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Arraez drives in two, Marlins beat Guardians in DH opener

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Luis Arraez had a two-run single and Bryan De La Cruz hit a solo homer, sending the Miami Marlins to a 6-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday.Shane Bieber (1-1) matched his career high with four walks and allowed three runs in 5 2/3 innings, including De La Cruz’s homer run to right in the sixth. It was the 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner’s shortest start this season.Reigning NL Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara was scratched in what the Marlins termed “very mild” biceps tendinitis.Helping spoil Cleveland manager Terry Francona’s 64th birthday, Andrew Nardi (2-1) retired all four batters he faced in relief of spot starter Devin Smeltzer,Smeltzer gave up one run in four innings, and Huascar Brazoban, Matt Barnes and Steven Okert finished a four-hitter.Arraez drove in Jon Berti and Jorge Soler in the seventh, when Miami scored three times off Nick Sandlin and Tim Herrin to extend its lead to 6-1. Arraez went 1 for 4 and is hi...

Corpuz, Yin tied for lead at Chevron after third round

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) — Americans Allisen Corpuz and Angel Yin shared the Chevron Championship lead at 10-under 206 after the third round Saturday.Corpuz and Yin each shot 5-under 67 at The Club at Carlton Woods in the major tournament that moved from the California desert to suburban Houston this year.Corpuz started out strong, with birdies on four of the first five holes, including the first three. She had a chance to birdie the 18th in a bogey-free round, but her putt rolled just shy.“Just tried to put myself in good position, fairways and greens,” she said. “Just hit some really solid shots starting out and was able to convert the putts.”Yin had four birdies on the back nine, highlighted by one on the 18th that moved her into the tie for first.“Even though I didn’t hit it as good as I did the first day or the second day, I did manage to score well, and I just adapted and I stayed patient,” she said. “My caddie kept telling me to stay patient, so I’m glad I did that.”Corpuz a...

Arozarena 4 RBIs, Rays beat White Sox 4-3, are 12-0 at home

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Randy Arozarena homered in the first inning as Tampa Bay set a major league record by going deep in each of its first 21 games, then hit a 10th-inning single for his fourth RBI that gave the Rays a 4-3 win over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday.Tampa Bay is 18-3, the best start in the major leagues since the 2003 New York Yankees. The Rays are 12-0 at Tropicana Field, the best start at home since the 2009 Los Angeles Dodgers won their first 13 games.Arozarena hit a two-run homer in first off Dylan Cease, and the Rays surpassed the previous mark of homers in the first 20 games by the 2019 Seattle Mariners. Arozarena’s RBI single against Kenya Middleton put Tampa Bay ahead 3-2 in the fifth, but pinch-hitter Gavin Sheets tied the score with a eighth-inning homer against Jason Adam.With the score 3-3, in the 10th Jimmy Lambert (1-1) intentionally walked Wander Franco with one out and a runner on second, and Arozarena lined a first-pitch single to right ...

Mano a mano con el campeón mexicano: “Canelo” Álvarez habla de su futuro

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

GUADALAJARA, México – A punto de cumplir 33 años, el mexicano Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez, campeón mundial supermediano, se niega a ver el final de su carrera de boxeador y se ve tirando golpes por un tiempo más.“Hay Canelo para rato, como dice la canción”, aseguró este sábado en entrevista con Efe el púgil, con 58 triunfos, 39 por la vía rápida, con dos empates y dos derrotas, la más reciente el año pasado ante el ruso Dmitrii Bivol.A dos semanas de exponer sus cinturones de las 168 libras ante el británico John Ryder, el mexicano recibió a Efe en su rancho en Guadalajara, occidente mexicano, donde tiene un gimnasio y varios caballos. Sus respuestas son cortas, sobrias, aunque amables. Vuelve el Canelo Álvarez: fecha exacta, rival y lugar para su próxima pelea de campeonato en México “Estoy listo para regresar a mi casa”: Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez anuncia que peleará en mayo en su natal Jalisco -¿Cómo espera l...

Coach Prime, Buffs stage quite the show in snowy spring game

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The cold and snowy day at Folsom Field began with Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders taking off his white cowboy hat near midfield and taking a bow.It ended in virtually the same spot, with the Buffaloes huddled around their new coach and the crowd cheering.Sanders and the Buffaloes certainly staged quite a show Saturday with the stands full of fans eager to catch a glimpse of what could be in store come fall. In more of a glorified practice than a spring game due to the snowy conditions, the Buffaloes showed something they haven’t in a hot minute — promise.“I’m amazed and just stoked,” said Sanders, who’s overhauling a squad that went 1-11 last season. “Today was phenomenal. I’m really happy, appreciative and thankful.”All of it was quite a spectacle. There was the kickoff by Peggy Coppom, a big Buffaloes fan in her 90s who Sanders enticed to boot the ball to begin the action.“Her kickoff was phenomenal. Went through the uprights and everything,” joked Sa...

Webb stops his 4-game skid, pitches Giants over Mets 7-4

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Opening day starter Logan Webb stopped his four-game losing streak, holding the Mets hot offense to two runs in seven innings and leading the San Francisco Giants over New York 7-4 on Saturday.Webb (1-4) struck out eight and walked one for his first win since signing a $90 million, five-year contract for 2024-28, a deal announced April 14.San Francisco (7-13) avoided losing 14 of its first 20 games, which would match the worst opening in team history.The Mets lost for the second time in nine games on their 10-game California trip.The Giants, who were shut out Friday and have struggled to score all season, spotted Webb to a 4-0 lead in the first inning, when Brandon Crawford hit a three-run homer. Wilmer Flores also homered for San Francisco, which is batting just .205 against left-handers but reached Mets lefty David Peterson (1-3) for seven runs in five innings.David Villar hit a sacrifice fly for the game’s first run and Crawford hit his third homer on a two-s...

Alabama’s Milroe, Simpson vying to replace Bryce Young

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is once again trying to replace an NFL-bound quarterback with another who can lead the Crimson Tide to championships.Next up: Presumably Jalen Milroe, a dynamic runner with one career start, or five-star prospect Ty Simpson.They’re vying to replace 2021 Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young, who appears poised to become the first Alabama passer picked No. 1 in the modern NFL draft. The Tide failed to make the College Football Playoffs even with him, potentially ratcheting up the pressure on whoever emerges as Young’s successor.Now, he’s the latest Tide quarterback to leave early for the NFL, where Mac Jones, Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa are already starters.The current competition figures to carry over into preseason camp after the Tide wrapped up spring practice Saturday with its spring game before an announced crowd of 58,710.Alabama coach Nick Saban said a major focus has been on the quarterbacks being able to process what the defense is ...

Pence touts Trump role overturning Roe to Iowa evangelicals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Although Donald Trump has often avoided talking about abortion as he campaigns again for the White House, his former vice president, Mike Pence, is not shying away from celebrating Trump’s efforts to restrict abortion rights.Pence, who is weighing whether to launch his own presidential campaign, raised his voice to nearly a roar when speaking to religious conservatives in Iowa on Saturday night as he touted Trump’s nominations of three conservative judges to the U.S. Supreme Court.The appointments paved the way to the court in 2022 overturning the landmark Roe. v. Wade ruling, which had affirmed a federal right to abortion.Pence, long known for his conservative values, called the appointments “the most important of all” the accomplishments of the Trump administration, drawing loud applause and cheers from the crowd of influential religious conservatives.“We did that, Iowa,” he said. “I couldn’t be more proud to have been a smal...

Chicago Cubs rookie Hayden Wesneski struggles in another short start, leading to a 9-4 loss to the LA Dodgers

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts poked his head out of the tunnel a few hours before Saturday’s game at Wrigley Field just in time to get a face full of cold and a eyeful of snow flurries.“This is great,” Roberts said, scanning the sky and smiling. “I’m pleasantly surprised. I didn’t expect snow. And this is the real stuff. So it’s going to be fun. Hopefully our guys can perform.”Very funny, right?Mush.The Dodgers got on top early against rookie Hayden Wesneski, and it was tough sledding from there for the Chicago Cubs in a 9-4 loss, their second in a four-game series that wraps Sunday with a Clayton Kershaw-Marcus Stroman pitching matchup.But this is how good it’s going for the Cubs more than three weeks into a season with middling expectations even on a cold, miserable day of flurries and Dodgers home runs:You’ve pretty much got to pick on the rookie fifth starter to find something to be concerned about (albeit if...

Charles Barkley and Gayle King to host joint talk show ‘King Charles’ for CNN

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:25:55 GMT

A new weekly prime-time show is coming to CNN, hosted by Gayle King and Charles Barkley.The two made the announcement Saturday during TNT’s NBA Tip-Off, saying the new show will air Wednesdays and will be titled “King Charles.”“I want the show to be nonpolitical,” said Barkley, though he admitted the show would occasionally touch on politics, reports CNN Business.“You know (Gayle King) is going to be a straight shooter. I’m going to be a straight shooter,” he added. “I know she’s going to be fair and honest and you know I’m going to do the same thing.”The show is expected to examine any and all current topics, said King, ranging from tougher conversations like gun control, to lighter material like food and popular culture.“I think that decorum and courtesy and kindness always work,” she added. “But everybody I know has an opinion on something. We just need to figure out a way to have a good con...