MLB – Major League Baseball – Regular Season
Yesterday
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Chicago Cubs 3
Dodgers 6, Cubs 3 – Ohtani hits solo HR, leading Dodgers’ powerful offense to 6-3 win over the Cubs
Shohei Ohtani hit a solo homer in his return to the Tokyo Dome, Roki Sasaki threw three eventful innings in his big-league debut and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 to sweep the two-game series in Japan. Kiké Hernández hit a two-run homer and Tommy Edman added a solo shot. Ohtani’s homer in the fifth barely cleared the right-center fence and the call was reviewed by umpires before being confirmed, giving the Dodgers a 6-2 lead. Sasaki gave up one run and one hit while striking out three, but also walked five batters, including a free pass that forced in a run.
MLB – Major League Baseball – Spring Training
Yesterday
Boston Red Sox 6, Detroit Tigers 4
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Chicago White Sox 4
Today
Los Angeles Angels at Chicago White Sox, 4:05 p.m.
Tigers are off
NBA – National Basketball Association
Last Night
Detroit Pistons 116, Miami Heat 113
Indiana Pacers 135, Dallas Mavericks 131
Phoenix Suns 127, Chicago Bulls 121
Pistons 116, Heat 113 – Cunningham banks in a winning 3, Pistons send Heat to their 9th straight loss, 116-113
Cade Cunningham banked in a 3-pointer with less than a second remaining, giving the Detroit Pistons a 116-113 win over Miami and sending the Heat to their ninth consecutive loss. Cunningham had his ninth triple-double of the season — 25 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists for the Pistons, who trailed for most of the second half and never led by more than two until the final second. Bam Adebayo finished with 30 points, nine rebounds and eight assists for the Heat, who are stuck in their longest losing streak since an 11-game slide during the 2007-08 season.
Pacers 135, Mavericks 131 – Pascal Siakam scores 29 points, and late steal to help Pacers rally past Mavs 135-131
Pascal Siakam scored 29 points, Bennedict Mathurin scored 16 of his 23 in the fourth quarter and the Indiana Pacers rallied from an 11-point deficit in the final six minutes to beat the short-handed Dallas Mavericks 135-131. The Pacers retook the lead with 14.7 seconds left when Siakam stole the ball and a wide open Andrew Nembhard knocked down a 3-pointer to make it 131-130. Indiana sealed the win with free throws. P.J. Washington Jr. finished with 26 points to lead the Mavericks, who had six of their eight available players score in double figures. Dallas has lost nine of 10.
Suns 127, Bulls 121 – Booker scores 41 to lead Phoenix past Chicago 127-121
Devin Booker scored 41 points, including 20 in the fourth quarter, and the Phoenix Suns held off the Chicago Bulls 127-121. Kevin Durant had 26 points and eight assists and Nick Richards had 18 points, nine rebounds and three blocks as the Suns won for the third time in their last four games. Coby White and Nikola Vucevic led the Bulls with 24 points each and Josh Giddey had 22. The win moved the Suns into 10th place in the Western Conference standings and into the play-in tournament picture.
Tonight
Brooklyn Nets at Indiana Pacers, 7:00 p.m.
Chicago Bulls at Sacramento Kings, 10:00 p.m.
NCAAMBB – Men’s College Basketball – NCAA Tournament
Last Night
First Four – UD Arena, Dayton, Ohio
16 Mount St. Mary’s 83, 16 American 72
11 Xavier 86, 11 Texas 80
Tonight
South Regional – First Round – Ball Arena, Denver, CO
5 Michigan vs. 12 U.C. – San Diego, 10:00 p.m. News/Talk/Sports 94.9 WSJM 9:45
NCAAWBB – Women’s College Basketball – NCAA Tournament
Last Night
First Four
11 Iowa State 68, 11 Princeton 63
16 Southern 68, 16 UC San Diego 56
Tonight
First Four
11 Washington vs. 11 Columbia, 7:00 p.m.
16 William & Mary vs. 16 High Point, 9:00 p.m.
NCAAWBB – JuJu Watkins, Hannah Hidalgo headline women’s AP All-America team.
JuJu Watkins of Southern California and Hannah Hidalgo of Notre Dame are on The Associated Press women’s basketball All-America team for second straight year, becoming the third and fourth players to earn that honor in their first two seasons. The pair of sophomores were joined on the first team by Madison Booker of Texas, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and UCLA’s Lauren Betts. Watkins, Bueckers and Betts were unanimous choices. Betts is the first player from UCLA to earn first-team honors.
NHL – National Hockey League
Tonight
Los Angeles Kings at Chicago Blackhawks, 8:30 p.m.
NFL – Banning tush push and changes to playoff seeding among proposed NFL rule changes
The Green Bay Packers have formally proposed a rule change to ban the tush push and the Detroit Lions proposed that playoff seeding be done based on record instead of automatically placing division winners in the top four spots. Teams made several other proposals released Wednesday that will be added to additional ones made by the competition committee to be considered at the league meetings later this month, including a change to the overtime rule and the so-called legal tampering period in free agency. Any rule change must be approved by 24 out of 32 team owners.
NFL – Burrow, Cousins and Goff will be featured on 2nd season of Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’
Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow, Atlanta’s Kirk Cousins and Detroit’s Jared Goff will be featured on the second season of Netflix’s “Quarterback” series. The streamer announced the series will debut in July with a promotional video released on Wednesday. “Quarterback” debuted in 2023 and was one of Netflix’s top-streamed series. Last year, NFL Films, Omaha Productions and 2PM Productions had the series “Receiver,” following five wide receivers and quarterbacks throughout the 2023 season. Burrow, Cousins and Goff had their 2024 season chronicled on and off the field.
NFL – Bears sign Ravens return specialist Devin Duvernay, re-sign RB Travis Homer
The Chicago Bears have signed former Baltimore Ravens All-Pro return specialist Devin Duvernay to a one-year contract and re-signed running back and special teams contributor Travis Homer to a one-year deal. Duvernay has 1,053 yards on punt returns and 2,162 yards and two touchdowns on kickoff returns over four seasons with Baltimore and one with Jacksonville. He also has 977 yards receiving. A third-round draft pick by Baltimore out of Texas in 2020, Duvernay was first-team, All-Pro the following year. The Jaguars released him two weeks ago. Homer has 476 yards rushing and 475 receiving in four seasons with Seattle and two with Chicago.
NFL – Vikings committed to J.J. McCarthy as starter after considering Aaron Rodgers
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have committed to moving forward with J.J. McCarthy as their starting quarterback this season after deciding not to offer Aaron Rodgers a contract, according to a person with knowledge of the decision. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Vikings were not commenting publicly on their plans. Rodgers was released last week by the New York Jets. The departure of Sam Darnold left the Vikings ready to turn their offense over to McCarthy. He was the 10th pick in the 2024 draft whose rookie year was spent rehabilitating from knee surgery.
Defense Department webpage on Jackie Robinson goes down, then returns amid DEI purge
A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military service has been restored. That’s after it was missing earlier Wednesday. The development comes after a page honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner was momentarily taken down amid the department’s campaign to strip out content singling out the contributions by women and minority groups, which the Trump administration considers “DEI.” A Pentagon spokesman says when content is removed that is beyond the scope of the directive, that is corrected. The page on Robinson includes biographical information about his Army service during World War II.
MHSAA – Michigan High School Athletic Association
Last Night
Girls Soccer
Lakeshore 2, Vicksburg 2 – TIE
Berrien Springs 3, Parchment 0
Battle Creek Lakeview 5, Plainwell 2
Buchanan 8, Constantine 0
Fennville 8, Bloomingdale 0
Kalamazoo Central 5, Marshall 2
Portage Northern 8, Schoolcraft 2
Baseball
Kalamazoo Hackett 10, Paw Paw 0 – Game 1
Kalamazoo Hackett 11, Paw Paw 8 – Game 2-F/5
Marshall 10, Sturgis 1
Softball
Berrien Springs 7, Sturgis 3 – Game 1
Sturgis 6, Berrien Springs 4 – Game 2
Today
Girls Basketball – State Semifinals
Division 3 at Michigan State University Breslin Center
Calumet vs. Rochester Hills Lutheran Northwest, 12:00 p.m.
Brandywine (27-0) vs. Ypsilanti Arbor Prep (15-12), 2:00 p.m.
Division 4 at Michigan State University Breslin Center
Ewen Trout Creek vs. Concord, 5:30 p.m.
Fowler vs. Genesee Christian, 7:30 p.m.
Girls Soccer
St. Joseph at Zeeland West, 6:45 p.m.
Saugatuck at Bloomingdale, 5:00 p.m.
Kalamazoo Christian at Otsego, 6:30 p.m.
Delton-Kellogg at South Haven, 5:00 p.m.
Baseball
Michigan Lutheran at Coloma, 4:30 p.m.
Softball
South Haven at Michigan Lutheran, 4:15 p.m. (DH)
