Dana Evans (21 points) led an Aces bench that outscored the Mercury’s reserves 41-16 en route to a 89-86 win in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Friday night.
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Pete Carroll has coached 295 regular-season games. On Sunday against the Colts, the first-year Raiders coach risks an outcome that has happened to him only twice before.
A four-game losing streak.
Carroll has coached the Jets, Patriots, Seahawks, and now the Raiders. Nineteen total seasons as a head coach. And he has lost four in a row in 1994 with the Jets (the losing streak reached five) and four in a row in 2023 with the Seahawks.
The 3-1 Colts are favored by seven points.
After beating the Patriots to open the season, the Raiders have lost to the Chargers, Commanders, and Bears.
Folsom vs. Oak Ridge: Live score, updates from Sac-Joaquin Section finals rematch
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Folsom and Oak Ridge go at it with a Sierra Foothill League title on the line on Friday in a rematch of the 2024 CIF-SJS D1 championship.
Scroll down for a pregame overview followed by live scoring and updates from kickoff through postgame.
Pregame
After beating Rocklin two weeks ago and taking a bye week, Folsom controls its own fate in the SFL as usual.
De La Salle leads Cathedral Catholic: Live score, updates from California high school football game
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Two of California’s top high school football programs – both of which enter unbeaten – go at it on Friday in the state’s No. 1 game of the week as De La Salle hosts Cathedral Catholic.
Scroll down for a pregame overview followed by live scoring and updates from kickoff through postgame.
Pregame
During a week in which the onset of league play dominates most storylines, the No.
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WNBA Playoffs schedule 2025: Full bracket, times, TV channels, live streams to watch every series
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After a thrilling regular season, eight teams are left standing in their pursuit of a WNBA title.
The 2025 WNBA Playoffs will begin with a quadruple-header on Sunday, Sept. 14, and there’s no shortage of intrigue — especially since we’ll get more games than ever before, with the WNBA Finals extended to a best-of-seven series.
The Lynx roll into the playoffs as the No.
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Aprilia MotoGP star Marco Bezzecchi blitzed the all-time track record to take pole position for the Indonesian Grand Prix, while Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia struggled to ninth and 16th respectively.
Having already enjoyed a four-tenth margin over the rest of the field on Friday, Bezzecchi carried that momentum into qualifying, setting a blistering lap time of 1m28.832s to continue his strong run in the second half of the season.
The Italian was quick from the off in Q2, setting a benchmark of 1m29.396s on his first run.
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No. 18 Maryland men’s soccer has proven it can win games in a variety of ways this season. As part of their eight-game unbeaten streak, the Terps have come out victorious in low-scoring affairs and throttled some quality opposition.
While the Terps have found a formula to success this season, they didn’t have a path to victory Friday night on the road at UCLA. Despite generating 12 shots across the 90 minutes, Maryland only produced two shots on frame.
On a night where neither team could create any threatening chances, the clock struck zeroes with no goals to show for.
TORONTO — The Yankees settled on their Game 1 starter for the ALDS, picking Luis Gil over Will Warren.
“I feel like he’s ready for this and in line and trust him to handle the situation,” Aaron Boone said of Gil with the Yankees working out at Rogers Centre on Friday. The manager added that he wants to keep Warren as a bullpen option for now.
Gil only made 11 starts this season, as a spring training lat injury delayed his season debut until Aug. 3. He posted strong surface numbers, recording a 3.32 ERA over 57 innings.
The pork was pulled inside the Hearnes Center on Friday night, as Mizzou volleyball swept Arkansas 25-11, 25-20, 25-17.
The Tigers were superior hitters throughout the match, with 45 kills and only nine errors while hitting .371. By contrast, Arkansas finished with 34 kills and 19 attacking errors at .138 hitting percentage.
Mizzou volleyball gave up the first point of set number one. Afterwards they would not trail, going on an 8-0 run that propelled the Tigers to a 25-11 set win. The Mizzou offense was clicking on all cylinders with 12 kills and only one error with a .