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TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Football League players have rejected the new collective bargaining agreement with the league. The players’ union confirmed the deal had been voted down in a memo to its members on Monday night. The CFL Players’ Association says in the memo that a new deal could be reached “if the league is

By TYLER MASON Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Max Kepler hit an early grand slam, and Gio Urshela’s infield single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the Minnesota Twins a 5-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Urshela hit a grounder toward Tigers shortstop Javier Báez, who couldn’t make a play. That allowed Kepler

By GEORGE HENRY AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Zack Wheeler pitched 6 2/3 strong innings with a season-high 10 strikeouts, Rhys Hoskins knocked in three runs with an early double and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 7-3. The teams began the day tied for second in the division, eight games out of

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A’ja Wilson scored 24 points, Jackie Young added 19 points and nine rebounds, and the Las Vegas Aces beat the Los Angeles Sparks 104-76 for their fifth straight victory. The Aces tied a WNBA record with 18 3-pointers, topping the team mark of 16, and scored 100-plus in back-to-back games. Las

By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Andrei Vasilevskiy had 49 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning completed a four-game sweep of the Florida Panthers with a 2-0 victory that sends the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions back to the Eastern Conference final for the sixth time in eight years. Pat Maroon

By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Republican-dominated Indiana Legislature is poised on Tuesday to override the GOP governor’s veto of a bill banning transgender students from competing in girls sports. That would mean Indiana would join more than a dozen states that have adopted similar laws in the past two

By WARREN MAYES Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt hit a walkoff grand slam in the 10th inning to lift the St. Louis Cardinals to a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Toronto fell to 1-2 in extra innings games. The Cardinals improved to 1-1. Genesis Cabrera was the fifth St. Louis

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — A potential menace hangs over Wednesday’s Europa Conference League final between Dutch club Feyenoord and Italy’s Roma in the Albanian capital of Tirana in a season when soccer violence has made an ugly comeback. Up to 100,000 fans are expected to travel despite each club being

By KYLE HIGHTOWER AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Celtics took their turn pounding the Miami Heat early. Jayson Tatum scored 31 points and Boston jumped out to a 26-4 lead and cruised to a 102-82 victory that evened the Eastern Conference finals at two games apiece. Miami missed 15 of its first

By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — José Ramírez homered with four RBIs and Triston McKenzie pitched seven sharp innings to help the Cleveland Guardians to a 6-1 win over the Houston Astros Monday night. Ramírez had two hits, highlighted by a two-run shot in the fifth inning that pushed the lead to

By TYLER MASON Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gio Urshela hit an infield single in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 5-4 win over the Detroit Tigers. Urshela hit a grounder to Tigers shortstop Javier Báez, who couldn’t make a play. That allowed Max Kepler — who hit a

By MITCH STACY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Ian Happ and Patrick Wisdom hit three-run homers and the Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-4 despite two home runs by Aristides Aquino. Happ drove in Seiya Suzuki with a fourth-inning double before Wisdom hit his team-leading 10th homer. With Chicago holding a 4-3 lead

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Rose Zhang overcame a shaky front nine to shoot a 3-over 75 and cap her stellar freshman season by becoming Stanford’s second straight individual NCAA champion. Zhang is the world’s top-ranked women’s amateur golfer who won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 2020. She was wobbly

By PATRICK STEVENS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tyler Anderson pitched eight shutout innings, Trea Turner had three RBIs in his first game against his former team and the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Washington Nationals 10-1. Anderson retired his first 16 batters before César Hernández’s one-out double in the sixth. Turner, who played with

By LARRY FLEISHER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ramón Urías hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning off Gerrit Cole and the Baltimore Orioles withstood Aaron Judge’s two home runs to beat the Yankees 6-4 and send New York to its season-high third straight loss. Earlier, Major League Baseball suspended Yankees slugger Josh

DALLAS (AP) — Sean Crocker had gone nine straight tournaments without making a cut. He had a top 10 in Belgium, and now the Zimbabwe-born, California-raised Crocker is headed to his first U.S. Open. He led 13 players who qualified from the 36-hole sectional qualifier in Dallas. Three others made it through a qualifier in

By The Associated Press A pair of Cy Young Award winners are on the mound Tuesday night when Corbin Burnes and the Milwaukee Brewers visit Blake Snell and the San Diego Padres in a matchup between two of the National League’s top teams. Last year’s NL Cy Young winner, Burnes is 1-2 with a 2.26

By JOHN PERROTTO Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ke’Bryan Hayes had three hits and scored the tiebreaking run on Yoshi Tsutsugo’s infield single in the eighth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Colorado Rockies 2-1. Hayes singled to lead off the eighth against Tyler Kinley, stole second base and advanced to third on Daniel

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have placed right-hander Freddy Peralta on the 15-day injured list with a right lat strain and put closer Josh Hader on the family medical emergency list. Manager Craig Counsell said Hader will miss the entire three-game series at San Diego to be with his wife, who is expecting their

By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Rose Zhang overcame a shaky front nine to shoot a 3-over 75 and cap her stellar freshman season with Stanford’s second straight individual NCAA championship. Zhang is the world’s top-ranked women’s amateur golfer who won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 2020. She was wobbly early