Honouring hustle and heart

Miami (Ohio) beat SMU 89-79 on Wednesday night in the First Four for their first NCAA Tournament victory in 27 years, with Eian Elmer scoring 22 points and going 6 of 9 from three-point range as the undefeated 11th-seeded RedHawks (32-1) buried 16 threes to quiet doubters and advance to play No. 6 seed Tennessee…

Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic for the first time on Tuesday night, beating the United States 3-2 on Eugenio Suárez’s tiebreaking double in the ninth inning before a sellout crowd of 36,190 at loanDepot park, with the Americans losing their second straight final despite a star-studded roster featuring Aaron Judge, Bryce Harper, and Paul…

Venezuela overcame a 2-0 fourth-inning deficit on Monday night to beat Italy 4-2 and advance to its first-ever World Baseball Classic championship game, with Ronald Acuña Jr., Maikel Garcia, and Luis Arraez delivering run-scoring, two-out singles in a seventh-inning rally that broke the game open in front of a pro-Venezuelan sellout crowd, setting up a…

The United States beat the Dominican Republic 2-1 in a thrilling World Baseball Classic semifinal on Sunday, but the game ended in controversy when Mason Miller struck out Geraldo Perdomo on a full-count pitch that appeared below the strike zone with the tying run at third base, a call that would have been overturned by…

19-year-old Kimi Antonelli won his debut Formula One race at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday, delivering a confident and assured run for Mercedes to beat teammate George Russell and become the second youngest driver to win a race behind only Max Verstappen, while Lewis Hamilton finally claimed his first podium for Ferrari in third…

Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the NHL season after a knee-on-knee hit from Anaheim’s Radko Gudas, with Matthews’ agent calling the five-game suspension “laughable and preposterous” while teammates faced criticism for failing to defend their captain as he…

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander broke Wilt Chamberlain’s 63-year-old NBA record on Thursday by scoring 20 points for the 127th consecutive game, converting a 20-foot jumper against Boston in the third quarter to surpass Chamberlain’s mark of 126 straight 20-point games that had stood since January 1963, finishing with 35 points and nine assists in Oklahoma City’s 104-102…

Canada defeated Cuba 7-2 on Wednesday to advance past pool play at the World Baseball Classic for the first time in program history after 20 years and five previous tournament heartbreaks, with Cal Quantrill dominating for five innings and Otto Lopez delivering a two-run single in the sixth to secure Pool A and set up…

Bam Adebayo scored 83 points on Tuesday night in Miami’s 150-129 win over Washington, setting NBA records for free throws made and attempted in a game while claiming sole possession of second place on the league’s all-time single-game scoring list behind only Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game, finishing with 31 points in the first quarter, 43…

Five members of the Iranian women’s football team were granted humanitarian visas in Australia early Tuesday morning, with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke confirming the visas at 1:30am and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese offering assistance to other players saying help is here as the team remained in a Gold Coast hotel after their final Women’s…