TORONTO (AP) — RJ Barrett hit a 3-pointer with 1.2 seconds remaining in overtime and the Toronto Raptors pushed their Eastern Conference first-round playoff series to a seventh game by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 112-110 on Friday night. Evan Mobley had a chance to win it for Cleveland ...
BOSTON (AP) — The Celtics appeared to be skipping toward the second round of the NBA playoffs following a 32-point road win in Game 4 at Philadelphia. But back-to-back convincing wins by the 76ers in Game 5 and Game 6 have left a Boston team that once looked like a favorite to emerge from the Eastern Conference on the brink of an epic collapse. A loss in Saturday's Game 7 would be the No. 2 seed Celtics' earliest exit from the playoffs since the 2020-21 season. They may have to do it with star Jayson Tatum dealing with a new ailment after he briefly left Game 6 in the third ...
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Cameron Young finally made his first bogey of the week at the Cadillac Championship. It barely put a dent into his lead going into the weekend. Young shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to get to 13 under and take a five-shot lead at the midway point of the $20 million signature event at Trump International Doral. Young's lone blemish: a bogey at the par-4 14th, where his chip from an awkward sidehill lie didn't reach the putting surface. Otherwise, he was flawless — just as he was Thursday when he had a bogey-free 64 to grab the lead. He got the stroke he dropped at ...
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund officially pulled the plug on future funding for LIV Golf on Thursday, leaving the rival league to find a new path without the largesse that helped it launch four years ago as a threat to the golf establishment. Staff and players have been aware for the last two weeks the Public Investment Fund was only going to support LIV Golf through the end of this year. LIV responded with a new board and a plan to diversify into an investment model with hopes of finding long-term partners. Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the PIF governor who was behind the creation of LIV ...
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Jordan Spieth is like everyone else in golf right now. When trying to figure out if LIV golfers who left the PGA Tour will try to return, he doesn't mind saying he has no idea. Nobody does. "I think there's just too many unknowns for me to have a good gauge on what would happen," Spieth said Thursday. The announcement that Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund will stop funding LIV Golf after this year means some of the biggest names in the sport — Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Cameron Smith among them — may aim to return to the PGA Tour at some point, ...
The billionaires in Saudi Arabia are pulling the plug on LIV Golf. It won't be the first mega sports project they've given up on recently. Over the last several weeks, the Saudis have bailed on a Winter Olympics-style sports festival and sold one of their best soccer teams, all while shifting the strategy of their multibillion-dollar investment fund that bankrolls it all. The Saudi Public Investment Fund, helmed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, recently delivered a new prospectus outlining its strategy for 2026-30. The strategy focuses on more internal investment while ...
