DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Pistons opened the NBA playoffs with a flop. Detroit went into the postseason as the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference, openly talking about exceeding modest expectations and winning the franchise’s fourth championship. If the Pistons don’t play better ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Juraj Slafkovsky scored his third power-play goal 1:22 into overtime and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 in Game 1 of their first-round series on Sunday night. Slafkovsky fired a slap shot from the left circle that beat Andrei Vasilevskiy to the far ...
MANCHESTER – Heavy rain kept the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (8-5) and Chesapeake Baysox (7-7) from finishing their six-game series on Sunday, as the series finale was canceled, due to inclement weather. Sunday’s game will not be made up, and tickets can be exchanged for any 2026 Fisher Cats ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — At 26, Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin is too young to appreciate the intense playoff rivalries Buffalo once enjoyed with various opponents. A 14-season playoff drought has a way of thinning whatever bad blood once existed between the Sabres and former rivals such as ...
BOSTON (AP) — Two years ago, the Boston Celtics were about to begin a playoff run that would end with them raising a record 18th NBA championship. Two years later, Jayson Tatum, one of the centerpieces of that team, enters the postseason with a much different perspective. “I think more of ...
The stage was the biggest he's ever been on in his young life, but Nashua's Jack Young, age 11, stood tall. Young shot 22 of 25 free throws to finish tied for fourth Saturday in the Elks Hoop Shoot National Finals in Chicago's Wintrust Arena. “So proud of Jack on the big stage,” Adam ...
