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Castleford Tigers: Cini, Ravalawa, Mapapalangi, McIntosh, Qaraqare, Asi, Weaver, Atoni, Hood, Westerman, Lane, Hirst, Stimson.
Replacements: Lawler, Ashworth, Hall, Golding.
Huddersfield Giants: Patolo, Woolford, Rogers, O’Donnell, Billington, Powell, Russell, Lolohea, Halsall, Milne, Gagai, Zenon, Flanagan.
Replacements: Burgess, King, Rush, English.
Referee: Matty Lynn.
Villa are fortunate others have stumbled sooner and for longer this season – ensuring they have maintained a decent grip on third place until now.
Chelsea have dropped 17 points from winning positions at Stamford Bridge and 19 points overall in the Premier League this season.
They go to Arsenal on Sunday hoping to capitalise on Villa’s latest slip – before travelling to Villa Park on Wednesday for a game which could define both teams’ seasons.
Lille, in the Europa League on March 12, and a trip to Old Trafford on 15 March will then loom large for Villa.
Individual form has also plummeted, with Ollie Watkins scoring just once in 11 games – reminiscent of the spell where he scored only one goal in the opening 19 matches – while Morgan Rogers is on a similar streak.
The slump was sparked by injuries to Boubacar Kamara, John McGinn and Youri Tielemans last month as Villa’s lack of depth was exposed.
Players argued between themselves as Ezri Konsa – who also had a flashpoint with fans at the end – and Amadou Onana urged Emi Buendia to leave the pitch quicker as he was substituted.
The cracks are showing and even the players are admitting to feeling the pressure.
“It does weigh on us but it shouldn’t,” said Rogers. “We deserve to be here and we should not forget that.
“Our run lately has not been as good as usual but that is the battle of the Premier League. We are going to get back to our good run of wins.
“We set our standards high and we have the ability to win every game. Obviously that is not realistic but we are playing good football as a whole and there is nothing to worry about.
“They [the next fixtures] are the games you want to play and, with so much on the line, we need to show why we deserve to be where we are.”
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Former Major League Baseball pitcher Dan Serafini was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday for the 2021 first-degree murder of his father-in-law and attempted murder of his mother-in-law in Lake Tahoe.
Serafini, who pitched for six MLB teams during a 22-year professional career that ended in 2013, killed Gary Spohr, 70, and seriously injured Wendy Wood during a burglary of their home on the west shore of Lake Tahoe.
He was convicted in July after a six-week trial and made two unsuccessful appeals, denied a new trial only a week ago. During his ruling, Placer County Superior Court Judge Garen J. Horst said Serafini, 52, was a “liar, manipulator, arrogant and someone who has a loose relationship with the truth.”
The jury also found Serafini guilty of first-degree burglary and found the special circumstance allegations of lying-in-wait and felony murder, as well as related firearm allegations, to be true.
Serafini broke into the Spohr’s home while the couple was boating with their grandsons and daughter Erin Spohr — Serafini’s wife. He waited in a closet until his family left and shot them both in the head upon their return, according to prosecutors.
Wood took her own life in 2022 at age 69. After a year of rehabilitation after the shooting, she had regained her ability to read and write, as well as to hike and ride a bicycle, according to her daughter, Adrienne Spohr. But she battled disability and depression.
Samantha Scott, a nanny employed by Serafini and Erin Spohr to watch their two young children, pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the crimes. She testified in 2025 that she drove Serafini to the crime scene, believing it was for a drug deal.
Scott also testified that she saw Serafini with a gun and a silencer made of PVC pipe in his backpack. She testified that she dropped him off near the Spohr’s home and later saw him discard items from his backpack after they crossed the Nevada state line.
“When I learned that my sister’s husband Daniel Serafini and sister’s close friend Samantha Scott were arrested for the shooting of my parents, I was shaken to my core,” Adrienne Spohr said in a statement to the court. “This was a heinous, calculated crime. My parents had been incredibly generous to Daniel Serafini and Erin Spohr throughout their marriage.”
The Minnesota Twins made Serafini their first-round draft pick in 1992 out of Junipero Serra High in San Mateo, Calif., the same school that all-time home run king Barry Bonds attended. Serafini made his big-league debut in 1996 with the Twins and pitched with the Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and Colorado Rockies.
Serafini pitched in Japan from 2004 to 2007 before returning to the United States. He was suspended for 50 games in 2007 for using performance-enhancing drugs that he blamed on medication he took in Japan. He also pitched for Italy in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
Serafini’s bar in Sparks, Nev., was featured on an episode of “Bar Rescue” in 2025. The bar’s named was changed from the Bullpen Bar to the Oak Tavern as part of the makeover, but not before Serafini’s financial woes were described: He blew through $14 million in career earnings and took a $250,000 loan from his parents.
Prosecutors said Serafini’s crimes were driven by anger and financial distress. Evidence was presented that he made threats and spoke about wanting his in-laws dead for many years. He and Gary Spohr also had disputes over a $1.3 million loan intended for Erin Spohr’s horse ranch business.
John Higgins remained on course for a sixth Welsh Open title after brushing aside Zhou Yuelong in the quarter-final.
The Scot clinched three scrappy frames before making breaks of 75 and 67 to win the contest 5-0.
Higgins will meet Jack Lisowski in the semi-final after he defeated 2017 champion Stuart Bingham 5-2.
Lisowski stormed into a 4-0 lead in Llandudno, with breaks of 70 and 118, before Bingham wrestled two frames back.
But Lisowski, who won his first ranking title at the Northern Ireland Open in October, held his composure to seal victory.
Watch Bundesliga highlights, as hostAugsburg celebrate their 500th game in the competition with a win over Cologne, thanks to a well-taken goal by Rodrigo Ribeiro.
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Cardiff: Winnett; Beetham, Millard, B Thomas, Grady; Sheedy, A Davies; Barratt, Belcher (capt), Sebastian, McNally, Nott, Lawrence, D Thomas, Basham.
Replacements: D Hughes, Southworth, Assiratti, Thornton, E Rees, Mulder, I Lloyd, Bowen.
Yellow card: Beetham 65
Leinster: O’Brien; Kenny, Ioane, Henshaw, Moloney, Byrne; Gunne, Cahir, McKee, Sparrow, Spicer, Deeny, Deegan (capt), Penny, Culhane.
Replacements: McCarthy, Usanov, Slimani, Snyman, Ericson, McGrath, Tector, Osborne.
Yellow card: Tector 12
Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)
Assistant referees: Ben Whitehouse (Wales) & Carwyn Sion (Wales)
TMO: David Sutherland (Scotland)
The council says it will continue fighting on behalf of the Ospreys and rugby supporters across Wales.
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PHOENIX — It is never too early for hyperbole.
No major league team has won more than 116 games. The Dodgers had yet to play an exhibition game last spring when former Times columnist Dylan Hernández declared they could win 120.
Not to be outdone, the Dodgers were one week into the season when Bill Plaschke posted a column with this headline: “Who says the Dodgers can’t go 162-0?”
The Dodgers won 93 games. They also won the World Series, becoming the first back-to-back champions in 25 years.
One week into spring training, the Dodgers are the only undefeated team.
Reality check: The Dodgers are not going to win every game, yet they play in a market where everybody expects them to win every game.
“They do,” manager Dave Roberts said.
What would be a realistic number of wins?
“I don’t know what’s realistic,” he said. “We win a lot of games. Honestly, we showed last year that the regular season certainly does matter but, at the end of the day, you’ve got to be playing your best baseball at the right time.”
During the Dodgers’ 13-year playoff run, they‘ve won 100 games five times. When doing that, they‘ve made it to the World Series once, losing to the cheating Houston Astros. In 2023, they won exactly 100 games in the regular season and exactly zero in the playoffs.
It is one of baseball’s eternal verities that wins and losses in spring training do not matter.
“It’s always fun to win,” said Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations. “That is always way more fun than losing. But so much of spring training is, just don’t get a call from our trainer. Keep guys healthy.
“That is far and away the biggest priority: get guys ready for the season and keep them healthy.”
Noah Miller runs the bases during a spring training game against the Angels on Feb. 21.
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If winning in spring training is not predictive, neither is it irrelevant. For an organization that would rather prime a pitcher for the postseason than dare use him for 200 innings in the regular season, and juggle a roster spot all summer so Kiké “Mr. October” Hernández can be available in the postseason, depth is critical.
“While there is no direct correlation between that and how you are going to do in the regular season, I do think it is some kind of proxy for the depth that you have,” Friedman said. “After three or four innings, there is a line change, and minor league players are coming in. I think being able to maintain a high level of play in these back-side innings speaks to depth.”
Friedman is no great fan of the Cactus League grind.
“So much of spring training, it feels like, is just downside,” he said. “You’re just waiting for that phone call [from the trainer]. You’re doing everything you can to stave that phone call off.”
The upside is on the business side. As of Thursday, tickets for Saturday’s exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs started at $97. The starters are likely to play half the game. Shohei Ohtani is in Japan, preparing for the World Baseball Classic.
So, to the point: It does not matter that the Dodgers are undefeated in spring training, and they’ll probably win somewhere around 100 games. They did, after all, repair their two glaring weaknesses by committing $300 million to All-Stars in the prime of their careers: outfielder Kyle Tucker and closer Edwin Díaz.
Baseball Prospectus projects the Dodgers to win 104 games. Fangraphs projects 99.
But this is the season of hyperbole, so the Dodgers still have a chance to go 194-0 between the Cactus League and the regular season.
I had to ask Roberts how good he thought the Dodgers’ chances would be this season if they never lost.
He chuckled.
“Pretty good,” he said.
Blame AI or the White House social media employee who put controversial, profane words in the mouth of U.S. Olympic men’s hockey star Brady Tkachuk.
Either way, Tkachuk doesn’t appreciate the doctored video published Sunday on the official White House TikTok account that made it appear he was disparaging Canadians in the aftermath of the stirring U.S. gold medal victory at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
Tkachuk’s day job, you see, is star player and team captain of the NHL Ottawa Senators.
The video features footage from a year-old news conference, except that Tkachuk’s words are freshened through AI. With U.S. Olympics goal song “Free Bird” playing in the background, Tkachuk was made to say, “They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup eating f—s a lesson.”
The clip included a disclaimer that it used AI-generated media. After it had been viewed by more than 12 million people, Tkachuk indicated the stunt annoyed him.
“Well, it’s clearly fake, because it’s not my voice, not my lips moving,” he said Thursday in Ottawa. “It’s not my voice. It’s not what I was saying. I would never say that.
“That’s not who I am, so I guess I don’t like that video because that would never come out of my mouth, and I never had that thought.”
In its efforts to celebrate the U.S. victory, the White House has come off as tone deaf to many of the players. Sportsmanship and maturity seem less important than disparaging Canadians.
The U.S. players have made it abundantly clear that they respect their Canadian brethren. Several U.S. players — including Tkachuk— play for NHL teams north of the border.
And the men’s players admire the U.S. Olympics women’s hockey team that also won gold despite their spontaneous laughter at President Trump’s attempt at humor during his congratulatory call.
Trump invited the men’s team to the State of the Union address, saying: “I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that,” adding with a laugh that if he didn’t also invite the women, “I do believe I probably would be impeached.”
It was as if the president was talking to third graders afraid they might get cooties from the girls. Tkachuk explained the wonderful relationship between the men’s and women’s Olympics players while expressing regret at the laughter.
“[We’re] just coming off the ice, and I think it was 15 minutes later, you have the President of the United States calling you,” Tkachuk told reporters Thursday. “You just can’t really believe, you’re still riding the high of being a world champion, and for the President to take the time and call.
“When it comes to the women’s team, one of my favorite memories from the Olympics is after we won and after the women’s team came back from the closing ceremonies, both our teams are just in the dining hall hanging out having fun, just kind of being on top of the world.
“You have two gold medalist teams just hanging out before we’re going back to our respective cities. And it was just great to hear their experience.”
Having reached Euro 2025, the first major women’s tournament in the nation’s history, Wales’ next target is to reach a first World Cup.
However, the path to qualification is not simple, with no automatic route available to Wales because they are not in League A.
Assuming they do not finish bottom of a group which also features Albania, Wales will face play-offs late in 2026.
Should Wales finish top of the group, their first-round play-off would be against a side who finish second or third in a League B pool.
But if Wilkinson’s team finish second or third, they would face a side who finish in fourth place in League A or a Group B winner.
The second round of the play-offs is seeded and should Wales get that far, they would be likely to face League A opposition.
Harry Brook hits a humongous six for England against New Zealand, as the ball flies over square leg and into the stadium screen at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
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It started as a gift for their daughter’s 9th birthday. Jennifer and Michael Reese wanted to surprise their gymnast-in-training with a trip to Westwood to see the UCLA women’s gymnastics team.
From that moment on, they became fans. They were captivated by the choreography on the floor and the balance on the beam, by the work each gymnast puts into their routine and by the thrills of the best show in Los Angeles.
Ten years later, while their daughter cheers from a distance at Oregon State, the couple remain loyal to the Bruins and are a staple of Section 103 at Pauley Pavilion as season-ticket holders. And their devotion isn’t grounded in Southern California. When the team travels for meets away from home, the Reeses often follow to cheer on the Bruins.
“They just welcomed us with open arms just as if we were a part of them just because we became so faithful and true fans,” Jennifer said. “They called us their super fans.”
Michael and Jennifer Reese, from Victorville, join parents and friends of the gymnastics team at a rally before the Bruins’ meet against Michigan at Pauley Pavilion on Feb. 14.
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That sense of belonging has been their favorite part of supporting UCLA women’s gymnastics. The Bruin Bubble — an affectionate term for the close-knit, insulated community, culture and social scene among UCLA students, alumni and sports fans — added them to their email chains, inviting them to banquets and fundraisers.
“We just love it,” Jennifer said.
With every pike in midair, every perfect landing, every Yurchenko off the vault, the Reeses’ connection with each gymnast grows and their commitment to the team becomes deeper.
Watching it from the comfort of their Victorville home is an option, but the energy in Pauley is unmatched, Michael said.
“You have tons of people doing the same thing and being on the same accord for that one athlete,” he said. “Whether it’s Jordan [Chiles] or whether it’s freshman Ashlee Sullivan or whether it’s, back in the day, Kyla Ross, it’s just amazing to feel that thrill there.”
But if they must watch from their living room, they make sure to bring the same energy as if they were watching in person.
UCLA super fan Michael Reese gives high-fives to members of the Bruins gymnastics team at a send-off before a meet against Michigan at Pauley Pavilion on Feb. 14.
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“We’re hopping and hollering in our living rooms,” Michael said, “but it’s nothing like being in person.”
Before every meet, the Bruins and their family members convene outside the arena a few hours early for a send-off. Think of it as a pep rally where family members hype the gymnasts. They cheer as the team makes its way to the arena.
“It lets us go into competition with a lot of energy,” coach Janelle McDonald said.
In 2018, during a meet in Michigan, their Bruins’ previous coach, Valorie Kondos Field, started chanting “We’re ready,” which Michael gravitated toward. As a former military man, he picked up the cadence of the cheer and started to hype the team with the chant. Now, anytime he’s available, he makes sure to be there and send off his favorite team.
Throughout the years, he’s added his own flavor to it by adding the acronym W.I.N. to the end of the rallying cry — Work, Intensity and Never quit.
“We just have fun with it, whatever pops at the time,” he said.
When the Bruin Bubble gets together to send off the team, whether it’s with the UCLA eight-clap, silly wigs or pom-poms, the energy passed sets the gymnasts up to be the best they can be, junior Katelyn Rosen said.
“Gymnastics is really hard to make it go perfect every single time,” she said. “So if you can kind of get similar pieces of each day to anchor to, to make you feel calm, to remind yourself that it’s still you, and you’re still in your own body, and you still have control over it, is something really helpful.”
Having familiar faces of friends and family in the crowd, even when they are competing away from Pauley Pavilion, means a lot to the gymnasts, McDonald said. Fans like Jennifer and “Big Mike,” as the team calls him, are part of the consistency they have throughout the season.
With the help of the Reeses, UCLA is breaking records. So far, the Bruins have been a part of four meets with record attendances in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Washington. Their Feb. 22 meet at Illinois had to be moved to State Farm Center to accommodate the larger crowd.
Bruins fans don’t see the travel as a sacrifice.
It’s “the thrill of your life,” Jennifer Reese said.
William Hudson, a 14-year-old freshman golfer, shot 71 on Monday at Western Hills Country Club in Chino Hills to win the Servite Invitational.
“It was very important to me and my school,” Hudson said.
Some think it’s the first time a St. John Bosco student won an invitational title.
Hudson is a straight-A student who picked up his first golf club when he was 3. He has a daily routine involving practicing at 6 a.m. before heading to school. He’s also enrolled in a school entrepreneur program that involves taking classes at a junior college that will qualify for college credits.
“They are long days, but I get through it,” Hudson said.
He comes from a family that enjoys golf. His great-grandfather played until his death at 98 last year.
“I love how it can take me to interesting places and meet interesting people,” Hudson said. “I can play for the rest of my life. It’s a lifelong sport.”
It’s looking like another strong year for golfers in Southern California, with several individual champions returning, including Jaden Soong of St. Francis and Grant Leary of Crespi.
Now Hudson has thrust himself into the conversation.
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From Broderick Turner: The losses are mounting for the Lakers in the most excruciating of ways. They’ve lost their last two games in the final second, and it’s eating at them because they used to be so good in late, critical moments.
The Lakers fell to the Phoenix Suns 113-110 on Thursday after Austin Reaves missed a three-point shot as time expired. The injury-depleted Suns earned the win on a three-pointer by Royce O’Neale with ninth-tenths of a second left.
The Lakers have lost three consecutive games for the third time this season. They were blown out by the Boston Celtics on Sunday before losing by one at home to the Orlando Magic on Tuesday when Luka Doncic passed up a three and threw the ball to LeBron James, who missed a hurried, last-second three.
Against the Suns, the Lakers rallied from 12 points down in the fourth quarter after Doncic went to work. He hit back-to-back threes during the comeback and finished with 41 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.
The Lakers made it a clutch game, the kind in which they’ve been an NBA-best 16-5. Still, they lost.
“Our losses are louder than other teams’ because we’re the Lakers and because of the way we lose,” coach JJ Redick said. “Tonight was a one-possession clutch game, which, now we’ve lost a few of those. But we’ve been great for the most part in the clutch all year.”
The Lakers (34-24) tied the score twice in the final minute, first on a three by Reaves and then on a tip-in by James, who had 15 points, six rebounds and five assists, with 22.7 seconds left.
Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow made his first start of spring training a good one, pitching two perfect innings and striking out four against the Chicago White Sox on Thursday at Camelback Ranch.
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From Jack Vita: Dodgers right-hander Tyler Glasnow is an admitted overthinker. But you wouldn’t know it based on his efficient first spring training start Thursday against the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch.
Glasnow pitched two-plus innings, retiring the first six batters before coming out after giving up a single to start the third inning. Using a pitch mix that included a fastball that sat at 97 mph, Glasnow struck out the side in the first inning before recording another strikeout to close out the second. Having thrown just 28 pitches, Glasnow started the third inning and threw three more pitches before coming out of the Dodgers’ 7-6 win.
“Very in rhythm,” manager Dave Roberts said after the game. “Very efficient, used his entire pitch mix, it was really good. Good to see him get into the third inning. Positive day.”
The 32-year-old entering his third season with the Dodgers credits his coaches for keeping his mechanics on point.
“It allows me to just go out and pitch and be athletic,” Glasnow said after his outing. “I’m able to just go out and play baseball as opposed to trying to tinker and fix certain stuff.”
UCLA gymnast Sydney Barros performs her floor exercise routine at Pauley Pavilion on Jan. 17.
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From Anthony Solorzano: With the Big Ten title on the line during the Big Four Meet on Friday at Pauley Pavilion, the UCLA gymnastics team is focused on what it can control.
“Our goal is to go out there and just do what we’ve been doing all season long,” coach Janelle McDonald said. “Hitting great gymnastics and continuing to just build the confidence on the competition floor before we head into [the] postseason.”
Entering the season, the Bruins had a few elite veterans and an otherwise young team. The steady growth of underclassmen has helped UCLA earn its No. 5 national ranking and move a victory away from claiming its second consecutive Big Ten title.
“Last year, when we came into the Big Ten, we really wanted to make a statement and I think we did just that,” McDonald said. “Coming in this year with a younger team, hungry to just continue that, has just been really special.”
Artist Gustavo Zermeño Jr. paints a mural dedicated to Olympic gold medalist skater Alysa Liu on Wednesday at the corner of W. 156th and Crenshaw Boulevard in Gardena. “I like that it’s a little rough around the edges, but beautiful at the same time,” he said of the portrait.
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From Chuck Schilken: U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu made quite an impression at the Milan-Cortina Olympics with her unique style, her compelling backstory and, of course, her gold medals in the women’s singles competition — the first for an American woman since 2002 — and in the team event.
Her feats captured the attention of local artist Gustavo Zermeño Jr. He wanted to be sure to capture all of it in his new mural paying tribute to the 20-year-old athlete in Gardena.
“Obviously her winning gold was the main factor” in his choosing to paint Liu, Zermeño said.
But once the Mexican American artist learned more about the Chinese American skater, he found inspiration in other aspects of her life as well. That includes the Oakland native’s two-year retirement from the sport starting at age 16, her enrollment at UCLA and her decision to express herself in her own way.
United States’ Hilary Knight (21) celebrates after scoring during the women’s ice hockey gold medal game between the United States and Canada at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Feb. 19.
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From Chuck Schilken: U.S. women’s hockey star Hilary Knight wasn’t a fan of a comment that President Trump made about her team days after it claimed Olympic gold at the Milan-Cortina Games.
“I thought it was sort of a distasteful joke, and unfortunately, that is overshadowing a lot of the success of just women at the Olympics carrying for Team USA and having amazing gold medal feats,” Knight said Wednesday during an appearance on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”
On Feb. 19, the U.S. defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime for a third gold medal in women’s hockey; the team won gold in 1998 and 2018. Three days later, the U.S. men’s hockey team also won gold by defeating Canada 2-1 in overtime.
Edmonton Oiles captain Connor McDavid, center, battles Kings forward Trevor Moore, left, and defenseman Mikey Anderson for the puck during the first period of the Kings’ 8-1 loss Thursday at Crypto.com Arena.
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From the Associated Press: Connor McDavid secured his ninth 100-point season with a goal and an assist, Leon Draisaitl had a goal and three assists, and the Edmonton Oilers snapped their four-game skid with an 8-1 victory over the Kings on Thursday night.
McDavid scored his 35th goal and Draisaitl got his 30th during his fourth four-point game of the season as the Oilers again routed the opponent they’ve knocked out of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs in each of the past four seasons.
The game marked the biggest margin of defeat against the Kings this season.
Clippers guard Kris Dunn drives to the basket in front of Minnesota’s Donte DiVincenzo during the Clippers’ 94-88 loss Thursday at Intuit Dome.
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From the Associated Press: Anthony Edwards scored 31 points, Donte DiVincenzo added 18 and the surging Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Clippers 94-88 on Thursday night.
Jaden McDaniels and Ayo Dosunmu each scored 12 points and Rudy Gobert had 13 rebounds to help the Timberwolves improve to 5-1 since Feb. 9 and 3-1 since the All-Star break.
Edwards, returning to the site of the All-Star Game, where he was the MVP, was 12 for 24 from the floor and sealed the victory with a step-back three-pointer over two defenders for a 92-88 lead with 42.9 seconds left.
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Manny Pacquiao at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in July 2025.
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From Steve Henson: The case can be made that those who conceived and arranged the 2015 boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao deserve to be compensated.
After all, the “Fight of the Century” at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas — won by Mayweather — set records with 4.6 million pay-per-view buys and $72 million in ticket sales.
So it’s no surprise that long after both boxers slipped comfortably into (temporary) retirement, legal fights endured over even slim slices of that cash-stuffed pie.
For 10 years — and counting — lawyers and judges have attempted to determine what claimants are due and whether Pacquiao in particular suffered reputational damage along the way.
From John Cherwa: The hopes of Northern California racing and breeding interests were once again dashed when the California Horse Racing Board refused to license short racing dates to the Tehama District Fair and the Humboldt County Fair on Thursday.
Rather than a discussion about how to grow the sport, the 2-hour 45-minute meeting was mostly about how bad the state of racing is in the state and a determination that the future of Southern California racing is in jeopardy if it isn’t given every advantage available.
That advantage is the amount of money that goes to the host track from advance deposit wagering (ADW) and computer assisted wagering (CAW). If Tehama and Humboldt were racing, then money bet by any means in Northern California would stay there, the way it was since the start of ADW until shortly after the closing of Golden Gate Fields in Berkeley.
1918 — The first neutral site game in NHL history is held in Quebec City. Frank Nighbor scores twice in the first period to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens.
1955 — Boston beats Milwaukee 62-57 at Providence, R.I. in a game which set records for fewest points scored by one team, and by both teams, since the introduction of the 24-second clock.
1959 — The Boston Celtics beat the Minneapolis Lakers 173-139 as seven NBA records fall. The Celtics set records for most points (179), most points in a half (90), most points in a quarter (52) and most field goals (72). Boston’s Tom Heinsohn leads all scorers with 43 points and Bob Cousy adds 31 while setting an NBA record with 28 assists.
1966 — Richard Petty wins the rain-shortened Daytona 500 by more than a lap at a speed of 160.927 mph. Petty holds the lead for the last 212 miles of the scheduled 500-mile event, which is called five miles from the finish. Cale Yarborough finishes second.
1977 — Stan Mikita of the Chicago Black Hawks scores his 500th goal in a 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
1982 — Florida apprentice Mary Russ becomes the first female jockey to win a Grade I stakes in North America when she captures the Widener Handicap aboard Lord Darnley at Hialeah (Fla.) Park.
1992 — Prairie View sets an NCAA Division I record for most defeats in a season with a 112-79 loss to Mississippi Valley State in the first round of the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament. Prairie View’s 0-28 mark breaks the record of 27 losses shared by four teams.
1994 — Sweden wins its first hockey gold medal, defeating Canada 3-2 in the first shootout for a championship at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. Canada is 1:49 away from its first championship in 42 years when Magnus Svensson’s power-play goal ties it at 2. Paul Kariya’s shot is stopped by Sweden’s Tommy Salo after Peter Forsberg puts Sweden ahead on his team’s seventh shot.
1998 — Indiana’s 124-59 victory over Portland marks the first time in the NBA’s 51-year history that one team scores more than twice as many points as the other.
2005 — David Toms delivers the most dominant performance in the seven-year history of the Match Play Championship, winning eight out of nine holes to put away Chris DiMarco with the largest margin of victory in the 36-hole final. The score 6 and 5, could have been much worse as Toms was 9 up at one point.
2006 — Effa Manley is the first woman elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. The former Newark Eagles co-owner is among 17 people from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues chosen by a special committee.
2010 — Steven Holcomb drives USA-1 to the Olympic gold medal in four-man bobsledding, ending a 62-year drought for the Americans in the event. Holcomb’s four-run time was 3:24.46, with Justin Olsen, Steve Mesler and Curt Tomasevicz pushing for him.
2015 — Travis Kvapil’s NASCAR Sprint Cup car is stolen early in the day from a hotel parking lot, forcing him to withdraw from a race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The team didn’t have a backup car in Atlanta, so it’s forced to drop out when the stolen machine couldn’t be located in time for NASCAR’s mandatory inspection.
Compiled by the Associated Press
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While seven league defeats have curtailed Celtic’s defence of the title, 11 draws have left Rangers frustrated in their pursuit of Hearts.
The most recent was a 2-2 draw from two down at Livingston last week while Celtic lost at home to Hibernian. The weekend before, Rangers recovered from 1-0 and 2-1 down to defeat Hearts 4-2 at Ibrox.
“My team showed character, big personality in the last couple of weeks,” Rohl added.
“Also to come back away in Celtic, in the stadium there after 1-0 down, showed that even if the game goes in one direction, what we don’t want, we always have a chance to come back.
“Yeah, we dropped two points [at Livingston]. We missed two points. But let’s turn it in a positive way. At the end, we won one point after 2-0 down.
“When you are a manager and you have the chance to play at home this kind of game, then you are also on fire. We are on fire. It was a good training week so far.
“I feel the confidence, I feel the belief. It’s not just about the shape and the tactic, but it’s also about how we go in duels, how we win the balls, how we play forward.”
The German said: “It’s a crucial game, but no team will be out after this game because there are still 27 points you can take. It’s two matchdays and you are in the title race again.
“It’s a crucial one because when you come closer and closer to the end of the season and there is more and more in, then you know every game is important.”
Head coach Eddie Howe has urged Anthony Gordon to stay “fully focused” after the Newcastle United forward was linked with a move to Arsenal.
Gordon is the latest key figure at the club to have been subject of reported interest elsewhere.
This is despite the England international dismissing such talk as “a load of rubbish” in an interview with reporters just last week.
Newcastle sold Alexander Isak to Liverpool for a British record £125m fee last summer – after the Swede went on strike – and Howe was asked how he could avoid a repeat of a similar saga.
“I’m not sure there’s a lot I can do about that,” he said. “I’ve not seen the story, so it’s news to me.
“But we’re mid-season, we’re in the middle of some of the biggest games of his career, and who knows what’s going to happen internationally with Anthony in the summer as well.
“He’s not got time to look left or right. He’s got to be fully focused on straight ahead and the next game, and trying to be as good as he can be.”
Gordon, Sandro Tonali and Tino Livramento are just some of the Newcastle players who have been touted with moves away in the media in recent months.
But Howe said it comes with the territory.
“It’s your industry that is creating those stories,” he added. “I’m slightly secluded from it.
“If you don’t read it you don’t know who has been linked to who. Is it not just part of modern day football that everyone is just linked with moves these days, not just Newcastle players, but potentially a lot of other clubs have the same issues.
“It’s irrelevant really. It’s how the players react to that. If they absorb it and it affects them, then that’s a negative. But i think our players are robust enough to ignore it.”
Connor McDavid secured his ninth 100-point season with a goal and an assist, Leon Draisaitl had a goal and three assists, and the Edmonton Oilers snapped their four-game skid with an 8-1 victory over the Kings on Thursday night.
McDavid scored his 35th goal and Draisaitl got his 30th during his fourth four-point game of the season as the Oilers again routed the opponent they’ve knocked out of the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs in each of the past four seasons.
The game marked the biggest margin of defeat against the Kings this season.
Jake Walman scored two goals, Zach Hyman had a goal and two assists, and Ty Emberson, Vasily Podkolzin and Andrew Mangiapane also scored in Edmonton’s impressive rebound from a painful loss against the Ducks. Connor Ingram made 22 saves for the Oilers (29-23-8), who have returned from the Olympic break with 13 goals in two games.
Warren Foegele scored for the Kings (23-21-14), who have lost five straight games since January. The Kings’ humiliating third-period collapse against Vegas one night earlier bled into this game: When Hyman scored on a power play midway through the second period, the Kings had surrendered 10 goals in their past 41 minutes of play.
Darcy Kuemper gave up four goals on 15 shots before getting pulled early in the second period for Anton Forsberg.
Some Kings fans targeted coach Jim Hiller for the struggles, repeatedly chanting “Fire Hiller!” in the third period.
Emberson opened the scoring with his first goal since Oct. 28. Podkolzin scored 54 seconds later on another shot that could have been stopped by Kuemper.
Mangiapane beat Kuemper cleanly on an odd-man rush early in the second, and McDavid made it 4-1 when Kuemper comically fell down six feet outside his crease to leave an open net for the NHL’s top scorer.
Up next for the Kings: vs. Calgary at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday.
Estoril had just lost 3-1 to Sporting at Alvalade, but Ian Cathro was in an incredibly positive mood in his post-match news conference.
“Can I put a question to you?” he asked a journalist in native-level Portuguese the last time the team from the Lisbon coast faced Sporting away, in March 2025.
“What type of football do you like to watch? Did you enjoy the game? Probably you were all around here in other matches and I assume you fell asleep [at some point]. We want to do things differently.”
That night, despite the result, at times Estoril, who play in a 5,000-capacity stadium, managed to silence more than 35,000 home fans.
Cathro couldn’t have been prouder to witness it.
On Friday, the 39-year-old Scottish coach will be heading back to Alvalade hoping to achieve the same, albeit with a better outcome on the pitch.
His Estoril side are one of the most exciting teams to watch in Portugal, averaging two goals per game with 46 in 23 matches, the fourth most, and more than league leaders FC Porto (44).
Along with Sporting, they’ve had the most games scoring four or more this campaign (six). For the second consecutive season, a team used to fighting relegation finds itself comfortably in the top half of the table, albeit with the most porous defence, having conceded 39 goals.
The club’s record top-flight points tally of 54, achieved in the 2013-14 season, when they recorded their best finish of fourth, is perhaps out of reach this term given they are on 33 with 11 games remaining, but even Benfica boss Jose Mourinho admitted being impressed by Cathro, saying “he’s leaving his mark”.
The Scotsman’s secret? As he always emphasises, they play with no fear, regardless of the opponent.
“I’m young, but I’ve already been through a lot, in a lot of places. I think I’ve already seen almost every film you can see in a career in this industry,” Cathro tells BBC Sport.
“I’m not here trying to win five games in a row just to make the jump. I look at this project and I genuinely feel my responsibility is to help the club take a step to another level. And that other level is more stability, so that no one – absolutely no-one – is afraid anymore.”
The recognition for that is certainly coming.
In January, Cathro was voted the Portuguese top flight’s coach of the month by his peers.
BASEBALL
CITY SECTION
Bravo 2, Fremont 1
Mendez 13, West Adams 1
Torres 12, Lincoln 2
SOUTHERN SECTION
Aliso Niguel 5, Millikan 3
Anaheim Canyon 9, Villa Park 8
Arroyo 8, Edgewood 1
Banning 5, San Bernardino 3
Barstow 2, Eastvale Roosevelt 1
Bellflower 4, Mary Star of the Sea 0
Bell Gardens 12, Hacienda Heights Wilson 4
Bishop Montgomery 11, South East 0
Bonita 11, Northview 6
Brentwood 6, Campbell Hall 4
Buckley 18, Shalhevet 2
Calvary Baptist 8, Fontana 2
Cantwell-Sacred Heart 6, Burbank 2
Cerritos 7, Ocean View 1
Charter Oak 11, Montebello 3
Colton 15, Vista del Lago 2
Compton Centennial 12, Compton Early College 3
Cornerstone Christian 14, Lakeside 5
Corona 11, Trabuco Hills 1
Corona Centennial 10, Arrowhead Christian 8
Crossroads 6, Viewpoint 1
Desert Christian 10, Boron 5
Downey 4, Redondo Union 1
Entrepreneur 23, California Lutheran 14
Excelsior Charter 14, Yucca Valley 5
Foothill Tech 8, Fillmore 1
Flintridge Prep 4, Schurr 3
Garey 20, El Monte 2
Great Oak 8, Los Osos 5
Hemet 11, Temecula Prep 1
Heritage 7, Rancho Mirage 5
Hesperia Christian 17, ACE 1
Hoover 24, La Puente 2
Indian Springs , Arroyo Valley 1
Irvine 3, Estancia 1
Kaiser 4, Cajon 3
Katella 2, Woodbridge 1
Laguna Beach 10, Segerstrom 1
Lawndale 4, Firebaugh 3
Linfield Christian 18, Whittier Christian 8
Long Beach Jordan 10, Dominguez 0
Long Beach Poly 3, Palos Verdes 2
Maranatha 5, St. Augustine 4
Montclair 6, Miller 1
Moreno Valley 11, Redlands 2
Mountain View 10, Mark Keppel 2
Murrieta Mesa 9, Rancho Verde 1
Nordhoff 6, Santa Clara 3
Norte Vista 14, San Gorgonio 1
Nuview Bridge 6, Bloomington 2
Oak Hills 2, Granite Hills 1
Oakwood 11, Pasadena Poly 1
Ontario 7, Azusa 3
Oxnard 7, Santa Monica 5
PACS 31, Mojave 4
Paramount 8, Glenn 0
Ramona 8, Hillcrest 3
Righetti 12, Milken 2
Riverside North 6, Tahquitz 6
Rowland 10, Pasadena Marshall 0
Royal 10, Trinity Classical Academy 2
San Clemente 3, Colony 2
San Jacinto 9, Santa Rosa Academy 4
San Jacinto Valley Academy 13, Xavier Prep 3
San Marino 6, Cathedral 5
Santa Ana Foothill 6, Santa Fe 5
Saugus 16, Quartz Hill 9
St. Anthony 6, Cerritos Valley Christian 1
Summit 3, Etiwanda 0
Temescal Canyon 6, La Sierra 2
Thousand Oaks 10, Chaminade 8
Victor Valley 9, Vasquez 4
Village Christian d. South El Monte, forfeit
Vista Murrieta 5, Yorba Linda 5
Webb 19, Pomona 3
West Valley 7, Indio 6
INTERSECTIONAL
El Rancho 6, Maywood CES 0
Bishop Montgomery 11, South East 0
Mira Costa 8, Chatsworth 3
San Fernando 3, Castaic 1
JSerra 5, Southlake Carroll 2
South Torrance 10, Venice 0
St. Francis 9, Taft 0
St. Monica 12, LA Hamilton 1
Warren 12, Mesa (AZ) Dobson 3
SOFTBALL
CITY SECTION
Bernstein 17, Fairfax 16
Cleveland 15, Reseda 9
Mendez d. Animo Venice, forfeit
SOUTHERN SECTION
AAE 16, Rim of the World 0
Ayala 7, Carter 0
Banning 11, San Bernardino 5
Beaumont 7, Northview 2
Bishop Montgomery 15, St. Anthony 4
Bloomington 8, Indian Springs 4
Bolsa Grande 17, Long Beach Cabrillo 14
Bonita 11, Baldwin 2
Boron 9, Desert Christian 4
Burbank Providence 15, Santa Clarita Christian 3
California 5, Downey 3
Calvary Baptist 7, Fontana 2
Cantwell-Sacred Heart 17, Mayfield 1
Capistrano Valley 7, Villa Park 4
Cathedral City 10, Coachella Valley 4
Chaffey 8, Patriot 1
Chaminade 10, Heritage Christian 0
Chino 12, Beckman 7
Claremont 13, Don Lugo 2
Colton 16, Tahquitz 9
Compton Centennial 12, Burbank Burroughs 0
Corona 7, Colony 5
Corona del Mar 7, Ocean View 2
Costa Mesa 16, Compton Early College 9
Covina 7, Diamond Ranch 3
Crescenta Valley 7, Hart 3
Crossroads 11, Trinity Classical Academy 7
Desert Hot Springs 24, Xavier Prep 20
Dos Pueblos 10, Lompoc 5
Downey Calvary Chapel 12, Santa Ana Valley 9
El Dorado 4, Esperanza 1
El Monte 15, Mark Keppel 3
Etiwanda 13, Cajon 4
Firebaugh 17, Rosemead 4
Fountain Valley 9, Irvine 6
Garden Grove Pacifica 7, Mater Dei 2
Glendale 15, St. Bernard 5
Glendora 11, West Covina 0
Grace 8, Vasquez 2
Hacienda Heights Wilson 9, Montebello 4
Hawthorne 15, St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy 3
Hesperia 14, Moreno Valley 4
La Habra 9, La Palma Kennedy 0
Lakewood St. Joseph 10, Katella 0
Lancaster 12, Silverado 1
La Serna 1, Mission Viejo 0
Liberty 16, Ridgecrest Burroughs 3
Los Amigos 18, Century 3
Maranatha 18, South Pasadena 3
Millikan 21, Gahr 7
Moorpark 18, Ventura 4
Newbury Park 12, Santa Paula 2
Nogales 12, Montclair 6
Northview 7, Eastvale Roosevelt 2
Northwood 24, Newport Harbor 5
Oak Park 2, Rio Mesa 1
Oaks Christian 11, Simi Valley 2
Ontario 9, Azusa 2
Ontario Christian 15, Irvine University 3
Oxford Academy 20, Samueli Academy 4
Oxnard 6, Camarillo 5
Oxnard Pacifica 11, Carpinteria 0
Paloma Valley 10, Jurupa Valley 0
Paramount 13, Long Beach Jordan 1
Ramona 3, Los Osos 1
Rancho Cucamonga 8, Rancho Verde 0
Riverside Notre Dame 13, Barstow 2
Riverside Prep 13, Arroyo Valley 0
Riverside Prep 14, AAE 1
Sacred Heart of Jesus 7, Ramona Convent 6
Sage Creek 9, Elsinore 5
San Juan Hills 8, Santa Ana Foothill 4
San Marcos 14, Del Sol 2
Santa Margarita 2, Trabuco Hills 1
Segerstrom 6, Tesoro 1
Sierra Vista 9, Pasadena 8
South El Monte 16, Edgewood 16
Southlands Christian 14, La Puente 1
South Torrance 12, Mary Star of the Sea 3
St. Bonaventure 8, Buena 5
St. Paul 8, Sonora 2
Thousand Oaks 3, Valencia 2
University Prep 9, Hesperia Christian 3
University Prep 13, Riverside Notre Dame 3
Valley View 12, Lakeside 2
Viewpoint 6, Flintridge Prep 4
Walnut 11, Rowland 2
Warren 15, Sunny Hills 5
Westlake 2, Royal 1
West Valley 13, Temecula Prep 5
Yorba Linda 17, Troy 0
INTERSECTIONAL
Alhambra 11, LA Marshall 2
Bonita 11, Kailua (HI) 0
Burbank Burroughs 7, Granada Hills Kennedy 2
Canyon Country Canyon 9, Verdugo Hills 8
Culver City 13, LA Hamilton 3
El Camino Real 4, Louisville 1
El Rancho 11, Garfield 7
Golden Valley 24, Grant 4
Granada Hills 13, La Canada 1
HMSA 8, Animo Venice 1
Long Beach Poly 9, Legacy 2
Muir 12, Eagle Rock 2
Port of LA 10, Bishop Conaty-Loretto 0
Shadow Hills 6, Brawley 5
Wilmington Banning 12, Peninsula 0
Audi team principal Jonathan Wheatley, who joined from his former position of sporting director at Red Bull last March, said at the team’s launch this year: “We’re not here to mess around. It’s an ambitious project. We’re humble. We know where we’re starting from and we know where we want to go.
“We want to make Audi the most successful F1 team in history. There are milestones on that journey and we are starting it today.”
No pressure, then.
Audi won the Le Mans 24 Hours 13 times in 18 years from 1999 to 2016. And in rallying they were famous for introducing four-wheel drive with the iconic Quattro in the early 1980s.
They might not have taken part in F1 before, but they did compete in its forerunner, the European grand prix championship, in the 1930s.
In a battle with arch-rivals Mercedes, Auto Union won the title with the great Bernd Rosemeyer in 1936, won five races against Mercedes’ seven in 1937, while the legendary Tazio Nuvolari won races for them in 1938 and 1939 before the Second World War brought racing to a halt.
Audi’s entry this year rekindles that old rivalry with Mercedes, and battle lines have already been drawn in a pre-season row over the rules governing the engines’ compression ratio. Audi are said to have been prime among those pushing for a rule change because of a fear Mercedes had found a way of exploiting a loophole to their advantage.
Rivals on track with Mercedes, though, Audi are unlikely to be for a while.
While Mercedes start the season as championship favourites, Audi have a lot of work to do to transform Sauber into a winning proposition.
Following the announcement of Audi’s entry in August 2022, the first steps of the programme did not augur well. Audi did not invest anywhere near enough money anywhere near soon enough.
Sauber made no progress through 2023 and into the following year. With the clock ticking on its entry in 2026, Audi axed chief executive officer Andreas Seidl, who had left his previous role as team principal of McLaren to join them, in mid-2024.
He was replaced with a dual management team of former Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto, who was tasked with running the factories – Hinwil in Switzerland for Sauber, and Neuberg in Germany for the engine programme – and Wheatley, in charge at the track.
Even then, the management changes were not finished. Binotto had initially joined as chief operating and technical officer. Less than a year later, he was made head of the Audi F1 project, and chief executive officer Adam Baker left the company.
The appointment of Binotto and Wheatley had a relatively quick impact, as Sauber finally began to move forward in 2025.
Having been marooned at the back, Sauber became more respectable performers, and their veteran German driver Nico Hulkenberg even finally scored a podium after 16 years of trying in last year’s British Grand Prix.
This year, the driver line-up of Hulkenberg and Brazilian Gabriel Bortoleto, who is heading into his second season, continues, and the new Audi engine makes its debut.
So far the team have made a promising start.
They ran their car early in January, the first team to do so built to this year’s new rules, and put a first aerodynamic upgrade on it in the final pre-season test in Bahrain last week.
Pace-wise, the belief is that Audi are in the midfield mix with Haas, Alpine and Racing Bulls, and ahead of Williams. A solid effort so far, although Hulkenberg is not getting carried away.
“It’s just speculation right now still,” the German said last week. “We really don’t know until Melbourne and even a few races in, because I feel at the moment it can be quite track dependent on how your package feels on different circuits.
“So we’ll have to wait and see until everybody really pulls their pants down in qualifying and we’ll find out. Early days. I hope we’re competitive somewhere in the midfield right now.
“But, yeah, the team’s been working hard over the winter, pushing all the areas, doing the power-unit side for the first time. It’s been busy and a challenge, and I think we’re OK. But there’s still a lot of work and a lot of room for improvement on that side and a lot to come.”
PHOENIX — Two nights after losing to the Orlando Magic in a heartbreaker, the Lakers focused on trying to beat a Phoenix Suns team missing key players.
In the end, the result was the same — disappointment.
The Lakers lost 113-110 after Austin Reaves missed a three-pointer as time expired, the Suns coming up with the clutch shot on Royce O’Neale‘s three with nine-tenths of a second left to send the Lakers to their third consecutive loss Thursday night.
On the final play, Marcus Smart inbounded the ball and LeBron James and Maxi Kleber set a double-screen to get Reaves open. Reaves floated to the corner and took a cross-court pass but his shot bounced off the rim, sending the Lakers to another loss despite Luka Doncic‘s 41 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.
The fourth quarter was a back-and-forth affair before the Suns built a 12-point lead with 6:28 left. The Lakers quickly recovered and tied the score on a Reaves three-pointer with one minute left. O’Neale scored on an offensive rebound to give the Suns a 110-108 lead before James scored on a put-back to tie the score.
The Suns then called a timeout to set up O’Neale’s winning shot.
Phoenix, which had lost six of eight, played without All-Star guard Devin Booker (right hip strain), Dillon Brooks (left hand fracture) and Jordan Goodwin (left calf strain).
Still, the Lakers (34-24) knew the Suns (34-26) would play hard and throw up a lot of three-pointers — Phoenix shot 22 for 50 from three-point range.
When the Lakers went up by three early in the fourth, things looked good. But then the Suns went on a 13-3 run.
Lakers coach JJ Redick was forced to call a timeout after Oso Ighodaro rolled in for an uncontested dunk, putting the Lakers down 96-86 with 7:43 left.
The Lakers went down by 10 points in the second quarter, but took a two-point lead late in the quarter on a Reaves three-pointer. But Grayson Allen scored on a layup to tie the score 49-49 at halftime.
The Lakers opened a 13-point lead in the third quarter, but ended up tied 80-80 entering the fourth.
Allen carried the Suns in the third, scoring 16 points. He missed just one of his shots and just one of his five three-pointers in the third.
James finished with 15 points, six rebounds and five assists. Reaves scored 14 points and Smart had 13 points.
The Lakers lost to Orlando on Tuesday by one point on a botched play when Doncic didn’t shoot a three-pointer and instead passed the ball to James, who missed a last-second three-point attempt.
It was a tough way for the Lakers to end their eight-game homestand, going 4-4 over that stretch.
Redick was asked if it is easy to move on after a tough loss.
“Well, I think that’s not in general,” Redick said. “I think there are specific times throughout the season where you talk about what just happened, more than just your normal review. You’re not going to do that after every game. So, we had a great practice and meeting on Monday after the Boston game and you don’t need to belabor every single loss.”
Lakers forward Rui Hachimura didn’t play against the Suns because of an illness, the team said. But backup center Jaxson Hayes, who missed the last game with right ankle soreness, played 21 minutes against the Suns, finishing with eight points and three rebounds.