Year: 2022

By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer Zippy Chippy was horse racing’s lovable loser for never winning in 100 races. The bay gelding was acquired by owner-trainer Felix Montserrate by trading a 1988 Ford truck for him. Zippy Chippy finished second eight times and was third 12 times. He had career earnings of nearly $31,000. Eventually,

By JERRY BEACH Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Their 50-year wait over, the family of Gil Hodges is as relieved to see the patriarch selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as they are grateful for the opportunity it provides kin he never met to understand the impact he made on baseball in New

By The Associated Press Uruguayan winger Diego Rossi has been acquired by the Turkish club Fenerbahce from Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles FC, turning a loan that started last September into a permanent transfer. The Turkish team says the transfer fee is 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million). The 24-year-old has four goals in 25 league

By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) — Donovan Mitchell scored 30 of his 32 points after halftime, Bojan Bogdanovic finished with 26 and the Utah Jazz opened the playoffs with a 99-93 victory over Dallas. The Mavericks were without injured two-time All-Star guard Luka Doncic. The fourth-seeded Mavericks started the playoffs at home

By The Associated Press American forward Jordan Pefok scored his Swiss league-leading 19th goal of the season in Young Boys’ 2-1 loss at Zurich. With Young Boys trailing by two goals, Pefok made a backheel pass of a centering feed from Ulisses Garcia back to Garcia, who one-timed a cross. Pefok redirected the ball with

By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Jeremy Swayman rebounded from a rough stretch with 23 saves and the Boston Bruins clinched a playoff spot by holding off the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 to halt a season-high three-game losing streak. Trent Frederic and Erik Haula scored first-period goals for the Boston, which went on the

By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) — The defending champion Milwaukee Bucks are downplaying their recent domination of the Chicago Bulls as they open the playoff portion of their title defense.  Milwaukee has won 16 of its last 17 meetings with the sixth-seeded Bulls heading into their Eastern Conference first-round series beginning Sunday

By JIM DIAMOND Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Mikael Granlund had a goal and an assist to lead the Nashville Predators to a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks. Eeli Tolvanen, Roman Josi and Matt Duchene also scored and Juuse Saros made 28 saves for Nashville, winners of two of three. Filip Forsberg had

NEW YORK (AP) — Alexis Lafreniere scored twice and the New York Rangers beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-0. Mika Zibanejad had a goal and an assist and Frank Vatrano also scored for New York. Barclay Goodrow had two assists. Igor Shesterkin made 20 saves for his fifth shutout of the season. Thomas Greiss had

By JIMMY GOLEN AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon returns to its traditional Patriots Day spot on the schedule on Monday with one of the strongest women’s fields in its history. That’s fitting as the event celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first official women’s race. Five of the eight women who

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — For most of the season, the attention was on everyone but Boston in the East. That was until the Celtics and new coach Ime Udoka put things together with a brand built on defense and buoyed by All-Star Jayson Tatum’s scoring. It blended to help them

By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Oklahoma captured its fifth NCAA women’s gymnastics title, rallying from last after the first rotation to the top spot at the end behind a stellar performance from junior Ragan Smith. The Sooners posted a team score of 198.200, just ahead of Florida at 198.075.

By ANDREW DAMPF AP Sports Writer ROME (AP) — A spectacular overhead kick from Álvaro Morata led to a stoppage-time equalizer for Juventus to draw with nine-man Bologna 1-1 in Serie A. Morata’s acrobatic effort was going wide until Dušan Vlahović met it with a header at the far post that found the target to