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    Trout, Angels top Royals for 6th straight win

    Angels Top Royals For Sixth Straight WinAngels Top Royals For Sixth Straight WinVIDEO PLAYLIST KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- After a disappointing start to the season, the Los Angeles Angels are heating up. Mike Trout had his 21st multi-hit game, Jason Vargas pitched into the eighth inning and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 on Friday night to extend their winning streak to six games. Trout had two hits, stole his 11th base and scored two runs, including one on a wild pitch. He is ...

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    Davis' 16th home run helps O's rock Jays

    Orioles Fly By Blue Jays 10-6Orioles Fly By Blue Jays 10-6VIDEO PLAYLIST Orioles Fly By Blue Jays 10-6Orioles Fly By Blue Jays 10-6Fantasy: Orioles To Buy Or SellFantasy: Orioles To Buy Or Sell TORONTO -- The Baltimore Orioles are bashing home runs at an impressive rate right now. Chris Davis hit his major league-leading 16th homer and Baltimore beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-6 on Friday night. J.J. Hardy, Danny Valencia and Adam Jones also went deep as the Orioles matched a season high in runs ...

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    Estrada lifts Brewers, still perfect vs. Pirates

    Estrada Pitches Brewers Past PiratesEstrada Pitches Brewers Past PiratesVIDEO PLAYLIST MILWAUKEE -- Poor starting pitching has been to blame for much of the Milwaukee Brewers' losing ways over the past few weeks. Marco Estrada worked to change that Friday night. Estrada gave up one run over seven innings and retired the first 14 batters he faced in leading the Brewers to a 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Milwaukee had lost 16-of-20 games entering the contest, while the Pirates had a f ...

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    Kim joins two for LPGA lead at rainy Bahamas

    Updated: May 25, 2013, 10:53 AM ET Associated Press PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas -- Mindy Kim birdied her last hole Saturday morning to join the leaders after one strange round of the Bahamas LPGA Classic. The tournament is being playing over 12 holes for three rounds because of severe flooding at the Ocean Club earlier in the week. Even with a short course, the first round took two days to complete because of a three-hour delay Friday with lightning in the area. Kim finished off a bogey-fr ...

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    Granderson fractures pinkie after hit by pitch

    Granderson Injured In Yankees' WinGranderson Injured In Yankees' Win ST. PETERSBURG – New York Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson, who already has missed 38 games this season after breaking his right arm, is likely to miss another month, and possibly more, with a broken left hand.Three months to the day after he suffered a broken right forearm after being hit by a pitch from J.A. Happ in his first at-bat of spring training, Granderson suffered a broken fifth metacarpal on his left hand after ...

  • Penguins thwart Sens to advance to East finals

    Penguins Win To Advance To East FinalsPenguins Win To Advance To East FinalsVIDEO PLAYLIST Penguins Win To Advance To East FinalsPenguins Win To Advance To East FinalsNeal, Iginla Help Penguins Blow Past SenatorsNeal, Iginla Help Penguins Blow Past Senators PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Penguins expected desperation. Instead, the listless Ottawa Senators offered little more than resignation. Swarming the Senators from the opening faceoff, Pittsburgh roared to a 6-2 vi ...

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    Nats' Zimmermann first in NL to win 8 games

    Big Fourth Inning Leads Nationals To WinBig Fourth Inning Leads Nationals To WinVIDEO PLAYLIST WASHINGTON -- The Washington Nationals didn't have a close shave, and neither did Davey Johnson.The 70-year-old manager still looked closer to 80 after the Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-2 Friday night, sporting the scraggly beginnings of facial hair he had vowed to keep until his team started hitting.Five runs weren't enough, even though it was the most the Nationals had scored in a wee ...

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ST. PETERSBURG – New York Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson, who already has missed 38 games this season after breaking his right arm, is likely to miss another month, and possibly more, with a broken left hand.

Three months to the day after he suffered a broken right forearm after being hit by a pitch from J.A. Happ in his first at-bat of spring training, Granderson suffered a broken fifth metacarpal on his left hand after being hit by a pitch from Cesar Ramos in the fifth inning Friday night against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Granderson remained in the game and even advanced around the bases, scoring on a bases-loaded walk to Jayson Nix, but he did not come out to play the field in the bottom of the inning.

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Penguins Win To Advance To East Finals
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Penguins expected desperation.

Instead, the listless Ottawa Senators offered little more than resignation.

Swarming the Senators from the opening faceoff, Pittsburgh roared to a 6-2 victory Friday night in Game 5 of the Eastern conference semifinals to take the best-of-seven series 4-1.

James Neal picked up his first postseason hat trick as the Penguins capped a five-game onslaught against one of the NHL's best defensive teams to stroll into the conference finals. Pittsburgh scored 22 goals in the series while ending Ottawa's season for the third time in five years.

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MIAMI -- David West's right hand helped the Indiana Pacers grab home-court advantage in the Eastern Conference finals.

Roy Hibbert scored 29 points, West knocked away two passes by LeBron James for huge turnovers in the final minute, and the Pacers evened the East title series with a 97-93 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 2 of the series on Friday night.

Paul George scored 22 points, George Hill added 18 and West finished with 13 for the Pacers, who handed the Heat just their fourth loss in their last 50 games.

The series resumes with Game 3 on Sunday night in Indianapolis.

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Sanchez Flirts With No-No
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DETROIT -- Add another near miss in this 2013 baseball season -- this time it was Detroit's Anibal Sanchez falling just short of a no-hitter.

Sanchez's bid was broken up with one out in the ninth inning Friday night when Minnesota's Joe Mauer hit a clean single up the middle. That was the only hit the right-hander allowed in the Tigers' 6-0 victory against the Twins. It was the fourth one-hitter of Sanchez's career, to go along with a no-hitter he threw as a rookie back in 2006.

"It's not that I go to the mound and want to do something special; it's just that I want to go nine innings, go deeper, get a good command, get a good game," Sanchez said. "When I come to the eighth inning, I think about it. But when I come to the ninth inning, it's really tough with those guys."

After seven no-hitters in 2012, baseball is without one so far this season. There have been plenty of close calls. Before Sanchez, four other pitchers already had thrown one-hitters in 2013, according to STATS. And that doesn't include Yu Darvish of Texas, Clay Buchholz of Boston and Adam Wainwright of St. Louis, all of whom had no-hitters in the eighth inning or later but couldn't finish the job and the game.

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Updated: May 24, 2013, 11:56 PM ET

By Mark Saxon | ESPNLosAngeles.com

LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers president Stan Kasten said Friday that manager Don Mattingly is not in imminent danger of losing his job.

"No, and I've said this for a while. I think I've stated things about as obviously as they can be," Kasten said. "I always avoid doing what you would all mock me for and that is issuing the dreaded vote of confidence. You know the reaction is when anyone does that. I try not to do that. I try to be more direct and honest about it.

"What I've always said, what I've always felt, is I like the team we put together. I like our staff. I do expect us to have success. I do expect this team to turn it around and, because of that, I expect Donnie to be around a long time."

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Updated: May 24, 2013, 8:21 PM ET

By Josh Gross | ESPN.com

Cain Velasquez tore apart Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva one year ago this weekend en route to a vicious opening-round technical knockout.

The heavyweight pair meet again in an improbable rematch Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, this time with a title on the line.

Velasquez, a two-time UFC champion, recaptured the belt in December after a five-round decision over Junior dos Santos.

The 30-year-old Mexican-American champion weighed 240 pounds. His 6-foot-4 challenger stepped on the scale at 263, two pounds under the division limit.

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Updated: May 24, 2013, 8:03 PM ET

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The NBA has fined Memphis Grizzlies guard Tony Allen $5,000 for violating the league's anti-flopping rule during Game 2 of the Western Conference finals against the San Antonio Spurs.

Officials called a flagrant foul on Manu Ginobili for grabbing Allen's arm as the Grizzlies' guard drove to the basket with 26.1 seconds left in regulation Tuesday night. Allen hit the court and rolled over, holding his hands to his head. Replay showed Allen never hit his head on the court.

Allen hit both free throws, and the Grizzlies also got the ball to force overtime. The Spurs won 93-89 in overtime.


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Updated: May 24, 2013, 7:43 PM ET

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The NFL submitted a new proposal on testing for human growth hormone to the players union on April 24, according to an NFL.com report.

NFL.com, citing league and union sources, reports the latest proposal removed the prospect of game-day testing, but called for testing to start immediately.

Under those conditions, samples would be taken and results would be stored until a baseline standard for testing is reached by the World Anti-Doping Agency, according to the report.

A union source told NFL.com that the union would prefer to delay taking samples until a baseline is established first.

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Two months ago, the New York Jets signed unheralded free-agent running back Mike Goodson to a three-year, $6.9 million contract because they fell in love with his upside: He plays fast.

Turns out he lives fast, too.

Goodson's legal issues didn't start with his May 17 arrest in New Jersey on drug and weapons charges, which could result in prison time. In his previous NFL stops, with the Carolina Panthers and Oakland Raiders, his personal life spilled into the courts.

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He was sued for paternity and child support by three women from August 2010 to May 2011, according to court documents in North Carolina and in Texas, where he grew up. He has fathered at least six children with those women, one of whom he lived with for two years, records show.

One woman, who dropped her initial case, is planning to re-file a paternity action next week, according to her attorney.

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Updated: May 24, 2013, 3:29 PM ET

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DALLAS -- Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent will remain free while he awaits trial for intoxication manslaughter, as a judge on Friday denied a request by prosecutors to revoke his bond due to problems with alcohol monitoring.

Brent is charged in the fatal car crash Dec. 8 that killed Jerry Brown, a Cowboys practice squad player, college teammate and friend. Police have accused Brent of driving with a blood-alcohol content more than twice the legal limit.

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