SAN DIEGO — Kevin McGonigle quickly proved that the Detroit Tigers' made the right call by putting him on their opening day roster. The 21-year-old rookie hit the first big league pitch he saw for a bases-loaded, two-run double in the Tigers' four-run first inning against San Diego on ...
DETROIT (AP) — CJ McCollum scored 27 points, making the tiebreaking three-point play in overtime, and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Detroit Pistons 130-129 on Wednesday night. Jalen Johnson also had 27 points and came close to another triple-double, finishing with 12 assists and eight rebounds. The surging Hawks improved to 15-2 since the All-Star break, best in the Eastern Conference, and snapped Detroit's four-game winning streak. Jalen Duren had 26 points and 14 rebounds for the Pistons, who lost for the first time since All-Star Cade Cunningham sustained a collapsed left lung. ...
DETROIT — Carter Yakemchuk scored a second-period goal and also had an assist in his NHL debut as the streaking Ottawa Senators edged the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 on Tuesday night. Yakemchuk, the No. 7 overall pick of the 2024 draft, had been playing for the American Hockey League's Belleville Senators. He was called up earlier in the day with defensemen Thomas Chabot, Dennis Gilbert, Nick Jensen, Jake Sanderson and Lassi Thomson sidelined by injuries. Yakemchuk, a 20-year-old defenseman from Alberta, had 10 goals in 50 games with Belleville. Brady Tkachuk scored his 20th goal of ...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan's Mila Holloway is making a name for herself in March Madness. Olivia Olson and Syla Swords get a lot of attention and accolades, and rightfully so, but Holloway is showing she is also a potential star in women's college basketball. Her teammates say she's the ...
PHILADELPHIA — The warning comes from about every coach, every player each March — heck, in any sport as the stakes are raised as the games carry more gravitas — don't look too far ahead. Worry about the next practice, the next game, not what could happen down the road. Then there's ...
NORMAN, Okla. — Raegan Beers had 18 points and 14 rebounds to help No. 4 seed Oklahoma beat fifth-seeded Michigan State 77-71 on Sunday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Beers, a 6-foot-4 senior center, used her strength to dominate the paint, even though Michigan State had ...
