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Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 32 points and the Toronto Raptors won the first NBA Finals game played outside the U.S., beating the Golden State Warriors 118-109 on Thursday night. The Raptors hardly looked like newcomers to the NBA’s biggest stage, controlling the action most of the way against a Golden State team beginning […]

Basketball fans are used to seeing Drake on the sidelines at Raptors games, but at the NBA Finals in Toronto, the rapper wore an outfit that was a wink at Warrior Steph Curry. On Thursday, the “God’s Plan” rapper arrived at Game 1, between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors, in a Raptors Dell

The NBA is closely monitoring the ongoing trade dispute and tariff rift between the U.S. and China, though the league is not yet worried that it will interfere with any business happening with the world’s most populous nation. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver even went as far Thursday night to suggest that the sport could provide

Japan’s Mamiko Higa shot a bogey-free 6-under 65 for the lowest round in a U.S. Women’s Open debut Thursday and took a one-shot lead over American amateur Gina Kim and Germany’s Esther Henseleit. Kim, a sophomore on Duke’s golf team, holed out for eagle from a fairway bunker on her next-to-last hole, the eighth at

The Latest from the NBA Finals and Thursday’s Game 1 between the Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors (all times local): 7:05 p.m. Larry Bird says Kawhi Leonard is “playing as good as anyone’s ever played in this league through the playoffs.” But Bird also knows the Toronto Raptors face a new level of pressure

The Marlins were ahead on the scoreboard and closing fast in the standings when the Giants finally came up with a couple of big hits to end a skid. Brandon Crawford delivered a tiebreaking two-run double in the eighth inning, and San Francisco broke a seven-game losing streak by rallying past Miami 3-1 Thursday. “You

The odds of 30-1 say it all. Andy Ruiz barely was on anyone’s heavyweight radar when he was summoned as a replacement to fight champion Anthony Joshua. On Saturday, massive underdog Ruiz promises he could be the next Buster Douglas. “I’ve been an underdog all my life,” Ruiz said Thursday in the final news conference

Dare Sutton and Sam Bussanich watched the horses run at Keeneland Racecourse and a crazy idea came to mind. Sutton, 24, suggested they buy one. Bussanich was game. “We’re both young,” said Bussanich, 21. “We both make stupid decisions. Why not?” They soon discovered buying a horse was too lofty a goal, but that conversation

In the meantime, Green schooled the media at a news conference in Toronto Wednesday on how to be great ― at anything, really. “As a competitor, if you’re trying to do something meaningful, if you don’t have the mindset that you are the best ever, you’ve failed already,” he said in the clip, shared by

Golden State coach Steve Kerr says center DeMarcus Cousins is available for Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night. Kerr made the announcement at the team’s shootaround practice Thursday. Cousins has not been on the Warriors’ active roster since injuring his right quadriceps muscle early in Game 2 of the Warriors’ opening-round series