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It was the Erie Otters, and not the Saginaw Spirit, who largely played Thursday like they were the Memorial Cup’s reigning champions.
The Otters, with one of the most productive 20 minutes in the Ontario Hockey League’s postseason history, claimed the opening game of the teams’ Western Conference first round series with an 8-5 road victory at the Dow Event Center.

Erie started the scoring with five goals in an exact five-minute span of the second period. Not done there, the visitors added three more for an unplayofflike 8-2 advantage by the second intermission.

How did the Bulls win that game? How did the Lakers lose it? How did Josh Giddey make that shot? (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)Michael Reaves via Getty Images

With all due respect to college basketball, no game had more madness Thursday than the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Chicago Bulls.
The Lakers lost to the 33-40 Bulls despite holding a 115-110 lead with 10 seconds to go. What followed was a preposterous sequence of events, culminating in a halfcourt buzzer-beater from Josh Giddey.

What’s the deal with Tyler O’Neill? 
The Baltimore Orioles outfielder holds a strange piece of MLB history as the guy almost guaranteed to homer on Opening Day, having done it five times in a row. 
This year, opening with a trip to face the Blue Jays, O’Neill did not disappoint, going yard in the third inning for a three-run home run. 
It marked his sixth consecutive Opening Day home run, placing O’Neill firmly atop this niche record.
Before him, Yogi Berra, Gary Carter, and Todd Hundley each hit home runs in four consecutive Opening Day games.

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The Indiana Pacers certainly didn’t need to go off on Thursday night, considering both the state of the Washington Wizards and the fact that they entered the final period with a more than 30-point lead.
But the Pacers left Capital One Arena with a blowout win and several new franchise records anyway.
The Pacers cruised to a 162-109 win over the Wizards on Thursday in what was a truly dominant outing. Their 162 points were the most scored by any team in the league so far this season, and set a new NBA franchise record for the most points scored in a single game.

Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal — the reigning American League Cy Young winner — left one too many fastballs in the middle of the strike zone.
Two-time All-Star Teoscar Hernández made him pay, crushing a first-pitch fastball for a three-run home run in the fifth inning. Fellow stars Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts joined Hernández on his trot around the bases after the biggest swing from the reigning World Series champions.
On Opening Day, Skubal’s middle-middle 97 mph fastball to Hernández made the difference.

Fast Company just released its updated 2025 list of the “world’s most innovative companies,” and it has some, uh, interesting inclusions. 
At the top of the list is Waymo, the autonomous, self-driving car company that’s become ubiquitous in some major cities. Sure, that makes sense. Number two is Nvidia, another understandable choice as one of the world’s most valuable companies and a leader in chips and computing applications. 
Number three is Nu Bank, a Brazilian-based bank with unique credit card offerings.

MIAMI (AP) — Tyler Herro scored 36 points, Davion Mitchell and Andrew Wiggins each added 16 and the Miami Heat beat the Atlanta Hawks 122-112 on Thursday night for their third straight win.
Bam Adebayo had 12 points and 10 rebounds for Miami, which trailed by 14 in the first quarter but controlled the second half.
Trae Young had 29 points and 12 assists for the Hawks, who got 17 points from Caris LeVert and 15 from Oneyka Okongwu.
The win moved the Heat (32-41) within three games of Atlanta (35-38) for the No. 7 seed in the Eastern Conference, both having nine games left to play.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jake Guentzel and Oliver Bjorkstrand scored two goals each, Andrei Vasilevskiy made 25 saves, and the Tampa Bay Lightning routed the Utah Hockey Club 8-0 on Thursday night.
Brayden Point, Nikita Kucherov, Gage Goncalves and Victor Hedman also scored for Tampa Bay, which won its second in a row and has won five of its last seven games. Kucherov also had three assists.
It was the fourth time this year Tampa Bay has scored eight goals in a game.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jiri Kulich scored twice as part of a five-goal second period, and the Buffalo Sabres routed Pittsburgh 7-3 on Thursday night in an outing Penguins captain Sidney Crosby broke an NHL record for point-per-game consistency he shared with Wayne Gretzky.
Buffalo won its fourth-straight home game with Tage Thompson, Alex Tuch, Peyton Krebs, Tyson Kozak each securing a goal and assist. Mattias Samuelsson also scored, and backup James Reimer made 22 saves in winning his third consecutive start.