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When João Félix first found himself in the same locker room as Cristiano Ronaldo, he said it felt like being in a video game. “It was weird. I had never seen him live, so close to me like that,” the Portuguese teenage sensation said. “I told my friends later that it looked like I was […]

TORONTO (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 31 points, Klay Thompson added 26 and they led a season-saving surge that gave the Golden State Warriors a 106-105 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Monday night in Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The Splash Brothers combined for three straight 3-pointers in the closing minutes after Toronto

Mike Trout hit a tying two-run homer in the seventh, and Shohei Ohtani slid home from third with the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning of the Los Angeles Angels’ 5-3 comeback victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night. After Hyun-Jin Ryu pitched the Dodgers to a 3-1 lead through six innings and

Golden Star Warriors star Kevin Durant returned from an injury on Monday night, but it didn’t last long during Game 5 of the NBA Finals at the Toronto Raptors’ arena.   Durant, recovering from a calf injury, scored 11 points before reinjuring the calf early in the second quarter. As he limped off the court, Toronto fans rose

The Arizona Diamondbacks hit three straight home runs to open the game and finished with a team-record eight in a 13-8 win over the Philadelphia Phillies in a homer-happy game on Monday night. Scott Kingery hit two of Philadelphia’s five home runs for the combined MLB record of 13 homers in one game. Jarrod Dyson,

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — David Ortiz was back in Boston on Monday night for medical care, a day after authorities said the former Red Sox slugger affectionately known as Big Papi was ambushed by a gunman at a bar in his native Dominican Republic. A plane carrying the 43-year-old retired athlete landed after

Michael Wacha pitched six scoreless innings in his return to the St. Louis Cardinals’ rotation Monday, and they broke a three-game losing streak by beating Miami 4-1. Wacha (4-2), who was briefly demoted to the bullpen, benefited from three double plays and a pickoff in his first start since May 22. The former All-Star allowed

The Latest from Monday night’s Game 5 of the NBA Finals (all times local): 8:50 p.m. “The Great One” is in Toronto to see if the Raptors can win their first one. Hockey icon Wayne Gretzky is among the celebrities at Game 5 of the NBA Finals in Toronto. Several other big names from the

Former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. has been convicted of raping a 58-year-old homeless woman last year north of San Diego. A jury returned the verdict Monday in San Diego Superior Court in Vista but was continuing to deliberate on two more counts of rape involving a hitchhiker and an unconscious teenage girl. The jury

The Latest on the NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway (all times EDT): 6:55 p.m. Austin Dillon won the second stage of Monday’s NASCAR Cup Series race, taking advantage of a cycle of pit stops in the final few laps. Pole winner Joey Logano has led 110 laps of this 200-lap, 400-mile race