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Wins by Toronto, Brooklyn help Raptors clinch NBA play-in spot
The Toronto Raptors have clinched a spot in the NBA's play-in round. Toronto's 128-108 win over the Charlotte Hornets earlier Sunday, coupled with the Brooklyn Nets' 111-110 victory over the Utah Jazz...
Apr 02, 2023
Medvedev beats Sinner in straight sets for Miami Open title
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - Daniil Medvedev won his fourth ATP title of the year Sunday, beating Jannik Sinner 7-5, 6-3 in the Miami Open to move to 6-0 in their career matchup. Medvedev is now the mos...
Apr 02, 2023
Curveball: Alarm-type sound interrupts remote radio broadcast of Blue Jays game
Blue Jays radio listeners were thrown a curveball over the weekend when an alarm-type beeping sound interrupted a remote broadcast of Toronto's road game against the St. Louis Cardinals. It wasn't imm...
Apr 02, 2023
Gorman hits 2 homers in St. Louis' 9-4 win over Toronto
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Nolan Gorman hit a pair of two-run homers - including a first-inning blast that capped off a three-homer inning - and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 9-4 on Sunday....
Apr 02, 2023
Canada's Gushue rolls to 8-2 victory over New Zealand's Hood at men's curling worlds
OTTAWA - Canada's Brad Gushue needed only seven ends to complete an 8-2 rout of New Zealand's Anton Hood on Sunday at the world men's curling championship. Gushue opened with a deuce and made a hit fo...
Apr 02, 2023
Finland's center-right party claims win in tight election
HELSINKI (AP) - Finland's center-right National Coalition Party claimed victory with 94.2% of votes counted in Sunday's extremely tight three-way parliamentary race, appearing to beat the ruling Socia...
Apr 02, 2023
Raptors inch closer to securing spot in play-in tournament
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Pascal Siakam scored 36 points, Fred VanVleet added 20 points and a career-high 20 assists and the Toronto Raptors beat the undermanned Charlotte Hornets 128-108 on Sunday to in...
Apr 02, 2023
Potter fired by Chelsea after 6 months in charge
LONDON (AP) - Chelsea has fired manager Graham Potter with the club languishing in the middle of the Premier League standings despite spending around $630 million on players in the last two transfer w...
Apr 02, 2023
Inquiry into N.S. killings calls for bold change to tackle family violence 'epidemic'
OTTAWA - The public inquiry into the April 2020 shootings in Nova Scotia is calling for an overhaul of the way society handles the "epidemic" of gender-based, intimate-partner and family violence. In ...
Apr 02, 2023
Explosion in Russian cafe kills prominent military blogger
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - An explosion tore through a cafe in Russia's second-largest city Sunday, killing a prominent military blogger who had supported the fighting in Ukraine and was speaking at a p...
Apr 02, 2023