National Sports

MIAMI (AP) — Somewhere, Gregg Popovich must be pleased.

MIAMI (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 26 points, Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart each added 24 and the Boston Celtics held off a frantic rally in the final seconds to beat the Miami Heat 100-96 on Sunday night and reach the NBA Finals for the first time sin

ESTEVAN, Sask. — For more than two periods Sunday it looked like Zachary Roy was going to be unbeatable in the Centennial Cup championship final.

SEATTLE — A goal by Lukas Svejkovsky at 3:28 of the third period held up as the winner Sunday as the Seattle Thunderbirds defeated the visiting Kamloops Blazers 2-1 to force a seventh and deciding game in the tight Western Hockey League playoff serie

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Eun-Hee Ji won the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play on Sunday for a spot next week in the U.S. Women's Open, beating Ayaka Furue 3 and 2 in cooler conditions at Shadow Creek. Ji, the 2009 U.S.

WINDSOR, Ont. — Badly outshot, and at times badly outplayed, the Flint Firebirds still made the best of limited opportunities Sunday to knock off the host Windsor Spitfires 4-3 and grab a 3-2 lead in their Ontario Hockey League series.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Shohei Ohtani crushed two early homers, but they didn't stand up. Not against the all-day relentlessness of the Toronto Blue Jays' lineup, and not against the ineptitude of the Los Angeles Angels' pitching staff.

TAMPERE — Sakari Manninen scored in overtime to lift host Finland to a 4-3 win over Canada in a wild gold-medal game at the men’s World Hockey Championship on Sunday. Finland also got two goals from Mikael Granlund and another from Joel Armia.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Sam Burns has a winning moment of his own at Colonial.

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Ten months ago, Steve Alker was about to turn 50 without any guarantees of getting on the PGA Tour Champions because his professional career left plenty to be desired.