Sports News

8:40 PM on Sunday, March 29

RJ Barrett scored 24 points, Scottie Barnes had 23 points and a career-high 15 assists, and the Toronto Raptors used a 31-point run to rout Orlando 139-87, handing the slumping Magic their seventh loss in eight games

8:38 PM on Sunday, March 29

Jayson Tatum scored 32 points, Payton Pritchard added 28 points and the Boston Celtics defeated the cold-shooting Charlotte Hornets 114-99 for their third straight victory

8:38 PM on Sunday, March 29

Ochai Agbaji scored 18 points in 25 minutes off the bench and the Brooklyn Nets snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 116-99 win over the Sacramento Kings

8:32 PM on Sunday, March 29

Viktor Arvidsson scored the decisive goal in the shootout and had three assists in the third period as the Boston Bruins rallied from a three-goal, third-period deficit to defeat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 on Sunday

8:15 PM on Sunday, March 29

Pascal Siakam scored 30 points and Micah Potter added 21 to help the Indiana Pacers get past the Miami Heat for a rare 135-118 victory

8:05 PM on Sunday, March 29

Jake Guentzel had a goal and two assists while Corey Perry broke a third-period tie to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 3-2 victory against the Nashville Predators on Sunday to move into first place in the Atlantic Division

8:00 PM on Sunday, March 29

Tennessee will have to wait at least another season for its first trip to a Final Four after getting pounded by Yaxel Lendeborg and top-seeded Michigan 95-62 in the Midwest Region final

7:48 PM on Sunday, March 29

Nick Suzuki had two goals and an assist to lead the Montreal Canadiens to their fifth straight win

7:06 PM on Sunday, March 29

Though Tatsuya Imai made more than 100 starts in eight seasons playing professionally in Japan, he admitted to having a case of the jitters Sunday in his major league debut for the Houston Astros

7:01 PM on Sunday, March 29

Sophie Shirley scored two goals to make a winner of Boston rookie goaltender Amanda Thiele in her PWHL debut, and the Fleet beat the Minnesota Frost 4-2 to clinch a spot in the postseason

6:42 PM on Sunday, March 29

Chase Elliott has outdueled Denny Hamlin at Martinsville Speedway to earn his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season

6:13 PM on Sunday, March 29

Bennedict Mathurin scored 28 points, John Collins 22 and Kawhi Leonard 20 as the Los Angeles Clippers got past the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks 127-113 on Sunday for their fifth consecutive win

5:58 PM on Sunday, March 29

Andrew McCutchen and Brandon Nimmo each hit their first home runs with the Texas Rangers

5:32 PM on Sunday, March 29

Ryan O’Hearn had three hits and two RBIs, including a go-ahead single in the 10th inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates threw out the potential tying run at the plate to hold off the New York Mets 4-3 for their first victory this season

5:28 PM on Sunday, March 29

Lauren Betts had 23 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks to help UCLA rally from a rare halftime deficit and beat Duke 70-58, advancing to the women’s Final Four for the second straight season

5:05 PM on Sunday, March 29

Bruce Cassidy is out as coach of the Vegas Golden Knights, who fired him Sunday and replaced him with John Tortorella

4:46 PM on Sunday, March 29

Yaxel Lendeborg scored 27 points, Elliot Cadeau had 10 assists and Michigan rolled into the Final Four by overwhelming Tennessee for a 95-62 victory in the NCAA Tournament

4:27 PM on Sunday, March 29

Izzy Daniel had a goal and an assist and the Vancouver Goldeneyes snapped a two-game skid with a 3-2 win over the Toronto Sceptres

3:57 PM on Sunday, March 29

Adam Sykora broke a scoreless tie early in the third period and Igor Shesterkin made 26 saves and the New York Rangers defeated the Florida Panthers 3-1

11:05 AM on Sunday, March 29

Nico Hoerner and the Chicago Cubs have finalized their $141 million, six-year contract that establishes the Gold Glove second baseman as a franchise cornerstone going forward