Warriors coach Steve Kerr said the Rockets’ supposed edge because they’re the hungrier team doesn’t change his opinion on his team’s chances heading into the Western Conference finals.
The fury of yet another comeback by the Yankees threatened to flatten the spirits of the Red Sox in what would have been a tough three-game sweep.
Zack Greinke’s two-out single to left in the bottom of the fifth off Tanner Roark scored Ketel Marte from second and gave the D-backs a 1-0 lead. Greinke, though, wasn’t done as he got himself into scoring position by stealing second base. It was the sixth steal of his career and his first since June 23, 2016.
Paul Stastny and Mark Scheifele each scored two goals to propel Winnipeg past Nashville and into the Western Conference Final.
J.D. Martinez didn’t allow the Red Sox any time to get deflated after the Yankees had stormed back in the bottom of the seventh with four runs to tie the game and turn the home crowd into a loud frenzy.
It’ll be Winnipeg vs. Vegas in the Western Conference Final.
Predators goalie and Vezina Trophy finalist Pekka Rinne was yanked midway through the first period of the team’s Game 7 loss to the Jets.
Winnipeg scored two early goals on Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne, whose removal didn’t change much as the Jets reached the West finals.
The crowd that followed Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler at the Players Championship saw some bad golf and, according to them, bad shirt choices. (Hint, that’s you, Phil.)
Dustin Fowler’s Major League debut ended in cruelly abrupt fashion last June 29, as the outfielder — then playing for the Yankees — violently slammed into a wall down the right-field line at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, sustaining an open rupture of the patellar tendon in his right knee.
