves for his first shutout of the season, Brady Tkachuk scored twice and the Ottawa Senators beat the Pittsburgh 4-0 on Thursday night to extend the Penguins' losing streak to seven. David Perron and Claude Giroux also scored, with Perron reaching 800 career points.
Dec. 18—Anyone still wondering how Steele Venters is holding up physically after missing two full seasons with injury might find their answer by pulling up video of the soaring dunk he converted in the second half of Gonzaga's 98-70 victory over Campbell Wednesday at McCarthey Athletic Center. The state of Venters' surgically-repaired ACL and …
Norman Powell scored 24 points, Kel’el Ware had 22 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks, and the Miami Heat snapped a five-game losing streak with a 106-95 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night. Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 19 points and Bam Adebayo had 17 rebounds despite battling foul trouble as the Heat won for just the second time in December.
The Knicks don’t need another backup point guard. Their solution has been hiding in plain sight all along. It’s the biggest takeaway from the Knicks’ 114-113 comeback victory over the Indiana Pacers on Thursday, less than 48 hours after they defeated the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Cup on Tuesday. Yes, Jalen Brunson is Captain Clutch, the rightful …
The Seahawks didn't get points to end the first half but they've gotten off to an ideal start in the third quarter.
Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy each had a goal and two assists, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2 on Thursday night for their sixth straight win. Joel Eriksson Ek had a goal and an assist, and Ryan Hartman and Vladimir Tarasenko also scored for Minnesota.
Adrian Kempe scored twice in the second period, and the Los Angeles Kings beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 on Thursday night. Anton forsberg stopped 31 shots to help the Kings snap a four-game skid (0-2-2) and get just their third win in nine games (3-4-2). Oliver Bjorkstrand scored for the Lightning and Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 18 saves.
When we first heard Los Angeles Angels GM Perry Minasian talking about having star DH Mike Trout return to the outfield, we thought it must be a joke. Surely Minasian was just leading the media on after the winter meetings to have a quick laugh, but it’s turning out that that’s not the case.
A police officer confronted WR Nyck Harbor after shoving him in Texas A&M's win over South Carolina. He was summarily removed from the game.