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BOSTON — Jimmy Butler almost got the Celtics last year. If his would-be go-ahead 3-pointer with 17 seconds left in Game 7 of the 2022 Eastern Conference finals had gone in, it might have been the Heat tangling with the Warriors in the Finals.

Ten disastrous minutes separated the Chicago Cubs from the cusp of ending a season-high losing streak to their worst loss of the season. A five-run lead entering the bottom of the eighth should have provided enough cushion for the Cubs to put away the Houston Astros.

ARLINGTON, Texas – The Braves needed this. They needed to see their comeback efforts turn into a victory.

SAN FRANCISCO — Draymond Green believes the Warriors would still be playing if it hadn’t been for him. Speaking to Stephen A.

May 17—There’s an area just north of the clubhouse at Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club, where holes 10, 11 and 12 are all within view. That’s where Oklahoma head coach Ryan Hybl stood as his team began the back nine of the final round of the NCAA Norman Regional.

May 17—ST. LOUIS — Cardinals shortstop Paul DeJong gave an elated fist pump as he rounded first base in the sixth inning, having just watched the ball he crushed land 419 feet away from home plate — where it could be retrieved but not caught — for a tworun home run to give his team breathing room against one of the stingiest starting pitchers in the majors.

May 16—Roc Riggio hadn’t experienced anything like that before. Oklahoma State baseball’s star second baseman didn’t have rivalries of such magnitude while growing up in Simi Valley, California.

May 16—The results Cardinals second baseman Nolan Gorman has produced after he spent the past offseason adjusting his swing have been evident. Gorman entered Tuesday with a .979 OPS, fourth-highest across the majors; a .600 slugging percentage, ranking secondbest; and a team-high 33 RBIs that we tied for the sixth-most in the league.

Three years after Kentavious Caldwell-Pope won an NBA championship by witnessing the full range of what LeBron James could do, he is now one game closer to reaching another NBA Finals in part because of the heroics of his newest superstar teammate, Nikola Jokic.