June 23, 2026 4:18 am
MIAMI (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo is getting traded to the Miami Heat in a blockbuster move. Tyler Herro and several other players and draft picks are heading to the Milwaukee Bucks. Bobby Portis is also coming to Miami with Antetokounmpo. Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel’el Ware and Kasparas Jakucionis are going to the Bucks. Milwaukee is also receiving three first-round picks, including the 13th selection in Tuesday’s draft. The Heat now have another superstar as they pursue a fourth championship and an eighth trip to the NBA Finals since 2006.
June 23, 2026 4:19 am
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Lionel Messi now has the World Cup scoring record with 18 goals in his career after scoring twice in a 2-0 victory over Austria. He scored in the 38th minute and again in stoppage time after missing a penalty kick in the ninth minute Monday in Dallas. The goal for the record of 17 gave Argentina a 1-0 lead two days before Messi’s 39th birthday, and amid the concern of an ailing father back at home. It was the sixth consecutive World Cup game in which Messi has scored. He entered the game even with Germany striker Miroslav Klose, whose 16 was later matched by Frances’s Kylian Mbappé
June 22, 2026 4:27 am
DENVER (AP) — Nick Gonzalez and Bryan Reynolds homered to help the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Colorado Rockies 8-6 on Sunday. Gonzalez and Reynolds finished with two hits each to help Pittsburgh salvage the finale of the three-game series in what could have been a sweep. The Pirates lost the first two games despite having the tying and winning runs on second and third with one out in the ninth in both games. Pittsburgh starter Jared Jones left the game after he was struck on the right elbow on a comebacker to end the third inning. The ball deflected to Gonzalez at third, who threw out TJ Rumfield. The Pirates announced initial tests on the elbow were negative. Yohan Ramirez (5-2) took over in the fourth and tossed two scoreless innings.
June 22, 2026 4:29 am
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Wyndham Clark is the U.S. Open champion and it was harder work than he ever imagined. He was on the edge of all day of the greatest collapse in U.S. Open history because no one had ever lost a six-shot lead in this championship. Clark’s lead was down to one after five holes. But he held his nerve against Sam Burns and a Shinnecock Hills gallery that wanted anyone but him to win. Clark made a huge birdie on the 16th to take a two-shot lead. He two-putted from 50 feet for par to win his second Open title.
June 22, 2026 4:30 am
Matthew Tkachuk and Brady Tkachuk are about to team up in Florida, after the Panthers pulled off another summertime blockbuster. The Panthers and Ottawa have a deal where Florida sends four draft picks to the Senators for Brady Tkachuk. The picks were Florida’s first-rounder this year, No. 9 overall, along with two picks acquired earlier Sunday in the Panthers’ move to send Mackie Samoskevich to Seattle, and another first rounder in 2029. Brady Tkachuk has spent the entirety of his eight-year NHL career in Ottawa, and now he joins his brother and Olympic teammate in the place where Matthew Tkachuk has spent the last four seasons, winning two Stanley Cups.
June 21, 2026 7:15 am
DENVER (AP) — Jake McCarthy hit a leadoff inside-the-park home run off Paul Skenes and the Colorado Rockies survived another tense ninth inning to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 on Saturday night. Skenes (6-7) took a no-hitter into the seventh inning against Colorado on May 12, and hasn’t won since that outing. Tomoyuki Sugano (8-4) went six innings, and Jaden Hill picked up his second save. Pittsburgh, as it did Friday night, had the tying run on third with less that two outs in the ninth. Hill came on and hit Nick Gonzalez to load the bases before striking out Tyler Callihan. Jake Mangum then hit a grounder to third baseman Kyle Karros, and the game ended when umpires determined Karros was interfered with by Billy Cook. The game started with matching leadoff home runs. Spencer Horowitz blasted a 434-footer into the second deck in right field to start the night, his fifth career leadoff homer, and McCarthy answered with more flare. McCarthy drove a liner to center field that got by the diving Mangum and rolled to the wall. Callihan had trouble picking it up, allowing McCarthy to race around the bases and beat the relay throw home.
June 21, 2026 7:25 am
(AP) – The early results are in: This U.S men’s national team is for real in this World Cup. With a creative offensive attack producing goals in front of stadium-shaking home crowds, the Americans have already won their group and booked their place in the knockout round. A final group stage match against Turkey in Los Angeles awaits. The optimism and expectations of a deep run in the tournament are rising quickly.
June 21, 2026 7:26 am
TORONTO (AP) — Deniz Undav scored twice after being subbed on in the second half as Germany defeated Ivory Coast 2-1 on Saturday and clinched a spot in the knockout phase at the World Cup. Four minutes into stoppage time, Undav received a pass from Felix Nmecha in front of the net and rifled it past Ivory Coast goalkeeper Yahia Fofana to give the Germans a comeback win. Undav’s first goal of the match came after Nadiem Amiri sent in a long ball – that striker Kai Havertz let pass him by – onto the boot of Undav, who slammed it into the back of the net at the 68th minute. Both Amiri and Undav had subbed on eight minutes earlier.
June 21, 2026 7:24 am
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Wyndham Clark had the right answer for a tough Shinnecock Hills. He was even tougher. Clark shot a 70 in demanding conditions with a collection of big par saves. He wound up with a six-shot lead in the U.S. Open over Scottie Scheffler and three others going into the final round. No one has ever lost a six-shot lead after 54 holes in U.S. Open history. Scheffler shot a 69. That was one of only two rounds under par. He’s going after a little history himself. A win on his 30th birthday gives him the career Grand Slam.
June 20, 2026 4:00 am
SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. national soccer team advanced to the knockout round at the World Cup despite the absence of injured forward Christian Pulisic with a 2-0 victory over Australia. A deep U.S. roster overcame Pulisic’s absence to clinch a knockout berth after only two matches for the first time. Pulisic missed Friday’s match because of a calf injury. The U.S. took a 1-0 lead in the 11th minute after a run down the left sideline by Folarin Balogun led to an own-goal. Alex Freeman gave the Americans a 2-0 lead in the 43rd minute. Freeman headed in a deflected shot for his first career World Cup goal.
