Sport Leafs wary of expectations rising too quickly after 'step' forward this season While they did go a long way to silencing their critics, who said they were too young and inexperienced without the puck to make the playoffs and hang in against a better team, the concerns expressed about Toronto's blue line were not unfounded. Mitchell Trubisky: Trade shows Chicago Bears 'believe in me' If Trubisky becomes a franchise quarterback, no one will remember how much they gave up to draft him. The San Francisco 49ers are being credited with pulling off possibly one of the greatest heists in draft history after trading out of the No. Blue Jays place Aaron Sanchez on 10-day disabled list Such light-hearted moments for the Blue Jays have been hard to come by, and Monday's spanking of the young Yankees was by no means easy. Bautista went 2-for-4 with a walk. They hadn't dropped two straight since losing three in a row April 5-8. But Estrada quashed the rally by getting Greg Bird to roll a double play ball. Welcome the King: Washington CB Kevin King to Packers The Packers traded out of the first round with Cleveland on Thursday, gaining the Brown's second round selection (#33) and their fourth round pick. In fact, Montgomery , Williams, Jones and Aaron Ripkowski could be the favorites to be the four backs on Green Bay's 53-man roster to start 2017. Steelers give Brown help, draft WR Smith-Schuster He was named first team All-American honors by Sports Illustrated and second team honors by The Associated Press for his performance in the 2016 season. "He tested extremely well at the combine, and he plugs in much better in the Steelers' 3-4 attack than he would have with a 4-3 scheme". It wouldn't surprise me if Watt became an above-average contributor for a playoff team as a rookie. Dellavedova, Maker help Bucks beat Raptors Milwaukee set the tone early jumping out to a 9-2 lead. Khris Middleton has found his groove. Whether it was their mental approach or schematic adjustments, they looked like they had figured out this playoff business quickly. What about the Raptors? As the series goes on, his free throw percentage will go up while his jumpers will not fall quite so often. The Bucks looked every bit the part of a battle-tested veteran squad in Game 3, even though they're one of the most inexperienced groups ... Moment of truth has arrived for Spurs, says Chelsea's Conte Sure, but that is football. The onus will be on Tottenham at Wembley and a win for Pochettino's side may just blow open the title race, despite the tie not having a statistical effect on the Premier League title race. Chelsea's keeper missed the Manchester United defeat with an ankle injury. The defender featured in Chelsea's previous FA Cup wins over Brentford and Wolves earlier in the competition and is poised to face Spurs at Wembley. Kevin Durant should sit out entire series if he needs to Though the Golden State Warriors are still heavy favorites to win this year's National Basketball Association championship, Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr knows better than to roll with the numbers. Durant suffered the injury in the third quarter of Sunday's 121-109 win but was able to continue playing. Game three is in Atlanta on Saturday as the Wizards have won five in a row over the Hawks. Golden State Warriors: Kevin Durant questionable for Game 2 with strained calf Trail Balzers are struggling to get their win over the conference top. Kevin Durant put up 32 points and 10 rebounds, but suffered a calf strain in the win and is questionable for tonight's contest. In earlier, happier times , the Blazers led 9-4 before the Warriors went on a 14-0 blitz that culminated into a 20-2 house-of-horrors run the Blazers had so far avoided in the series. Browns have zeroed in on choice with No. 1 draft pick The Cleveland Browns are coming off a 1-15 season. There is a good chance that Osweiler will either be cut or traded. Though they too are looking for a quarterback, new general manager John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan are ready to get Garrett if the Browns pass, USA Today reported . One down, three to go for Bucks against Toronto When an opportunity to drive presented itself, he took it, but he didn't always look to finish in a crowd of Bucks around the basket. Both teams went on runs in the third quarter with Milwaukee answering Toronto. "He's a heck of a player", DeRozan said of Antetokounmpo. Raps win and the Bucks won't be staring death in the face, but she's winked at them . Bucks win and the Raptors have a serious issue on hand. Isco's late strike help Real Madrid sink Sporting Gijon in La Liga Isco's outstanding performance saved Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane from paying a heavy price for resting nearly all his first-choice players, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, for important matches against Bayern Munich and Barcelona. Ronaldo resting, Isco's 2 goals keeps Madrid on title track Isco capped a stunning individual display with a stoppage time victor as Real once again showed their spirt of champions to twice come from behind to beat Sporting Gijon 3-2. Isco's match-winning goal , a stunning 90th minute effort, saw him work an inch of space on the edge of the area before lashing a right-footed effort into the bottom corner, leaving Sporting goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar helpless. Ronaldo resting, Isco's 2 goals keeps Madrid on title track Isco capped a stunning individual display with a stoppage time victor as Real once again showed their spirt of champions to twice come from behind to beat Sporting Gijon 3-2. Isco's match-winning goal , a stunning 90th minute effort, saw him work an inch of space on the edge of the area before lashing a right-footed effort into the bottom corner, leaving Sporting goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar helpless. Rondo guides Bulls to 2-0 lead over Celtics The Bulls took the opener, thanks to an incredible second-half performance from superstar forward Jimmy Butler . Avery Bradley , in particular, struggled quite a bit in the first two games at TD Garden. That type of play from supporting players is what the Celtics will need to climb back into this series and play like the higher seed. But Paul Zipser picked up the slack in Game 2, scoring 16 points in 29 minutes. Wall scores playoff-best 32 as Wizards beat Hawks in Game 1 Kelly Oubre Jr, who played in his first playoff game, said after the game that he felt the home crowd was a big piece to the Wizards' Game 1 win. That's good for him, it's good for the Hawks , and it's good for all of us National Basketball Association fans who don't have to deal with Howard's annoying public persona anymore now that he's settled into normalcy. Serena Williams is pregnant Fans loved his willingness to talk back to power or point out hypocrisy among liberal politicians or media members. In fact, just two days ago, on April 17, the queen of tennis posted a super sweet Instagram of her and her man on the beach. Carrie Underwood Stuns with National Anthem Performance Ahead of NHL Playoff Game They were down 3-0 and they go to the finals. He also has some qualities that you just can't teach, though. They lost for reasons that probably have kept general manager Stan Bowman up the past week even later than National Hockey League start times, reasons the Hawks likely will have to face sooner rather than later. JJ Watt huge fan of Rockets guard Patrick Beverley The Thunder generated just four second-chance points and other than Westbrook (who was 3-of-11) the rest of the roster made just 6-of-18 3-pointers. In the process, Westbrook recorded 42 triple-doubles on the year, breaking Robertson's mark of 41. Chicago Cubs aced out by Madison Bumgarner, San Francisco Giants After a ninth-inning walk, he struck out Crawford - his fourth of the game - to end it with his 102nd pitch. Bumgarner has a 2.14 ERA in his career in the postseason, the best ERA among active pitchers with at least 9 postseason starts. 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Leafs wary of expectations rising too quickly after 'step' forward this season While they did go a long way to silencing their critics, who said they were too young and inexperienced without the puck to make the playoffs and hang in against a better team, the concerns expressed about Toronto's blue line were not unfounded.
Mitchell Trubisky: Trade shows Chicago Bears 'believe in me' If Trubisky becomes a franchise quarterback, no one will remember how much they gave up to draft him. The San Francisco 49ers are being credited with pulling off possibly one of the greatest heists in draft history after trading out of the No.
Blue Jays place Aaron Sanchez on 10-day disabled list Such light-hearted moments for the Blue Jays have been hard to come by, and Monday's spanking of the young Yankees was by no means easy. Bautista went 2-for-4 with a walk. They hadn't dropped two straight since losing three in a row April 5-8. But Estrada quashed the rally by getting Greg Bird to roll a double play ball.
Welcome the King: Washington CB Kevin King to Packers The Packers traded out of the first round with Cleveland on Thursday, gaining the Brown's second round selection (#33) and their fourth round pick. In fact, Montgomery , Williams, Jones and Aaron Ripkowski could be the favorites to be the four backs on Green Bay's 53-man roster to start 2017.
Steelers give Brown help, draft WR Smith-Schuster He was named first team All-American honors by Sports Illustrated and second team honors by The Associated Press for his performance in the 2016 season. "He tested extremely well at the combine, and he plugs in much better in the Steelers' 3-4 attack than he would have with a 4-3 scheme". It wouldn't surprise me if Watt became an above-average contributor for a playoff team as a rookie.
Dellavedova, Maker help Bucks beat Raptors Milwaukee set the tone early jumping out to a 9-2 lead. Khris Middleton has found his groove. Whether it was their mental approach or schematic adjustments, they looked like they had figured out this playoff business quickly. What about the Raptors? As the series goes on, his free throw percentage will go up while his jumpers will not fall quite so often. The Bucks looked every bit the part of a battle-tested veteran squad in Game 3, even though they're one of the most inexperienced groups ...
Moment of truth has arrived for Spurs, says Chelsea's Conte Sure, but that is football. The onus will be on Tottenham at Wembley and a win for Pochettino's side may just blow open the title race, despite the tie not having a statistical effect on the Premier League title race. Chelsea's keeper missed the Manchester United defeat with an ankle injury. The defender featured in Chelsea's previous FA Cup wins over Brentford and Wolves earlier in the competition and is poised to face Spurs at Wembley.
Kevin Durant should sit out entire series if he needs to Though the Golden State Warriors are still heavy favorites to win this year's National Basketball Association championship, Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr knows better than to roll with the numbers. Durant suffered the injury in the third quarter of Sunday's 121-109 win but was able to continue playing. Game three is in Atlanta on Saturday as the Wizards have won five in a row over the Hawks.
Golden State Warriors: Kevin Durant questionable for Game 2 with strained calf Trail Balzers are struggling to get their win over the conference top. Kevin Durant put up 32 points and 10 rebounds, but suffered a calf strain in the win and is questionable for tonight's contest. In earlier, happier times , the Blazers led 9-4 before the Warriors went on a 14-0 blitz that culminated into a 20-2 house-of-horrors run the Blazers had so far avoided in the series.
Browns have zeroed in on choice with No. 1 draft pick The Cleveland Browns are coming off a 1-15 season. There is a good chance that Osweiler will either be cut or traded. Though they too are looking for a quarterback, new general manager John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan are ready to get Garrett if the Browns pass, USA Today reported .
One down, three to go for Bucks against Toronto When an opportunity to drive presented itself, he took it, but he didn't always look to finish in a crowd of Bucks around the basket. Both teams went on runs in the third quarter with Milwaukee answering Toronto. "He's a heck of a player", DeRozan said of Antetokounmpo. Raps win and the Bucks won't be staring death in the face, but she's winked at them . Bucks win and the Raptors have a serious issue on hand.
Isco's late strike help Real Madrid sink Sporting Gijon in La Liga Isco's outstanding performance saved Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane from paying a heavy price for resting nearly all his first-choice players, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, for important matches against Bayern Munich and Barcelona.
Ronaldo resting, Isco's 2 goals keeps Madrid on title track Isco capped a stunning individual display with a stoppage time victor as Real once again showed their spirt of champions to twice come from behind to beat Sporting Gijon 3-2. Isco's match-winning goal , a stunning 90th minute effort, saw him work an inch of space on the edge of the area before lashing a right-footed effort into the bottom corner, leaving Sporting goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar helpless.
Ronaldo resting, Isco's 2 goals keeps Madrid on title track Isco capped a stunning individual display with a stoppage time victor as Real once again showed their spirt of champions to twice come from behind to beat Sporting Gijon 3-2. Isco's match-winning goal , a stunning 90th minute effort, saw him work an inch of space on the edge of the area before lashing a right-footed effort into the bottom corner, leaving Sporting goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar helpless.
Rondo guides Bulls to 2-0 lead over Celtics The Bulls took the opener, thanks to an incredible second-half performance from superstar forward Jimmy Butler . Avery Bradley , in particular, struggled quite a bit in the first two games at TD Garden. That type of play from supporting players is what the Celtics will need to climb back into this series and play like the higher seed. But Paul Zipser picked up the slack in Game 2, scoring 16 points in 29 minutes.
Wall scores playoff-best 32 as Wizards beat Hawks in Game 1 Kelly Oubre Jr, who played in his first playoff game, said after the game that he felt the home crowd was a big piece to the Wizards' Game 1 win. That's good for him, it's good for the Hawks , and it's good for all of us National Basketball Association fans who don't have to deal with Howard's annoying public persona anymore now that he's settled into normalcy.
Serena Williams is pregnant Fans loved his willingness to talk back to power or point out hypocrisy among liberal politicians or media members. In fact, just two days ago, on April 17, the queen of tennis posted a super sweet Instagram of her and her man on the beach.
Carrie Underwood Stuns with National Anthem Performance Ahead of NHL Playoff Game They were down 3-0 and they go to the finals. He also has some qualities that you just can't teach, though. They lost for reasons that probably have kept general manager Stan Bowman up the past week even later than National Hockey League start times, reasons the Hawks likely will have to face sooner rather than later.
JJ Watt huge fan of Rockets guard Patrick Beverley The Thunder generated just four second-chance points and other than Westbrook (who was 3-of-11) the rest of the roster made just 6-of-18 3-pointers. In the process, Westbrook recorded 42 triple-doubles on the year, breaking Robertson's mark of 41.
Chicago Cubs aced out by Madison Bumgarner, San Francisco Giants After a ninth-inning walk, he struck out Crawford - his fourth of the game - to end it with his 102nd pitch. Bumgarner has a 2.14 ERA in his career in the postseason, the best ERA among active pitchers with at least 9 postseason starts. The 27-year-old has won three of his last four starts, including a solid showing Sunday against Atlanta in which he allowed three runs and five hits over seven innings.
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