12:58 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA– James Harden picked a perfect time to have his best game with the Philadelphia 76ers. After declaring this series would return to Miami tied after the 76ers lost both games there to begin this best-of-7 affair, Harden poured in 31 points — including 16 in the fourth quarter — … Read more
After the craziness of last week, an exhausted and successful Real Madrid starting XI took a well-deserved break, allowing Carlo Ancelotti to do some necessary rotations in the team. However, it soon became clear that Atletico players were far more focused to achieve their objective of playing Champions League football. All in all, I think … Read more
My mother wasn’t the type to overly guilt me into finishing all the food on my plate, but she definitely taught me not to let things go to waste (once I had a can of SPAM for a skit at theater camp and was dismayed when it found its way into a casserole later on … Read more
HOUSTON — For the first time in 35 years, the Astros swept a seven-game homestand — and for the first time at Minute Maid Park — getting tremendous pitching from their starting rotation and bullpen and doing just enough offensively to put them on the heels of the first-place Angels in the American League West. … Read more
ANAHEIM — With the Angels on the brink of losing a series to the Nationals and falling to second place in the American League West, Shhei Ohtani other Anthony Rendon had other ideas. Ohtani smacked a game-tying two-run double off Washington closer Tanner Rainey with two outs in the ninth to tie the game at … Read more
PITTSBURGH — Ferris Bueller said that life comes at you fast in the playoffs and even faster when Sidney Crosby is on the other side playing some of the most compelling hockey of his fabulous career. Yogi Berra said that it gets late early in the playoffs and especially when down 2-1 and on the … Read more
Rich Strike pulled a huge upset during the 2022 Kentucky Derby by winning against 80-1 odds. The 3-year-old thoroughbred, along with Venezuelan jockey Sonny Leon, became the second biggest longshot to win in the 148-year history of the event. There hadn’t been a bigger upset in over 100 years. Here is a full list of … Read more
Fans stand on the track and its fencing after Sunday’s Grand Prix of Miami. (Thomas Simonetti/The Washington Post) MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The city with the meanest drivers in the nation welcomed the circuit with the keenest drivers in the world Sunday, and the whole thing felt very Miamiwhat with Miami an adjective just as … Read more
Tobias Harris would usually have more to say, but he was trying to take it easy on his windpipe after absorbing an inadvertent Bam Adebayo elbow to the neck in the second half of the Philadelphia 76ers‘ 116-108 win against the Miami Heat in Sunday’s Game 4 of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal series. Harris … Read more
NEW YORK– Gleyber Torresis no stranger to walk-off hits at Yankee Stadium, having one to his name already this season with a ninth-inning single on April 23 vs. Cleveland. But he added to that lore Sunday during the Yankees’ 2-1 wins in Game 1 over the Rangers, leading off the ninth with a solo home … Read more
